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Thanks for reminding me. Knew of Gog.com but hadn't checked them out yet.

True, Stunt Rally is more visually appealing... The appeal of TORCS is the refinement made in the physics engine, being very true to real life. PS. Stunt Rally also has the Batman Rumbler and the Battlestar Galatica Viper as drivable vehicles, for those so inclined.

Hi Guys, Since building my new system, I've started playing some games, notably Warzone 2100, TORCS, SuperTuxKart (the kids love this one), Pingus and Astromenace. About to buy Doom3 BFG as well... (I haven't played Doom3 yet, as never had a system that could play it well, until now). The kids...

No issues with the noise of the 212 Evo, in fact the front 18cm fan of the TJ08E is quite loud on high setting, barely audible on low setting, but still louder than the 212 even on the low setting... The loudest I've had was my old dual Opteron 242 system... 6x 80cm fans (3 front, 3 rear) and...

Just as a follow up, I ended up getting: Intel i7-4790 CoolerMaster 212 Evo Silverstone 12cm fan 2x Kingston 16GB Kit(2x8G) DDR3 1866MHZ (HyperX Black) ASRock H97M-PRO4 Silverstone TJ08E SeaSonic G-550W 80Plus eVGA GTX760 SC 2G Intel 530 24GB Hitachi 2TB 7200rpm HDD (existing). LG BluRay-RW...

That depends, is he going to keep the new one for the same period of time? I recently upgraded to a new box (see: http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php/10393-Small-case-build ), and I would consider the parts the best bang for buck at the higher end... There is a decent amount of...

Specs look good for the money, but can't offer any reasonable suggestions without knowing the number of VMs, what the VMs will be running and how hard the server will be hit... Any possiblity of outsourcing (aka using cloud based services) via GoogleApps/Office365, GMail, etc to lessen the...

I would guess,. something is lying... According to Intel, the max turboboost for your processor is 2.4GHz, up from the normal 2.16GHz... http://ark.intel.com/products/81071/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2830-1M-Cache-up-to-2_41-GHz To see what is really going on, from the terminal run: $ cat...

Illustrator or Visio are about the closest. It's mainly for generating vector based graphics. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_vector_graphics_editors The nice thing about Draw is that it can generate EPS correctly/easily, which allows very easy insertion into LaTeX documents...

Sorry, was a typo, yes docx was '07. For simple documents docx is safer, as the document is a XML document in a ZIP file, so there is less to go wrong. Also do you have the MS fonts installed and selecting those as the default font (don't think this is the problem, but you never know). Hint...

Do you get the same when you save as: doc? (Word 97) docx? (Word 2003) odt? rtf? or export as PDF? Have you checked the margins and paper sizes, are they what you expect in both applications? I've been using LibreOffice since it was StarOffice 4.0 and haven't personally seen the issue you're...

Glad to hear you got the rest sorted out. What are the issues you're having with LibreOffice?

I'm sure most of the regulars are ex-SR, with myself being one of the most recent to migrate. I migrated at a time when reviews on SR where very few, and the forums literially become "What drive do buy?" and "What is the most reliable drive?" threads... Shortly after SR was purchased by the new...

ROFL.... Oh... so much broken code out there!

I had concerns on the height of the 212 Evo, but triple checking, it'll easily fit, and will use that. Thanks for the prompting. FYI, The GTX970s are over $200 more than the GTX760 here... PS. I was looking at HSF, and my wife goes, "looking at naked computers again"? So I fired up google...

All this discussion on a new PC, my beautiful wife has given the ok for me to finally replace my 5yr old system (yep, the one I was going to replace 12mths ago, but funds fell through at the time). I like the idea of a smaller case and my new desk only allows for a 420mm deep case (The in desk...

Just like to thank everyone for your input, he decided to go with the build as last detailed, except swapping the BR-RW for a DVD-RW.

Crucial MX100 128GB = AU$85 Crucial MX100 256GB = AU$148 Crucial MX100 512GB = AU$269 My only concern with the Curcial, their MX500 has TRIM suppoort blacklisted in the Linux kernel due to it being broken (as in brick the drive broken)... Wonder if they've fixed that? PS. The MX100 prices are...

Thanks guys... The full story with my wife was: Approximately 2yrs ago she was diagnosed with bowel cancer (complication resulting from Crohn's disease) and at the same time benign lesions were noted in the lymph nodes around the breasts. She underwent biological treatment for the bowel...

So is it going to be NT 7.0 or NT 6.4 ?

Apologies, wasn't haven't a go at you. ;) It sounded like you assumed I was using integrated gfx or going with the GTX660 suggestion. FYI, GTX660's are getting few and far between availability wise here. (They are typically only $30 more than the GTX750Ti, and as time notes, offers additional...

I agree... While personally I'm just unift with no major helath issues, my wife was recently diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer (was at stage 1 with it dormant for 2yrs), and has started chemo yesterday...

A aftermarket HSF was primarily due to maxing out the CPU, in both software development whilst concurrently running multiple VMs, coupled with a small case that will be placed in a in-desk cavity. At work all our software development boxes use the stock HSF (most are Intel i7's of different...

