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Love the heresy of using a Radeon with an Nvidia color-scheme. Joking aside, the cable sleeving looks awesome.

So this is kind of a repost from the "Show off your setup!" thread. But I'll go into a little more detail. Specs: Case: Silverstone Fortress FT-02 CPU: Intel i7 3930k C2 stepping, overclocked to 4.4GHz Cooler: Corsair H80 Mobo: Asus P9X79 WS RAM: 64GB (8x8GB) Mushkin Enhanced DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24 PSU: Silverstone Strider 1500w Soundcard: Asus Xonar Essence STX DVD-RW drive Graphics: AMD FirePro v7900 (Primary out) 2x EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 (for CUDA compute) Storage: 2x 500GB Western Digital RE4 7200rpm (RAID 0, boot) 2x 250GB Seagate Momentus 5400rpm (RAID 1, 250GB usable, OS backup) 3x 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm (RAID 5, 500GB usable, aux storage) OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Monitors: 2x 1920*1080 displays 2x 1440*900 displays Peripherals: Ducky 104-key keyboard w/ Cherry MX brown switches Corsair M60 mouse Generic Drawing Tablet 3dConnexion Space Navigator 3d mouse V-Moda Crossfade LP headphones Eagle Arion 2.1 Speakers Sorry for the poor image quality, stuck with a tablet camera. Not beautiful, but I prefer function before aesthetic. Though one thing I found peculiar is that the Strider-1500 has this gorgeous clean black finish, but less-than-stellar sleeving. If you're thinking about picking up this PSU, it is a good unit but the cables are really thick and difficult to manipulate by hand. Also, it uses a different kind of AC power-cable to prevent users from using bad quality cables with the unit, so if the cable breaks, you need to buy a new one from Silverstone's website. FT-02 isn't really designed for typical quad graphics-card setups because it's missing an eight expansion slot. The FT-02 and RV-02-E share the same internal chassis and are interchangeable-ish; however, the RV-02-E has 8 expansion bays available. So I may get a RV-02-E in the future and swap out the chassis with that of the FT-02. My original intent with this build was to liquid cool the 590s and CPU, but the FirePro v7900 was much too long cram in a radiator this way or the other (among other complications). . . which is a downer because I currently have buried away a 3x180mm radiator, two 590 waterblocks and a great dual-pump/bay res collecting dust. I can already hear people telling me to ditch the FT-02 for a case that would be better suited for this much cooling like the 800D or Cosmos II, but nevertheless my FT-02 was a birthday gift. Plus I'm a huge fan of the vertical orientation of PCIe components. Everybody has their preferences for aesthetics but I find it repulsive to see a nice graphics card "sag" in a standard case, especially when equipped with full-cover waterblocks that add a ton of weight; can't be good for the mobo or component either. That being said, the 590's reach a peak average temp hangs around 90 degrees Celsius while doing heavy compute jobs (probably enough to make some people here pull their hair out). While this isn't ideal, the 590's have not actually hit any thermal shutdown limits nor have they crashed randomly. They are rock solid. I am aware of the fact that them running hot will reduce lifetime, but the 590's will likely be replaced/retired sooner than end-of-life component death being an issue. Likely candidates for replacement are Xeon Phi, GTX Titan (since many more cores are enabled for double-precision compute than any 600 series geforce) or one or two 7970s if my workflow becomes more OpenCL compatible. As far as the 590's are concerned, I use them primarily for rendering in Blender and for that they perform exceedingly well. SLI is left disabled because the sharing of memory bandwidth reduces CUDA compute performance, the SLI bridge is left in place just for the heck of it. The FirePro is used for view-port rendering/mesh-editing. It'll even run games decently too, but I don't game too much. The great thing about this graphics/cpu setup is that trolls can't accuse me of being a fanboy of any particular brand. :) The most disappointing thing about this build is that I can't use the VT-d on the 3930k even though it's C2-stepping. This is due to the fact that Asus broke VT-d support on some of their x79 boards with a recent BIOS update. There's a place in the UEFI to enable/disable VT-d, but regardless of the setting, it won't work. Had VT-d been working, I'd probably using CentOS as the host OS with one or two Windows/linux VMs. I still do plenty of virtualization though. The overclock on the 3930k may seem a little low, especially when you see a lot of people running their 3930k's with a ~4.7GHz clock for day to day use. I was running it at 4.6GHz when I was running only 16GB of RAM, but since bumping it up to 64GB RAM the overclock had to be reduced a little bit to be stable again. Also, the P9X79 WS isn't a particularly fantastic board for overclocking compared to Rampage boards. So that's it: My creativedesignrenderingmodellingvirtualizationpowe rhouse of a workstation.

