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I also think that 2.5 is a bit of a hack, with 5 even more so. I suspect most installs will go from 1 to 10 directly. Considering how much 10Gb gear is already out there, and how easy it is to work with, I'm surprised there is this much effort of half-steps.

This sounds vaguely like something I had years ago. IIRC, I followed instructions online to remove and reinstall the TCP/IP stack (more than just the NIC).

Proxmox was a very easy thing to figure out if you're already familiar with ESXi. If I were to ditch the Ubiquiti setup it would be for OPNSense and TailScale, but at the moment I can't be bothered. Maybe when I have enough WiFi 7 stuff that I feel compelled to upgrade. What are people's...

I have a MinisForum U820 with upgraded SSD (4TB Samsung) and RAM (32GB) running Proxmox with my Home Assistant and Minecraft servers, a SAMBA share as my local backup target, along with my Linux sandbox that I should be spending more time learning in. The only other machine in my mechanical...

How do you know it didn't help? ;) Honestly, we're having our 18th anniversary in a couple weeks, so seems ok?

Civ V has 5,000+ hours, Rust is 2,000+, Satisfactory, Cities Skylines and Kerbal Space Program are in the 1,000+. Eve Online is 10,000+, but I was logged in with 4 accounts at a time so it counts 4x. Anything with more than 300 hours for me is a game I enjoy. Generally things with 100-300 are...

I love Stellaris, though I only have about 600 hours on it. Just like with Civilization, the one city/planet/smol thing is my jam.

I don't need full stability, I probably wouldn't even notice one crash a week. But my understanding with the X670E is that you have basically no chance of high speeds, particularly at higher capacities, even with only 2 DIMMs. This doesn't seem fun to me. And I do like performance from a purely...

I made it part of the way through X-Com 2, but like Merc, I get attached. I would actually prefer to start over rather than go on after someone on my team died. My Satisfactory 1.0 server has logged 180 hours since it launched 20 days ago? My OCD loves this game.

In the storage capacity per weight/volume, buying more memory cards and leaving everything on them until you get home would probably win?

For me the only reason is the memory stability, otherwise I don't think it matters much. If you want more in the way of slots and storage, is Threadripper being developed at all anymore? The increased capacity, performance, and reliability of modern drives means my my storage needs are no...

Worse than just two PCIe slots, they can't both be 16x 5.0 at the same time. But for me the thing I'm worried about going AMD is the memory compatibility issues, and this seems to be the best option there. 2x 48GB at 8800 would be great. Storage is either local and fast or remote and slow. For...

This motherboard looks like a candidate for my next build. The additional RAM compatibility (still far from perfect) is most welcome.

I suspect most of the mass is heat sink. There were lighter ones with small fans inside, but the noise would drive me more crazy than the weight. If I were really worried about it, I'd probably bring only two enclosures (for redundancy) and swap additional bare M.2 drives between them.

I also don't trust the pre-builts. In addition to wanting a trusted brand drive in the enclosure, I want to be able to easily pull the drive as I suspect the enclosure itself is considerably less reliable than the drive. And since the drive can be pulled, and the drive is of known quality, I...

For that kind of thing I put M.2 drives in USB enclosures. Minimal setup and teardown, keeping the drives out of the machine helps with the thermals, and the speeds can be really good depending on the USB spec.

I still use VLC, but I haven't been keeping up.

My understanding of the issues caused by motherboards with 4 DIMM slots (whether populated or not) relates to the length of traces required, and reflections in the longer trace leading to interference due to the travel time approaching the signalling time. But capacitance would also be a thing.

So long as the motherboard has 2.5GbE+ onboard I only need a GPU.

I remember hearing somewhere that the speed compatibility issues are worse not only if you have 4 sticks of RAM, but if the motherboard even supports 4 sticks of RAM. I'll be considering an ITX board for my next system specifically for this.

There are lots of cheap USB-C to headphone jacks. Expensive ones too, if you want better sound quality.

Lots? Certainly hundreds when all on, but reasonable use is with a couple off and the rest in the 15-25% range.

Makes sense. The only indoor environment I shoot in is my office, and I just covered the walls and ceiling with Nanoleaf smart panels that are individually addressable. I've created some scenes that I use regularly and assigned them in Smarthome to buttons on my desk. If I turn them all 100%...

