The world of Virtual Reality, or VR to most. It has been offering promises for around three decades and everyone with a passion for VR have been holding their breath for the same amount of time. So now with the new promise of VR in your house, and not only for Air Force or medical simulations, it may be about time to breathe out, or is it?Enter Oculus, from the outside a company and individuals with that passion and possibly holding their breath as well. Deciding to do something about it and not waiting for someone to invent the required technology, they have forged ahead and have been making waves.
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It has been a while since we posted anything about our Home Server. From parts one through three we spec’d, built and tested a Server that would have multimedia capability via a home network and, double as a business server.
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In parts one and two, we basically spec’d and built a basis for a Home Server. In reality, other than plans to use it as a Server, it is currently just a desktop PC with RAID SSD’s and a lot of RAM. We have had the server up and running now for some weeks and it has performed flawlessly.
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Since Part 1 was completed, I have also decided on a few other components, namely the motherboard, CPU, memory and cooler. As it stands I can start to assemble the core build and start a troubleshooting phase without storing files or streaming media, getting in the way of formatting and OS installing etc.
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It’s a strange thing these days but one of the main technologies to filter into the home is a Home server or a NAS. It’s strange because the thing we were never supposed to need was a Cloud we can build and manage or Data Centre servers in our home. Well with all of the media products going virtual it is just the “thing” that pretty much every home will need.
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Now we come to one of the most famous manufacturers of high performance memory modules, power supplies, gaming peripherals and gaming accessories – OCZ! Whom to expect other than Johnathan Wendel – AKA – Fatal1ty, and for the first time...
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Now we come to one of the longest and most supportive sponsor of hardwareslave.com. Our long term co-operative has been nothing less the successful over the last few years – it’s of course takeMS! What’s also worth mentioning that it’s the...
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And now it’s time for one of my favorite memory manufacturers – GeIL!!! Unlike others, it was very easy to arrange the meeting with people from GeIL and they have been very easy and nice to talk with. I’ve even manage...
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Now it’s time for one of nVidia’s authorised partners (as advertised on their poster at CeBIT) – Point of View. Their base is located in Europe actually- Holland. But they have subsidiaries in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, France and USA....
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G.Skill is one of manufacturers who is now very well known in Europe for it’s high-performance memory modules. And as you can see from the pictures G.skill as triple channel DDR3 memory modules for the latest Core i7 processors and Intel...
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Now it’s time for Gainward! What has surprised me the most about Gainward, is the fact that it was still included and shown as nVidia’s authorized supplier and partner (more about that later, when I get to nVidia). If you...
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As I’ve told before to make my CeBIT report, my promise I’m finally going to fulfill. I hope that a few late night hours will be enough for me to accomplish this. This year I told myself that I’ll try to...
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