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Two minutes?? What are you using, a nettop? :p I did some quick testing on my Gigabyte UD5, boot times are a consistent 34-35 seconds just with a basic 750GB Seagate 7200.11 hard drive. Entering the BIOS disables the quick boot as it will scan for changes, making voltage changes usually...

That's just it, I don't think this could never happen. It's either an all or nothing move, once the ball got rolling either everybody gets a shot or nobody does. The EU had already sent out questionnaires polling to see what browsers should be offered for install even before MS pulled IE out of...

2Tired2Tango, I think that'd be cool and I'd be all for it, but I'd like to mention a few things. 1) Finding a case designed for Mini-ITX and other related VSFF's isn't easy, I think there would need to be many more options here for it to take off. Yet adding connectors for optional daugher...

No offense, but the people behind Firefox and Chrome both have been pushing the EU just as hard as Opera has for this. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/06/boycott-opera-and-firefox-and-chrome-wait-what.ars Frankly I think all three of them suck for pushing this. But guess what? They...

Well, in Gigabyte's case the extra 2 ounces of copper is used on the power and grounding layers only, all other motherboard traces remained unchanged. It's generally accepted increasing the size of the power layer decreases power resistance, and increasing the grounding layer lowers impedience...

I would not be at all surprised, I still would be skeptical myself. I just know it made all the difference in the world when using this RAM at stock 1600MHz CAS 7 settings. I wish this motherboard has measuring points like some other X58 boards, but I should be able to find the correct points to...

When a single PC has the ability to compare to several servers running Folding@home from just a few years ago, it's hard NOT to put that computational power to good use. :) I don't build a high-end system just to leave it idle or off, I want it to be doing something and living up to it's...

That's a tough call... I'm biased simply because I do run a 4GHz+ overclock, but I can see where you're coming from. ;) Best answer would be to see what most of your readers think on that I guess.

I'm sorry to hear of your loss, Mark. It's going to be tough for awhile... but at least there's the knowledge she's in a better place now.

Why would you need to buy an Xeon? Any regular Core i7 should work in most of them. But yes, that's a ton of power... and it would take an army of virtual machines and RAM modules to put it to use! It's a good thought, but I could never live with that comparison. My first instinct is to...

That's all right, I'm curious but I probably wouldn't understand most of it. At least I can tell users they can't simply plug in any random GPU to upgrade their Macs now. ;)

I am using VMWare Server because that was freely available for use from their site. I am not entirely sure if they impose such CPU limits on VMware Workstation, which is what I apparently should be using. VMware server doesn't allow me to clone the virtual machine either. VMWare server is...

It does sound suspicious, but it could be something went wrong with the install. If you still have the OS disc or a recovery disc that came with the system I'd suggest wiping it and reinstalling from scratch. That way if it still doesn't work properly you'll have ruled out a software cause...

Rob, how's things looking with this? Just a heads up ZipZoomFly is running a promotion selling the Sennheiser PXC450's for $250 shipped no rebates. Since these used to be $450 headphones it's a rather tempting deal...

I think this is the limit. This kind of system will require two seperate banks of memory. I presume regular DDR3 will work as I had heard the FB-DIMM chip was built directly into the motherboard (it makes sense, instead of one controller per RAM module, you'd just need one FB-DIMM controller per...

I think the 2 CPU limit in VMware is bull, and the control interface through the browser for remote access is a little obtuse when I'd prefer a simple program for local access to it. But otherwise it is working well so far, and I can safely say the Linux SMP code is light years better than the...

I guess I'm safe to brag every now and then. Rob asked me if this overclock was stable... well, lets see. There's actually a pretty lengthy story for this build, it took much longer than it should have before I could even get it started, but I won't get into that here. I assume pics will be...

People said the same thing of an 8 core, 16 thread Skulltrail. :) I can use all 16 cores and 32 threads... but I think I might run out of RAM long before then! Right now I am running: Folding@home GPU client Folding@home SMP 4-thread client Folding@home Linux SMP client (inside a Ubuntu...

Heh, Rob this is me we're talking about, we pretty much agree on that definition of "stability"! I didn't want to hijack the thread but since you asked I'll just make a thread... I discovered pretty quickly that the larger the RAM size allocation you give LinX, the more accurate and faster it...

Nice avvie, Doom. And naw, 4GB is plenty. For triple channel systems I'd say 6GB is the sweet spot. Anything more is just wasted unless the person does hours of content creation, video encoding, etc... I run 6GB, but gave VMware an entire 1GB of memory to itself to run Ubuntu, I still can't...