I'm not in the business, but I'd have thought that with the advent of powerful, efficient, LED lights, that strobes would be phased out? I certainly prefer having all the appropriate lights on while composing the shot.

I'm agreeing with Merc on this one, probably best to roll your own. Without the 2.5GbE requirement you just want a Rasbery Pi with a SATA SSD hanging off it.

I only have since 2005 (when I started with GMail) and it is 48GB. But I haven't bothered to go through and remove large attachments from old messages or any other low-hanging fruit to manage that.

I agree it is incredibly likely to be an MS issue, and I hope they manage to sort it out. But as I'm not on either engineering team, and running on Linux isn't really an option for my games (yet, it is getting so close), finding an optimal solution in Windows is the goal.

The whole core-parking thing does have me thinking about whatever the top end of their single chiplet design ends up being, or manually disabling all the cores in one chiplet in BIOS until I have some hard compute to do.

For me everything local is <100TB. And my NAS is off most of the time, as it is only a backup target or rarely needed stuff. There is no redundancy on my local machine, the NAS is RAID-5, and stuff I really care about is on both Google Drive and AWS. I haven't had an SSD fail in at least 5...

One of the great things about giant fast single drives is the simplicity. I don't need to worry about different arrays for different purposes anymore. I have one drive with the OS, apps, data, and everything else on it. That is then backed up to my NAS, and important stuff is further backed up...

Ooh....I wonder if it is bootable in Win11 ;)

At the company Santilli visited I did play with a lot of the rugged laptops, but we decided to skip them entirely in favor of the cheapest $350 Dell laptops. No matter how rugged, they are just as likely to get lost and more likely to get stolen. Better for our uses to have a cabinet full of...

Sorry to hear it man, and work piling up while you're out just sucks.

I normally experiment with overclocking in the first weeks of building a new computer. Just to see what kind of headroom it has. Not all samples are created equal, and in the past I've had chips that could handle on OC without any voltage increase, or handle stock speeds at a lower voltage. But...

I hope not? I didn't want it to be damaged further, so I updated preventatively. I now have it fairly stable, but only after disabling all but 4 of the e-cores and hyperthreading. Performance is still fine for all the things I do, but mentally my off-ramp is the 9950X3D whenever that is available.

Yup, kicking myself for going ASUS in the first place. Just as we were talking about Noctua in the fans space, there are companies that charge a premium for the luxury of not worrying about it (Seasonic for power supplies, for example). Some part of my brain still puts ASUS in that camp, though...

True, but the motherboard BIOS is the delivery vehicle for the CPU microcode. Reportedly Intel released the "fixed" microcode called "0x129" to motherboard manufacturers a while ago, and beta BIOSes with the change are now becoming available. While eventually I think a BIOS with the new...

They did extend the warranty to 5 years, so that is good?

Asus released a beta BIOS for my board that included the 0x129 microcode update that theoretically stops my chip from cooking itself. After installation and resetting to factory defaults system was far from stable. After disabling all but 4 of the efficiency cores (part of my old spec) it seems...

Yup, when I lived in Salinas it was Monterey -> SFO before anything else, easily added hundreds before the start. Now a $60 train ride gets me to CPH, and things are easy from there.

Chicago to Copenhagen is $400 in October with a layover in Iceland.

Or just a paper launch if their OEM customers demanded all their capacity, or if they didn't see enough demand to warrant starting production.

AMD is lucky that no one who pays attention is buying an Intel chip right now.

For those worried about the write endurance of their SSDs, this might be enlightening. Sounds like for most people it is unwarranted. I do like data from larger sample sizes, it is still a rare thing.

Reviews for the 9700X and 9600X are out. Seems that for games the last gen "X3D" chips are still winners both in terms of performance and power consumption. Looking forward to the 9950X3D when that comes out. Also seems there is quite a bit of room in these chips for overclocking and playing...

Honestly at least some of that pricing difference could be a change in response to Intel screwing up so badly. There is less competition than anticipated even 6 weeks ago.

I'm hoping some competition will bring the prices down more quickly. I'd be happy with 80% of the performance for half the price.

Sorry to hear it Handruin. I'm at 4 times, and haven't had a sense of taste since the first time in Feb of 2020.

There's also some cost savings from keeping your lab in one chassis. Not needing physical high-speed networking or SAN/NAS.

I only set the fan to be always on when it is a primary case fan as well. If the PSU fan is only really responsible for keeping itself cool, just leave it in hybrid mode.