Recent content by nullvector

Up until this week I was only using a 48" Samsung 4K HDR 8-series display as my main monitor on my desktop. It was great for HDR and content/text work, and the clarity couldn't be beat, but I just got the Alienware 34" 3440x1440p ultrawide with G-Sync, and game performance is way better. Gaming...

Most companies need high-uptime on their systems, so N+1,or 2 scenarios are pretty common. I run quite a few CiscoUCS/VMware systems, and our utilization on some of the clusters is pretty low overall, but we need extra capacity to account for HA or failover scenarios, so we're not running in an...

Well, you could get a QNAP NAS, for example, and do iSCSI LUN's. I use that in my home environment with a few hosts and it works great.

Have you tried getting the HP-specific release of ESXi that bundles in drivers, etc? Or are you just using the default download from VMware's site. If you're just using VMware's image, try the HP install for ESXi and see if that helps. I noticed a few issues when running the standard VMware...

If you're running all local storage, how are you planning on vMotions/HA, or aren't you? Are you planning this? Link I typically work with pretty large enterprise configurations (Cisco UCS, etc) so we typically have shared SAN storage across larger clusters, and boot-from-SAN or auto deploy...

I mentioned earlier I also use my Mac Mini's HDMI out to display the Plex Home Theater app on my main TV/theater and it goes through a HDMI receiver. It just plays the native MKV from the mac app. I know that there's transcoding going on when sent to my Roku 3, but I also have that one on a...

I use Plex also. Server runs on an older MacMini (2.4 C2D, 6GB RAM), and it transcodes 1080p just fine, as well as serving up Plex Home Theater app via HDMI. As for endpoints, I've used Xbox One, Roku, iPad, and web streaming through the Plex website when I'm away from home. It's all been...

I tend to review my games from the sole aspect of whether I really want to finish them, its usually a pass/fail score with consideration of how much fun I had along the way. This game passes the test, I thought it was pretty fun. A lot of highly rated AAA titles bore me after 5-6 hours as they...

Just got mine this morning from Amazon. It's perfect. Colors are excellent out of the box, no dead pixels. I use a few ACD's and 27" iMacs at work, and this display is now easily my favorite.

Nintendo. Stop with the gimmicks. Build a system for people who buy more than 2 new games a year for their family. Gamers don't want to stand up and dance, they don't want huge-ass controllers that have screens, they don't want to game in their living rooms like spasmodic monkeys. Graphics...

I'm not aware of the C-media panel...are you talking about using it with this card? or are you talking about using it with built in mobo sound, or another sound card entirely?

Thanks for the suggestion, Silverghost. I had already done that, but thanks for pointing it out. The software interface for this thing is terrible....I wish they skipped the 90's style window dressing and just made it a normal control panel or windows app.

Thanks m3ta, I'll try that. It seems a little counter intuitive to turn something on to get rid of effects so I hadn't tried that...

Hey guys, Just built a new system and put a Xonar Essence in it. The problem I'm having is that everything sounds "3D" when using headphones....I can't stand it. I've turned off all effects that I can find, and don't have Dolby headphone enabled at all. I've also selected "plain" under...

I've played most of the ones listed above. They're all good recommendations. Check out Pilotwings, too. I bought it online, new, for $18 shipped, and it's a pretty fun pick-up-and-play game if you have a few minutes here and there to waste. It's also not very hard, but its worth its cost if you...