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what’s a good router?

My 8 year old DLINK router is acting weird (i keep getting disconnected when I try to connect wirelessly)
what do you guys think about this router? (No more dlink.. they suck… LINKSYS is good right?)
(supports 802.11n)Looks good to me. But you know what they say about assholes and opinions.I had mucho problems with my [...]

Data Backup(RAID): Build new system or Raid card

Ok, itunes fucked up my music again. I have backed up all my music but all my ratings and etc are gone. So I am done with the nvidia raid that I have previously used. So I have two options. I’ll be reusing my 2 320gb hd
Build a seperate system, run windows server or linux [...]

HTPC Upgarde

So, I should be getting around $5,500 in a subsidized tuition loan that I do not need. I was thinking about selling my current (highly outdated) HTPC and building a new one when the money comes in.
I can’t really reuse any of my current parts other than my PCI Wireless-G card. I also will be [...]

External hard drive enclosure?

I’m thinking about replacing my current 250Gb SATA drive with a . Anyone have an enclosure they can recommend?

I think . Who knows, it came with my HP PC.well, anything with an SATA internal connection will work. It mainly depends on what kind of external connection you want, USB, FireWire, eSATA, ect…
I would [...]

Is the safe operating voltage for a CPU the one set in BIOS or after vdroop?

Say I set the voltage for 1.4V in BIOS but after vdroop it reads at 1.36 in windows (CPU-Z), which one do you go by? I think the limit Intel has for the E8400 is 1.36.If you think 0.04V is going to make a different, you are wrong. Also you are using software to [...]

i NEED a raid card

for home media server
needs to have 8 ports
<$300 ?

i noobed myself by trying to let the mobo handle the raid.mobo raid from most consumer mobos is fail and aids.
the only mobos that do decent raid are server-grade boards.here’s my recommendation… assuming you mean SATA-II and you have a PCI-Ex4/8/16 slot available.
I have a rocketraid card [...]

can i move my raid 0 drives to another computer?

my power supply crapped out on my old computer with a striped raid array using an pci raid controller and i was wondering if i could put that raid card on my new computer and it would read the drives fine? my current board has an onboard raid controller but im guessing probably wont work.. [...]

linux kernel help

Im upgrading a kernel (2.6.18-92.el5) to 2.6.26.2 and im not using the right sata driver or not compiling it correctly…The file system is showing as /dev/hdX when it should be /dev/sdX in the past my sata drives have worked where SATA_SIL was concerned but with it built in it, didnt help none so I turned [...]