wolfman

Congrats to Linus and your whole team. I'm watching your videos for a couple of years now and really enjoy them. They are informative, entertaining, funny, well produced and you haven't lost the occassional sillyness which make them uniqe. Congratulations again and oft to the next million.

I like the look of the notebook (black(ish) aluminium case & red backlit keyboard). But the signatures of course make it priceless!

Please don't ditch the unboxings! It's like a replacement-drug of all the nice things oneself isn't able to buy and - of course - unbox! On the other hand i think the right balance between unboxings and reviews & guides could hit the sweet spot! There were times when there was nearly one unboxing a day. That might not be necessary. But a few ones - maybe selected by the community beforehand - would be fine!

I chose my AMD 7870 mainly because of the better price to performance ratio and the Never Settle Bundle (Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite 2, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon).

Nice giveaway! :)

Great Giveaway! Thanks to HTC & Linus Twitter share from @wolfmand https://twitter.com/wolfmand/status/339662287797374976 Google+ share https://plus.google.com/u/0/106445909482928289812/posts/21YMDuQheqT

Looks really cool! :)

A UPS is only half the security. Usually for better performance you want to have Write Cache enabled on your Raid-Controller. That means, your data gets written into the controller-RAM (512MB on the 9261-8i) and got written on the Hard drives later, when the controller seems fit. If you (or you dog) plugs the power cord between UPS and server, your data is lost and more severe, it is inconsistent. But yeah, more of a theoretical problem. Also i'm not sure if you can enable Write Cache on the LSI-controller with no BBU present. It's definetely possible on the 3ware-controllers.

Go with the LSI MegaRAID 9261-8i and add the optional BBU (Battery Backup Unit) to prevent data-loss in case of power outage. As money seems not to be your biggest concern, don't use the WD Blacks! WD Reds are fine, but as far as i know WD only recommends them for up to 5 drives. Go for the 4TB WD Raid Edition drives - or Seagate Constellation or HGST Ultrastar. Those drives are a much better fit for the LSI-Controller. Their firmware ist optimized to run in an Raid-Array. The WD Black is optimized for single use. Keep in mind, that the more drives you use, the more drives can fail. So use Raid6 in spite of Raid5 which leaves you with 24TB usable disk-space. If you go with an 12-port-Controller and add an additonal boot-drive, you could use that in Raid1. Or use the (Fake-)Raid-Option on the Motherboard. I personally would use a different case. But i'm excited to see, what you are going for and how you are modding the case to house all the hard drives. That said, you probably don't have the space to use a bigger board! But i'd much recommend that. Either you want to add a second RAID-Controller, an external Storage-Subsystem for backups or an additional network card (more ports or simply 10GB/s) some day. Therefore i would go with a "real" server-board from Supermicro or Asus. Along with that: ditch the i3 for a small Xeon-CPU! B) Personally i find that unnecessary for a server! You boot your server up along with your daemons and everything sits in the RAM and runs from there. No need for an SSD for a couple of reboots a year. On the other side: you definetly want an SSD if you are planning on using a database-service (with huge tables). I myself would much prefer seeing a Linux-based operating system running this machine! ;) Sorry, a lot of rambling from me, but i often think about how my personal ideal home-server would look like! ^_^ Edit: typos

Never heard of Parvum before but that case looks amazing! Can't wait to see the final/completed build! Particularly because i also use a Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 in my personal rig (along with a 3770k and a XFX 7870).

As a schoolboy back in the mid 90's i bought a 486 DX4 120 MHz along with a VESA Local Bus (VLB) Mainboard, a VLB-Controller-Card (for IDE, Floppy, COM, ...) and VLB-Graphics-Card. Sadly the mainboard never worked. Three months later i bought a PCI-mainboard which worked like a charm - but was still stranded with the VLB-components! I used an Transcend 32GB SD-Card in my digicam. Worked fine for several moon's but simply died one day. The card wasn't even recognized anymore and the images of course lost. A common Transcend problem as i later found out. From this day on, only Sandisk for me! The most recent worst purchase must be the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Didn't like what Samsung hat done with Android, it felt slow and it was to bulky. It practically lied around for a year! Sold it for half the price and replaced it with a Nexus 7 - which i love and use almost daily.

Mostly Kingston and Samsung RAM. Never had any major problems with these two manufacturers.

Great build! Looks really sweet. :)

Thanks for the feedback! I got Far Cry 3 yesterday and it's still playable with a single GTX 460 on 1920x1200. Nonetheless - for improved details and framerates - i ordered a XFX AMD Radeon HD 7870 Black Edition today with the Never Settle Reloaded Bundle (Tomb Raider & Bioshock Infinite). Another reason is that i only have a 550W PSU, which doesn't even have the additional connections for a second graphichs card.

Hi guys, i have a question on how to upgrade my graphichs card. I built my PC last year with an intel Core i7 3770k, Gigabyte G1 Sniper M3, 16 GB Kingston Hyper-X Memory and a Samsung SSD 830 256GB. I'm currently using two 24" 1920x1200 Samsung monitors. As i'm not really a gamer and only play a game every few months (if at all!) i currently use my old Gainward GTX 460 GS GLH 1024MB. Now i have the urge to play Far Cry 3 (already ordered as i got a got deal on the Insane Edition) and wanted to pimp my setup a little. I set my eye on a AMD 7870-series with the benefit of getting the new Tomb Raider with it. As i discussed this with a colleague he offered me his old/unused identical Gainward GTX 460 GS GLH to use it in SLI. Overall this would be the much cheaper option. But i'm not really sure if it is the right choice to upgrade such an old card to SLI? Also the power consumption might be quite high, when not playing for weeks! Does anybody have a clue how a GTX 460 SLI compares to a 7870? Any suggestions? Thanks Wolfgang