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Have installed OSX Yosemite successfully using Clover 2953 as my bootloader (UEFI). Everything is working fine except my second monitor does not turn on. The monitor turns on fine when booting from the USB drive created by unibeast (chimera). Asus R9 270x 2GB Is there a trick to getting dual...

Wattage only indicates the maximum flow the PSU is capable of delivering. If your system only draws 100 watts, either a 650 or 750 will only use 100 watts. The biggest difference is in how efficiently a power supply will produce that 100 watts of power. That's where the 80 Plus rating comes in...

I have a Topping TP30. I really like it. http://www.amazon.com/Topping-TP30-Digital-Amplifier-USB-DAC/dp/B005D7SKWK Works as a headphone amp and can drive two speakers.

Huge increase for me. And they haven't even optimized for the 270x yet. GA-Z77-DS3H rev 1.1 + i5-3570k + AMD R9 270x + 16GB RAM MANTLE: Follow/Max Test Duration: 360 Seconds Total Frames: 16293 Average FPS: 45.26 Average Unit Count: 4312 Maximum Unit...

I hate fan noise too. But what I really hate are components with high pitched whines (e.g. hard drives, noisy PSUs, tiny high RPM fans). Lower frequency hums are far less distracting in a work environment. At least for me. I've never used one of the Noctua coolers, but I've read some great...

Passive cooling is great in concept, but doesn't necessarily work very well. You still need consistent air flow to effectively move heat from the components. You'd have to check with the manufacturer, but that GPU is probably intended to go into an actively cooled case. Add the rising heat from...

It would work, but nobody can guarantee you won't have any problems. There are always unforeseen problems having to do with possibly corrupt installers, differences in bios revisions, differences in hardware revisions... I would recommend getting a larger PSU. 300 Watts may work, but it won't...

Thanks for the advice. The details about the file system type are especially helpful. I didn't think of that.

I've been building computers for decades, but one peripheral I've never really had an opportunity to use is a NAS box. I'm interested in getting a 4 or 5 bay box and looking for advice. The big players seem to be Netgear, QNAP, Drobo and Synology. I'd be using AFP shares and Time Machine. I'm...

I think either option would "feel" faster than your current setup. Its one of those things...speed is relative. If you don't know what you're missing, you probably won't miss it. The general feeling either route will probably be one of "wow, this is faster." If you want my advice, as a grad...

My Magic Tracpad only lags when it is not getting a strong enough signal. I think it needs to be fairly close to the transceiver. Will probably depend on the battery strength in the trackpad and location and transmit power of the bluetooth device you use. I have an Apple USB keyboard too and...

I think you need to decide how important the portability factors are in your computer needs. Maybe a netbook or maybe even a chromebook will suffice for your portability needs, but only you can determine that.

For a server...I'm presuming you are going to leave it on 24/7. I'd consider an 80 Plug GOLD or PLATINUM efficiency power supply.

Use a site like PCPartsPicker or a Power Supply Calculator to estimate your power needs. Once you figure out how many Watts you need, you may want to add about 100 watts for overhead. More if you plan on adding big graphics cards or several hard drives later. Also, all power supplies lose...

Mini ITX is great for small, but not necessarily for quiet. Everything is right near the vents. If you go with the stock cooler, that will certainly be the noisiest thing in your case. I wouldn't want to use one for an HTPC. Typically some of the bigger 120mm+fan heatsinks are ideal for quiet...

Everything looks fine. Only note is the B-series of motherboard chipsets is intended for Business users. Will give you fewer SATA3 ports and fewer USB 3.0 ports as well. For maybe $20 more you can get the GA-H87-D3H which has 6 SATA3 ports inside (vs 4) and 4 USB 3.0 ports on the back (vs 2)...

Sleep/wake is working fine for me. Not sure why it isn't working for you. I'll post benchmarks eventually, but I had an issue with HDMI audio on my IvyBridge board. So I've swapped my IVB and Haswell boards between my two computer temporarily. At least until I can get an optical out header for...

For the power supply, what you have right now is estimated on pcpartspicker @ about 330 watts. So you could downgrade to a Corsair CX430, tho you said you are adding more hard drives later. So I'd go with the CX500. That will give you good overhead and compensation for when the PSU starts to age...

Final Cut 7 will work with just about any ATI or NVIDIA card. Keep in mind, you won't get the modern benefits of newer graphics cards like OpenCL in FCP7 and being 32-bit, you won't utilize more than ~3GB of memory.

That is a great deal! I may have to pick one of those up myself =). I should clarify my power supply rant. Its not really like getting a 180 watt power supply. Both rails do supply amperage, but amps tend to get locked up on one rail or another, so you never achieve maximum wattage. For...