Posted 10/05/2009 at 08:47:17am

accidental double post

Posted 10/05/2009 at 08:46:06am

I have a 100ft CAT6 cable at home that works fine going from my router to my gigabit switch (all pc's connect fine through the switch). When I plug that cable directly into my Asus P5k-E  - no dice. Not even a light.

Posted 08/21/2009 at 10:04:02pm

Anyone else feel like it would be ok if PCI express 3 broke compatability? Name it something else maybe but come one, these days the bulk of new mobo's/cpu's/high end cards are going to be purchased by enthusiasts willing to make an all at once sacrifice during the upgrade.

Most new computers will just use integrated and the users will be mostly happy with that. If they end up wanting to install a video card they can go buy a new gen PCI3 one. 

I dont know about the rest of you but I feel kinda off about putting hardware more than 2-3 years old into a modern machine, with lower heat dissipation and power efficiency (and in the case of video cards DX specs for new games) always improving I'd hate to use an old card when new generation stuff gets cheap so fast.

Yeah yeah there will be some Ethernet and RAID card problems, but most of that is on systems that were designed to become legacy anyways.

Posted 07/15/2008 at 08:19:23am

Bit dissapointing you guys couldnt score some of the new 1.5 TB drives. Also whats up with only 3 of them? Why not 5? 2TB (more like 1.8TB) of storage is hardly dreamy if you ask me.