raymosrunerx

Hello TI

I purchased my m17x r4 with a 750gb HD. I want to add a second drive, an SSD, and make it the primary one. I have the cage that holds the hard drive (it came with my laptop), but I cannot find a suitable SSD to fit the slot. All the SSDs I've found on Amazon and Newegg don't seem to have this style of port. I've uploaded three pictures to Imgur to show what I mean

m17x r4 drive bay - Imgur

The third image shows how the HD fits into the laptop, you basically insert it from the top, and then screw the HD down through the HD cage.

If anyone could post links to SSDs that fit this description, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Thanks!

Raymosrunerx

Hello everyone, it's been a very very long time since I perused this forum.

I plan on getting an m18x, but with my budget, I can either get the 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M (one card) or Dual 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 675M - SLI® Enabled (two cards).

I have several questions:

1.) Is there a performance difference? Will the SLI cards perform better than the 680M or will the operate about the same?

2.) If I go with the 680M option, is there a place where I can buy another 680M down the road if I ever need to upgrade? Will it have SLI enabled when I stick it in, or do I need some additional cable?

3.) I read in one of TI's posts that the AMD Radeon™ HD 7970M performs about the same as the 680M, but there is a lack of PhysX and good driver support. However, getting two of those cards in CrossfireX will only get me one 680M card. If you had to pick between the GeForce 675M SLI option, Radeon 7970M CrossfireX option, and the single 680M card, which would you pick?

If it's really easy to do, I would rather get the 680M card and upgrade later by adding in a new card. However, I don't know how one would obtain it, nor do I know if there are any other steps involved in doing it

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Raymosrunerx

I'll get the H80 cpu cooler then, there is a 2x120 but its separated by a sheet of metal... Should be enough I think... Also, thanks for all the tips! I guess I will just have to wait and see when the mobo comes out for the specific parts

Could you help me make a list of parts to get?

i7-3930K Processor

(still havent found PSU with enough power)

Asrock X79 Extreme11 motherboard

(RAM? need some compatible with mobo)

CORSAIR H100 CPU cooler

Geforce GTX 680 graphics

EDIT: isn't the gtx 690 just two 680s slapped together? Does that mean its not possible to have a quad-sli build of 4 690s?

Is there a processor that can support 64 lanes? (4 x16)

Do you think that they will release more ivy-bridge processors that can support more lanes than 16?

Another off-topic question... why are nvidia tesla cards so expensive/are they computing only or can you use a tesla card for gaming?

I was looking at the intel page for the the 3930k and the 3770k, and I saw this for the 3770k

Expansion Options

PCI Express Revision 3.0

# of PCI Express Ports 1

and this for the 3930k

Expansion Options

PCI Express Revision 2.0

# of PCI Express Ports 10

What is the difference?

I'll keep a separate bitcoin wallet for the lab, I'll tell my boss that I was making money for the lab to do more experiments during the idle times of the server :3.

So what components (mobo, processor, gfx cards, etc) would you recommend I get?

PS: I only really plan on getting 1 gfx card, maybe 2, but I want to be able to expand to 4... so a mobo with 4 x16 pci 3.0 slots would be nice... I don't mind paying a little bit more for a mobo and a psu that has a lot of expandability

Well, I cant really say if I'd get in trouble though because I was never told what I can or can not do... The research head just threw some servers at me and said this is what I have to work with... I'm really the only one who has access to them also

I'm building a rig, but the electric bills are covered, I'm basically running all this in the lab.

Speaking of which, I have no idea how to install any of that sh*t on linux, the Windows GUI was so easy to use. If I could do it on linux, then I could use several servers when there are no jobs on them (I'm the admin of them anyways).

Its a p2p currency system, developed by MIT.

I've started farming on my m14x, only using the GPU because I'm not using it right now :3.

Does anyone know a thing or two about installing software on linux? I've tried to install this program but it simply isnt working

Guys, I'm almost tempted to get this

Newegg.com - ASUS P8Z77 WS LGA 1155 Intel Z77 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Just because it has 4 3.0 x16 slots... If I wanted to do something like bitcoin mining when I am not using the computer

EDIT: Actually, I want this! :3

ASRock > Products > Z77 Extreme9

I just cant find it anywhere...