A 750Ti is in the build... As I said, it's mainly for minecraft and more casual games... His a fan of games on Myst, so unless newer puzzle/adventure games require a beefy GPU, I can't see the need for anything beefer.

Average is ~AU$360 here for this one... The 512GB 850 Pro currently listed for around AU$409!

My first thought for a case were to look at the Fractal Design cases (a company I like), but alas they're all too deep.

@Time, thank you so much for suggesting the TJ08E, excellent case. ;) Get's really good reviews on slient pc review ( http://www.silentpcreview.com/ss-tj08e ). After going back over the reviews I've found on the Prodigy-M, virtually none did thermal testing on CPU/GPU/PSU temps in the system...

A lot of online retailers have either delisted the 840 Pro's or if you call them, they have no stock of them. I can get some shipped interstate, but the shipping price largely negates any saving with going with an older model.

Quite the opposite, high-end users do typically like VMs, especially when you can do 3D pass-through and get to play older games in VMs that don't work on the Host OS. My understanding was they did it for system stability. As for why the Celeron's have it? Low end servers running Hyper-V, Xen...

When he first came to me, I started with the Zotac EN series and some of the smaller Shuttle boxes... then came the 32GB RAM want... And looking at a some of the larger shuttle bare bones kits (which can be a little hard to come by here), it was cheaper to go with the mATX mobo+case route...

Hi Time, Thanks for the feedback. 1. Was aware of this, but the new Devil's Canyon K series no longer disable VT-x/VT-d, which may help some others here. 2. In our lab at work, under Linux we're finding increased CPU utilisation and can't move more than 60-70MB/s on Gigabit ethernet, whereas...

Hi Guys, Helping with a build for a friend that requires a smaller case to be used. Due to the cavity available for a tower in his desk being only 420mm deep, I'm limited to cases that are are less than 400mm deep (due to space required for cables at the back). The cavity itself is 280mm wide x...

FreeBSD: recent benchmarks place it equal with Solaris/OpenIndiana, a lot of work has been done in FreeBSD 10 improving it's performance. Linux (FUSE): works, but is slow (unless you have lots and lots of RAM). Linux (kernel mode driver): Close to same as FreeBSD, but slightly slower due to...

I wasn't aware ESXi packged bash, I though it used busybox in the underlying core OS?

This one actually made the morning news show here in Oz... Except it was completely incorrect (noting all systems including windows were affected), that AV will pick up malicious actions, etc... But it was nice to see most Linux distro's packaging the fix very rapidly... (All our systems at...

Pretty much every where else is listing a 2048x1440 res... http://gizmodo.com/nexus-9-rumor-roundup-everything-we-think-we-know-1637603393 (The image mid way down has the specs)

Hi Guys, In the market for a new 10" tablet for the wife, since our son dropped her current 10" Toshiba Thrive on the tiles and cracked the casing. The Toshiba still powers up and seems fine, except the backlight will flicker a little if held certain ways, and battery life has dropped...

Coug, congratulations on doing continued study! The way I'm seeing things in the near future, solid understanding of networking will be a hard requirement, as the industry is moving away from centralised architectures to heavily de-centralised architectures especially with the growth in the...

Actually seems reasonabled priced for on US$2.5K for the specs... But what connectivity is required eg. will it require DP MST, or will it run from a single HDMI connection?, and will it do the full res @60Hz+...

The reports were generated in the application itself via it's reporting facility... Then exported to ASCII text files via capturing the LPT port comms, and processed accordingly (resulting files were read via a custom .NET application, basically treating the imported files with fixed width...

I've got a Das Keyboard Model S Professional silent at work (Cherry red switches), and very happy with it. The Reds are only slightly louder than most membrane keyboards, but for a comparison, Das Keyboard has audio here: http://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-professional/ (scroll down and there...

Whoa, necro -thread... No I didn't. In this case I ended up using some of the reports from the application to extract the key information and went from there...

Ps. First is the desktop, the second shows the default window borders I've got set, etc...

Agreed.

Ivy Bridge will do 4K on HDMI/DP provided you have the UEFI support and a very up to date Intel Driver and X.Org version, and the HDMI/DP ports are of the required versions. (Some cheaper motherboards skimped on the actual hardware for HDMI, limiting overall bandwidth on the wire to less than...

Interesting that the writes are quicker with the 4K tests...

Likewise, is every one affected ok?

Do you happen to the have OS Restore media for the laptop? Why not use that if you have it. (Did it come with the laptop, or did you have to burn the DVDs yourself based on recovery software in the initial install?) Either way, Toshiba should be able to provide the media (or a download link) for...

Agreed. But you could replace the vendor in the last sentence with: More than anything it had me wondering what the Microsoft people were thinking More than anything it had me wondering what the Oracle people were thinking More than anything it had me wondering what the Ubuntu people were...

Sounds like you just need Cobbler then? Otherwise you could do your own Distro based on CentOS and use the automated installation script functionality... Spacewalk, IIRC, is the open-source version of Red Hats Satellite, which has full lifecycle management, which sounds like overkill...