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My main rig (in my sig under Work1) has found a buyer. I have a couple weeks to build a new system for myself. From what I can tell, the CPU to get is the 4770K (unless there is some awesome overclockable Xeon I'm not aware of). I still like Gigabyte boards, so the G1.Sniper 5 seems the...

That is sexy. Can't find a price anywhere, and I suspect it is way outside of my range. The US distributor is a 3-hour drive away (Berkeley) so it wouldn't be tough to take the bike up there and have them fit it.

My cassette is a 11-28, and I long for my 12-32 on most days. Beyond 25% grade I can't sit at all in 39-28. The local monster climb means standing for 30+ minutes at a time; not efficient. I wouldn't mind larger gaps between the gears; my useful range is pretty large at this point. Putting a...

And that is the ugly, local ride. My Saturday ride through Pebble Beach is probably the prettiest in the country. Once you start going over 15-20 miles you really need a proper road bike and some appropriate clothing (padding/breathing). Otherwise you will not be enjoying yourself. Once you get...

I set up routes with climbs because it punishes me for my extra weight (probably 25 extra pounds at the moment, 220 total). Of course, that does lead to some awesome downhills. It seems I'm cadence limited at about 49mph (50 in front, 11 in the rear). Might be time to switch to a standard in front.

If all you want is a backup solution, just go for USB and use the computer it is connected to to "pull" the data from the various machines. Centralized management is a good thing. If you want to step up to a NAS and centralized storage, I really like the Synology products. Of course at that...

Tonight's ride with some pictures. Haven't built up the nerve to ride with my DSLR, and I like posting pictures to FB while I'm riding (another way to encourage people to ride with me), so I bought a Canon S110 with WiFi. Pairs directly to my phone in the field...

You can boot the mSATA and have a pair of HDDs. As Merc said, it will draw considerable power.

No idea. It may be limited but I thought that the main determining factor was the GPU, which is on the CPU, and certainly does support higher resolutions.

Pretty sure that onboard DVI connector is a dual-link? If so, all you would need is a dual-link cable.

Thermal Interface Material?

Nice call Tannin. Only thing different from my latest is to put an SSD in the laptop and a big disk in the expansion bay. Actually, the ultrabay usually contains a battery, but the drive is there if I need it.

That is a very good pace with lots of climbing. That is your regular route?

I am, I haven't, and I should. Backups are the thing now; everyone can do visualization well enough.

Thanks y'all. All my 8-week-old got me was (another) dirty diaper.

Today's top speed, 43.4mph. Nice pace all-round.

All else being equal, I'd rather have my allocated 50GB right now than need to max the connection 24/7 for the entire month.

De-soldered the IDE connector and put another one on. Copying files now. The new PCB arrives Monday. Oh, well.

When connecting the drive directly to a native IDE port the machine halts before completing post. It first shows the drive, and it passes a SMART test in the BIOS, but halts on a blank screen (sometimes with a blinking cursor) when attempting to boot with the drive connected.

Ordered. Not quite an exact match (P/N after the "-" is different), but we will see. Very reasonable price.

Hmm.... http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-ST3200826A-9Y7289-301-05510-06380/dp/B006KW8JU0/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1371156906&sr=1-1&keywords=9Y7289

IIRC, it would need to be an exact drive, no? The only similar drive I have is the 400GB equivalent.

It has been a long time since I've had a drive with critical data fail without a backup. This one wasn't my responsibility before now, but I told them I would try to get it back. IDE Barracuda 7200.8 200GB User attempted to install an additional drive, and in doing so temporarily disconnected...

Insurance card and a RoadID bracelet (I can offer a discount to anyone interested). I use Strava to track my rides, and Glympse to keep my wife posted on my location.

I feel much better doing my long bike rides with a cellphone. I do ride with a toolkit and a couple bucks, but being able to call the wife and be picked up when things go bad just makes for a more pleasant day.

It should, but that is the highest load it will likely be put under. There won't be any transcoding or CPU intensive stuff. Would be interesting to watch the on-board graphics puke on some 4k gaming I suppose ;)

Nope, I'm bringing them here. I have no desire to go to Moscow again, and they don't seem to mind California. My mother-in-law is coming in September before my wife returns to work, and my father-in-law will be out about 8 months later.

LAX -> SVO = 6088 miles and 12hours, 30 minutes. Ugh.

I suspect it will be quite high, particularly when playing 4k content. Should be interesting.

I don't have the time to fool with that mCubed HFX Classic chassis, and with fanless machines I like to have a warranty. And money wasn't really as issue in this case.

Good point. I can put in more memory on my own I think.

Just ordered the following fanless machine from EndPCNoise.com for a client to drive a 4k TV: Intel Core i7-4770S Haswell 3.1GHz Quad-Core 65w CPU 8GB (1 x 8GB) Kingston PC3 1600 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional 64-bit ASUS Z87 Deluxe 1150 Intel Z87 Intel Motherboard mCubed HFX Classic Silver...

Interesting. It seems that I am a professional Geek and a closet Nerd.

Awesome. But for me to buy one for myself it needs to be under $2k.

It is Apple shit. The best in the world.

All the staircases in all the buildings I used to work for were (at the very least) behind the security desk, if not set to the fire alarm full-time. Finding an available staircase is harder than it would seem.

All mine are the H100i. I didn't do the reviews, but they seem to work well enough.

I have a few of the Corsair closed loop systems, and have been quite pleased with them. Excellent temps, good noise profile, and I like being able to relocate the CPU fan/radiator to direct airflow elsewhere (in my case chassis exhaust).

You also need to take into account how much of your data is accumulated, and how much is fixed. My VM box has only doubled in storage requirements in 6 years, as those VMs are more-or-less just replaced and not added to. But the company data drives have increased 10x in the same time; now that...

I had no idea Haswell was changing the ATX12v PSU spec. And I still can't find a link to good information. Thanks for the warning.

The only people I know using Metro are those that didn't know an alternative exists.

I think I'll be going this way: Gigabyte GA-Z87N-WIFI (2 x HDMI ports, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 * Support for HDMI 1.4a version.) Intel i7-4770S (HD 4600 graphics) Gigabyte seems to have dropped mSATA on the Z87 boards.

An important caveat in that review: Dependent on cable length? I can use a 1' cable in my case.....worth a try?

Great find, thanks. I was just reading through the Iris Pro 5200 review on their site looking for just that: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6993/intel-iris-pro-5200-graphics-review-core-i74950hq-tested/17

Anyone know of an onboard graphics solution that can handle 4k? I'm looking into building a small computer to drive a 4k display. Ideally it would be a single-board solution using an mSATA SSD and a PicoPSU that I could just mount to the back of the TV. Intel is decidedly not helpful in this...

I've never been happy with the way my bike shifts. At first I was running SRAM Apex, but damaged some of the components on my first fall and upgraded them to Rival. Still not happy with the shifting I've upgraded most of my drivetrain to their Force level (one below the top). It currently works...

...and Handruin is the third fixture. Thanks again for all that you've done for this community!

Not saying you're wrong, but you might as well get used to it. We won't be seeing special resolutions for monitors that aren't used in TVs much in the future.

4k, 31.5", $5k Looks nice.

That does look like a sweet ride, though I am now on my second Roubaix (now a pro) and wouldn't give up the softer ride easily.