EDIT 2: I was just watching a video of a demonstration by a guy from ASRock, and he mentioned that you can do 2-way sli with x16/x16 or x8/x8/x8/x8... What do those numbers mean?

Hello

I was talking to someone over steam (who I met over tf2) and was talking about how he uses a computer and his gpus during his bedtime and when he works to mine bitcoins. Apparently he can get cash off of them, has anyone tried this before?

Also, thinking about getting this power supply

Newegg.com - Rosewill LIGHTNING-1300 1300W Continuous@50°C,80 PLUS GOLD Certified,Pipe-rock Modular Design,Single +12V Rail,ATX12V v2.3/EPS12V v2.92,SLI&CrossFire Ready,Active-PFC Power Supply

Sorry, got a new list of mobos with the z77 north bridge

Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

This one has onboard OCing features, but I dont think it should be a determining factor, unless the rest of the mobos cant overclock

Newegg.com - ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Looks really nice, apparently can keep itself pretty clean. But does it deliver?

Newegg.com - ASRock Z77 Extreme6 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Can go quad SLI or quad CrossfireX. I have never heard of this company though

Hmm, thats certainly helpful, I might go for the H100, would like to get a big OC.

With that being said, mw86, what PSU and mobo (that supports lga 1155)? A mobo with onboard raid would be super nice

Does anyone have a liquid-cooled rig? I think I might consider a small one just for the CPU and leave the GPU as it is...

Hello guys,

I was wondering how exactly does the hybrid drive work (ie can you put the OS in the solid state part and everything else in the HD part)? Would it be good to put it on the m14x?

Sorry, I thought I had responded, but I guess it didn't go through..

My overall budget at this time is 1k, and thats just for a good PSU, good motherboard, good proccessor and a ok graphics card... I dont think there is anything else I would need at this time...

It doesn't really matter to me where I get these parts, just wherever is the cheapest

How would I go about modding these fans?

Also, I think I'll stick with the two graphics cards and SLI. Which card do you think I should I get two of, and is there any special cable?

Is there any good motherboards with good onboard RAID? I'd like suggestions haha

Hmm. Well, I think I will go with that processor then, no need to worry about this huge thing getting stolen... Is there any suggestion on motherboards? I want something that will work easily with Intel's XTU so I can overclock the processor

EDIT: Anyone know where I can find REALLY BRIGHT CYAN led 120 and 140mm fans? I really like cyan... I use it on my alienware laptop... If you don't know what cyan is, it's an RGB of 0,255,255 or if you've seen the movie Tron, its like the light blue trim they have on everything (it was that color if you were the good guy and the reddish orange one if you were the bad guy :3)

I kinda want to use 4 GPUs and SLI, do you think if I used some really cheap ones, that it would stack up to high performance?

EDIT: I think I wills stick to the single 22nm processor... I read reviews online that some people have managed to OC it to 5GHz... And its a 350$ processor lol, its cheap

EDIT 2: Anyone wanna try and confirm the accuracy of this? eXtreme Power Supply Calculator v2.5

EDIT 3 (sorry hahaha): There was a review on amazon on the intel i7 3770k:

Does anyone know what SIPP, vPro, VT-d and TXT is used for? Is there a way I can re-enable it on the 3770k?

Well, my original plans were to make it a gaming computer AND a server, I was going to run both windows and linux (and maybe dabble into GPU computing)... Does anyone here have a dual-processor machine that runs windows?

EDIT: In what order do you suggest buying these parts? I was looking for a PSU because I figured that's like the first thing one would buy, and I realized I dont know how much power I need if I want two processors, etc

EDIT 2: The new 3D processors are here?

Amazon.com: Intel Core i7 3770K processor 3.5 4 LGA 1155 BX80637I73770K: Computers & Accessories

Well I have 10 HD bays, but I can swivel 4 of them so that it has alot of space and you can put 4 graphics cards....

Do you know of a raid controller that can connect 3HDs for a cheap price?

Also, would it be possible to have two processors and run windows/game?.. Not that it matters too much, Valve is working on porting steam into Linux, but the games will still be primarily windows-based

EDIT: Maybe I should wait until the 3D processors come out (I read mw86's post)?