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I have ~80 classroom PCs I have to go and update, plus client systems at customer sites that are going to need to update, and this change is big enough that I'm going to want to shepherd it to completion myself. So I'm going to have to make an updated ISO plus updated drive images now. The...

24H2 is now the default release of Windows 11 that is available for download. Wave a tearful goodbye to Wordpad and PSR.exe and say hello to dumbass new labels on the standard context click and also dumbass Window Recall. If you want to make Wordpad work again on Windows 11, just put the three...

ARM has unified memory built in to the SoC that's about four times faster than DDR sitting in a DIMM slot and that bandwidth can be directed to either CPU or GPU cores, since they're on the same physical component. Quad channel DDR can get to similar-ish levels of performance, but I don't think...

My top PCIe slot is set up as 4x4x4x4 for the dumb u.2 adapter. My GPU is in the middle on 16x and my IB NIC is using four lanes of a 16x slot and rather stupidly has to be on a extension because my GPU fans stick out a little too much. The bottom port is running off the chipset lanes rather...

LM, I have a full-fat file server and a tape changer on hand as well as Crashplan online backups. I think I'm OK with my backup situation. The two drives I have in RAID are where I stick work in progress and intermediate data. That's all stuff I can re-render if I really need to since I have...

There's a thread in the toolbox section with all the stuff I use.

It's interesting to me as a possible classroom project. I've walked people through assembling 3D printers from components and it doesn't seem like that much of a reach.

I have two 8TB drives in RAID 0 for video work. They could just as easily be in a JBOD but why not get throughput gains?

This is what I use right now. The drives I'm using, a mix of Crucial and Intel PCIe 3.0 models, don't get particularly hot.

Oldversion.com still has the last free version of Reflect of you don't wanna buy it.

Not yet. I actually got the NICs I have last time I was at Microcenter. The original idea was just to be able to direct connect the USB and the PCIe guy to speed up new setups on laptops.

I have 28TB of u.2 drives on a x16 card in my new workstation. The HBA cost a whole $50 and I think I spent $1300 total on those drives. The 8TB drives were new, not pulls, although nobody has them that cheap any longer. Micron, Samsung, Intel/Solidigm and WD have affordable high capacity PCIe...

I don't think 2.5 or 5GbE are formal standards at all, but in theory I think they're just derivatives of 10Gb anyway. I'm pretty sure the basic functionality could be added in drivers if there was real demand. Something weird I've observed with the Realtek 2.5Gb NIC is that SMB connections are...

M silicon usually lines up with xx60 nVidia hardware until you get into the workstation products and workloads where the unified memory makes having huge amounts of RAM worthwhile. It's... Whelming at best for configs with modest amounts of RAM and core counts.

nVidia doesn't have to play in that space. It is apparently working with Mediatek on a new consumer ARM SoC, but it doesn't currently make an x86 CPU and thus isn't part of the NPU game right now. Presumably, anyone with a recent RTX is already in the right ballpark anyway. Part of the deal...

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Just remember fb, you gotta license all those SQL Server instances. That's US$130,000 if you're running SQL Server Enterprise edition on 16 cores on-prem.

One of those could probably every Haswell-E I still have in service.

Arrow Lake is official and all that the leakers said over the last couple days ago seems to have held true: They're a little slower and a lot cooler. Doesn't look like mainstream desktop prices have been changed from last gen. The Ultra 9 285 is just under $600 and the two Ultra 5s are ~$300. It...

Open source full frame MILC camera. Use Sony E mount, which means it can probably adapt just about any other full frame mount as well. The body is mostly 3D printed, with a 10.5MP sensor and a $100 single board ARM computer and some open source code doing the lifting. I can't see where to...

I do enjoy some Coleman Hawkins and Dexter Gordon. My partner isn't so much interested in classical music, but we both like jazz, so that's been the sound of my home the last few years.

Leaked pricing suggests 5090 north of $2200, 5080 16GB $1300+ and 5070 12GB at $600 or $700. No big changes for relative rasterization performance (fill rates etc) but much better ray tracing capabilities. Per Moore's Law is dead. Usually we can expect the 80 series card to catch up to the...

A bunch of usual suspect Twitterers are saying that the Blackwell 5070 will be inflicted with 12GB GDDR7 over a 192 bit bus for an effective 15% gain in memory bandwidth and probably a much higher than $600 launch price. I'm sure you all can join me now in a bout of laughter out loud.

Neither of the server-class 10Gb NICs I have here will negotiate a 2.5GbE connection on Cat6a with this cheapo 2.5GbE switch I just got. But it did work with a $10 PCIe NIC with a Realtek chip on it and my Asus 2.5Gb USB dongle. I'm not surprised that Intel and Broadcom didn't bother to...

Zen 5 isn't bad as it is. It got slightly better performance on lower power draw. If you're coming from anything other than Zen 4, it's going to be substantially faster than what you have.

OK, the lower power demands are actually very substantial: The 2x0 7/9 SKUs are 125W / 250W max TDP and Ultra 5s will max out at 160W. So Intel is getting quite a bit of benefit from the die shrink, just not as a performance boost. Source is some leaked slides for the release press kit that's...

Dave, you are rocking a two year old flagship CPU and GPU. I realize cost is not a limiting factor for you but unless you suddenly need a fuck-ton of 40Gb+ Thunderbolt ports in the next 12 - 24 months, there's probably not a single damned thing you're likely to get out of a CPU upgrade or...

