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The monitor uses by far the most power of those two.

I would go with a single, larger SSD. While RAID-0 gives very clear performance-benefits in benchmarks, the actual "feelable" gains over a single SSD aren't that big. The jump from HDD to SSD is...

It will be fine. In order to ensure that everything works the way you want it to: Uncouple the old drive and install the new one. Install Windows on the new drive. Hook up the old drive again....

1.5V is the standard memory voltage. Memory controllers are fairly flexible and will be able to handle 1.65V just fine as well. 1.65V allows for memory to run at higher frequencies or lower...

There are various ways of going about it: 1) The method linked in the previous reply. Basically copy everything over without worrying about drive letters, then starting up Lightroom (you may have...

If you're already using LR for your new photos, why not use that for culling the old stuff too? Make a new catalog if you don't want your main catalog to include the old photos, then import...

The key may be pre-programmed to do something. In Ubuntu it brings up the menu. Otherwise, you can bind it to an action yourself by going into the keybindings settings. The Windows key is typically...

I use Eneloop batteries. They're great as they have very little idle discharge, so you can leave them on the shelf for months and they're still good to go when you need them.

The amount of video RAM is one of the least important numbers unless you play high-end games on several monitors at the same time. For multi-monitor desktop work (LR, PS, etc...) or single-monitor...

If you import one of the "bad" JPEGs back into Lightroom (or open it in PS), does it look okay there? What I suspect to be happening is, unlike what all the other posters suggested, a colour...

OCing with newer Intel CPUs involves increasing the multiplier and leaving the BCLK alone. While you can sometimes increase the BCLK slightly, it's not going to get you very far compared to...

RAID-0 is very light on the actual CPU-load. Any semi-recent CPU (even the very cheap ones, let alone the upcoming high-end Haswells) can do it with ease. Once you go to the more advanced...

It depends a bit on the RAID-controller, but typically you can use pretty much any combination of harddisks, even different sizes (in which the smallest disk determines the effective size of all...

Many NAS-devices have a dynamic-DNS (DDNS) function, which periodically checks your current IP address and registers it with one of the many DDNS services. You then get an address such as...

Mint doesn't have a server edition and while you can always use a desktop version and butcher it into a server setup, it's easier and faster to just start from something like Ubuntu Server. It has...

A few comments to the poster above me:- 850W PSU is overkill, even for a system with a GTX670 graphics card (which, as was mentioned more than once, is completely unnecessary for an editing...

Because of this I use a self-built NAS with the ZFS filesystem as my main backup solution. ZFS is a Unix/Linux filesystem that emphasizes data integrity. It stores a checksum of each data-block (at...

This part is untrue, the wear levelling of an SSD doesn't care about the partition structure. Whether the free space is in one partition, the other partition or in unpartitioned space (some people...

Check that your RAM isn't filling up. If it is, adding more will immediately benefit you.If RAM isn't filling up, I would focus on overclocking the processor. The 3770 (is it a K-model? You need a...

You will have to reinstall Photoshop after you reinstall Windows. So if you don't have the original installation-media, it's probably best to contact Adobe and ask them what to do.