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Yes. That's a Jmicron Bridge chip, but it'll work.

You can also find 5xSATA to M-key m.2 if you don't particularly need nvme for anything.

Maybe we can get Scythe to make a finned aluminum means of egress. Stick a couple box fans on both sides to pull air out and a water block at the bottom? :)

nVidia seems intent on adding $200 to the price of every GPU at this point. I'm really looking forward to the $325 4050 they're going to inflict on us once enough 4060s have hit retail. 225W is just a touch more than a 3060ti or a 2080 and seems reasonable for that desirable level of performance.

This is dumb but I think I like it: An A+E (m.2 wifi) key dual SATA bridge board. Got a desktop board with a useless wifi connector on it? Now you have another place to stick some drives!

It's sounding like the 4060Ti is going to be a $500 8GB card with roughly 3070 (no Ti) performance and a 160W TDP. The Arc A770 16GB @225W for $300ish and 3060 - 3060Ti performance doesn't seem THAT crazy right now for midrange gamers, especially since it's not easy to pick up a new 3060TI any...

I live on the third story of a building that, because of the area, has a rather large number of security cameras. I have one of my own out there, mostly to keep an eye on parking spaces for my roommates. My PC would be in some sort of enclosure that would look like it belongs outside, in a place...

Back on topic, I'm not a huge fan of watercooling. I understand that it can make components cooler and that's OK. But in my experience it's almost never worth the effort; parts are usually rated for temperatures well higher than they reach on air cooling, and most importantly, I've never...

I don't mind anything up to about 100F. It's fine. Just something to get used to. My office is hot. My home is hot and my bedroom is hottest of all. I've had plenty of time to learn to deal with it.

The -T variants of whatever Intel chip usually give about 90% of the performance for a fraction of the TDP. I used to use i5 Ts for HTPCs. DD would have to give up a little frequency peak and a lower idle but there's a lot of return on it. As far as moving air out, a big slow fan is just what...

There's a switch in mentality toward wanting to take the photos that create personal personal satisfaction and the commitment to having something on hand to take those photos vs. using the object of convenience. So many people are just going to take that path of least resistance. I have a...

Wireless lavs when possible and getting a little boom to keep the mic away from whatever noises your lens is making go a long way to fixing that.

I have an 1100W Threadripper for a desktop and no AC. Wear less clothes and keep hydrated. Just to be slightly more reasonable about it, the heat is still present. You can keep your parts cool with a water loop and radiator, but the either way, you're still radiating that heat somewhere, and in...

My mental health is much, much better when someone is around, so I choose to let people live with me. This isn't difficult. I have more space than I need and I don't need help keeping bills paid, so there are usually one or two others who are to some degree staying with me. My place stays...

I don't think Cooler Master cases are appropriate for people who like mechanical disk drives. Most of those N400/N600 chassis will only have two or four places they can mount a 3.5" drive, plus 2 - 3 places to hang a 2.5" drive on the back side of the case. They're fantastic as general purpose...

re: Travel. I'm really big on just heading out to O'Hare on a Wednesday (cheap flight day) afternoon and using my phone to find either a cheap flight on Spirit/Frontier or standby on a major carrier; I have friends in Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta and Tampa, so transit is less an issue in those...

Canon's C-series RF bodies do the same thing with video. It's also true for Sony's video-specific cameras and even GoPros. It's all 10 bit 422. This is standard for everything less than studio-grade cinema cameras like Arri, where 12-bit 444 is the standard. The problem is that GPU manufacturers...

Holy shit dd is here. When did that happen? LM, did you take a look at the Cooler Master NR600P? It has hotswap bays as part of its default config.

In other mildly Ryzen-related topics, I just bought a dozen Ryzen 2400Gs for $30/each. I was just planning to buy a few to cover the B350 and B450 boards I have spare, but a 2400G is a pretty respectable client PC. Considering that it's still possible to find AM4 Athlon CPUs that cost more than...

I got used to not having AC a long time ago.

I don't have usable AC anyway. Were I by myself, my wintertime thermostat would probably be set as low as possible, but that doesn't work for my roommates. I am RIGHT on the tip of Lake Michigan, and when the lake is cold, everything here is cold. My file server takes 5 - 10 minutes to become...

I view leaving my PCs on as a built in cost of owning them. I suspect the three PCs that stay on are probably 40% of my power bill, but in my case that is A LOT of computer.

I took my cat Sugar to the vet this morning. I thought I was going to have a wart removed. The vet looked at her, told me she needed an X-ray and more or less came back to tell me she had every kind of cancer. The last of my cats is the anxious three-year-old. He's been looking and calling...

Wait. You guys don't just leave your PCs on all the time?

If you don't care about video acceleration at all, the RDNA2 cores on 7000 series hardware are plenty; RDNA2 supports decoding both h.265 and AV1, so it's good for the foreseeable future.

