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I can second the IKEA countertop as desk. I went with the solid wood butcher-block one, and it's quite sturdy. I also went with adjustable height legs, which was important since this desk is for my kids (3 and 6) so we can play Minecraft together. It needed to be lower to the ground than a...

Be careful. I did some looking at those, and I don't believe the 6400 is equivalent to the 6500. The 6400 does not do 4:4:4 chroma at 60 Hz. So text will probably look bad if you use it as a monitor. Since Samsung has a 640D and a 650D, that seem to parallel the 6400 and 6500, I would guess...

Also check adafruit. They have a kit that uses a retina panel from the iPad 3, and takes in hdmi. It was meant for use with the raspberry pi. I think it's a 2048x1536 panel, and 9-10 inch diagonal. Great little high res display.

Just got one via microcenter to replace my 3 screen nvsurround. I'm on a geforce 970, and had been running 3x1600x1200 10+ year old samsungs and/or a 1440p iMac in target display mode. This is a really nice screen. I looked for the color banding, and I had to really try to be able to notice...

I can confirm this. When I tried Windows 10 from an ISO, it hung at the blue windows logo. When I tried an upgrade from 7 to ten, it failed and rolled back, with an error code. Searching google for that error code led me to a reddit thread that had that info. The BIOS update for my MSI Z97 PC...

My wife's computer is having the same problem. It's a MSI Z97 PC Mate with Pentium G3258 running Windows 7. I ended up just installing a fresh Windows 7 on another drive, and since it's a fresh install she's migrating to Windows 10. Might as well.

Smaller is better because even the best laptops aren't that great for gaming. And you can't bolt a desktop to the back of a TV (and have it look nice).

Amazon basics mini-dp to either VGA or dvi. I use both and they work well. I must have over a dozen of each. They were like $8 each.

I have been sitting in an IKEA Markus chair for about a year now, usually 4-8 hours at a time playing games. I got this after my wife stole my chair, and gave me her 5 year old $99 office supply store fake leather chair, that looks really similar to that Thomasville thing. Those things are not...

For what it's worth, I am running Elite: Dangerous across 4 monitors of varying sizes on one geforce 970. I have the monitors all set up as windows extended desktops. Not using nvsurround. The monitors are 2 x 1600x1200 , 1 x 1920x1200, and 1 x 2560 x 1440. I went in to the nvidia control...

I am pretty sure I had one of those back in the early 90's. Along with a couple different Cirrus Logic cards, and maybe a trident or two, and some Ati cards. They all pretty much sucked until the 3dfx Voodoo hit the scene. Didn't really matter whether a card was ISA, VL-bus, or PCI. One of my...

I just had a cast-off rack full of SAN stuff become available. A DS4700, a half dozen EXP810s with a mixture of drives, an x3550 server, and two SVC nodes (model 2145-CG8). This is....er... was...way better gear than I'm used to using. I normally use iSCSI and NFS from ZFS over gigabit...

I absolutely love mine. I bought it for good airflow and sound isolation. It fulfills both of these goals for me. I have two EVGA 970s in SLI in mine, along with an i5 2500K at 4.2Ghz on air, and an old 650Ti for PhysX, and everything stays cool and quiet. I can just barely hear the fans...

For what it's worth, you can make the norco 4224 incredibly quiet. Get the metal plate that lets you use 3x120mm fans, and stick 3 Noctuas (or other quiet 120mm fan) on that. Get a nice Seasonic PSU. Use whichever quiet CPU cooler you want. I, again, chose a Noctua that fits in the 4224...

I just tried this on a iMac with mini-DP input with 4 cards, two worked, two did not, with a no-name DP to mini-DP cable. One that worked was the intel onboard graphics in a Lenovo ThinkCenter. The other was an EVGA Geforce 750 Ti SC 2GB. The two cards that did not work were an XFX Radeon...

I've been using OpenIndiana v148 and v151 with raidz2 for a couple years now, alongside Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 boxes with mdadm/raid-6/xfs, for serving up NFS and iSCSI. The OpenIndiana boxes have uptimes measured in years. The Ubuntu boxes all give me kernel panics every couple months...

I can second the Ikea Markus. Nice high back, mesh, cast aluminum base. Great chair, 10 year warranty on the seat. Armrests are not adjustable, but if you don't like them, you don't have to screw them on. It's as comfy for my 5'8 212 lbs as my old Aeron was.

I picked up one of these a while back based on a [H]otDeal post. After 6 months of every day use, it seems to be holding up well.

I absolutely love my fractal design define. Quietest case I have ever had, or heard, out of over 2 dozen over the years. It does have a power button on top, but you could use the reset button instead, which is inside the door. It's every bit as sturdy as the cooler master centurions I have used...

I think that looks great. I searched around but couldn't find any for sale yet. That would be a perfect size fr a steam box for me.

Shoot, I run 4800x1200 now on two 650ti boosts, SLI, and with no AA it's a totally satisfactory experience for me. I don't play BF4 though, and for me, AA at native res isn't something I see if I'm sitting far enough back to view 4 horizontal feet of monitor. A single 3440x1440 monitor is on...

