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Christie:Only concern I have with RAID0 is that If anything died, re-imaging to/from one RAID to the other would take forever. Last time something happened to one of these RAID5's, it took close to 120h to rebuild, and copying 8TB would be able half that IF I can keep it sustained at ~50MB/s over eSATA or LAN. You should be running well over ...

Yeah, the mods do that. OC in the motherboard business means ''Some boards may be capable of doing this, but not all.''  Frequently used for memory and bus speeds, sometimes for things not directly clock speed related. You don't want memory that needs much over 1.5V with Ivy Bridge CPUs.  There are some higher speed kits that run ...

That was just a hipshot based on Anandtech's GTX780 review, because I had it open at the time.  They observed a 429W AC draw with their testbed system while benchmarking BF3.  Multiply by 0.87 to account for power supply losses, and you get ~375W, then round up to 380W because the number is basically bu*****t.  Their testbed CPU is ...

I would expect modern 1TB platter drives to deliver about double those numbers, but encoding speed doesn't depend a whole lot on hard drive speed. Christie: I was under the impression that RAI10 had  better fault tolerance and 'safer' (and faster) that RAID5, so was considering moving to that when I upgrade. Yes, which is why I think ...

Yeah, that too.

Video card PSU requirements aren't hard figures.  The card uses a maximum of 250W by itself, and the rest depends mostly on your choice of CPU and motherboard.  Anything over 450W would work with the parts you have selected, although your CPU overclocking headroom will be pretty limited under 550W.  The actual DC load you can expect ...

It only supports 480i, so AppleTV isn't going to work. 720p and 480i are shorthand notations for popular TV resolutions.  The number is the vertical component and the letter represents whether it uses progressive or interlaced scanning.  Read the Wikipedia link if you need those terms explained.  AppleTV requires 720p, and there's ...

That PSU won't fit.  They just tripped you up by writing the dimensions out of order.  All ATX PSUs have sides that are 5.9 and 3.4 inches, you're looking for depth around 140mm / (25.4mm / in) ~= 5.51''

Yes, 550W is plenty.  750W isn't too much, but it's more than you're likely to ever need. Wots a Colleen heatsink?

Christie:It seems to me that a dedicated RAID card would make the array be less prone to issues from BSODs and other software glitches, or motherboard issues- I've seen a couple power outages break mobo raids, reset the BIOS, etc. My experience with people doing overclocking on computers that have hardware RAID controllers attached has been ...

Just to be clear in case products is over thinking this:  No, you can't attach a drive to multiple computers at once using a USB hub.  USB is a strict one controller, multiple device hierarchy. There are external hard drives with Ethernet ports that will attach to the network by themselves though.

Yeah, you want the Asus board.  Newegg makes no claims about the provenance of their inventory.  It could be that's been sitting in mothballs for 3 years from a store that went out of business, or it could be direct from the manufacture.  Gigabyte compounds the issue by putting what are basically several different motherboards under ...

Problem with the H61 / Ivy Bridge CPU combo is it's possible to get a H61 board that predates Ivy Bridge, which would require an older CPU or an RMA to fix.  Like an i3-2100 + H61 or i3-3220 + B75 would work, and there's not a lot of performance difference between those two.  FX-4300 and an Asus R2.0 970 board, also not a bad idea. You ...

zightbaoe:Would this power supply be good  FSP Group Booster X5 450W Independent/Supplementary SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Active PFC Dedicated Multi.GPU Power-90 No, those are horrible.