Thank GOD a couple weeks ago I RMA'd the 3rd drive that had failed in less than year. All 3 were Vertex 3 120 Gig. So at least now I have 1 that should be good for another 6 months. The support really was good with no questions asked really on all 3 drives. But what does suck is I bought 3 of them and ALL 3 DIED. I knew after the 1st one died within 60 days I was going to have issues. Over the years I had issues with Ram compatibility and I just knew the drives were going to be iffy. But they are so damn fast and the price was decent [1st one was 300 bucks, 2nd one was 220 [bought about 3 months later] and lastly the 3rd drive was just over 150 bucks] Now they sell for like 80 bucks. After the 3rd one died about 4 months ago or that I was never going to buy an OCZ drive again. I finally broke down and got an RMA after my #2 drive that was replaced about 6 months ago started tossing errors that I had better RMA the drive. Glad I did.

I'm all happy when my hexacopter gets me 10 minutes in the air!

I have been using 8 since the 1st preview and I have come to really like it. A LOT. I did NOT like it in the early days as I was die hard windows 7 user and it is a great OS. But 8 is 7 after a couple more years of refinement. Do I like Metro? nope. Do I want a touch screen? nope. I hate fingerprints on my screens! But thanks to apps like Start8 I don't even have to know there is a metro ui. [though there are a few nice apps there].

There just are so many refinements in 8 that I could never consider going back to 7.
Is it perfect? nope. But the parts that irk me are few and far between.
It really is fast, it really is rock solid stable, and it get's out of my way and lets me actually get work done.
I'm sure I am going to be modded to hell for this but it is a great OS. I'm not a shill, nor do I have a gun pointed at my head to say this. I just am a old fart who likes my PC and I really do like 8.

Like you I have had a triple monitor setup for years, back when you needed at LEAST 2 video cards to push them. I "have" done some eyefinity gaming on them but find that, even though I never get sea or motion sickness in RL, playing on all 3 makes me kind of ill after a while. It's like the peripheral vision part is not playing well with my brain or something. Plus my primary monitor is a 27" which fills up my line of vision quite well on it's own, so the added fluff with the 2 side monitors just isn't worth the extra strain on my aging hd 7990 now.

This cannot end well

I don't take anything as attacks on this site. I really don't care what people think, say, or do :P But the reason I want to sell it is not so much for lack of performance, as it is still a really fast card, but for worth and age. I've had this one for well over a year and a half now and one of the games I play hates it, SWTOR, and by hates it I mean HATES it [oh it still gets 100+ FPS with everything maxed but it is anything BUT stable :(]. I play all games at my primary monitors native resolution [and sometimes I eyefinity the 3 but it kinda makes me sick :(] of 1920x1200 and I still get 100+ FPS in most everything I throw at it. Well Far Cry 3 kind of hurts when I max everything [about 60ish FPS]. It really is a good card for it's age. But that is the thing. I RARELY keep a card for more than a year and have sold my last 5 or 6 on ebay when it was time to buy a new one [and yes I always keep the box/stock cooler, etc]

I like the x990 series because it's a dual card on a single board. Takes 1 slot and uses one set of power inputs. I've had them since they came out.
I did dual cards for a while, but prefer a single slot solution
The reason I water cool is three fold.
1. Because I can
2. Because of the racket the dustbuster fans make
3. because under load this sucker will push over 200F EASY on the stock air cooler

On water, under 100% load, it maxes out at about 150F which is about what the stock cooler did idle and at idle it rarely goes about 100F
Pretty much the same reason I water cool my cpus since the days of the AMD MP 1733 [I have water cooled every CPU I have had since then, and I have had quite a few :)]
I just like water cooling and overclocking and fast stuff.

I "used" to keep parts about 6 months then sell them and buy new and back years ago it served me well as the shit was x times faster about every 6 months, now, not so much, so I tend to skip a gen and go with the 2nd release from what I have now. This has been slowing down more and more too and that is fine by me as it costs me much less, and I get much more use out of the parts before they hit ebay lol. I'm still rocking my 1.5 year old i7 2600K @ 5Ghz on a Sabertooth P67. I keep waiting for something to come out so that I can upgrade those TOO but alas, nothing has come out that really smokes what I have now, so no need to upgrade yet. Though I did sell the 16 Gigs of DDR3 1600 ram last month and upgraded to 32 Gigs DDR3 1833 ram and it really helps my virtual machines a lot. Almost as much as tossing them on SSDs [ok not nearly as much, but still it helps :P]

I was really looking forward to selling my HD 6990 with a waterblock for enough to offset the cost of a new [or a couple new] 8xxx series card(s) but now it doesn't look so promising. Dangit, dagnabbit, GRRRR.... cry..... I was GOING to ebay it for about 550 bucks for the combo [well worth it] which means a new one would have only cost me about 300 bucks or so minus the water block. Now it's going to be about a hundred less and that really does suck.

