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The i5-2500K is compared to the FX-8150 because the FX-8150 is $25 more expensive, and when AMD wins in a specific benchmark its only a small advantage going to AMD while when the Intel wins a specific benchmark its usually a significant advantage. The numbers speak for themselves [anandtech.com]

Which tells you that you probably ought not to buy the more expensive eight-thread version unless you have a workload that actually has eight threads.

Trying to compare to the FX-6200 is sort of laughable thing to suggest. I dont get how you claim that the FX-6200 is significantly cheaper or better performing at anything since you cant even buy one yet, and nobody has benchmarked one.

They seem to be on sale. Moreover, you can pretty well predict how they'll perform: Somewhat better than the FX-8150 on anything with three threads or less (owing to higher clock speed) and somewhat better than 3/4ths as well as the FX-8150 on anything with many threads (owing to higher clock speed but only 3/4ths as many cores).

That puts it in the same ballpark as the 2500k (at least to the extent that the FX-8150 is) but at a noticeably lower price point.

Hasn't AMD already shipped 4GHz+ processors?

http://www.xpcgear.com/cdhomesblue.html

Love this idea. Wish there was a website that offered it that shipped to Canada by default.

http://www.xpcgear.com/cdhomesblue.html

There are also cheap alternatives based on 680MHz MIPS CPU (all overclockable to 800MHz):

RouterStation Pro - 128MB RAM,16MB flash,4xGb ethernet,USB 2.0
Mikrotik RoutBoard RB450G - 256MB RAM,512MB Flash,microSD card slot,5x Gb ethernet (for hdd you can use some cheap Gb AoE box like Welland)
Mikrotik RoutBoard RB433AH - 128RAM,64MB Flash,microSD card slot,3x 10/100 ethernet, 3x microPCI

All can run OpenWRT or Debian.

last I checked, OCZ didn't qualify as "value ram".

Then please check again. Last summer I finally got around to buiding a new computer, and I had been reading specs and reviews on parts for at least 6 months straight. Trust me when I tell you that OCZ isn't the high quaility ram it was back in 2003. They have quaility control complaints all over the place, to the the point where they have customer service people patrol the online feedback just to quiet the fires. That's the problem with reputations: they don't always get updated as quickly as they should.

Having said that, value ram has nothing to do with brand name or brand quality. Value ram is merely a manufacturer's entry level ram that usually comes without a heat spreaders and thus has highter (factory) latency timings. I think this is what you said didn't exsist.

Or you could buy one.
http://www.xpcgear.com/mediagate.html

Fantastic device.

You could get x2 3600+ for much less with virtualy the same performance as x2 3800+ here it costs $133 http://www.xpcgear.com/ado3600cubox.html

... you can't just pop the old drive into your desktop box. Sure, the adapter's cheap, but it's not like buying a new 3.5" drive and just stuffing it in.

The parent may just shove them in, but there are companies who make pop out CD holder for a 5.25" bay.

Can't find one for $10, but the first product link when you Google for external hard drive enclosure 2.5" is this one for $13 + shipping.

I have no idea if the product shown on that link is any good, mind you...

Regards,
Ross

• Directron huge selection and prices aren't too bad. Does double boxing for a small fee. Has nasty habit of putting fragile sticker on shipping carton which means "kick me" to UPS and Fedex.
  
• Provantagedecent selection and low prices on some stuff. Cable prices are cheap but they make up for it in shipping fees big time. Packing is a little uneven. You want a disk drive real bad if you order from them. I don't check their site unless it's something I know they have at a good price before hand.
  
• Performance PCsPC modding stuff.
  
• FrozenCPUanother modding place.
  

You have to check around. Not any one place has the best prices on everything or the best selection. For a particular part, there may be only one vendor carrying it.

Okay, you win - if you try REALLY hard, I'll admit you can find a drive with only a one year warranty.

That said, here is a link to the identical model 7K80, 80Gb Death^H^H^Hskstar (IBM / Hitachi OEM, factory sealed) you linked as an example; kindly note the 3 year warranty.

Congrats, however, for managing to find the same item for $24 more, and with a 2 year shorter warranty than the same model you linked to.

Kinda looks to me, generally speaking, like the manufacturers are moving away from 1 year warranties, eh. I will surely concede that someone, somewhere, may in fact be selling them with a 1 year warranty - but it's rare. That, I believe, was the GGP's very point.

Just sayin, is all.

Get them while they are hot

After reading the article, I wonder what exactly makes it so special? Perhaps the convenience of the entire setup, but for 40 gig, you would expect a lower price. I can get a USB enclosure for a hard drive for $30.00 here or perhaps elsewhere for even less. A 200 gig HD from tigerdirect.com is $89.99. Don't get me wrong, I am really excited to see Linux systems set up like this, but the price kind of threw me off.

I kind of have the inverted problem. I'd like a portable storage device that I can dump images to from a digital camera when I don't have access to a laptop or PC. I started searching and came across some pretty interesting devices. 20/40/60/80 GB mp3 players with built in flash card reader.

http://www.xpcgear.com/mp3player.html

Weird thing though, is I can't find any reference or review of these devices elsewhere. The site calls them "Voxdrives". If you look at the images, they say "X2Drive Pro". Googling either of those doesn't seem to return anything relevant though. Has anyone heard or have any opinion of these things? $211 for 20GB would beat loading up on flash ram, and you get the bonus of having MP3 playback. Are there any other devices out there like this that have built-in flash card readers?

thanks!

As mentioned before, the heat stays in your lappy.
This cooler (active) or this cooler (passive) look like better alternatives.

Make your life easier. They may not be hot-swappable, but they prevent having to open the case and fiddle with cabling.

Real nerds should have most of the parts lying around! (jk)

$54 Geforce 4 mx
$29 5.1 Sound
$99 Clear pc case
$50 Cordless keyboard with built in mouse
$99 120 Gig hard drive
$219 DVD Burner
$43 512 Meg memory
$137 1800 XP AMD / Soyo Dragon MB combo
$25 Zalman cpu cooler
$69 Zalman quiet power supply
$74 +/- Various Case Lighting
$16 Fan controller (slow down!)
$0 OS
$0 Multimedia software

$914!

Coolness factor..priceless.

Plus, on the bright side after your wife/lover/puppy figures out how much this all cost you can remind them that its totally upgradable! Plus you can install next years features an 1/3 the cost (intead of throwing it away)!

Agh. CD-R(W). For those of us who have a lot of, uh, "data" those just won't do. I'm not going to try and back up my mp3 collection on CD-RW... at 30gbs and growing that's just not feasible. The organization alone is a nightmare. Not to mention the time involved in burning all those CDs.

I've just bought me some removable IDE trays and some additional IDE HDs like these here. What I want to know is: besides `cp -a` from a mounted NFS share or `scp -r` is there a good way to do backups for other systems on my LAN? Any dangers in doing those things? I know they aren't efficient (so I'll be checking out rsync) and that they aren't a snapshot per se... but anything else I should be aware of?