Recent content by miketd

FSP Group Blue Storm II 500W

So I'm building a new rig, but trying to salvage as much as possible from my old one. One of things I'd like not to rebuy is the PSU, currently I'm at 500W (530W peak). Do you think this is enough for the following components? -460 GTX -4 GB Mem -3 HD -i7 860 -DVD ROM

I have an old system which is running a P4 2.8 (Northwood I believe) and some PC 3200 RAM. The motherboard went out on it and I'm trying to find a replacement board that will work with my existing parts. The problem is that I'm not having much luck. It seems like the motherboards I find are...

I'm upgrading from an Athlon Sempron 3000+ to an Athlon X2 4200+. Both are socket 939. I was wondering if the AMD heatsink I got for the Sempron will work on the 4200? I'd like to save the extra ~$30. I should mention that I'm not planning on overclocking - just need a second core and a few...

I appreciate the advice. I actually don't see a big selection of PCIE Sata cards on newegg... but that is besides the point. I want to avoid the expansion card route because I will be installing the latest Ubuntu on this machine and I don't have any guarantees a given SATA card will work...

I am getting a motherboard with 4 SATA connectors. I was wondering: if I have two SATA DVD drives and 2 SATA hard disks, am I maxed out? Save getting a different motherboard, is there nothing I can do to have 5 SATA devices hooked up? This is the motherboard btw...

Well, I've been looking around and I don't think I'm going to find a compatible motherboard. So, I'll throw in a curveball that isn't strictly hardware related (sorry admins): I am using mdadm (ubuntu server) to manage my raid configuration and have been told that nVidia mobos offer "fake...

So I have (had) a raid 5 setup using the nVidia onboard RAID on a MSI K8NGM2-FID 939. The motherboard is acting up and I need to replace it. The problem is obviously that I don't know how I'll get my data off this raid drive. If I'm replacing the motherboard, I'd like to just upgrade. I...

So 500 watts is enough for that setup I am going to move to? I am afraid I am ignorant about how many watts various components use. With the 4 hard drives, I thought I was using a lot of power.

I have an Ubuntu Server that has been running for over a year. It randomly went down the other week. I got it to boot back up, but it went down again after ~20 minutes or so. Next time I tried to start it, I couldn't get it to boot at all. So I decided to run a memory checker which instantly...

I was thinking about getting some 500GB disks. Data only. I'm going to have a cron job set up to rsync to another non raided drive nightly and also possibly weekly (Going to be running linux). I hope to not have to spend more than $700 for the drives and raid controller.

Hmm, I was hoping it would beep or something. Oh well, I guess I had the wrong idea. I was thinking I would like to get some SATA drives.

So I'm taking some old computer parts and making a file server. I'd like the core of the storage system to be a RAID-1 setup. Also, I'd like this RAID setup to be OS-agnostic - I.E. completely hardware RAID so that only one drive shows up to the OS. I don't want the OS to even know it is...

Yeah, I know my CPU is a bottleneck, however, I am switching jobs and would like to not spend any money for a while. However, I still think the 2.4 should be enough to get more FPS from CS:S than I am getting. My justification is that my friend also is running a P4 2.4 and is getting about...

So I am running Vista (and can / will not go back to XP) and I am having a hard time playing CS:Source at a playable speed. I've tried speed autoexecs and turning all the settings down, but some levels are just really slow no matter what I do. I haven't gamed for a while (been using Ubuntu)...