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Thanks mangydog, I knew they had to exist.

I'm fairly sold on the Supermicro C7X58 but I will hear suggestions. The only concern I have on it is all the other slots will be blocked so I couldn't add a sound card. About a non issue I think as the new board onboard sound should be fine for me, only reason I have a sound card now is my...

Truely. The Supermicro C7X58 I am considering has that, but then they went on and designed it so that the other expansion slots are all blocked if you are running on SLI with cards that are two slots wide. I was thinking the SATA ports being blocked would be easier to deal with.

Is it incorporated? I know that protects the individual but I am not sure what is says about floating corporate debts personally. At any rate doesn't sound good then. You think about where you want to move?

Very interesting, first I have seen those right angle cables. Unfortunately I think they would be too high anyway

Straight cables end up with this. Big video cards block some drive connectors on the board, really crappy design. I think you are right. These are images of the problem I found in a review and I am thinking about this board.

Yeah, I don't care about the lock. I think I will just have to grab a razor and make some cables if I decide to go this route.

Is there such a thing? Problem is in the pictures below, if the 90° connector goes that way it will block ports. Just looked at a lot of angled sata cable pictures and I have yet to find one that goes the opposite way from this picture. Considering a Intel DX58SO board which is what is...

What makes you say that?

I see what he means but they appear to be shelves after a little use of the image zoom plugin.

Decisions decisions, found a guy selling a i7 965 EE on a forum but he wants $400 for it. I'd already decided I was going to pick up the i7 950 when it drops to $295 next month. 3.20ghz vs 3.06ghz, think I should do it?

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I asked but he didn't know. He said if he remembered they would look at it the next time they bounce the box but I think it is in production so that's going to be a while. IMO if your OS supports NUMA you definitely want that on to avoid the cross buss data gathering hit. May want to look into...

I guess the (my?) point of confusion is NUMA and interleaving as we generally understand it are not mutually exclusive. Each memory controller can interleave on its own bank of memory and likely do even if NUMA is selected. You just aren't interleaving between all system memory in the whole box...

http://www.ehowa.com/ythd.shtml?movie=Q7BbEkgujzk

Found this explaining the situation. The way the architecture is organized with the memory controllers on die now you don't seem to have a choice but to do NUMA. Maybe if you only had the one CPU socket populated you could disable it or maybe the system presents to the OS as UMA and handles...

Are these multiple socket servers? If so any CPU design that has the memory controller on the CPU die and has multiple sockets is intrinsically NUMA, no way to get around that sense they moved the memory controller off of the chipset.

I might be grossly wrong on this but to put it in hard drive terms I think of interleave like RAID0 for memory and dual/triple channel like having two/three RAID adapter cards. You can interleave on one physical DIMM. All desirable things. The UMA and NUMA stuff has me confused though and the...

I think you could find out if it works relatively fast if you enable it and run memtest86 on the thing. I think it has taken a backseat with dual/triple channel? Or maybe they interleave within the channels too, don't know.

I believe enabled is best performance but the memory modules must match and be installed in the correct places.

Does it allow for the long optical drives? Some can run a little over 8 inches. I would also like some vibration isolation on the HDD racks.

Sure is, doesn't help at all when a lot of news posts don't mention this critical detail. You would think they would go back and correct the news posts. Marketing win for intel I guess, they got a lot of pressure off their back for people that want this but think they just got it.

Hmm, I guess that's also the best future improvement option with a driver upgrade to add it rather than doing two drives now and reinstalling windows later.

I see conflicting news reports that TRIM is supported on the ICHx chipsets with the intel storage manager. Anyone know for sure? News reports center around the end of march but I think tech report brings something pretty important up here: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18653 I'm not...

I think I'm going i7 on the next round of price drops next month. Hear something like the 3ghz one should be around $300 or less. Six cores isn't interesting me very much but the architecture difference and a modest freq bump does.

To it would be useful to know what it will be used for, how many simultaneous users etc.

Maybe this? SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 8-PORT 3GB/S PCI-E X4 SAS/SATA CONTROLLER CARD - MARVELL HERCULES-2 CONTROLLER/IOP, 3GB/S PER PORT, 8 INTERNAL PORTS, HBA ONLY, LOW-PROFILE, SOFTWARE RAID SUPPORT http://www.wiredzone.com/itemdesc.asp/ic/10018973/model/AOC-SASLP-MV8 $102.86 free ship...

