The HTPC as it is now works fine. You make a good point; building 1 machine certainly takes less time than building 2... but isn't that part of the fun? :)
Say I keep the HTPC as is. Do you think a Pentium E6300 + 6GB would suffice for a ZFS + RAIDZ NAS? I'm going to be streaming all of my...
I am looking to build a NAS (FreeNAS or OpenFiler, etc.) and I would like some opinions. I can't decide if I should re-purpose my HTPC for NAS and replace the HTPC, or just buy new hardware for the NAS. My HTPC consists of the following:
Athlon X3 440 (3.0GHz tri-core)
MSI 880GMA-E45 (AMD...
Did you end up going with the P8B WS? How was your experience? I'm about to pick one up for a home storage server.
The board does support i5-2500K--since BIOS 0401--ccording to ASUS website.
Idling in XP at 1.44v (according to CPU-Z and SpeedFan; CoreTemp reads 1.3125v which is wrong); Prime95 blend drops vcore to 1.424.
Don't recall exact BIOS reading off top of my head, but I know I added 150mV over stock (which is about 1.3v).
I'll have to check it tomorrow to make sure. I...
Have this board and an E2180 running at 3.33GHz now without breaking a sweat. 333 FSB with RAM at 800 4-4-4-12 2.0v, 1.44v on the CPU but haven't tweaked at all and just arbitrarily picked 1.44 to test, so I imagine it will either clock higher or I can drop the voltage. VERY pleased compared to...
Thanks lopri. "Too well" is probably right--don't want to remove your boot drive while it's running, whether it's "safely" or not!
Do you think a PCI/PCI-e SATA card would hot-swap okay in XP?
Interesting. I used the F6 drivers (slipstreamed) and got XP working on them fine, and installed the Matrix Storage software but still no hot-plug notification. As far as I can tell, I can hot-plug easily enough; it's the hot-UNplugging that's the bigger problem. My FreeAgent Pro is finicky...
Got this board up and running this weekend. Haven't had a chance to OC yet since I've been distracted by its (apparent) lack of hot-swapping ability. It supposedly works under Vista, but who wants to use Vista when XP works just fine? Anybody have a similar experience or advice?
I just built a new system around a DFI LP DK P35-T2RS. I have a Seagate FreeAgent Pro with eSATA and have a PCI bracket to convert one of the ICH9R SATA ports to eSATA, but upon setting up XP and from what I've been able to find hot-swapping on the ICH9 is only supported in Vista (even if AHCI...
Anyone ever used the Evercool Serpent? Same principle as the Thermalrights and Noctua, but wonder if it's acceptable quality. For the price, it may be worth a shot regardless.
http://www.xoxide.com/serpent-...ridge-chip-cooler.html
I too didn't feel like waiting for the Egg. But I get charged sales tax in TN by Newegg so it is still cheaper from Mobopro. So far the experience has been good: I called them to check on the status and ask about how long shipping would take and the lady offered (on her own) to see if she could...
I like to think DFI is "late to the party" so as to be more able to make solid boards with high tweakability on mature (i.e. reliable) products. Key phrase being "I like to think..."
I used the old DFI LP nf3 250Gb when I still ran s754 Athlons and it was indeed sweet. Haven't had one since...
At this point it looks like it is only offered at one or two places, one being:
http://www.motherboardpro.com/...Motherboard-p-428.html
I ordered one from there last night. The board looks awesome IMO, and price seems reasonable compared to the Blood Iron (all solid caps, VRM heatsinks...
This thread on the DFI forums has lots-o-information about the Newark 4000+. Personally, I think $350 for a CPU with the specs of a $800+ FX-55 chip seems like a deal to me (not to mention it's overclocking potential--3.0GHz has been reached!). Now if I only had $350...
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