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I find myself trying to get his old install of XP (32bit) running on this hardware. All it took to boot into the OS was to change to IDE mode on the controller, but drivers are proving....difficult. Are there really no X99 chipset drivers for XP?

Merc: Another reason to come out to CA.

Kerbal Space Program is my new all-time favorite. Accessible, easy to start, tons to learn, totally creative and open-ended. Available on Steam if you like.

Not at all, if someone was going to find out it would be you. Just the huge nudge was funny.

One of the things that amazed me most about my car was that the paint straight from the dealer was not perfect. Some orange peel is to be expected, but there were hairline scratches and a couple minor pits straight away. Interested considering my car hadn't even been washed by the dealer yet (I...

Hilarious. I haven't seen this kind of lead on here. Was almost expecting Handy to reply "Nope...nothing to see here...." Did you end up moving your mods to the new car and putting the stock bits back on before sale? Congrats on the new purchase!

When I only need one WAN port I use an FVS318G, they also have one with WiFi included, as well as units with 2 and 4 WAN ports. These can handle 99% of implementations. The only place in my control where that wasn't enough we installed a Barracuda Firewall (8 ports) and Content Filter.

Parts from stock. Shouldn't make that much of a difference. They ended up dropping "Workstation 2" on my recommendation, just putting the SSD in their existing machine and installing the new software to see if that is enough performance. Added a bunch of UPS for everything at their request...

What you want to do is possible, but Merc and Chewy both know loads more about it than I do so I won't bother with that. What I do is use routers that support VPN directly. I really like the Netgear ProSafe series. Router-Router connections are insanely easy and do all the things you want...

Thanks! Just bid the following: At the moment the total for hardware & software is $10,922.55 including shipping and tax. Not bad considering the crazy power involved.

Can anyone confirm that standard Socket2011 coolers will fit these new boards? Looking at the Noctua D-14 2011

Useful for those working on 4k video, but games are having a hard enough time on normal 4k res.

I haven't tried to run one outside the other. I just use the Origin client to launch the games (same for Steam). I can try to close out the Origin program and see if a game will load? Or would you like me to try to uninstall Origin and see what happens to the games?

That just about nails it. I still would be playing CivV, but appreciate the slight variations to keep it fresh. The graphics aren't that much better (Ultra@4k@29Hz) I have Origin for SimCity, Battlefield, and FIFA. It isn't awful, just limited. Mainly annoying because it is *another thing*.

That statement is really confusing. I have no doubt that it is as concise and clear as possible, as your grasp of English exceeds mine on many levels. I still can't figure out exactly what it means.

The screen shots of TORCS make the graphics look very....open source. ;) I've been playing Sid Meier's Beyond Earth since it came out Friday. It is just different enough from CivV that I haven't mastered it yet (I logged nearly 5,000 hours on CivV according to Steam). Fun, pretty, and...

My guest bedroom has a computer with the display mirrored to the TV and read-only access to my media files. My guests so far (in-laws, one at a time) haven't been the most tech-savvy, but have managed ok.

I've ordered one of these, along with the break-out cable. If it can pull in the component directly I might not need to strip HDCP.

Thanks for that. Any suggestion on the capture card itself?

I have a server running at home and the client installed on my phone, but I may have used it twice? At home I have a PC on every TV/Projector, so I just play the media locally. When I am away from home I usually just find something entertaining on YouTube. Similarly, Pandora has been good...

Wouldn't I want one of these instead? (Provided the HD Receiver supports component out?)

So I use that to pull component and SPDIF from the DirecTV receiver and feed the HDMI to a capture card so I can play it in a window on the computer monitor? This bypasses the HDMI protection (HDCP?)?

Looking to pull the signal from an HD DirecTV receiver to play back in a window on a computer. Assuming HDMI protection prevents doing this over HDMI, what about component? Single source, playback only. Don't need recording, multiple inputs, or any outputs. Any suggestions? Thanks!

If you mean the steel box the product is made of, I would hope so. If you mean the steel box of the elevator, the person operating it will also be in the elevator so that shouldn't be a problem. The plan is that someone walking up from the street can use RFID pad 1 to gain access to the lobby...

I don't know, haven't done the research. But the reasoning behind under-clocking the octocore (keeping TDP down) becomes even more of a concern once you start to O/C.

Something like this: http://www.nokey.com/tnrfstalre.html Does anyone have a preferred vendor or product? I need RFID and keypad, and there is no central management system. I'll need two (one to the elevator lobby, one in the elevator), but I don't want to screw with the cable chases required...

