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post #41 of 53
8/14/12 at 10:38am
Put that away. I don't need anymore convincing that I want to sell my ATX+CPU for an ITX and ivy i7. fitting my 580(+thermally) would be the interesting part.

Back OT.

How do you setup remote user accounts? Just create them on your server (probably much simpler in WS2011) and then just use the domain in your login? what is behind the scenes here? I have created accounts but not the initial setup of the whole system. The reason I ask is eventually (family and such) I would like to host everything on a server and be able to login to my account from any computer on the network.
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8/14/12 at 10:56am
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Why not make a dual system build? wink.gif

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post #43 of 53
8/14/12 at 12:10pm
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Why not make a dual system build? wink.gif
[IMG]

...because I don't have enough appendages to use them both, or the attention span. Plus all around it is just kind of pointless unless you need them separate for work. A 2p build or 4p build would be way better.

Later my plan is to have a bunch of ITX builds around the house for the family and such, then host everything on a server with roaming user accounts.
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8/14/12 at 1:45pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Reptile View Post

Why not make a dual system build? wink.gif


Thats pretty god damm wickied.
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8/14/12 at 6:06pm
A good reason not to build a dual build is if you ever had to move it. My 600t is heavy enough with everything in it.

I never said anything about folding.
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8/14/12 at 6:24pm
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A good reason not to build a dual build is if you ever had to move it. My 600t is heavy enough with everything in it.
I never said anything about folding.

I mean, If I had the idle CPUs
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8/14/12 at 9:42pm
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Why not make a dual system build? wink.gif
IMnG]

I did.
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8/14/12 at 9:47pm
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I have a media server in my house that I do the following:

 

24" Macbook Early 2009 - Primary media server - has 2 MediaSonic RAID totaling 10TB of storage 

21" Late 2008 20" - Used for NFS (network file share)

My desktop - When running linux, do video crunching between the imacs and my rig

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post #49 of 53
8/18/12 at 10:54am
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Whoa nice comments all of you, the dual system build is intresting, I happen to have two processors which are very similar and are 775 socket chips, but since they aren't Xeons I can't use them in a dual system build frown.gif.

However I think It should be easy to find cheap opterons or some Xeons and replace the MOBO and make a dual system, I probably wont because of the miser budget I intend to use but It's intresting find out more.

I've laways been interested in dual CPU systems, but I want to know the benefits and the drawbacks of using one, I gather that conversion and rendering should be drastically improved but I wish to find out more, like If it's possible to deactivate a processor while the system is running or at all, and not only that If It's possible to allocate a processor or a few cores to performing a certain task.
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post #50 of 53
8/18/12 at 11:12am
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Looks like I was wrong.
http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/productdetails.asp?productid=9462&categoryid=260
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