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Not to mention that, even at stock voltages, the RAM gets pretty warm...

Yeah, 1600 is the fastest "normal" speed. Anything above that is OC'er only territory.

All the steps you are mentioning are ones I'm considering for the master bedroom. I am a very light sleeper, and it would be great to have a place that is actually silent. Helps keep noise in, as well ;)

I just did that yesterday. Didn't work in my case (turned out to be a bad NIC).

I don't think I did, either. Though I don't remember what it was.

With an unlocked CPU, you can clock the memory separately from everything else. As fast or as slow as you like. I ran into stability issues with 12GB of RAM, so I got the fast stuff and kept it clocked lower.

Sounds like a decent workstation to me. RAID0 SSDs for OS/Apps/Cache/Page/etc and Massive RAID6 for DATA.

Rebuild the TCP/IP stack

$700 is a small price to pay for SATA ports that are oriented correctly ;)

Nope. I don't build anything at a price point that would make it relevant.

My current motherboard has the SATA ports firing horizontally off the side. Very useful.

The problem is that it would be bending towards the locking mechanism. Not sure how they would do that.

Thought I saw one in the back-left of the middle two pictures. They won't load for me now...

Nice. Looks like a new(ish) house? Everything is clean and square...making me jealous. You also have some nice toys there, 19" rack in the corner...

Better? Maybe, but I doubt by much. RAID-0 is as straightforward as it gets, not much in the way of compute requirements or caching optimizations. I normally stick them on the ICH to simplify OS installation. Of course, with Win7, that isn't really an issue anymore.

I would (hell, I paid $1k for mine). The EE is unlocked, so it will be a breeze to OC. Mine ticked past 4GHz without issue.

What controller will you be using for the RAID? The ICH?

In the past I had used server OSes because they had a newer version of the kernel than the workstation equivalent. I don't know if that is the case anymore, but computing hardware is sufficient to ignore minor performance losses in exchange for a more mainstream experience.

I have never needed OCZ support for anything, but that is the impression I have received. Edit: MSI as well, for that matter.

My guess is that, with their reputation to defend, they are not anxious to put their name on less tested technologies. Remember they had a significant misstep with SSDs in the beginning. Of course, if all you have is forums moderated by the boss' son for support, you can release whatever you want.

If you want good customer service, I would assume that Intel would be the place to be. Other than that, I don't think there is much to separate them.

I can see it being useful for people running server OSes for their workstations, but that is pretty much done with in the "7" world.

Sounds like an easy place to get into photography.

To be honest, all the top players are so fast that it isn't significant. I just buy the current fastest in whatever size is appropriate and stick it in.

I think so. Someone who has someone like you as a teacher is lucky, because you are a professional in the field who happens to teach. That is one of the things I liked about the Haas School of Business, all the teachers I spent time with were professionals who taught a couple classes a quarter...

I became a very poor student as soon as I discovered that teachers weren't gods, and didn't actually know everything. I was a slow child, this happened around 5th grade.

It is just a workstation; no data is stored locally. Switching to my laptop on a docking station to a pair of my displays wasn't a significant setback to my work, just my gaming. Nothing but Railroads! for several weeks, it is a very fun game. ;)

I will accept a sample unit for complimentary testing if you like ;)

Faster, but it isn't an apples to apples comparison, as they are in different rigs. Copying a file back into the same folder sees a burst speeds of 270MB/s and sustained of 95MB/s. It is quite possibly the fastest SSD I've used short of the Z-Drive.

I haven't done any benches, but it is downright awesome in this laptop. If there is any particular tests you would like, let me know.

I was offline for over 6 hours, and the only post was Coug, and he answered his own question? I'm putting my watercooling rig back together, should be fun. For the last several weeks, I've just been on my Thinkpad.

I think MaxBurn is right.

I can't even imagine being in a classroom again. It was so unpleasant the first time around, I suspect I would deliver pizzas as an alternative.

Nope. the board is set back from all the edges, so their is an internal compartment for all the cables to connect.

The machine I'm using at the moment has a Vertex LE in it, does that count?

I like the looks of it. I hadn't seen a chassis with the motherboard oriented that way, though I have been doing it since '06 in my custom builds, so I think it is a good idea ;)

Nope. My parents just spent the last few weeks in the south of France. It wasn't until after I moved out that they started going to cool places ;)

I'm just bicking up family, then drving the 100 miles back.

In the two hours it took me to drive from Monterey to SFO, the flight from Heathrow fell behind by two hours. Good sightings, though. A McLaren F1 near Gilroy and three Teslas on special platforms being loaded into a BA 747.

The answer is yes, the capacity can scale. But the bandwidth won't. So long as you maintain your low user count, that shouldn't matter.

We did buy the top-end Samsung VRT front-loaders with silver and steam, very happy with them as well. The dishwasher I'm looking at now (after selling my wife on a white kitchen) is this one. Induction is almost certainly in our future, currently looking at the frameless models.

Not just you, it happens to me all the time.

Someone just sent me a technical drawing. It was a 100MB+ BMP file in a 3MB 7zip archive. Incredible.

IMHO, TRIM is highly overrated. You will get significantly better performance from your X25-Ms in RAID-0 without TRIM than a single drive with it. Trim is particularly useful with lower performing drives (not yours).

Technically, that computer has 3 harddrives that cost more than $1k each. But yes, I know what you are talking about. I think that as normal users performance needs are met by more generic and cheap hardware, workstation-grade hardware sales will decrease, and we'll be paying even more...

Correction. A sweet Thinkstation C20 will run $16k+.

When you can config a normal Dell or Lenovo for more than $10k?

I don't think this problem requires outliers. A typical pizza is...16" across? An entire (typical) fridge has an exterior dimension of 36". Subtracting (conservatively) 6" for cladding and insulation, even if the freezer section was the same width as the fridge (I haven't seen one that is), it...

I'm hearing you. I grew up with a side-by-side, and all I can remember is that the frozen pizzas would warp because they had to be stored on their side.

The one thing I care about is that it not try to be a router. I don't want it to force DHCP, do NAT, attempt any kind of firewall, etc. I want to be able to set the IP on the device I connect to it to be a static external IP and for it to receive all traffic. The Comcast Business Gateway is a...