Posts by the_beast

Quote: Originally Posted by bryce  Some of these servers make me so jealous =/. I'm so broke right now and the rigs I have are total **** and wouldn't be able to run anything remotely useful at all. AMD Sempron...

Quote: Originally Posted by gosties  X- Case in the UK do the same cases but use the X-Case 4224 term rather than Norco. they're also a lot more expensive - probably because of the shipping...

Quote: Originally Posted by Brokenstorm  Well, I learned something today. Out of memory + no pagefile = hard crash   and this is why I don't understand why anyone would ever turn off the PF - there are no...

it's also the reason why Arctic Silver is obsolete - you have to be very careful when using it because it's electrically conductive and capacitive.   Modern TIMs are better thermal conductors and are (for the most part)...

Quote: Originally Posted by Brokenstorm  Ok, I came up with my first gaming test. It consist of loading path of exile then use every waypoint of act 1 and 2. The timer stops when I load the last zone. On a 7200RPM...

should work fine (only the memory controller on the CPU talks to the RAM anyway), only issue you might come across is if the board BIOS throws a wobbler when it reports the memory types installed.   Personally I'm not sure I'd...

Quote: Originally Posted by mcdanielvzw  Quote: Originally Posted by Tempest_Inc  The reason why i'm looking to do a raid 1 with multiple discs is i'm going to be running it on a pfSense box with...

Quote: Originally Posted by nleksan  I would disagree about 66% not making any difference, at least on the newer 1TB-Platter drives... The extremely high data density more than compensates for the slightly greater...

Quote: Originally Posted by kithylin  Quote: Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss  can a PERC5/i have a SSD connected & running from it? (as well as boot from it) Yes you can, but...

Quote: Originally Posted by nleksan  If you have a second storage drive, or if you just don't have a ton of data, you could short-stroke the Seagate down to 600GB to 1TB, whichwwould resultin the drive only using the...