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RD650. Here is my latest quote:

It seems like if you didn't cheap out too badly you're already there. I was worried that there would be a new connector, or protocol, or something. Just raising the bar on image quality is a Good Thing.

New. Lenovo servers configured by them. Much faster turn around than Lenovo themselves, always have stuff in stock, and if you really spec a system up (24x SSDs, for example) they will be much cheaper.

Something like that. I'm sure they got it in volume. I mean, these guys have their own jet.

You know you made a vendor rep happy when they send you a bottle of Blue Label for the holidays.

I'm doing something similar, but using the DP and HDMI out of the same Titan X. No performance issues.

...or you could do this: Still working on the design.

The new Skylake chips are good enough that I wouldn't bother with X99 at this point. Even the i3 @ 3.7Ghz stock I got for the kid is pretty darn fast.

It is quite fun, but if you aren't willing to risk some hardware, build the loop on the rig then remove it from your hardware before leak testing. I've lost two GPUs and a MB from bad a connection in the past. Yes, this was a single install. Yes, it was with a motherboard that had built-in...

Maximum overkill. https://youtu.be/LXOaCkbt4lI Should have gone with dual PSUs and Titan Xs, but oh well.

As discussed earlier, just looking at the "stats for nerds" box... As mentioned, no idea whether that is the video bitrate or something else.

Someone recently said to me "May today be the worst day in the rest of your life". Not sure how I feel about that...

Worked for me without any prompt.

Comcast Coax-based, fast-ish. Currently running 170Mbps with 2 Youtube and one Netflix stream running and a couple torrents.

That video gave me 121Mbps on Firefox. I'm seeing the same codec as you.

Lowercase b...that is about 11.25MB/s. Right-click on a video while it is playing and check "stats for nerds".

And that bitrate looks pretty good; 90Mbps.

My wife and I have wanted a standing/sitting desk for quite a while. Our desk is nearly 10' long and spans the front window in the house. One of the big issues with adjustable height desks is the cable management. Sticking the electronics in the desk, mounting the linear drive motors in the...

Thanks for that. Is the only limitation 3D?

Do you actually dig through the disks when you want to play something? Or do you have them ripped to your NAS?

The last time I was doing a large RAQID HDD install I used 3Ware, and they let me set staggered spin-up to 3 drives every 2 seconds. It still added time to the boot. Keep in mind that without staggered spin-up they start spinning during POST and are ready to go. With staggered spin-up they do...

Thanks for that. I wonder if they could help in a larger project...

If you wanted to buy some ATX motherboard trays with I/O and PCI card support, where would you buy them? CAD model screenshot included for clarity of what I'm after. Extracting them from cases is an option, but I'd want them to look clean, so no dremel-ing.

I've never set up a Windows 10 machine using a Microsoft account. Didn't have a good reason before now, just sounded like a bad idea.

Hey, nobody wins when you have a floppy SLI Bridge...

I have no doubt the quality of this was awful. None of the content delivery companies (Comcast, DirecTV, etc) give enough bandwidth to anything. I often think that YouTube 1080P streams are actually higher bandwidth than most things those guys are calling "HD".

I had a similar experience lately, but they were playing standard Blu-ray disks. I had to explain to them that if the content isn't 4k, they aren't getting much. They were unhappy that this hadn't been explained to them when they were up-sold at the store.

Auto switching itself isn't a lot of work. Unless you were relying on your ISP to provide everything (modem with built-in router and WiFi) and need to replicate those services.

This has me interested, but I haven't used Windows for storage in so long that I am completely unfamiliar with the storage spaces concept. A quick look seems to indicate that it manages pools (like ZFS) with variable amounts of redundancy. I really like this. Does it support cache drives...

Internal Shot ...and thanks Handruin for whatever you did to fix my image imbedding issue!

This is a turnkey solution from Koolance that includes the rad, fans, pump, reservoir, fan controller, and pump controller. I've modified it to include a flow meter for when the pipe run is longer. In the winter the rad just sits on top of my PC, in the summer I have pipes routed into the...

I wouldn't trust any single enclosure with my data. Even a massive NAS would be backed up daily to another unit at another site. Therefore all you risk with less redundant systems is some downtime, not data. For home use 48 hours of downtime is acceptable.

3x 120 Intake, 2x 120 blowing directly across the boards, 1x 120 exhaust, 9x 120 radiator. Plus tons of huge aftermarket aluminum heatsinks thermal epoxied to anything that thought about going above ambient (including the M.2 SSDs, which had been shown to thermally throttle during benchmarks).

I don't need hot-swap, and was looking at the enclosures at 45drives.com. Their base model (30 drives) with backplanes and a custom wiring harness for a Corsair HX power supply comes in at just under $1k. Of course, they also offer a maxed out turnkey 60x 6TB solution for $35k.

Sorry, didn't elaborate. Set up both WANs in failover. Disconnect the one you don't want to try. At any point if you are unhappy with the service, just plug in a cable to get the other service going again.

I don't do the bling these days, just maximum functionality. Here is my main home rig:

I've been running NAS appliances for a long time now. Thinking of switching back for the next generation. It would be nice to have automated system-level imaging of the workstations (like Home Server used to do). I've outgrown the 8x6TB and 5x8TB Synology units at home, and really want 10GbE to...

There are a number of routers that have more than one WAN port. I've used these with success. Link: http://amzn.com/B00O4UJHFG Note that this doesn't have WiFi built in, but getting an AP is not hard.

5k @ 60hz is lovely, but 27" is way too small for that many pixels in normal desktop use. 36" would be perfect for me. That bezel is also about twice as big as it should be.

I don't have access to my previous install, but I just installed Anti-Beacon on my current machine and enabled every option. Windows Update still works for me.

I don't know enough about how this works, but I suspect that there is additional information beyond SSID and security settings that differentiates APs. I number of places I've gone will show multiple networks even if they all have the same SSID/security (even going so far as to require the...

Not particularly. My experience with Android, Windows, iOS, and OSX are all about the same. They maintain a list of APs and that list has priorities assigned to them. Of all the APs available, it will choose the one highest up the list rather than the one with the highest strength.

You added both the APs to the same config, right? This will automatically give them both the same SSID/password and makes them play pretty well together. How low the reception needs to get before it jumps is an open question.

PG&E has made it really easy provided you are supplying less than 40kW and that the amount you are supplying is <15% of the total capacity of your service (up to 7.2kW in my case, which I will be right at). Two basic rules: 1. Use an Inverter that is approved by them (most of the ones for sale...

I'll just leave the whole system off. No batteries connected at all. I already have a UPS for all the important stuff. Code only requires that a manual shutoff switch be located adjacent to the main electrical panel and labeled clearly.

Signaling theory and the Prius Moved up the Solar City in-home to 30 minutes from now. The more research I do, the more likely I am to do the install with my usual local contractors and me running the project. Main reason for the timing is that I'm under the impression that the market will be...

Meh. The highlight reel is good, but there isn't enough there.

Has anyone else been looking into this? My house consumes a fairly large amount of electricity, and I've been considering it for years. Finally decided to call Solar City and get a quote (they start with a preliminary over the phone, my at-home estimate is on the 27th). Based on past usage, I'm...