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There really is so much power in today's newest generation of video cards that is is more than overkill for anything that you could possibly use in this kind of design environment. The GTX 460 is more powerful than the GTX 280 that is currently in my main desktop system that I built just over a...

If you are looking to keep within the budget for about $1500, you could probably get more performance by going with a P55 Socket 1156 platform instead of the X58 platform. The only real benefit that the X58 has over the P55 is if you are running multiple video cards, which is far more than you...

I set up the computer today to do a test cut to our Graphtec cutter and was able to get it to run without any problems, but since there is some question about being able to print using Flexi 8.1 in Windows 7 to the Mimaki, I'm scheduling to take the computer in to the Hays office just to make...

You have a pretty solid system configuration listed there. The memory is very good name brand stuff, I've used Corsair in a number of builds, but they have become very expensive for what you get. For the same price you can find other triple-channel kits with lower latency or higher frequency...

What specifically were you having issues with when running Flexi 8.1 in Vista? When we tested our system initially with Windows 7 Beta last year and Flexi 8.1, we were able to get a test cut to run on a Graphtec through Production Manager. Graphtec is notorious for poor driver support, and we...

Actually we've been running FlexiSign Pro 8.1 on Windows 7 now for over a month without any compatibility issues at all. We have not done a test print with this yet, but Flexi itself runs perfectly fine even though it's not the latest 8.6

I recently mentioned in another thread that we have been having issues with our main RIP and printing computer at our Hays office. We are getting ready to upgrade all the hardware and software in our office from Windows XP to Windows 7 and it looks like we are now planning to upgrade the RIP...

Yikes! So we went in today while the shop was closed for holiday to see if we could do some work on this RIP computer and find a workaround or at least figure out what was causing the problem. Ended up causing more headaches than we started with! First, we imaged the hard drives to make sure...

A power supply issue isn't something that I had originally thought of, as I hadn't seen it crop up in this kind of way, but could be. Out here in Western Kansas we go through so many weird power issues all the time. It has a Thermaltake 750 Watt PSU in the system, and I have heard from others...

In 2008 I built a new RIP computer for our office in Hays. The platform for the system is two quad-core AMD Opteron Barcelona processors at 2 Ghz on a dual-socket ASUS L1N64-SLI WS/B socket 1207 (F) motherboard with 4 GB of DDR2 667 ECC Registered memory. The system also uses a PNY Quadro...

My big question is will it also have native 64-bit support or remain as 32-bit?

I was able to narrow it down a little further and figure out more what I had done wrong the first time. The active directory server installation is actually run as a virtual server on Hyper-V so it has a taken one of the two physical ethernet ports on the server and set it up as the virtual...

I went back and worked on it some more, since by what you all were explaining I must have done things right. I started again with a new installation and reinstalled the active directory and dns services using dcpromo and configured everything out. However, this time it worked properly! I...

I'm wondering if there's someone here who could give me a little bit of help as I have reached a dead end. Recently I put together a test server to learn a little more about Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and Active Directory/Group Policy. I have the installation completed and was able to...

I have removed numerous types of malware using the program Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. It is free to download from www.malwarebytes.org and do a full system scan of your computer. It might help us in solving your issues if you further explain your computer system. What antivirus application...

In a Dell system like this, about the only thing that I could suggest right away to help with speed is RAM and lots of it. Find out the memory type and speed compatible and put as much in as you can. With a Windows XP system (I'm assuming 32-bit) the maximum that you can use is a little under...

Quoting number of vehicle wraps per month isn't a standard of measurement really for how big or busy a business is. Our office does very few vehicle wraps on a normal basis because they just aren't popular out here. However, we are still the largest sign business within three hundred miles...

The scratch disk was a Seagate 7,200rpm SATA 500 GB hard drive which had been reformatted and completely clean. It was separate from the Western Digital 7,200rpm SATA hard drive that has all the programs and operating system on it. Average throughput of this SATA hard drive on HDTune was about...

With 16 GB of memory you could set up a 4 GB RAMDisk as well for use in Photoshop. The test system we just configured did this and within Flexi and Photoshop CS4 pointing the temp files or scratch disk files to the RAMDisk rendering is almost instantaneous. If 4 GB of scratch ends up not being...

Unless you are planning to host several extreme gaming nights on your production computer here, that GeForce GTX 480 is far more than overkill. On a production machine doing 2D design, computational work is mostly done at the CPU. Working in Photoshop CS4 or newer does have the benefit of...