Switched On Tech Design
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Proper mounting of Corsair AF120 or SP120 coloured rings
Can’t get your coloured ring to sit properly on your new Corsair fan? You’re not alone – we’ve had a few customers find it difficult getting their rings to sit correctly in the fans.
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Noctua NM-I2011 mounting kits
One of the better tower coolers which fits inside a 4U server chassis is the Noctua NH-U12P SE2, but by default they only ship with Socket 775/1155/1156/1366 and AM2/2+/3 mounting gear – leaving anyone who wants to use the baby Noctua cooler with their Socket 2011-based server out in the cold. Fortunately, Noctua have…
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Corsair SP120 fans
We have a handful of the new Corsair fans in for testing – initial results look promising. The SP line are optimised for static pressure, which means they’re ideal for use on cooling radiators or other places where there is restricted airflow, like storage chassis’ or behind narrow grilles. This is in contrast…
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Western Digital Red Drive Performance Numbers: Sequential Read/Write
As a follow-up to our review (found here), we’ve finally finished testing the new Red drives and compared them to the equivalent Green drives.
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Can you mix processor models in Intel’s Socket 2011 dual-CPU motherboards?
Intel recommend using two identical CPUs in their socket-2011 dual-socket motherboards; it is theoretically possible to use non-identical CPUs, though, and Intel’s rules for that are that they must be: Of the same processor family Have the same number of cores Have the same cache size at each level of cache Able to…
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Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe not recognising IBM M1015
We had a customer who installed a M1015 into their workstation and it wouldn’t recognise the card at all during the boot process; the board was still on the shipping BIOS 0906, and the issue was resolved by updating to the most current BIOS (1401 at the time of writing). After updating the BIOS…
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Incorrect keyboard layout/map on a Raspberry Pi – no | or \
One thing that’s come up occasionally with our testing of the Pi so far has been that some distributions pick up on odd keyboard maps by default, particularly with Apple keyboards – to fix this on one of the Debian distros and get back your missing pipe (|) or backslash (\) characters run: # dpkg-reconfigure…
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Western Digital 2TB Red Drive review (WD20EFRX)
Up until now Western Digital have separated their hard drive lines into three; Blue for consumer drives, Green for low-power drives and Black for performance. This has now been expanded with a fourth colour added to the stable; the WD Red NAS hard drive range. Western Digital tout these as being designed specifically…