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Reading your post inspired me to go see what the price here has done. It went up in the middle of this year. And it seems they learned from the cable TV industry years ago. I only want Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator, but the cheapest way of getting that is paying for everything.

Awesome. Good integrated graphics was what excited me most about Intel doing the GPU thing.

The reviews were actually quite good, and it seems the drivers are making considerable progress. If I were shopping for cards in that price range it would be a strong contender.

If fan speed is spiking that quickly, it needs to be firmware or software driven, no thermocouple would register in time.

Do you think it is spinning up the fans as a result of actual temp increase, or preventatively based on load and some built-in table? If the former, it might be easiest to just add some thermal mass to hold off the ramp? If the latter I'd experiment with just disconnecting the fan and see if it...

Thanks for that Merc, but I'm specifically looking for something that doesn't have any of that. No internet capabilities, no downloading or network connectivity. I don't want to have to monitor or police it at all. I'll just transcode her content to MP3, copy them to the local storage of her...

My daughter has limits on screen time, and she hasn't demonstrated enough control to regulate it on her own. She's young enough that this isn't surprising, and I've deployed a number of automated systems to help her by preventing the machines from working outside the prescribed times. However...

I'm leaning towards that terramaster box I linked on the previous page of this thread. Good IO for this kind of thing.

Agreed, I don't think I'll be buying an Intel product soon, nor do I see a valid case for them in the datacenter space compared to the new AMD chips. I will be keeping my stock for a bit longer though ;)

Yup, I think it would be a good fit for me as well. TrueNAS is open enough that I'm not worried about my data being trapped, and I don't need any complex configuration. Just the easiest default settings would be great.

Yup, long gone are the days of that kind of free performance. As the engineering becomes more science and less art, all the margins are squeezed out. Same with lots of things, bridges come to mind.

That isn't too far from my thoughts on things, Merc. It is one of the reasons I decided to locate the highest ground on the planet and stay there. Probably isn't enough, and it came at considerable cost, but we all do what we can I suppose.

With the way the climate is going, I feel that discouraging people from living in Florida is a good thing? The wealthy that just pay to rebuild their house every storm is one thing, but it seems fundamentally unsustainable for everyone else. Not as obvious as your house being consumed by lava...

It will become way more common and effective once the AI tools become capable enough to run it without humans. My online friends are always curious why I want to meet in person at least once early in the relationship. Even if everyone is human, you're far less likely to turn on someone whom...

The Danish alphabet is additive to English. They have all the usual letters in the usual places, but have additional keys to do the extra things. They shrunk the left shift key and the enter key, and some of the characters are using the "alt" button (to the right of the space bar) to access. As...

My options are more restricted now that I need a "Nordic" keyboard. The Å Æ Ø is real. I'm happy enough with a Das Keyboard 6 Professional, but I am on the lookout for something wireless with hall effect switches.

Also, if your room has any echo at all, get a mic that you can put closer to your mouth. If you don't want to wear a headset or bother with a lav mic, get something like this https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/streaming-gear/yeti-premium-usb-microphone.html

I do use a Canon R8 with a 100/2 (mounted 6' away) and 4k capture card for my webcam, along with a Sennheiser MKE 600 shotgun mic wired to a MOTU M4 interface. If you aren't doing deals and making good money on video calls, you should not do this. Considering how generic the hardware/software...

I do like eating the local cuisine when I travel. Danish traditional foods are called "Gammel Dansk mal", literally translated to "Old Danish food". The traditional foods are called "old" because they aren't eaten regularly by normal Danes. Both because they aren't healthy and are inconvenient...

Starlink is probably more expensive, depending on your other options, but it is in the same ballpark. Old-school satellite and cell phone-based systems are bankruptcy inducing if used normally. I doubt any of the major internet infrastructure would survive EMP situations very well, but I'd bet...

I miss the Mexican food in California, though I think the Chinese here is a bit better. I could do with my pizza being a little less middle-eastern (all the pizza shops in town are operated by refugees from the 80s). And a good curry place would be appreciated.

Starlink is great, not comparable to other satellite internet at all. The much lower orbit and hardware from this century helps a lot. I've run it on RVs, boats, and houses in remote locations. I haven't installed it on an aircraft yet. One place I haven't installed it is any place fiber or...

Yup, when I tell people here about the basic cost of living in the US (healthcare, daycare/school) they simply can't believe it. We were able to cut our cost of living massively while increasing the quality.