I'd rather not pick up a new switch if there's something buried in Windows I can configure to get the desktop and server talking to eachother using the gigabit connection. Though the D-link does look like a nice switch for when I can land a secure well-paying job.

@Dragontail I was running that configuration before, but my desktop hasn't really been reliable enough to run 24/7 like the server (what with an overclock and all). So if the server used the desktop to connect to the internet and the desktop crashed for whatever reason, I wouldn't be able to do anything about it remotely. Plus I have other junk connected to the switch as well. @t0wer Yes Yes @rufee I'm kinda strapped for cash at the moment; using an older cisco catalyst switch, so it's incredibly reliable. Besides, most cheap consumer gigabit switches either won't do full gigabit duplex across all ports or die after two weeks (brother's experience). Just tryin' to work with what I have.

Ok, here's my situation: I have a desktop computer and storage server that both use a 10/100 switch to connect to the internet. Both the server and desktop have dual gigabit nics where one nic connects to the switch and the other nic is used connect the server and desktop directly to eachother like so: ..........(internet) ................| ................| ...........[switch] ............|.........| .........../..........\ (10/100)..........(10/100) .....|........................| .....|........................| [server]---(1000)---[Desktop] When I make a file transfer from desktop to server or vice versa, it seems to prefer the connection through the switch which is only 100mb/s rather than using the direct gigabit connection. I was wondering if it's possible to setup either the desktop or server to "prefer" the gigabit connection when communicating with each other, but still use the switch to independently connect to the internet. Desktop OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Server OS: Windows Server 2008 R2. Any help is appreciated.

Turns out the Hyper-V role was somehow interfering with the SoftAP. I uninstalled the role and things have been running smoothly since.

A few weeks back I installed a WiFi card in my storage server with the intent of having my wireless devices connect to the internet through it as well as access files directly from the server. I'm using the SoftAP that's included with 2k8 R2; the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter. I also have the Wireless LAN Service installed. Currently, my devices can connect to it just fine and the server shows up as a lan drive (as it should), but they have no internet access. I know it's not a client-side issue because three different devices running different wireless chipsets and different OSs share the same problem, so it must be something server-side. It was working well for the first day, but has only been working off and on ever since. The SoftAP requires the server's connection to the internet (which is currently a lan connection) to be shared with the Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter. I do that, and the virtual adapter is listed as having internet access, but any device connected to it doesn't have internet access. Rebooting, tweaking the settings, restarting the SoftAP, and googling haven't helped. Since it has worked before and does work about a quarter of the time, I suspect there's a background service or security measure in Windows that's interfering with the SoftAP's ability to grant internet access to wireless devices, but I really have no idea. The wireless card is the Rosewill RNX-N180PCe which uses the Realtek RTL819SE chipset. Any help is appreciated.

I have an original Transformer TF101 with keyboard dock and use it all the time when I'm away from my desktop. It's my lifeline for college; I use it for storing textbooks, taking notes and entertainment between classes. Plus the battery life is nothing less than excellent with the dock. I guess having it on the keyboard dock all the time defeats the purpose of it being the tablet, but it's still useful to be able to use just the tablet if the dock needs to be detached for whatever reason.

I will never get the bloody hdd transfer rate to be greater than 5.9.