Roland Wooster

I think you have no reason to worry about the cable, it appears to be a totally standard Micro-B USB3 connector on the drive. You can get Male-A to Male-Micro-B cables anywhere. In fact, you can...

I have the Pixel, I have only used it with the AA battery pack, I tested with the camera battery too, but have only really used it with the AA pack as I bought it to get the 6 frames per...

I have a D800E, and the VR-II, I had the VR-I on my D200, I sold that to get the II. The focus breathing is only an issue for Macro, otherwise you'll not really notice it. I bought the VR-II for...

You just need more than the current 5 choices, this could easily extend the range in both direction, without any additional complexity. If Nikon wanted to add extra features (complexity) then it...

Indeed. RAID is not the easy path.   The reason it was so important on magnetic disks is that once you have two applications accessing the disk at the same time you've effectively setup a scenario...

The power saver mode is just the monitor's way of saying it's not getting any video signal, so that just means the PC is off.   Typical problems that would cause a problem like your...

Just wanted to close on this thread in case anyone searches through this in the future. It seems that all I needed was a reboot, as everything is working fine now, and with the U2711 monitor in...

27" at 1080P resolution is a very poor choice, unless you have terrible eyesight and need massive fonts. Don't go this route. So, getting that out the way, really the choice is a 27" 16:9 1440P...

I've used an X79-UD5, it includes a pretty good sound DSP on the motherboard, unless you are looking for extreme audio fidelity, like 192KHz, you won't need a discrete sound card.   Roland.

What you should do depends upon your goals and your budget. Although to cut things short, I would suggest making a choice and then seeing how it goes and upgrading what is necessary from that point...

As others have said, RAID-0 is for performance, although it doesn't work quite as stated above. The two drives are not toggled between, but rather each data file is split into two halves and the...

Tareq, the Momentus XT has only a few GB of SSD like performance, it's basically a NAND cache on a magnetic drive, but only has typically 8GB of space (I think, perhaps 16GB in some models, i'm not...

If you're considering 2*128GB SSD's versus a 240GB here's the trade offs: If you are connecting the SSD's to the main 6 SATA ports on the Intel chipset, you can run them simultaneously and achieve...

Tareq - 8GB RAM doesn't make much sense, that'll be either 2*4GB or 4*2GB, either way, a bad choice for you. You should be getting 8GB sticks, and ideally using at a bare minimum 2, but better...

I am very happy with my Dell U2412M's.   Roland.

The advantage of 3.5" drives is that they are dramatically faster than 2.5" drives, so copying your backup files is quicker - I would estimate they are at least 50% faster, perhaps as much as 100%...

Best option is to buy a SSD for your OS drive, and then mirror the OS over from the old HDD to the new SSD. If you get an Intel SSD they offer a "Data Migration Tool" which you can download for...

Does it really say xx.xxx.202.49 or are you just blanking that out? If so, why? 192.168.0.10 is your PC. Or at least one on your network. 192.168.0.x is what almost everyone uses for their private...

Well, I wouldn't recommend a 27" unless it's 2560*1440 resolution, the 27" 1080P is a bad choice in my opinion. If you're looking at 1440P, the alternatives are typically two 24" monitors for the...

I have personally had great experience with Gigabyte, Asus, and Zotac motherboards for overclocking many systems. A Z77 chipset is the best way to go, for more reasons than just overclocking. The...