Back in the early part of this century I was spending about $2k/year on computers and accessories (at the time about 15% of my take home income, and 90% of my discretionary spending). By about 2005 my income grew enough that it became unreasonable to keep that ratio (also *cough* married...

I bought a pair of 2080s right at launch, and one of them is still going in my daughter's PC. The other died about 3 years ago. Great cards.

I set up a server for Satisfactory, and got several friends to log into it, but they are Rust players, and may have only logged in once. I basically solo'd it. I think I'll just play local for Factorio.

Now that I've completed Satisfactory 1.0, I'm looking forward to Factorio Space Age in a week or so.

I honestly consider any appliance to be 2nd tier already. I'm overly sensitive to being trapped in an EoL product line or not being able to scale the solution as I like. The ideal for me is always industry-standard hardware running an actively supported open-source OS (Windows is also...

This box has 4x SATA, 2x M.2, 2x 10GbE, an i5 CPU, and supports almost 100GB of RAM. If I use it as my home server and NAS it might actually make sense.

I was, but: 1. It doesn't look like Intel or AMD next gen are going to offer me any performance at all. I'd be happy with 20%, maybe even with 10%, but it looks like my overclocked 2 year old machine is within single digits of performance for what I do. 2. If I am dropping $5k on building a...

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately my current motherboard doesn't support the bifurcation needed while keeping my GPU and OS M.2 properly fed.

The prices here are actually steering me towards the 16TB drives. Only fractionally higher cost per TB.

I don't mind pulls and spares, I will check out U.2. Any preferred controller? I'll need to insist on one without a fan on it if that is a thing.

Got a request from the mother-in-law that led to me powering up the old Synology box to retrieve some home movies. It is a DS1812+ with 8x4TB drives in it in RAID-5. The fans in the unit are sounding rough and it took 2 tries and an OS reinstall to get it to boot. It is very old (10+ years?) and...

No video support, but good to see this sector being opened up a bit.

Anyone else want to build an HEDT with the EPYC 9575F? Sure it is a $12k chip that draws 400W just on it's own, but.... 64 cores clocking to 5Ghz 12 Channels of DDR5-6400 supporting ECC 256MB L3 Cache All the connectivity you'd ever want Outside my personal price range, but I will be looking...

My instinct is that it'll be around 15% in general, but your use case is unusual enough that I wouldn't be surprised if it was significantly different based on architecture changes. The memory speeds might really help you.

Best performance / power ratio will probably be though what I'm doing; getting the fastest card and then turning down the power consumption. What benchmark would you like to see and I'll run it?

The climate in Denmark now is actually quite similar to the climate in Central California when I was growing up. It is shockingly pleasant. Until the Gulf Stream stops at least. I'm only 5 meters from the fjord, but the building is 10 meters above it. The building codes are doing a pretty good...

I'm hoping it will be, otherwise I'll just keep sitting on my 13900kf until it fails.

Not having power is annoying, not having drinkable water can be a problem. Living in a place that has demonstrated an inability to deal with common occurrences is....to be avoided.

There have been some cool documentaries on the progress in Tetris. I remember watching one for an hour. Fascinating and well produced. I haven't touched it since the NES was the newest console out.

The story I read about AMD leaving the high end quoted AMD execs as saying they needed more mid-range market share to get developers to give their architecture more attention, without which they couldn't be as competitive or reliable as nVidia. If AMD has this problem, Intel is really in trouble.

Low power, should keep up with 8x Ultrastar in RAID0 ;) And PCIe 3x4 is good for.....100GBps?

A ways up this thread we discussed memory compatibility, and the impact of even unpopulated memory slots on reliability and performance. This is a fun dive into more of that are interested in the geekier electrical engineering bits.

I hadn't looked before, but a mid-range BYD Seal Excellence (their small-midsized car) is $85k here. More than a Tesla Model 3.

The HEDT type boards, and the blingy ones can have them, here is one I was considering for my current build. https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z690%20AQUA%20OC/Specification.asp#Specification

Here in Denmark the culture is very much about finding value and showing off is frowned upon. Here if you buy the "Turbo" Porsche or the "AMG" Mercedes, you remove those badges so you aren't bragging. In the US they glue them onto the cheap cars to show off. Even clothing with brands on them are...

I also heard that AMD will be leaving the top-end of the market, so nVidia will have no competition at all. Does not bode well for GPU prices in that range. Hmm....could I sell the 4090 and just hold my breath long enough to get the 5090. No doubt the 4090 price will tank once the new cards are...

I've also read that the onboard graphics from any of the big three are already better than $100 GPUs, so again the only point would be do get the codec support with as low a power draw as possible.