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Anymore to do multi-monitor setups you do not need anything really fancy, just a single graphics card that supports EyeFinity. This means looking at AMD Radeon cards that support triple monitor output or more. I put one of these in one of our office computer, the AMD Radeon HD 7850 and the...

When it comes to backup systems, in the end it doesn't matter if you go with a Synology NAS, a server, or even just an external hard drive or cloud storage. The fact is you are taking necessary steps to protect your business. Backing up your data is easy, it's cheap, data storage can be found...

A simple NAS is a nice way to begin in the proper network storage environment where all computers are saving business data to a central protected location instead of on their own individual workstations. However, not all NAS, nor servers, are created equally and it's worth it in the end to get...

First off, for any laptop that is going to be doing any kind of design work, you need to be getting a laptop with a dedicated graphics card. The integrated graphics options out there really just will not cut it for performance design work. If you're doing 3D modeling or really serious about...

When you are talking about external storage, are you looking at a localized storage device, like a server or NAS, or are you talking about external storage in the sense of off-site or online data backup? I am believing that you are talking about localized storage, but to give you any...

Agreed, we have used server-class workstations before as well in the past and while they have been monster performers, the problem comes down to cost. After three or four years of life, while they are still running good, it may be time for some upgrades like more RAM, and it's more expensive to...

SightLine is correct. The enterprise-class processors, such as the Intel Xeon and the AMD Opteron are built for the highest performance. These processors generally have specialized hardware features utilized in server and enterprise workstation environments (like high-end 3D rendering and...

Given the performance and features that you are looking for, you're probably going to be a little over $1,000 for your final budget for a good performance desktop system if you go with Ivy Bridge and the latest chipset platform. Here's the system we recently did: - Intel Core i5-3570k 3.4 Ghz...

I can help you out with a custom setup of hardware if you wish, but I'd need to know a little more details to be able to make some suggestions. First off, what is your budget to work with on this computer? Are you looking to buy something mid-range that supports a ton of RAM and add-ins and...

Most of your basic Pavilion desktops do not have support for RAID in their BIOS, and if this is your first time upgrading and replacing out to an SSD I'd recommend to stay away from the RAID anyways. It really is something you should only do if you know why you need it and exactly what you're...

The UltraSharp series of monitors from Dell are very nice quality IPS displays and some of the best priced ones for their features and quality. We've used several of them at a few different offices and they have really liked them. IPS monitors are going to cost quite a bit more than your...

I have been using OCZ Vertex drives for years without any real issues. I had one set (my original Vertex 120 GB drives) which finally killed over on me after a little over five years of constant wear and tear, but that is far beyond the standard "usage" of any person in their normal computer...

Cobian Backup is a program that I have used in the past that was also discussed on this forum not too long ago as a backup utility. It basically works to just copy/paste data from one location to another so it leaves all the information uncompressed and doesn't make some proprietary single file...

As Casey stated, there's a little more information about your current computer that we would have to know about before offering good advice for computer upgrades. Besides upgrading RAM, the best performance upgrade you can do for your computer system is the storage subsystem (hard drives.) The...

Now I definitely do agree with you that taking on certain practices in their development is no excuse for providing means to only protect themselves at the direct hindrance of their customer's support of software stability/compatibility. Nor should they be offering sub-standard support to...

The fact of the matter is USB (or similar and sometimes even proprietary) HASP hardware keys are used quite commonly in a whole range of products, it's not just old or "poorly run" software companies that use it. We worked recently on some medical imaging computers and all of them required HASP...

That's probably what is also causing issues. Yes, you have to get an updated key going from 10.0.X to 10.5.X, so if you had the wrong serial key that would cause it to also display that error message.

All of our systems running version 10 have USB dongles as well. We have had this issue before with Flexi and every time it has been related to the USB dongle driver in some form, the difficult part is trying to figure out the right combination of installing things, plugging in the dongle, and...

After reinstalling Windows and Flexi, the driver for the USB dongle must not have gotten reinstalled properly. Normally on the installation disk or executable there is an option to also install the USB Sentinel driver, this is most likely what you need to fix the issue.

Slow internet options is the biggest reason why our office has not considered cloud-based backup solutions. At both of our locations we have 500GB + of stored artwork, customer files, etc. to backup which on a 3 to 6 Mb/s download and 1 Mb/s upload DSL line would be nearly impossible to...