TMoney

http://www.head-fi.org/t/644426/sf-bay-area-meet-on-sunday-february-17-2013-the-one-which-is-really-going-to-happen Who all from HC is going?

Ha, if only

Well, in case you change your mind I'm sure Greg (horio) or I would happily forgo brining a source in lieu of using your turntable. If not, then maybe next time we have a mini-meet.

So Rick... Two questions. One, are you going to the Bay Area meet, and two, any chance you'll bring the turntable and a couple of these 45s? That'd be friggin' sweet!

Kind of an interesting read. http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-how-monster-lost-the-world

I believe Apple's built in Quicktime player has a screen recording feature that might fit the bill? I'm on Mountain Lion though so I'm not sure if the Snow Leopard version of Quicktime has the same feature.

I contacted Oppo customer support last week to check in on the status of a Windows 8 USB driver. They had no updates and said they are still waiting on XMOS to deliver it to them. That (lack of) news after all these months makes me a sad panda.

Well, went ahead and made my big newegg purchase. I ordered pretty much everything but a graphics card, as I figure its probably best to wait until NVidia and AMD announce their 2013 slate. I'll just plan on running the Intel integrated graphics until then. It should be a fun build. As far as MOBOs go, I went with the ASRock Z77 OC Formula.

Looks like we (mostly) have our answer. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/surface-pro-disk-space-to-fall-a-long-way-short-of-what-youd-expect/

Congrats! Welcome to the retina club.

So, quick GPU question. Can you do SLI/Crossfire with two mismatched graphics cards or do they have to be the same make and model. For example, could you SLI a 660 Geforce with a 680? or would you have to do a pair of 660s/680s?

"All of that being said, I don't really view the 13-inch rMBP as an alternative to the 15, but rather a step up from the MacBook Air. The MBA may be lighter, but Apple definitely blurred the line between the MBA and MBP with the 13-inch Retina. Performance is very similar between the two machines, but the rMBP's display is worlds better. For any power user, I don't know that I'd recommend the 13-inch MacBook Air over the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. It really is the best of both worlds." From Anandtech

Seems like the plaintiff is just angling to get paid-off. Its sad that its easier and more cost effective to pay these people to go away than it is to get a summary judgement or dismissal.

Yes, all windows 8 computers are like that. Just disable pagefile and hiberfile and that'll free up a bunch of space.

Did you read that article I posted? If anything I think it gives quite a bit of confidence for those considering using the Fusion Drive. Also, even if you didn't choose the fusion option from Apple it isn't particularly difficult to turn any SSD/HDD drive into a Fusion Drive. I can't really think of any reason why you'd want to store music on an SSD other than that the drive failure rate is lower? As long as you back up regularly though, that should never be a problem.

The Lacie drives are just a pair of crappy SSDs raided IIRC. Probably not a good idea buy. That being said, what is it that you need so much SSD space for, Monkey? I have a 512GB SSD and it is total overkill. I could easily get by with 256GB As long as you are smart about what you put on there, its generally not a big deal. Either that, or use Apple's new fusion drive technology to let the OS handle it for you. This article is good reading.

Also FWIW I have one of these and find it works great with both my Mac and PC. The data transfer times are very respectable over USB3. I wouldn't use it for an app drive, but it gets the job done for media and backups. http://www.seagate.com/external-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/expansion-hard-drive/

^ unless its a big ol raid array.

I'm thinking of starting a build too once my PC laptop sells on eBay early next week. As much as I'd like to start right now, I think I'm going to wait for AMD and nVidia to release their 2013 lines, which should happen in the next month or two. nVidia's new GK110 looks like its going to cost a boat-load, but if it delivers 85% of the performance of a pair of SLI'ed 680s then I think it might be worth the extra scratch. http://techreport.com/news/24246/rumor-gk110-coming-in-899-geforce-titan EDIT: and for AMD: http://techreport.com/news/24012/rumor-next-gen-radeons-due-in-the-second-quarter

From what I hear, Ivy Bridge doesn't overclock all that well so its probably wise to just run it at the stock clocks. I've also heard that Haswell is going to be a different socket configuration from Ivy, which is a real bummer as we won't be able to just drop Haswell in an existing Ivy system once it releases around June.

Also, this might be worth checking out as a maximum bang for the buck build. http://techreport.com/review/24059/tr-christmas-2012-system-guide/6

Heh, don't let crappy marketing and brand image get in the way of a good product at a good value.

http://www.anandtech.com/tag/mb Love the reviews on this site if you are looking for suggestions. I'm sure you'll be able to find a highly recommended MOBO for the price range you are looking for.

Live and Dangerous is amazing. Hope you've got that one.