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I've been flipping back and forth trying to decide between these two boards (DFI Expert and Asus A8N-SLI Premium) for several months now, also keeping my eye on Conroe SLI boards. On July 27th I pre-ordered a Conroe 6600, hoping that the 590 SLI boards for Intel would be released as promised on...

The cpu cores from the middle of the manufacturing wafer are apparently more overclockable, while the sides are more prone to defects, sometimes resulting in one core failing. For example on a Toledo wafer, with one bad core an X2 4400+ is binned as a single-core 3700+ (with both cores using...

I spread the AS5 around using a business card, great temps every time.

I'm currently planning to setup a linux backup server which needs to plug into a Windows 2003 DC. Thanks for the link to the Debian-AD howto! Looking forward to seeing the rolling backup scripts...

RStudio worked well to recover the critical files, but it crashed when trying to recover all files (500GB from a 4-disk RAID0+1 array on a Promise FastTrak 150 TX4 controller card) You might want to consider using a low level sector-by sector copy utility (dozens of free ones are available if...

From the user manual of one of my Promise RAID controller cards: "Q: I already have an array on an older FastTrak controller. Can I move that array to my new FastTrak S150 TX4 controller? A: Yes. All FastTrak controllers read the arrays the same way and can be moved from one controller to...

From Western Digital Q: What is time-limited error recovery and why do I need it? A: Desktop drives are designed to protect and recover data, at times pausing for as much as a few minutes to make sure that data is recovered. Inside a RAID system, where the RAID controller handles error...

I was in a similar situation recently, and I decided to make a low-level copy (i.e. image) of all the 1's and 0's from each of the hard drives of the unhappy array to brand new drives. I then did my experimenting on the copies. What worked for me was pulling out the bad drive and replacing...

Thank you sir! I stand corrected.

We have one server that was running RAID 0+1, 4 disks on a Promise SATA. Apparently the guy sitting at that station had turned off the email and window popup notifications generated by Promise Array Management. He had been complaining for the last couple of weeks that his build process kept...

According to this recent comparison of all the WD Raptor models, it is true that the 36GB Raptor is slower (57MB/s) than the newer 74GB (72 MB/s) and 150GB (88 MB/s) models, but it's still significantly faster (in every way) when compared to 7200 rpm hard drives. And this guy reported 114...

In my case (CM Stacker), sucking works better because of the huge grille in the side door. The cross flow fan blows a nice blanket of fresh cool air over the mobo, keeping the mosfets chilly too. See my sig.

I mounted the XP-120 on the K8N Neo Platinum without any trouble. I have the heatpipes pointing downwards, and keep in mind that in order to hook in the top of the heatsink into the retention mechanism I had to remove the RAM. Just a warning that on this motherboard the heatpipes come pretty...

oops, I thought he was the thread starter (you). Anyways, there aren't any capacitors anywhere nearby on the K8N Neo motherboard, as I have mounted an XP-120 on this motherboard without problems. However if you decide to point the heatpipes downward, an AGP video card with heatsinks on the...