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Dual booting Win8 and Ubuntu

Depending on your hardware (i7 3770 non-K and Radeon 7850 look promising), you could install a Xen hypervisor (or alternatively KVM, but it's a bit more challenging) and run your Windows in a Virtual Machine with "VGA passthrough" for native graphics acceleration. It definitely beats...
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- Post #15
- Jan 10, 2014
- Forum: Open Source
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Oh great, more issues.

Yeah, lakedude is right. Sometimes it's just taking it apart and reassembling it and everything is fine. You got a pretty strong system so it doesn't make sense to switch it for a new one. I found that these quad channel RAMs for X79 boards can be tricky, that's why I suggested the RAM test. 60...
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- Post #42
- Jan 10, 2014
- Forum: Open Source
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*nix OS that will support my hardware, while allowing GUI desktop

Linux Mint Debian is a rolling release. It gets updated more frequently, with newer stuff, so chances are that here and there things break. I use Linux Mint for the past 7 years. Right now I'm using Linux Mint 16 64bit Mate. I prefer Mate over Cinnamon for its features and the robustness...
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- Post #16
- Jan 10, 2014
- Forum: Open Source
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Is there a way to image windows 7?

As long as the target drive is the same size or larger, I use dd. It's always worked for me, even when other more fancy tools have failed. I even use dd with pigz to back up my machine locally (using LVM for everything except /boot). By the way, if you dual-boot but use mostly Linux, you might...
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- Post #10
- Jan 10, 2014
- Forum: Operating Systems
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The page file controversy on an SSD!?

Why is Windows so complicated? Anyway, here is what I remember: 1. If you have a notebook or let your computer hibernate, the page file size should be the size of the RAM plus a few MByte. 2. Given enough RAM, under Linux I would reduce the "swapiness" - I don't know if Windows has anything...
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- Post #17
- Jan 10, 2014
- Forum: Operating Systems
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My apolgies to the Linux Community...

Welcome to Linux. I heard a lot about CentOS but never tried it, am running Linux Mint for the past 6-7 years and am happy with it. So far it's on 4 machines. I feel quite different about Linux - the documentation on the web and the help from others is amazing. Whereas with Windows, the advice...
- powerhouse65
- Post #3
- Jan 10, 2014
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Is Microsoft playing a dangeous game of chicken with the internet? (XP)

XP - bury it and give it a rest. RIP That said, Microsoft needs money, which they hope to make from ending Windows XP support and selling Windows 7/8 licenses. For users it's an opportunity to reassess the need and perhaps switch OS - e.g. Linux, Chrome OS, iOS etc.
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- Post #133
- Jan 10, 2014
- Forum: Operating Systems
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LGA 1150 Haswell Motherboard with proper VT-d support

@zir_blazer: audio: The simplest solution to get audio under Windows is the USB sound stick I showed above. I got mine in a local PC store - these sticks seem pretty common. It's not the most elegant solution, but it works and it has the advantage that you can mix the sound from Windows and...
- powerhouse65
- Post #130
- Jan 4, 2014
- Forum: Motherboards
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Problem with GA-X79 UPS

Make sure CPU, RAM and graphic card are properly installed, and all cables connected to the board. If all is OK, return the board.
- powerhouse65
- Post #8
- Jan 3, 2014
- Forum: Motherboards
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ASUS,MSI or ASROCK

ASrock = good BIOS, good compatibility, good features. Definitely NOT Asus, at least not for m/b. Reasons? 1. Zero support for anything but Windows - in other words, if you buy Asus you will have to marry Microsoft. Else they won't warrant any hardware or BIOS specs. 2. Buggy BIOS - at least...
- powerhouse65
- Post #13
- Jan 3, 2014
- Forum: Motherboards
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LGA 1150 Haswell Motherboard with proper VT-d support

@zir_blazer: Thanks for your the detailed reply. 1. sdl: OK, that explains it perfectly. 2. audio support in domU: I was also surprised to not find an elegant software/driver solution, and I did some searching too - check http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=112013#p647298. In your...
- powerhouse65
- Post #128
- Dec 31, 2013
- Forum: Motherboards
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MKV vs MP4 (M4v)