Grrr, the samsung F3 from newegg is DOA. One single drive wrapped in bubble wrap in a small box placed on the bottom of a bigger box with paper pack on top of it. Newegg is trying but they aren't quite there yet. So now I go to bestbuy to get a seagate that is sold there for $10 less than it is...

Firefox synch is live and free in app store now. So much easier than emails with a bunch of links and creating bookmarks manually. If only it would transfer them to mobile safari directly but of course that will never be allowed. ipod aside though I use this all the time between my work and...

Right at the top of the page there "Please Note: This early release of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta is not available for home users. The SP1 Beta does not provide new end-user features, and installation is not supported by Microsoft." Doesn't surprise me it has a couple...

Do you need the vi microphone part? When I use my triplefi vi's in noisy places I am totally happy as I can't hear the noise but people I am talking to say the mic picks up a little too much ambient noise. I'm guessing it is the same mic on the superfi. When I look around at airports and things...

I have several sony MDR-EXxxxx in ear headphones and they were OK and I think retail around $30-50 but appear to go for a lot less now. Check into coplyfoam to get a good seal and tighten up the bass, they can help a ton. They have options for the apple headphones plus about all other in ear...

You can sometimes (used to anyway) buy the little cans at places like VIP or Pepboys, need a little adapter hose to do it. But yes, R12 is out of production and the only thing out there is reclaimed R12. Government shut it down because that is the really nasty environment unfriendly stuff.

Oh my god WD, facepalm. I checked the serial of a eight or so year old out of warranty drive, a upgrade to a WD6000HLHX costs $280.00. So then I check my raptor 300 to trade in to the same WD6000HLHX and drum roll please, yes, $280.00. Trading in my warranty does nothing at all but lose my...

This is interesting. I just had an indecent with my raptor 300 where it wouldn't detect at startup, but is now working fine again outside the case so I think I will give it a new cable. Anyway out of interest I checked out the warranty on WD's site and found a most interesting thing. It appears...

Just a thought but I think it's kind of a moot issue as a case of some sort is pretty much required on them. Having exposed sharp edges of glass is a really bad idea imo as it is so easy to nick the edge and start a crack. Really should have made the metal surround a bit thicker and recessed the...

I don't know why you would deal wih BofA, here is a new messed up story like this every day over on consimerist.

I get a spam mail at the office maybe twice a year using google postini, I am very impressed. I don't know that I have ever gotten a false positive from them either. http://www.google.com/postini/index.html My personal account doesn't have any protection but I don't get much spam in it either...

Anyone going to canada to get an unlocked iphone 4? I am skipping the whole mess but if I was thinking about getting one this would be the only way I would consider. Unless there is something I am not aware of that apple would relock it if detected in the US. On another note I got a ultimate...

I posted elsewhere but this board has more than enough power to drive home server and I am sure it would be fine under vail. http://www.wiredzone.com/itemdesc.asp/ic/10019793/model/X7SPA-HF

I built my home server on the X7SPA-HF and I quite like the board. The IPMI with virtual KVM really sold it and works pretty well. Seems more than fast enough for what it is doing too, the dual core atom feels pretty nice.

Immersed in something about the same density as your body. Like they did in the Rama novels I think. Not a good time to be flying out of logan at the moment.

I am fairly sure you don't need a bridge cable anymore for ATI.

Download works now. The sync just works though you can't transfer plugins and plugin settings. For the every day thing this is pretty damn good, can't wait for the iphone version.

Anyone tried Firefox sync? I want to but the download is fubar atm. So much better than zipping up and moving the mozilla folder it seems. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10868/

Do the current socket and I might make the move. Pretty nice to see though.

Neat camera for this. http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/03/cheap-tiny-camera-for-rc-planes-captures-video-proof-when-you-b/

If you have a home server you supposedly can RDP into anything through that whether it supports RDP or not.

Reliability is far more important to me 3360 Kbits/sec down by 864 Kbits/sec up isn't terribly fast but the thing almost always works (lightning storms the exception) and more important to me it is always that speed. I regularly max it out for hours at a time without interruption, up or down.

I don't like the idea in combining the optical and the HDD, optical drives fail all the time.