Discussions about pc building

Building a build server on an Atom Mini-ITX PC I am planning on turning my 1.6Ghz Atom, 1GB RAM Mini-ITX PC into a build machine. I am thinking about having it build for multiple environments, so I was planning on using Virtual Box to create a VM environment. Will my machine handle multiple VMs? How... Started by phsr on Sunday, July 19, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): If you have the time, run tests with.... If you really want to use that machine, you should not use virtualization techniques and expect low performance . I advise against using an Intel Atom CPU for this kind of work for its lack of out-of-order execution .

Building a new pc - no display, no beeps Hi Building a new pc using this motherboard: GA-MA785GMT-UD2H and a 500W power supply (1 x 20 pin & 1 x 4 pin connectors). The CPU fan, hard drive and power supply all spin up but no display on the monitor and no beeps. Have tried: taking out all of the... Started by Adam on Sunday, February 07, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Did you use thermal paste when seating the heatsink? This probably... . Things to check; Make sure all the power connectors are connected and secure If you can, try another monitor or a dedicated graphics card The problem could be with CPU or motherboard .

Preserve DRM'd iTunes music when re-building a PC So a friend's PC has a virus that we can't get rid of, so I'm planning to re-format the hard drive and re-build it from scratch. Its running Windows XP SP3, and they have iTunes with a whole load of music that they bought from the iTunes store. Some of... Started by codeulike on Sunday, December 20, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Deactivate the current PC in iTunes before you format. First simply backup the iTunes Music folder.

NAS vs building a cheap mini itx PC The main reason I want an NAS is to have a machine for downloading from newsgroups and to function as a media hub so that I can stream my video/music from any pc at any time. I am not too fussed about RAID, one disk will be enough (for now at least). ... Started by Mark on Wednesday, January 06, 2010, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Regarding the "what OS" portion, if you go the home PC route check out Openfiler (and that gives a hint as to how.... Pricing starts at $250 (without HDD appliances bill. The fit-PC2 is the most power efficient PC on the Energy-Star list.

Building a PC/Game PC lol | iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch Well yeah. So I dont really know how to build a gaming pc or a normal computer. So why I am here to learn :P So you need: CPU GPU Motherboard Ram (I have 2x4gb right now which will be fine) Harddrive (I have a 500gb drive which is fine) Windows 7 copy... Started by jonathan2435 on Saturday, January 28, 2012, 15 posts by 10 people.   Read the full thread at ifans Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ifans): Ouch $500 limit .... Honestly to upgrade for a l nng time. Can build a kickass gaming PC for $500.

Building a triple monitor PC I'm looking at building a new PC and one of my primary requirements is to be able to run triple monitors. I'd appreciate some advice about motherboards and cards I can use for this, in the mid / upper mid range. I'm intending to run Ubuntu on it with ... Started by on Thursday, September 10, 2009, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Some motherboards with onboard video also allow you to still use the onboard . As someone already mentioned, it might make more sense to build or buy a PC instead of a Mac, unless you building this new.

Please recommend good sources of information on water cooling or silent PC building I've been waiting to ages to ask this question on (site-that-is-not)stackoverflow.com! My PC is a bit of a beast. I use it for everything, including development (my day job) and gaming. It's a bit noisy though. I've tried using larger, slower fans where... Started by Damian Powell on Thursday, April 30, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): I am satisfied with the case, although it probably is not the simplest case to use for building your own pc (I.... I build my own silent PC last year using the Antec P180 cabinet, and if you just search for "Antec pc.

Building a Virutal PC and Making it a DC Hello, I am installing MS CRM Dynamics 4.0 on my Windows 2003 VM. However I get the error message - action microsoft.crm.setup.common.analyzer+collectaction failed One of the recommendations is to make the server a DC or add it to a domain. Now, my problem... Started by Magic on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Everything should be the same within the VM as well as far as Windows is concerned If this CRM installation... . Why can't you add it to the existing domain? Assuming there is one . But you'll need to have a one machine domain. DCPROMO from the commandline.

Building a cost-effective, upgradeable PC For the computer builders out there, how do you make sure that your system will be performant and cost-effective for a long time? That is, what can you do to build an upgrade-friendly computer? To start it off, here are some things I've learned: Invest... Started by Nikhil Chelliah on Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Things at the start of the hardware generation, for example if you were building a computer right (and lots of them) Think about airflow when you build your machine, heat kills components Buy a huge.

Building a Network Appliance Prototype Using a standard PC with Linux and Two NIC's Hi, I am willing to build a prototype of network appliance. This appliance is suppose to transparently manipulate Ethernet packets. It suppose to have two network interface cards having one card connected to the outside leg (i.e. eth0 ) and the other ... Started by Tzury Bar Yochay on Sunday, January 10, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): I am actually trying to build a prototype of it using scapy I'd. Apparently, it can be done.