Tempted to go 5930 over 5960 for the higher clock speed. As Merc said, that is too many cores for a single user workstation. The number of programs that can use them all efficiently is vanishingly small. Even those that show load on all cores typically have some single-threaded process that...

It isn't bad, just enough for me to see it every time I look. The guys in the video above show the process (1500, 2000, 2500, cut, polish) and lose less than a mil. I wasn't planning on going any rougher than 3000 (there are some water spots that might take this much to remove anyway). The...

Has anyone here attempted/paid for wetsanding to remove "orange peel" texture from their car? I have the tools, and am considering making a stab at it (nice quiet hours grinding in the garage are relaxing to me at this point) http://youtu.be/RxnnA7ntDUo

So after several weeks with the K04, I've resolved my last complaint. During quick-ish driving (2/3 throttle?), 1-2 and 2-3 shifts were really violent and occasionally the car would hang at redline without shifting for as much as half a second. Once this even set the check-engine light...

So they are all walled gardens, Google is best if you bring your own book but Amazon has the best selection? I agree with the philosophical issue, and I will try to explain some of the complexities, but when their eyes glaze over I will probably say "It's complicated, just buy from Amazon and...

Ouch. No? If you have a drive kicking around the first thing I'd do is make a byte-byte copy and run GetDataBack on the copy.

http://youtu.be/bfLqa4vlmFI I'd still have a 918 if price is no object, but the P85D just answered all my complaints about the Model S and gave it a 3.2s 0-62 at the same time. http://youtu.be/FZ6lZJWL_Xk

Sorry, just to purchase and read books. At the moment just on a laptop, but I'm sure an e-reader will follow if it works for them.

A non-tech friend has asked me to set them up with EBooks. They barely have an email address and flip phones. To start I'll set them up with an account on one of the services, and add it to their Win8 laptop. Which service should they use? I use Google for no particular reason, but there must...

USB3.0@100m (and 2.0@10km). Sweet. Of course, USB3.0@10m for $110 is far more appealing to the wallet. Can't wait.

Nothing yet. I'd like to keep the mic I have, it is already mounted and gives great results when it works. I'm just not sure how to get the signal through the attic; all the power to the house is up there, and it has played havoc with analog audio before. If I bought/built something that could...

Plan B would depend on your display driver. nVidia, Intel, and (I think) AMD allow you to get in and actually specify a resolution (type in the number of pixels and the refresh rate). Intel makes this really easy.

Generally, you can go into the "Advanced" menu and then choose "List All Modes". That should give you all the options, including ones that will completely fail to display on your screen (so be careful).

This place (composed of these people) have been remarkably influential in my life. Good stuff ;)

When I owned the game center I had 25 Sony GDM-FW900 24" CRTs. 1920x1200 was easy, 2048xsomething was possible over VGA.

I have proper docking stations for all my Lenovo Thinkpads. But despite having DP ports, it won't support 4k. The main reason I like having proper docking stations over the USB thingies is not having to change the default audio device.

Yup, it almost would have been simpler for everyone if it just dropped off the internet entirely. But, no. I discovered this group on SR when I was just a little older than you, sedrosken. More than half my life ago.

My experiences with wireless baby monitors are particularly poor. Both in the fidelity and range. I'd be more tempted to go to wireless microphone tech and backtrack from there, but I can't think this is that unusual a configuration? Sure, the application is weird, but getting a microphone onto...

As I'm researching, I realize that the mic requires Bias power and not Phantom power. This further complicates the ADC I'll need on that end. As a matter of fact, I haven't found a single example of what I'm looking for that isn't an entire mixing board.

One of the issues of this house is that, with the layout and all the insulation/isolation I've done in the house, it is impossible for us to hear her regardless of the amount of noise she makes. This will be useful in a decade or so, but at this point this is the only way my wife will fall asleep.

They can also be potty-trained much faster, and are easier to feed.

At the moment our baby monitor consists of the following chain: Sony SCam-30 in-ceiling microphone -> 10' speaker cable -> Axis P8221 Network I/O -> 50' CAT6 -> PoE Adapter -> Switch Then played on my wife's computer in the office, where the audio takes the following trip Computer -> 15' HDMI...

How is playing games over HughesNet? Last time I tried there service the ping times were amazing.

I can only think of one explanation to skipping #9. Since 2000, all the even versions have sucked. They know this one is going to suck, and didn't wanted to break the trend.