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Intel Core i7-2600K 3.4 Ghz quad-core LGA 1155 processor ASUS P8P67 LGA 1155 ATX motherboard Corsair Vengeance 16 GB (4 X 4 GB) DDR3 1600 CAS 8 1.5V memory Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB SATAIII 7,200 RPM 64 MB Cache hard drive PNY nVidia Quadro 600 PCI-Express 2.0 x16 1GB professional video...

There is a little bit of confusing and unknown territory still with the latest AMD FX bulldozer processors when it comes to backwards compatibility. It was said that these FX processors (including the latest AMD FX eight core processor which combats performance-wise with the Core i5-2500k)...

I would recommend going into your Control Panel, to the Power Options, and change your power scheme to Always On if it isn't already. Also check the Hibernation tab and disable Hibernation if it is selected. Next, I'd open your display properties and turn off your screen saver (or set it to...

If you have two router devices that all your network has to traverse through, then yes you have a double NAT which isn't always a bad thing (I've had a double NAT at a few offices without problem going through a modem/gateway and then through the wireless router) but it's not as efficient. One...

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A dedicated hardware RAID controller, like you are mentioning here, is definitely where a true RAID array has its power. My examples, and where I have continually seen RAID arrays fail, has been using onboard RAID controllers and software RAID. The complaint I hear from customers that are dead...

Sorry about the confusion, I thought you were meaning something quite different, obviously! My apologies!

At our office we have a file server which is just running Windows 7 hosting out file shares. There primary hard drives are in their own RAID 1 array to help minimize downtime in the case that one hard drive would fail, and all the actual data is stored on a separate RAID 1 array of 1TB hard...

I'm not sure why you would say this. I've talked with Casey several times before and I can tell that he knows computers for the sign industry inside and out. There's probably not a better person I can think of to speak with about a computer system for the sign industry... and I'm even an owner...

While it is good to look at the items you have running in Task Manager occasionally (so you can go in and disable some things you don't need from automatically starting up with Windows - like QuickTime Task) it's not going to be so helpful with malware a lot of times. I removed a fake/alert...

It's not a matter of saving micro seconds, it's a matter of saving minutes per day, which does add up. As I stated before in my example of our own shop and our own production, we saw a very real decrease in the amount of time waiting for our systems to respond by upgrading to new computers...

This is some great advice! I've done computers for a broad range of people and businesses, and a lot of times I deal with two extremes: The first is the company that wants to spend the absolute bare minimum on a cheap throw away computer when they need something with a lot more power or...

Why is it that all tech discussions lately have to go down this road? It ends up with everyone wanting to beat in their opinions like a band of techno-tele-evangelists when what the discussions should be based on is clear facts. If you want to challenge people's facts with just your opinions...

There is going to be a TON of debate over this seemingly simple phrase that I hear all the time in the computer business, "If it ain't broke why fix it?" Well, there are several reasons why this is NOT a good approach towards computers in your business. Not all the time, but most of the time...

When you are going to be buying a computer system for design work and your business, invest your money wisely! I am a Dell reseller, and I've talked multiple times with their staff about Dell's place in the business and they directly have iterated to me that Dell consumer computers are NOT...

It can cause some issues down the road if you completely disable DHCP and try to run everything as static IP. Mainly, the issues I've seen if you have to know exactly which IP addresses are in use and where. Otherwise, if you go to add a device onto the network you have to know what IP address...

I agree completely with the reasons that you have stated for the former option. My only concern was if there was enough difference between the two product lines to warrant going with the more expensive switch for a longer term investment value and quality or not. Since I feel pretty...

This has all been incredibly helpful, and I'm working to narrow things down then to a select certain couple of switches. Do you believe there would be any real difference going with one 48-port and one 24-port of the V1910G series of switches: V1910-24G V1910-48G or to go with a single...

We just called in about the specially pricing for CISCO equipment and unfortunately they do not qualify for that pricing. In fact, pretty much no non-profit organization does, so not sure the point of that one...

That's some good advice for the CDW account as well. I know that the company has already been set up with a CDW account from previous orders of volume licensing, but I just didn't see much in the way of HP switches on their website when I looked initially. I'll have to look again! Also, we...