PC Tech Thread

bequiet make really good psus so I'd say not worth a change

It looks like your psu is from this range if that helps.

http://www.bequiet.com/en/powersupply/667

Your gpu pulls 90w
CPU 180w
hdd 8w
ssd 5w
mobo 50w
ram 3w/stick
dvd drive 30w
case fan 5w
add 20% to total

I'd say get a reliable brand 650w that's 80+ rated.

I use http://www.remmina.org/wp/ to log onto my windows PC using RDP on a ubuntu laptop. Works well, should also work for other OS

Oh that's not mine, but a much neater build. Mines a mess. I have a corsair 430 or something. Cx? Non modular. I don't have a dvd drive either.

Cheers. I've got a trip coming up so think I'll give a month pass a try (although I have a feeling I need to set up my router for remote access).

Depends on your gpu and cpu. My numbers are high as I went with cpu+gpu being overclocked a bit and I always add 20% as the psu will lose a bit over time and so not running it at the limit means when it drops a bit it will still work for ages. Corsair CX TX whatever are good, so long as it's not the "builder series" it's good, if you add/upgrade your graphics card that psu won't be big enough.

I always go a little bit OTT on the PSU. I find it funny people spend 2k on parts, then want a PSU to drive it for like $50. If it goes wrong, bye bye 2k of stuff.

I run one of these:

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/hx-series-hx750-power-supply-750-watt-80-plus-gold-certified-modular-psu

with the watercooling in my PC as long as I'm not gaming it's all silent.

when gaming, I have OC'd gfx card so it can get a little noisy

Think the closest in the new ones is the RMx series (TX/HX are no longer made)

I totally have the builder series. I'm going to buy a new one today!
Semi modular makes sense to me, would like something quiet too.
Budget around £50 I guess. Going to do some hunting and prob spamming of this thread. Thanks all.

This might work, its one CM dif in 2 dims than my current. If it's 1cm longer the wrong way it won't fit in though, hmmmm... unsure.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Quiet-Pure-Power-L8-CM/dp/B005JRGVAW/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1457699032&sr=8-13&keywords=be+quiet+psu

or this one...
I'm quite into the EVGA brand, and this one will match my GPU. But does it have enough/the right connections for my set up. Usual gubbins, + 3 Drives?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00V5B76LE/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=25BDW2I9QOEZO&coliid=I23763GNJPT6W8&psc=1

I'd buy from scan and get a slightly more beefy one myself.

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/650w-evga-supernova-650-g1-full-modular-80plus-gold-135mm-fan-atx-power-supply

Or the cheaper but you would have to cabletie an extra cable out of the way.

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/550w-corsair-vs-series-vs550-85-eff-80plus-white-230v-eu-certified-1x120mm-fan-black-casingplussleev

If you are buying a modular power supply check which additional cables are included, some only ship with 1/2 cables and so you need to pay extra to get the cables you need.

Cheeers... that top ones wayyy too long (+3cm) and the bottom one is not modular.
Will keep an eye on what cables are included, this is proving tougher than expected.

Dell XPS 15. Gonna be faaaaast. And shiny. When it gets here in 19 days. Only 2 posts about it so far...

Aaargh.

AMD XConnect external gfx card stuff being brought together and supported at driver level

How worried should I be about this? It's happened three times I remember since building the computer a bit shy of a year ago.

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Flat battery?

Doesn't happen every time. Is that consistent with a dead battery?

The mobo can hold some charge in it's capacitors but after that it's on the battery to keep the clock going and the bios chip alive(depends on the mobo a bit but some do that). Did it happen any times when you left the pc off for longer than normal?

Not really sure, but it's a good theory. It may not have been turned on in a couple of days before this morning.

Try not leaving anything plugged in to the USB ports while it's turned off for a while. I had a problem for a while of a usb extender causing the cmos battery to drain if the computer was turned off for too long.

Mouse has a light that stays on... Hmm.

Cheers, guys.

I have a 64TB G-tech g studio ev tower setup in RAID 10.

I have 2 iMacs I'd like to be able to read the data held on it (video rushes) at high enough speed so as not to slow down editing. They also need to write to it.

The RAID has 2 thunderbolt slots. So do the iMacs as well as an ethernet cable and we have very fast WiFi.

We don't have a dedicated server and I'd rather not go down that route without exhausting other options.

Any thoughts on the best way to link them up?

At the moment I'm trying to set up the RAID via thunderbolt to one of the iMacs, then somehow share it as a folder for access to the other (just plugging thunderbolt cables into both machines from the same RAID tower only connects to the one that was plugged in first) - though without much success.

Can I create some kind of partition on the RAID and install some NAS software on it? Can I do that without formatting the RAID and losing everything on it?

Sincerely,

Not a Network Expert

mac thread >>>>

Thunderbolt networking is cool, but only between 2 computers. You can daisy chain many drives and monitors, but not many computers... it starts to be an addressing nightmare so it limits what is available.

Wired ethernet is still the way to go here, and I'm not sure what the networking cards are on the iMacs, if gigabit then just make sure your cables are Cat6 and your switch is gigabit and you should be good.

Another way to go would be to mix the above... Thunderbolt to the first computer, ethernet from that computer to the next.

You're not going to be limited on gigabit ethernet, the limitations here are on the performance characteristics of the RAID, and the drives that are in the iMacs. However WiFi and 100Mbps ethernet is likely below the performance of a RAID10 setup and SSDs in the iMacs, hence gigabit ethernet or Thunderbolt is preferred.

And looking at the device you're using... I don't think it's suitable for a NAS setup, but you could get a Mac Mini and connect that to it, and then use file sharing on that to have it act as a NAS.

Much obliged David, once OS install finishes I'll try prob the second combination (TB+Cat6) and hope to report good news.