It is official. Lunar has won "Something random." Here's the problem: You guys are going to start seeing hurricanes as climate becomes increasingly temperate. Sandy hit NYC 10 years ago and yes that was an extreme outlier at the time, but given the number of 500 year extreme weather events...

I'll take the occasional hurricane over four months of black ice and snow that's pretty for 20 minutes in December until it mixes with the charming rust belt melange of industrial effluent and thereafter makes the entire world look like 50s TV. I'd prefer New Orleans to Florida though. Better...

Apparently Core Ultra 9 285k benchmarks show that it's functionally on par with the 9950X on typical benchmarks while using somewhat less power than the 14900k. This is important because the 14900k is faster for games than the 9950X. If that's what you care about for your next gen CPU, you'd...

There's a GenX person, but he's also kind of permanently addled from partying like it's 1999 well into the 2000s. And he's a pharmacist, so we're talking about a very specific definition of "addled." One of my friend's roommates has worked for four different programs in its state EPA and DNR...

Just found out my best friend isn't planning to leave her place in Tampa. Her housemates flew off to NYC or Atlanta without telling her their plans and left all their pets, apparently thinking that the other group was going to take them. She's resolved to keep the animals together as best she...

Some kid won NES Tetris.

From these guys: https://www.serversimply.com/blog/amd-and-nvidia-in-the-professional-sphere-a-comparative-analysis ... So yeah, AMD doesn't look so good compared to nVidia by any metric with its datacenter products.

AMD consolidated its product lines from mainstream/gamer and AI/datacenter to a unified architecture for next generation products. I don't think it's giving up on RX x900 so much as $300k GPU compute racks.

I'm actually kind of excited to have a 2.5Gb switch to mess with. I have some multi-gig twisted pair NICs sitting around and my new workstation has a 2.5Gb native port in it that's currently not doing anything. I'm not sure the server NICs I have will negotiate 2.5Gb or not, but 2.5GbE is very...

Amazon is doing "people don't spend enough money in October"-day and a couple things I see as interesting are Beelink mini-PCs. Beelink SER5 5800H 16GB/500GB mini PCs are an extremely reasonable $275 today. Beelink S12 Pros (N100, 16GB, 500GB) an even more reasonable $157. There are actually...

I think the specific area of AMD's concern is OpenCL vs CUDA and AI and datacenter workloads rather than whatever is going on with DirectX and gaming; AMD isn't seen as meaningful competition to nVidia; no one is. That's why nVidia is the whateverth-most-valuable company in the world right now...

Intel is making Iris Xe cores regardless, in part because AMD is already there with its APUs and in part because the market is pushing for AI capabilities. Neither AMD nor Intel need to worry all that much how their Add in Boards do because they both have solid markets from traditional OEMs and...

AMD has functionally already left "high end" since there's nothing that gets close to the 4090, but the 4080 and 7900 are competitive. I do think AMD gets a bad rap for general-purpose gaming GPUs. It's the basis for the Xbox and the PS5. Even if the Steam crowd aren't fans and they don't do...

That seems pretty sweet to me. If Handruin already has his CPU horsepower elsewhere, there's no reason to give that system any more than that Atom has and it's hard to argue with a 10GbE NIC, ECC RAM and drives at local speed. Are you just running the system over direct-attach or do you have...

FSF still has people working on the lost cause that is HURD, which last I heard finally got SATA and USB support in about in about 2015, so they're clearly not opposed to keeping relics of a bygone era around.

There's an i9-7900k workstation on my desk in my office. It has 64GB RAM and some kind of low-end Quadro GPU in it and that thing is by no means a low end PC, but it can't run Windows 11. I finally got tired of messing with having to specially prepare upgrade media for it and switched it to...

The most condescending asshats I've ever encountered in my life were two people who both represented themselves senior devs in the Debian project on a couple IRC channels I happened to be active on at probably the very beginning of 1995. I've never gotten over it. For all I know, those dipshits...

The biggest issue I have with Proxmox now that I've looked in to it to any degree at all is that it's Debian-based. I've got it up and running on a spare system but I feel dirty for doing it. The FSF people are dicks and they always have been.

These are the people of sarcasm, LM.

Google just got a smackdown in one of two pending antitrust cases in the USA today. It has been ordered to allow third parties to use its app store infrastructure and to cease the requirement for app developers to use its payment tech. This is a win for Epic, but I am curious to know if it means...

re: Chevettes. Growing up, my closest neighbor kept buying them. They were the epitome of white trash, Jerry Springer-guest types. Youngest daughter pregnant at 12. Younger son hasn't had more than 6 months out of state prison in 30 years. Great folks all around. Anyway, the guy who lived next...

I use Firefox Sync and my Chrome sign-in to keep bookmarks in common between devices. The only reason I need both is ChromeOS, which doesn't really like Firefox for Android very much for some reason. Once Firefox syncs to whatever device, I can usually import it to anything else I care to use...

I think a big reason why 10GbE hasn't entered consumer mainstream is that single ports of 10GbBaseT use crazy amounts of power, like 6 - 7W/port. I don't know if 5GbE has the same problem to the same degree or not. I am assuming that it does. 10Gb twisted pair also suffers terribly from...