Dell is a Texas company and Texas is a 1 party state. Only 1 party has to know the conversation is being recorded and do not require you tell the other party. Though they always DO tell you by saying "this call may be recorded for monitoring or training purposes" I nearly ALWAYS tell the person when I call tech support the exact same thing. It's amazing how I always seem to get a more attentive CSR that way. I rarely DO record them but then I do say "may be" recorded :)

I wonder why they picked that name since it is already what the Raspberry PI's version of Debian [Raspbian] is called.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

From the webpage above
Raspbian “wheezy”

If you’re just starting out, this is the image we recommend you use. It’s a reference root filesystem from Alex and Dom, based on the Raspbian optimised version of Debian, and containing LXDE, Midori, development tools and example source code for multimedia functions.

Works like a charm on my Ipad 3. I've been waiting for this FOREVER....well since I accidentally upgraded to 6.0.1 without backing it up first :(

In a few words, I like it. I actually like it a lot. I don't own a tablet or laptop, just a bunch of desktops, and I like it. Do I care for Modern UI or whatever metro is called now? No, not really. I paid the 5 bucks and bought Start8 so I don't even have to know it's even there. [yes I KNOW there are free alternatives, but free to me doesn't always equate to better]. I got used to the "no glass" aero and actually prefer it now. I find it faster and even more stable than 7 [though 7 is rock solid too so it's kind of hard to quantify that last part].

Thing is I have not been a "start menu" user for a long time. I have 3 big monitors and have always just pinned icons to my desktop of most things I use and it never clutters up my primary screen.

I also noticed something, Back when I beta tested NT4, when the beta was over I stayed running 4. When beta testing 2000 and it finished I stayed in 2000. When beta testing XP and it was over I went back to 2000. When beta testing Vista and it was over I went back to XP. When beta testing 7 and it was over I stayed in 7 and with this BS public beta testing in 8 I actually stayed in 8. So many of these self entitled cry babies killed MS beta testing. "WHERE'S MY FREE COPY BOO HOO". Anyways

8 is not a bad OS at all, and unlike Vista does not deserve the bad rap everyone is giving it. If you don't like Modern, then don't use it, it's that simple. Plenty of other good things TO like about it,

yah this is the 1st post I have ever been modded down for. Lol kind of funny. I wasn't really even bashing it, just stating some facts. Yes there are "cheaper" parts I could have bought, such as a cheaper, less powerful wall wart. A cheaper and slower sdcard. A cheaper and shorter usb cable. But I wanted to give my little RPI the best I could. I did say it was cool a number of times in the post, but people see one negative word about the PI and it's downmod central. Sheesh

I got my model b last week and it's been pretty fun so far. But one thing that kinda sucks about it is its speed. Even overclocked to 1Ghz it's pretty painful to do anything on. Not to mention it wasn't 35 dollars to get it up and running. I wrote this a few days ago for another site but it is pretty relevant here too.

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How a $35 computer cost me $90 bucks..

So a long time ago I signed up to order one of these cool little Raspberry PI $35 dollar card sized computers. After a month or 2 I finally was able to order it. After a .
week or two I finally was able to hold it. After a day or two I finally was able to actually use it..

I’ll explain. It’s JUST the little pc, nothing else.

SO I had to buy the following:
1x 1k 5v USB wall wart. $20 bucks.
1x 16 Gig Class 10 SD Card $20 bucks.
1x Micro USB to USB Cable $10 bucks.

Factor in the cost of the PC with shipping $43.79 + $20 + $20 + $10 and now that $35 dollar computer is actually almost $94 bucks..

That said, it’s actually kinda cool. Not as powerful as one might like but cool none the less..
As a test I set it up running the debian installer [this took about 6 hours], setup to compile XBMC [this took about 2.5 hours] and went about compiling it..
On my main rig the compile takes all of about 8 minutes [after a make clean], on the RPI it took over 12 hours. 12 HOURS to do what my main rig can do in 8 minutes!.

Now I understand it's "only" a 35 dollar PC so one cannot expect a whole lot out of it, but in reality it's NOT a 35 dollar pc. It's a 90 dollar phone guts without the phone parts.