New Year's day in the US is the day every store starts putting out Valentine's day stuff.

AMD soft-launched some power-limited and less expensive 7000-series Ryzen CPUs this week. They run at most more reasonable TDPs, under 100W, and can still be manually tweaked with increased power to get similar levels of performance. A 12c/24t 65W CPU looks pretty sweet to me.

You might want to check WD's diagnostic software to see what's up with it. It's not impossible that Device Manager could see it as a generic drive or drive name, if the driver or firmware ID matches something else it knows about.

I use PCIe cards to add support for extra addressable nvme drives. I just dedicate them to different I/O tasks with the idea of spreading out disk writes to improve drive longevity. I do have a 4TB RAID0 of nvme drives but that's honestly just to get a single large volume rather than any...

Youtube definitely wants to put some of those channels in front me me, no matter how many times I tell it "Not Interested."

I don't see anything for Gigabyte X670 motherboards that is from Gigabyte itself, but Crucial lists the modules it has qualified itself.

Goddammitsomuch. nVidia is also dropping support for Gameslink. One of the nifty things you can do with an nVidia Shield set top box is stream any supported game from a PC already in your home. Importantly, that meant that it worked with games acquired from GoG or Epic or good old-fashioned...

He's talking about Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips, a PC Gaming focused Youtube channel that seems to perpetually have infinite money and a staff that includes full on machinists and engineers and workshops dedicated to their craft. ddrueding was a big fan as well. I have watched his...

Only 16 more shopping days until Tet! My social circle includes someone who celebrates Tet AND someone who celebrates Diwali AND All Souls Day (Mexican day of the dead) for reasons related to her ancestry and she is the same person. Which I think is really damned cool.

Every single thing in my chassis is pretty hot and nvme drives are among the hotter elements on a motherboard anyway. I suspect you're going to have to do some amount of trial and error to figure out what works best. Last time I was running a video encoding session, I think my on-board drives...

Canon, Sony and Panasonic all use 422 Luminance and Chrominance in their video raw and standard output formats in their mirrorless cameras. It's not a resolution issue but a color space issue Keeping 422 rather than switching to 420 means that I'm better able to do color grading, which is...

The most recent update I got for my Galaxy S20 finally gave me back a control to set which audio device plays notifications. I had that control up to Android 8 or 9, then lost the ability afterward. Samsung put it back in Android 13. I'd been simulating it with increasingly complicated Tasker...

Happy New Year, also.

No hair is at least a valid option. My older brother started losing his hair by the time he was 30. These days, he does the clearly-unfortunate combover where he keeps hair from one side of his head far longer than the other. That's the look I can only pity.

Native encoding and decoding of video has become the driver of my upgrade choices. Particularly in knowing that "none of the above" is the strongest contender. There are a couple Quadro RTX cards with support for h.265 422, but they also cost as much as a small car.

Canon Log or h.265 output is 10-bit 422. There are no plans from any GPU manufacturer to offer support for that particular level of chroma sampling, although 10-bit 444 and 420 ARE supported on all the newest GPUs. Intel iGPUs (but not Ark), high end Snapdragon and Apple M hardware DO have 422...

Apparently the Compute/$ ratio on the 4070s is at least in the realm of sanity, but I still don't see myself getting an $800 video card that has no idea what to do with the native video output from my cameras.

A lifetime of not being in the sun definitely helps as far as wrinkles, as does abstaining from smoking or drink. I just turned 47 myself and given my choice of unnatural hair colors and my social circle, I'm usually mistaken for someone in my early 30s. The matter of my hair is partly a case...

The fastest Arc is somewhere around an RTX3060 or 3060Ti in terms of benchmarks. It's also a little bit cheaper.

I've tried several but I've passed the ones I don't like as well on to builds for other people. I know for sure I have a couple Be Quiet units in my chassis right now.

Apparently, if you're doing video encoding work and you have an Intel CPU with graphics and one or more Arc GPUs, Intel's architecture allows all of the above to be used at the same time. Arc GPUs have apparently had some pretty serious driver improvements since launch. I believe they still...

There are heat sink shells you can put around your m.2 drives. Sabrent makes heat sinks that include copper heat pipes. They aren't cheap but they really do help.

My father has Platinum membership. I'm not sure exactly how. It's been years since he's been on regular flights, but he may just have THAT many frequent flyer miles or a credit card that that keeps him up there. Sometimes I can convince him to book a flight on my behalf and I reap the benefit...

I want to say that 6TB is no weirder than any other amount but also that 6TB seems like an insane amount of work in progress. But then, so does 4TB. On the other hand, I have a few video projects that have over 100GB worth of associated files and I could see that backlog stacking up pretty...

Every so often, my father will share his Delta Platinum whatever lounge access and free miles with me, which has been great when sub-optimal public transit schedules have kept me at O'Hare longer than I'd like, but in general the thing I want to say is that Spirit has been solid in every way I...