[geeks] Of video cards and power supplies...

[Nadine Miller]

On Jul 14, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

>
> I don't use Asus (no good reason, just don't), and I see Supermicro  
> going 'consumer' and trying to leverage their server background.  
> Some of their products confuse me, like ATX server boards that only  
> take 2x 1 Gig RAM?
>
> I still want to try their Atom server board...

I want one of those dual core Atom/nVidia Ion boards Zotac is  
building--looks like the perfect Hackintosh HTPC.

>> I don't plan on replacing my rig every other year like some folks,  
>> so I did my homework on the PSU front, since it pretty much serves  
>> the same function as the foundation of your house.
>
> Agreed, my recent desktop purchase for home was an i7 Dell box, I'm  
> about to build two identical budget Hyper-V servers to learn  
> failover clustering...

I'm not that deep into building a home learning environment.  The NAS  
was overbuilt for purposes of VM use, but that's as far as it will get.

=Nadine=