@smitbret: 1000 thanks to you - your explanations are perfect, just what I was looking for. I really appreciate it. Your post has been bookmarked.
- powerhouse65
- Post #47
- Dec 31, 2013
- Forum: Home Theater PCs
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Analogue HTPC

I would go with a server and client PCs on the remote. In fact, I'm running something like that. Built myself a Linux Mint media server running XBMC that is hooked up to the main screen. It's also a fully functional PC with wireless keyboard and mouse. Any remote PC can hook up to the server via...
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- Post #7
- Dec 30, 2013
- Forum: Home Theater PCs
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MKV vs MP4 (M4v)

I'm using Handbrake (on a Linux rig) to rip/encode DVDs, and occasionally BR. I noticed different settings as to the kind of material I'm encoding - like cartoons, movies, etc. What are your recommendations, also with regard to quality settings? I'm viewing on a 45" TV, distance ~7-10 feet /...
- powerhouse65
- Post #45
- Dec 30, 2013
- Forum: Home Theater PCs
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Can I charge money for software that I write for Linux?

1. Of course you can take money for your apps - just make sure you meet the license requirements of some open-source tools you may need. 2. Selling apps for Linux requires you to think twice on what you are trying to sell. Example: Under Windows you could sell any stupid utility application, for...
- powerhouse65
- Post #7
- Dec 30, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
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Oh great, more issues.

Sounds weird. I had similar unexplainable symptoms with bad memory. To make sure that it's not memory, you need to run the memtest for a long time (72 hours). Still, memtest can miss things. Install prime95 and memtester and run both. Make sure your CPU has good cooling as prime95 can really...
- powerhouse65
- Post #37
- Dec 30, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
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DD-WRT Optware

i vi - it's so 80ish to me (others may be reminded of the 60s). [ESC] :wq
- powerhouse65
- Post #8
- Dec 30, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
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LGA 1150 Haswell Motherboard with proper VT-d support

I was unaware of Supermicro going into the enthusiast m/b market. If so, why didn't you get the C7Z87-OCE? (I'm sure you had a reason, just curious.) Are you using Synergy for mouse? Or the settings in the guest config file? To be honest, I never tried the guest configs with regard to the...
- powerhouse65
- Post #126
- Dec 29, 2013
- Forum: Motherboards
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LGA 1150 Haswell Motherboard with proper VT-d support

That's great news - congratulations and welcome to the club! My how-to uses the "xm" tool-stack which isn't plagued with FLR or performance degradation issues, as far as I know. I'm running a stock 3.11 kernel and stock Xen 4.3 and didn't have to compile anything, just change some...
- powerhouse65
- Post #125
- Dec 29, 2013
- Forum: Motherboards
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LGA 1150 Haswell Motherboard with proper VT-d support

One more observation about the discussions here: The OP started out looking for a motherboard that would support VT-d, to allow him (her?) to run Xen and Linux with a Windows VM for games, without having to dual-boot. The choice of a Supermicro C226 motherboard is quite far fetched, though I...
- powerhouse65
- Post #123
- Dec 29, 2013
- Forum: Motherboards
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LGA 1150 Haswell Motherboard with proper VT-d support

These are the things that would worry me with regard to PCI passthrough. In fact, I wonder how it would work with these ports? I would definitely check with Supermicro first to see if these "hidden" PCIe slots can be passed through!
- powerhouse65
- Post #121
- Dec 29, 2013
- Forum: Motherboards
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LGA 1150 Haswell Motherboard with proper VT-d support

Oh yes, it is the holy grail :thumbsup:. I was in exactly the same situation as the OP about 2 years ago. Now I'm running a Xen hypervisor with Linux Mint 16 and Windows 7 Pro as a VM and I couldn't be more happy! Finally I got Windows where it belongs - a secondary OS in a VM which I only start...
- powerhouse65
- Post #120
- Dec 29, 2013
- Forum: Motherboards
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LGA 1150 Haswell Motherboard with proper VT-d support

@zir_blazer: I'm sorry to hear that you haven't managed to get VGA passthrough (or passthrough) working. I haven't been on this forum since August, and had to register again under a slightly different name (see my posts under powerhouse64 towards the beginning). Reading the posts here I can't...
- powerhouse65
- Post #119
- Dec 29, 2013
- Forum: Motherboards

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