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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.

Boeing changed leadership (and ethics) a while ago, and can't seem to get out of their own way since. A very insightful look into the situation:

I'm getting Boeing vibes from the current Intel situation, so I'll be steering clear for the next few years I think. And selling off my shares in the company over the next bit.

I didn't run performance benchmarks, but I did the BIOS update this morning and the FPS in my games is unchanged. Not saying that there isn't a performance loss, or that it couldn't be measured, but at least it isn't crippling the system.

I wonder if they did it because their stock dropped 26% yesterday, or their stock dropped 26% yesterday because they did it.

Not Ryzen, but close enough? Probably no one here needs one of these, but I can imagine a few who would want it.

I used to have a bunch of servers running like that. They seemed to fail most during a restart or backup routine. Eventually migrated them all to VMs. If they were the only server I migrated them to a VM on one of the desktops. Much easier to backup a VM than bare metal.

I think the oldest piece of gear that I have running here is from the launch of the 2080, so 5 years ago. Older stuff is still running elsewhere, but was gifted and no longer monitored or managed by me.

That changes over time. My first couple computers were built from parts scavenged from the dumpster behind CompUSA. Same with my whole first lab where I learned all the things that got me work. It wasn't until years and several job changes later that I could get a good computer (at the time good...

In my last build I had to buy everything, as I came to DK with a suitcase. The build was just a bit under $10k. I did order a bulk pack of Noctuas since I was building 3 PCs, but they were still more than in the US thanks to VAT.

There have been loads of fan reviews and comparisons over the years, most say that the Noctua performs 0-15% better while being 10-20% quieter for double the money. If you're price sensitive this is a bad deal, but if your rig cost >$2k it makes sense to not screw around with cooling.

I can, but I'd rather not spend money to get the same thing. I'd prefer to spend money and get something better.

The overvoltage can be fixed with microcode, but they've really been trying to undersell the part they can't fix. Oxidation inside the vias of the chips. This can cause premature chip death to some percentage of the chips, and explains why Intel has been readily replacing chips with their large...

Yup. Whenever I make recommendations, it is for HSFs (Specifically the Noctua D-15 if there is budget for it), but I guess I like suffering, as I always go either AIO or full custom water for myself.