I do network administration for a small business that creates websites, so I can feel ya. Everyone that uses creative suite has a very similar spec hardware, either a 27" imac i5, or a custom built PC from me, with an i5. Sometimes an i7 if they do video. I always use Corsair power supplies, gskill ...

This feels a little hurried, and I don't have any nifty power readings for it. But my power supply and the 945gc chipset isn't really going to knock out any people's eyeballs with low power consumption. There has been some hype with this case, and I have to say I'm pretty happy with it. Other that I...

Should actually be just fine. I'd say some of the new H55 or P55 MATX motherboards might work great for you. You might even look into ITX, they have a couple high-end chipset ITX motherboards that would work well too. I put together workstations at work for about $1k, they generally consist of - Int...

I'd consider bumping to a better power supply. I've had crap luck with no-name supplies. The antec supply listed is pretty nice, but I have bought about 20 corsair supplies between work and not work, and prefer them. I have no experience with the gigabyte cases. Antec cases get a thumbs up from me, ...

It's pretty much always a crap shoot. Newegg reviews don't represent a useful statistic; plenty of people with working drives don't bother to write a review, while the angry people with a single DOA drive certainly speak there piece. Every brand has good and bad batches. Every brand has had problems...

The Samsung (or the Seagate) does not bottleneck anything :P Everything you're going to be doing with your computer : loading games, loading your web browser, loading into windows is all going to be bottlenecked at HDD read/write/access times. You're always waiting for your hard drive to do things....

- Save a bit of cash on the motherboard if you want, you can get the non-pro version of that motherboard. unless you need that PCIe-4x slot. - Thought about replacing the case fans? Tri-cools with a water cooling system seems a bit mismatched. Either go for air cooling and keep the tricools, or go w...

It seems kinda silly to overclock when you're going to be bottlenecked by the other components [HDD] you're not spending as much money on. Unless you just like the thrill of it. As for the component recommendations, I'm partial to high end corsair power supplies myself, they are over-engineered and ...

i bought one, i'll post pics when it arrives =)

Thanks for the read. I'm doing something very similiar build with this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182205 and a supermicro 8 port card [http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-aoc-saslp-mv8~7SUP918N.htm] hoping to not just hold data, but to try out iSCSI over the two gigab...

is that a p180 or p182? i didn't know you could put cables behind the mobo tray on p180.

Q9550S is also 65W, though an older platform.

I'm very, very happy with my i7-860.

I'd think more about disk I/O if you're going to be doing a lot of virtualization. I usually run out of that before I run out of memory or CPU.

1. There is only one model of i5 that you can currently buy, the i5-750 2.66ghz. I'd consider upgrading to the i7-860 if you do any video encoding at all, ever. It's very nice. 2. P183 is fine, quiet. Fans are mediocre at best. 3. PSU: Totally overkill. Corsair 550VX would be fine, especially since ...

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Reseat memory. try single sticks, etc. try replacement ram. had the exact same thing happen, turns out my memory wasn't seated properly.

I've got a q9450 I'd let go for 150$ also a used artic cooler 7, and 8GB of DDR2. and a motherboard that may have a flaky sata port. was trying to get rid of the whole lot for 250$ I posted this on another board "1. Processor is a 2.66 LGA 775 processor with 12MB of cache. Never overclocked, and wel...

There isn't much that will softmount or suspend drives, but there are plenty of solutions you can do to hardmount a drive or drives in 5.25" bays.

Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817995004

would let you cram 3 drives in your 2 5.25" bays.

The tiniest bit of dust on a pin on a card or mem stick can cause intermittent stuff like this. Had it happen the other day on a stick of ram.

Glad you figured it out. Nothing more depressing than a computer that *doesnt* work.

Sounds like you have gone down most of the general troubleshooting. I'll throw you a couple more ideas. 1. I'd try an ubuntu live CD, see if that crashes. 2. I'd feel the heatsinks on the motherboard. Just because the CPU is within specs doesn't mean the northbridge isn't roasting. 3. Swap video car...

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Howdy. I figure I would post this here, and if no go, I'll try ebay; I haven't had any takers on craigslist. I have the following for sale; 1. A-Card 9010b with 12GB of Kingston unbuffered, ECC DDR2. Asking 300$ for the whole thing, cost me over 400$ to get it all together. http://chrisrandel.com/im...

I've actually done a significant amount of research already. I know that Windows 7 [and Vista] automatically do the disk partition "Alignment" which gives you faster speeds. I've actually read the article you referenced. They never talked about drivers or anything in it, but yes, 7 had faster sequen...

why not start by un-overclocking it? if it's too hot... well, isn't it obvious? a small overclock like that isn't likely to really have much performance effect. As fans go, I like Yate-Loon fans, with zalman fan controller. Works great and less than 10$ per fan+controller. Scythe and Noctua fans are...

Hello. After some research, I recently coughed it up for a Intel X25-E 32GB for my OS/Boot drive. I read SLC flash lasts a significantly "longer" time than MLC flash. I was running on a Acard 9010B, but due to some flakyness issues, I've moved off of that for OS. It was great while I had it, though....

If you're going to spend money on it, consider just replacing the mobo/proc.

A mobo with nice onboard [780G comes to mind] and a processor can be had for ~100$. Add ram for another 10-20$.

This is probably correct.

The scale is just a lot bigger, Windows 7 indexing is designed to be able to scale i7 processors, and as far as clock-for-clock processing, any quad-core i7 will stomp an AMD processor by what is almost a whole magnitude.

Nothing is impossible, but it will likely void your warranty. It seems like you have a lot of good hardware, and your limiting factors are your case and existing fans/PS. I would consider investing in a more moddable case [P182 ? Antec 300?], a more reasonable power supply [Antec 500W earthwatts? Co...

I'm using a gigabyte i-ram for swap file >:

I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R.

The question is are the PCI-E 1x slots a different "lane" than the "lane" connected to the onboard Intel ICHR controller. I'd like to think they are, but I couldn't tell you one way or another.

The situation is: all devices on your SATA controller share the same PCI bandwidth lane. For example, I believe my motherboard shares six SATA ports for a 66mhz PCI lane, with up to 266MB/s bandwidth on it [at least according to spec] I know with traditional hard drives, it's unlikely you're going t...