Anyone use any of these, or something like them? http://www.microsatacables.com/sata-iii-dual-port-to-msata-x-2-with-3-5-inch-mounting-bracket/ http://www.microsatacables.com/sata-iii-dual-port-to-msata-x-2-with-pci-e-bracket/ I saw another thread with something similar for combining 2.5"...

I have one of these and I love it. So comfortable, and the sniper button for DPI is so convenient! I picked up a second one. Thanks for the heads up!

I have a single 5870 1GB now, and I'm trying to decide if springing for two of these to SLI would be a worthwhile upgrade. I run 3x1600x1200 eyefinity now, and I'd want to keep doing that. I think that would require SLI with the 560Ti? I'm mainly playing LOTRO and Starcraft 2 right now, plus...

I just tried out napp-it to go, but my HP Microserver won't recognize any storage media in the upper front USB port. It will boot the OmniOS loader from any other USB port, including the internal port, but fails within seconds of displaying the SunOS lines. I am guessing that the kernel can't...

I have been using my 5870 for eyefinity gaming across 3 screens (3600x1600 portrait mode) since the card was available. Even now, that card keeps up with the games I play most often, especially LOTRO, with all the options cranked. There is just no substitute for the situational awareness you get...

The gigabit nic on the old hardware could be a problem. I personally have seen PCI intel gigabit nics suffer the limit of the PCI bus. Even an onboard nic can be constrained, depending on what bus it is on and what vendor supplied the chip. Try a pci-express nic and see if you get better...

Asus P5q-pro Q6600 oc'd to 3.4ghz (getting my money's worth from that old Tuniq HSF) CoolerMaster Centurion 5 "HAF" with icy dock hot-swap bays 8GB crucial RAM Dual port intel server gig nic Intel sasuc8i 6 x 2TB Hitachi 7200 rpm in raid-Z2 2 x 40GB ssd in raid-0 as l2arc 3 x 80GB...

For gaming performance it depends on the game and your other hardware. In my case, I play a lot of LOTRO on a 5870 in eyefinity with hi-res textures and maxed out video settings. Before I got the SSD, just walking around the world would stutter and fps would drop as the game kept loading...

Ooops. I saw the pins there and thought PATA. I was browsing on my phone, and couldn't tell the number of pins, just that it looked like pins. I've never seen SATA with anything other than traditional SATA connectors.

Red Falcon, yeah,it's probably more trouble than it is worth, BUT, a SATA SSD won't work in that laptop, regardless of the size of the ssd. That laptop has a PATA connector. I will agree with mwroobel and Zarathustra that pata to SATA converters are not going to fit. I did some digging for...

How about something like this: http://www.addonics.com/products/aat18.php I would think that would fit in there and leave room for one of those little zif drives. I haven't personally used it because I don't know yet if a 1.8" zif ssd is an improvement over an old pata disk. I have a very...

Thanks for the replies so far. From what I've read about xfire scaling, I definitely won't try that with another 5870. Is there much difference between dual 6970's and one 6990? It appears to me that the 6990 is xfire on one card. I'd probably try one new card first and see how well that...

I am looking for recommendations on what model card (or cards) to get for 5x1 portrait. I have a 1GB XFX reference 5870 running 3x1 portrait now on 3 x 1600x1200 (Samsung Syncmaster 213T), for 3600x1600. I have two more 16x12 screens, and just saw that 5x1 portrait is now available. 6000x1600...

I likewise have a P5Q Pro with a SASUC8I card, and a PCI graphics card. It's a geforce 6200. I couldn't see taking up a PCIe slot with a graphics card. I have the SASUC8I in the first of the two full PCIe slots, and an intel NIC in one of the PCIe 1x slots. I'm hoping to eventually add a...

I didn't have to flash mine. I had planned to, but when I booted up from the OpenIndiana disc, it saw all the drives. I don't know whether my card had already been flashed or what. Maybe I am just using JBOD mode. I am definitely not using any hardware RAID from the card. If I hit "Ctrl-C...

Based on what I have read on here, I am using an intel SASUC8i that I bought from the egg. It works flawlessly so far, but I'm only about 3 weeks in to this build. It will support up to 8 drives. You need one of the 4 port SATA breakout cables for each of the two ports. I bought those as...

I have now had my Fractal Define R3 on my desk for a week or so. It was quite easy to build. I'm really impressed with the noise mitigation and the airflow and temperatures. It fits well on my desk under my hutch. Every edge inside the case is rounded off and finished well. Cable management...

I ran into something similar last night testing a new ZFS build, but with CIFS seemingly capped at 35MB/s. I had no problems with NFS, but that was from a different machine. After a lot of unsuccessful experimenting with Windows 7, trying to change TCP behavior, etc, I tried iperf. That...

Thanks for the explanation. I used AI Suite to bump up the multiplier. Once I have done that, do I still need to keep AI Suite running to maintain the overclock? Do I need to run it at all if I am not changing settings? I find it strange that I can have CPUz, RealTemp, and...