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Silly question: Have you loaded BIOS defaults yet?

Bad CPUs do happen, but they're vanishingly rare. I see maybe one every year or two. This does not sound like any kind of CPU failure I've ever run across.

There's a decent little piece of platinum in one, I think. One of my customers had a some meth-head saw his way in to their office a few months back. He took a VCR (part of the old security system), a jar with a bunch of loose change and an ipod that was on somebody's desk but missed the six...

Aussie and Canadian politics always strike me as incredibly sane when compared to those of the USA. Even your reactionary blowhards are downright reasonable compared to ours. That said our reactionary blowhardsSupreme Court did something today that will be seen fondly through the lens of...

In my experience, Ivy Bridge CPUs are a crap shoot with Intel H61 chipsets. They can usually be made to work with a BIOS flash but then you have to go through the fun of keeping a Sandy Bridge chip around to flash the BIOS in the first place.

Needs more drive bays.

Six ports does seem to be the realistic limit, weird FM2 board aside. On the plus side, one thing we can say at this point is that both Intel and AMD have perfectly adequate video decoding and output options, so it's not like someone couldn't stick a 4-port SATA controller in a PCIe slot to make...

Simplest way to get TV recordings? Bittorrent/NNTP over a nice VPN connection. I know there are super slick automation systems like SickBeard and Couch Potato for getting content if you want to go that route. They pretty much rely on RSS feeds to make sure your stuff is up to date. Doing it...

Memory Alpha, the obsessively detailed Star Trek wiki, states that: 1. "Sulu" cannot possibly be a Japanese surname because there is no "l" phoneme in Japanese. 2. It could be an Anglicized version of "tsuoru", Japanese for "Red Crane." 3. Or possibly a result of mixed Asian ancestry. The wiki...

WPKG is software distribution service that allows Windows clients to download and install software from a locally managed server. It works without needing Active Directory and the server component runs on both Windows and Linux.

The "right" way to do that with Acronis would have been to Add a New Disk through the utilities screen and confirm that you wanted a GPT disk ahead of time.

I just re-set my S4 to check and... nope, it did not ask me that.

Do anyone know of a sure-fire way to figure out how to make Android devices use contacts and info on Google accounts rather than saving it to a Manufacturer app or phone-exclusive contact? I just spent an hour looking at three different unfamiliar phones and they all handle contacts completely...

Since no one answered, the products I'd look at right now are the Google Nexus 7 or 10; the Galaxy Tab 3 Note 8"; or the Asus MeMOpad 10. If you're willing to bargain hunt, the Nook HD goes for $100 to $120 on Ebay at this point, and might be acceptable. The Nook has kind of a crummy default...

From what I read, he literally did retire to a South American life of hookers and blow. He's been living the dream for the last 15 years.

I'm going to start building and reselling Plex servers. My basic setup will be a Lian Li PCQ25B, initially with 3 2TB drives, an H61 motherboard with a Pentium G630 and 4GB DDR3, re-sold with as many set top clients (Pivos Xios or the like) units as requested. My cost on the basic system is $630...

World War Z is perfectly adequate as long as you completely forget the book that it's based on and also that the Z is supposed to stand for "zombies." And I actually mean that. It's not a bad movie. It has a horrible rep among nerds because it's explicitly NOT anything like that book. Max...

There's quite a lot more than 84TB. That's just what's in that particular chassis. And the correct answer is "redundancy."

It's going to be a file server anyway, man. Two or four gigs probably isn't unreasonable.

My I7 rigs stay at 100% utilization for days or weeks at a time because of video encoding, but it was my experience that the Hyper 212 was subjectively just as loud as the Intel HSF at idle and under load. The Noctua is inaudible under any condition; the only time that machine makes noise is...

My big guy must not be a monster then. It only has 48GB of DIMMs and 84TB of disks in it. ;) I probably should've used a back brace when I racked it though. The Hyper 212 is at least decent from a cooling standpoint. I know I could've replaced the loud fans as AD indicated, but that's one of...

Er, why? Gaming isn't going to be improved with a bandwidth increase and latency is ultimately going to be controlled by infrastructure upgrades from your ISP that they probably have zero interest in doing. Granted that I want it too, but I'm more worried about getting the switch ports that go...

I've had more than one and they were BOTH loud, which I define as being not measurably less noisy than the stock Intel fan. Since they're not cheap and kind of annoying to install, the fact that they aren't at least quiet puts them firmly in the do not recommend category. The Zalman CNPS9500...

