Recent content by darkiron112

Thanks for the helpful articles everyone. I did look at the Zotac ZBOXes and ended up picking the ID-82 based on the article attached to James' post (VERY helpful by the way!) Inside I'll be attaching a referbed SSD and 4gb Kingston DDR3 204-pin. That should end me with the best experience...

Hey all, I'm building a computer for a lab I'm working with and they have a massive touch screen TV they want to be hooked to it. The parameters: - The computer either needs to be pre-built, or manually built. - Must be small, with a profile of roughly 11" x 12", and be thin (less than 5"...

Thanks Smitbret, I appreciate your input. I'll remember those names in particular-- and, if it works out, I'll look for an ECC CPU in particular.

I've taken a quick look into ECC and unless it's cheap, I probably won't find much need for it. Reading from the device will happen a lot more than writing to it, and even then, faulty data not the end of the world for my purposes. You make a really good point about the CPU. I'm not sure how...

I'm going to be building my first NAS. I've been building hardware for a long time, and I've even built an NAS before out of scrap parts-- (NASes, as you know, can run on barely anything if they're low traffic). But I want a professional looking build this time. I want my next build to have...

Does anyone have anything for me? My next step is to buy a bigger case, but I don't want to do that if it's not going to help.

Hey everyone, I'm a college student, 20, who's just moved to Pittsburgh and I'm on a tight budget. I used to have an nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX that died on me, but I've upgraded to a 550TI. The problem is, it overheats. On almost every game I play. I also had an older, much smaller monitor that...