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    CPU for homebuilt SAN

    I'm throwing together a cheapo SAN machine to throw in my closet any network boot my desktops to cut down on the noise in my geek lair. What's the minimum CPU I'd need to reliably saturate gigabit with iscsi? How about duplex gigabit?
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    Inspiron e1705 graphics card

    I've had an e1705 laptop handed to me and it clearly has some fried video memory. The machine has an replaceable graphics card, but it's out of warranty and I'm not sure what the options are for replacement. Has anyone had this problem before? Know of a good source for an (ideally...
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    motherboard suggestion?

    Hello, I'm looking for a suggestion for a board to use in my new build. Other components: i7 920 6g ddr3-1600 8800gts512 580w power supply (gpu and psu from my old machine) I don't need SLI support. However I absolutely do need: a) optical audio out (controller chip not...
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    lynnfield vs. bloomfield?

    Lynnfield is to have an on-die PCI express controller. This takes an entire hop out between the CPU and GPU. In exchange you lose the third memory channel, which most bloomfield benchmarks are showing to not make much difference. Any speculation on how this will affect games? Also, the DMI...