I wouldn't. The Hyper 212 is surprisingly, annoyingly loud for a "quiet" HSF. I've tried them a couple times and regretted both. Pay the extra $10 to get something that's actually acceptable.

How is that NOT a monster? SSD, top-end CPU, 32GB RAM? Also, why the Seagate SSD? That doesn't actually seem like their area of expertise.

The magic of VIA for motherboards was actually the astonishing uniformity of configuration. Windows only ever needed one driver. Period. Install Hyperion.whatever and everything would work, even if you completely switched CPU architectures. That made maintaining install images or slipstreaming...

A decent start for your NAS project. It's as much CPU as you need and you can run it off a 120W PicoPSU along with several drives. You'll probably have to add a SATA controller, but your Athlon board would need one too.

Storage abstraction is going to become a common feature set in other OSes and filesystems. zPools are nifty, but there's also UnRAID, SnapRAID, disParity, Storage Spaces and Btrfs that you could look in to.

Now gamers are bitching that, because MS dropped the internet requirements, they're also dropping pure digital distribution and enforcing a disc requirement to play games.

No one should have to use xHamster.

GoG.com is giving away Torchlight right now, for people who might want that thing.

The X9DA7 doesn't support those 64GB DIMMs, Chewy. dd would have to make do with 16 of these.

Of course I don't agree about your perverse video card ideas, but why bother to overclock? The -k series desktop CPUs are specifically excluded from some of the advanced features found on Xeons and your gaming experience isn't going to be objectively improved by an extra 10% above and beyond...

John McAffee has some wisdom to share with all of us. Wisdom that is not particularly safe for work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg&feature=player_embedded#!

Not that I've found. Even if I disable the ports in firmware, the drives still spin when the laptop is on.

All the commercial NASes - at least for the sub-8-bay products - are an Atom CPU and 2 or 4GB RAM running a *BSD or Linux variant with a pretty web interface. If you wanted to make a project of it, you could probably find a spare Atom board and CPU for $25 or $30 and build something that's far...

We don't need faster desktops. That's the beginning and end of the story. Some few of us might benefit from having more cores (content creation) but anything that's north of 3GHz that's been paired with an SSD and 4GB+ RAM is probably fast enough for everything but edge cases. Intel at least has...

Robot Entertainment actually abandoned their game Orcs Must Die because they wanted to maintain parity between the Xbox and PC releases and Microsoft wanted $10k every time they patched or made a content update to the game through Xbox Live. I suspect Microsoft wasn't getting a whole hell of a...

My T420 has a pair of 1TB drives and a 240GB mSATA drive. Having the extra spinning drive can cost me as much as an hour of battery life, so when I know I'm going to be untethered for a while I usually pop the ultrabay drive for an unpopulated blank.

I haven't had problems with single-drive zpools on FreeNAS, no matter what sort of drive I use.

MCSEs aren't developers. They're implementation guys if anything. I wouldn't really EXPECT any flavor of Windows admin to understand a development platform, be it Python or Ruby or ASP.NET any more than I'd expect a developer to build out a rack. It definitely does feel weird to me that I'm...

Today I learned that the ASP.NET developer I work with has no idea what ASP.NET actually does or how it works.

You can look at the pin arrangement on the port to figure out if it's dual link or not. For all I know they could be copying and pasting the same crap from who-knows-where. I do note that both MSI and Asus also say their H87 DVI ports are 1920x1200 though.

Yes. You're going to need a Dual Link DVI port and cable.

I'm more worried about something like database corruption on a guest because the disk-level snapshot isn't aware of what sorts of operations a guest OS might be doing. If I'm on Windows, I can get Shadow copies at both the hypervisor and the guest level, which is good for peace of mind, and I...

It's a T-series, so you can stick an mSATA drive in and then have your internal 2.5" and ultrabay for other purposes. It's quite nice, though power use with two installed 2.5" drives is a bit higher than I'd like.

Are you still doing the setup with Windows 7 and VMware Workstation? Have you given any thought to using Hyper-V or Xen? The push I'm getting is to move to Server 2008 or Server 2012 for my virtual servers because of concerns about the time to restore for my home-made ESX backup combined with...

Clocker and I think Bozo.

Happy day to all of you who have actually managed to reproduce.

As of last night, the Seiki 4k TV was actually under $1000 on Amazon. Shipped free.