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It looks like the AC LR has 50% longer range and is nearly the same price - I wish I had known about this comparison chart before ordering. Thanks, all!

We renovated 70-80% of the house, including knocking out walls and replacing whatever they were with drywall but ironically the room the AP is located is one of the few where the original walls (probably plaster or some other material) still stand. I'm not in a position to run Ethernet/POE to another stretch of the house to add another AP, so I wonder if the use of this Unify AP is redundant... Lesson learned??

This house was built in the 1940's, and the parts we didn't completely teardown are using probably an older form of drywall. Not super thick walls and not a ton of walls (it isn't a huge house). I picked up the Ubiquiti because I figured it would give better speeds and a bit better range... having 50-70% bars on a device isn't a problem to me, I guess I just expected better?

I was wondering if anybody here has experience with Ubiquiti's AP's, specifically their Lite vs Pro models. I picked up an AC Lite thinking it would cover our 1,600 square foot house pretty effectively, but the general reception appears to be identical to the crappy wireless AP built into our AT&T U-Verse gateway. I'm not sure if the Lite models are more intended to have several deployed in a mesh network and I should have gotten a Pro, or perhaps I've simply configured it poorly? Otherwise it seems to work great, if that makes a difference.

I'd go Razer Blade. I've found myself almost picking up a Blade, a few times actually, but the SSD cost kills me.

In replacing my office setup, I'm going from an 860m to a desktop graphics card - much more powerful.

We have come a looong way in projector technology in the past decade or two. I've seen a few projectors of this style (they may have been LG, not sure) in the past year or two, and they're always lovely. Such a cool idea and so out-of-the-way.

Good (early) morning all, I am hoping I may run into a shoutcast/online radio vet or two in here - I'm looking to help a public radio veteran who has recently decided to switch mediums, setup a podcast and we're looking to switch up the traditional podcast format by offering a live stream of the show, while it's being recorded. There appear to be many options for "host your own radio station" by a few problems present themselves: we aren't looking for a station, but a single show, and it's of the talk radio variety, so scheduling pre-recorded songs and audio clips are wholly unnecessary. I wasn't sure if something like SHOUTcast would be appropriate or if there were a simpler - and easier to integrate (with Skype call-ins, podcast recording, etc) - option available to us that my Google searches just aren't picking up. As always, any help/expertise would be greatly appreciated.

It is a wildly common misconception that you need to "keep it in the AMD family to keep it within budget." Intel makes low-cost, high performance parts too. Stick with a Haswell (socket 1150) CPU and you'll be surprised at the price of a decent budget motherboard and processor.

There's a reason Intel is working on reduced power consumption and lower voltages.

Alright, last update (I hope!) Received and installed the replacement RAM kit, and now I'm back up to 32GB. I'm guessing the motherboard, when it died, jacked up some of the RAM with it. Now that both are replaced, everything seems in order.

I don't expect 32GB to be free, but it should (and prevooudly, was) available for use by the OS, etc.

What's confusing is that, when this first happened, the BIOS showed all 32GB, but after repeated restarts it now only shows 28GB. Memtest only recognized/addressed 28GB, too. Pins are pristine, as I'm on the replacement motherboard, although they've gotten so small over the years that if one was messed up (I visually checked, and they looked fine) it would probably wouldn't see it. CPU is clean as well.

Alright - sometime today I'm going to try swapping sticks out. It's a tad obnoxious with the Noctua CPU cooler and a water cooled video card right next to it all, but I have enough airflow where I can run the system without CPU fans for 5 minutes at a time to test it out. I'm reaaaally hoping it's the RAM.

What's odd is memtest only sees 28GB addressable RAM, which I assume is why it didn't through up any errors. Prior to all this, Windows showed the full 32GB. I wonder if this could be a processor problem, what with various controllers being moved to the CPU?

Congratulations.

Repeated the 5820k and RAM after checking things. No discernable difference (still at 28GB), running memtest now at 81% with no errors.

It can make sense to SLI if you're running a Titan Black and can/want to pick up a second Titan Black on the cheap. Trying to judge other people's purchase designs, aside, I know what you mean, OP - PCIe bandwidth may be tricky to come by with two pretty high-end cards and an NVMe SSD. I would say your 4790k will run out of steam long before any bandwidth-related performance degradation. That said, you'd probably be able to find a 980 Ti new for the price of a second used Titan Black, and that would be the better solution IMO.

I now have a new problem. Loading up Windows, I noticed that my 32GB of RAM was reading as 28GB. CPU-Z shows I'm in quad channel mode (4 8GB sticks) and I don't exactly know how one can have half a stick of RAM be working... now I'm completely lost. Could it be a messed up 5820k, now that a bunch of stuff is on-board the CPU? Could it be a faulty stick of RAM? This is the only DDR4 I own in desktop format, so I don't exactly have a way to test...

I installed the new motherboard, and initially the system didn't have video, but after some messing with the DP cable and turning the system off/on, I'm now writing the post from the system.

Nothing "budget" about these babies: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007627%20600533617%2050001944&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICED&PageSize=30 But I agree, I'd generally go with Asus. But wait... my 4 week old Asus X99-A died on my last night. Whoops!

SHOTS FIRED

Update: I found an old GeForce 210 I had lying around, and it doesn't work in that top PCIe slot, so my guess is the board is jacked up. I have a replacement coming in the morning. Now I just wonder if that killed the 970 I tried in that system. Haven't had time to put the 980 Ti in a different system, yet.

The system shows the POST/BIOS (and presumably, Windows) screens in the second PCIe slot down, but it's running at 1x instead of 8x (when I originally built the system, I thought the fit would be too tight with the Noctua on the CPU to fit the GPU in the top/main PCIe slot, and it ran at 8x in the second slot) so I didn't continue further. So the GPU doesn't seem fully dead - I just can't tell if it's the GPU causing the issue or the motherboard. The Windforce card was tried in both the top and second from top (total of 4) PCIe slots, but because of how the back plate is orientated, the HDMI port comes too close to the case metal to fully plug in an HDMI card. I was contemplating picking up another graphics card (that I may be able to use later) like a 750 Ti or something, but I don't want to unnecessarily kill a 750 Ti if that's what my motherboard is doing. POST codes on the motherboard come back normal - that was the first thing I checked. Because the 980 Ti is water cooled (AIO eVGA unit) it's been too big a hassle and I've had too little free time to try that but it was going to be one of my next steps.

This is a fine way to start my weekend. I was playing a game last night when my 980 Ti randomly displayed a black screen. I was on Skype at the time, and could continue talking for maybe 30-45 seconds before everything went out. Several hours of attempted resuscitation later and no dice. In the morning, I tried swapping my graphics card from the top PCIe 16x port on my Asus X99-A to the second slot. I was able to get display (previously, POST/the BIOS wouldn't even show up on my monitor through HDMI or DP) but I noticed in the BIOS that instead of the 8x the graphics card should run at in this port, it was running at 1x. I did try to swap out a Windforce 970 I have in a different system, but the HDMI cable I had available was too thick so it didn't fully plug in and I didn't get a display. Bringing that same card back to it's host system, I now have the same problem. Is my motherboard dead, and is it taking graphics cards with it?