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I recently installed a TP-Link SG3216 as my main network switch for 4 separate VLANs with a total of 15 ports occupied. The switch has a screw-on ground connection on the back, and came with a rather thick grounding wire with what looks like bare aluminum on one end. Do I actually need to...

Currently using the Maximum VI Formula board with 3 Intel 520 SSDs in RAID 0, and 2 WD 2TB blacks in RAID 1, with WIn7 x64. I have read that the included Intel "Rapid Storage Technology" RAID adapter is not a "true" hardware RAID implementation. Would I see any kind of benefit from going to a...

I have a water cooled build with a Maximus VI Formula board in a Cooler Master HAF-X. My intention was to have a super-quiet yet powerful system, so airflow is somewhat light inside the case, and I have noticed the motherboard's black chipset heatsink gets almost too hot to touch. Would removing...

Wanting to add a serial port expansion slot adapter to the GA-H81TN super-tiny ITX board. All the serial ports i'm finding online are DB-9 to IDC-10 (like this http://www.startech.com/Cables/Serial-Parallel-PS-2/DB9-DB25/9-pin-Serial-to-10-pin-Header-Slot-Plate-16-inches~PLATE9M16 ), but the...

pretty low, it's in a mini LAN-box kind of case. i'm thinking of adding an expansion slot fan, but i didn't know whether 60 is high enough to warrant it

i'm reading ~60 celsius on this card, via lm_sensors on Linux. this seems warm, anyone have experience with it & the normal temps?

thanks for the info folks. came in the mail today, and borrowed a buddy of mine's kill-a-watt. the jonnyguru site was pretty spot on, it's about .5-1W. the entire system uses ~22W idle, ~28 during intense VPN transfers. appreciate the info all

trying to get the power down in my home-built router PC, and was curious, how much power does a typical PSU draw, in watts, if it's just powered on with nothing plugged into it? (i.e., if you plug it into the wall and then short circuit cables 4 & 5 on the 24-pin connector). in particular, i'm...

the ARP command doesn't "convert" anything in a syntactical sense, it shows you the table of mappings of IP addresses to MAC addresses that the local machine knows. You should be able to ascertain both from looking at the table. RARP is a separate protocol, apparently related to DHCP & obsolete...

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haven't heard of firefox installing it, but the teredo adapter is available by default on Vista and 7. You can tell by doing ipconfig /all on the command line. And it isn't configured in control panel; use netsh