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The GPU cooler itself is likely fairly optimal, but the backplate would probably benefit from more thermal mass and larger surface area (at least that has been the case with previous GPUs). If you are willing to compromise the slot above it provides an effective secondary route for heat...

Bah, I'd fix them, but you can at least see what I was looking at. I wanted a newer Lian-Li chassis, featured in the video below. The 950Pro will certainly get heatsinks, and possibly the 1080 as well. https://youtu.be/CQXIyvsWTNA There is a NAS, no significant local storage is necessary. 512GB...

I always just considered Lightroom "easy mode" and Photoshop "expert mode". It makes sense in that way.

You don't need a disk, just download the program called Rufus, it will take the ISO and make a bootable USB out of it. https://rufus.akeo.ie/

Once microtransaction systems become ubiquitous, there is a plausible solution to this and SPAM. No message or call is delivered without a small payment. The payment goes to the recipient. If you send and receive about the same number of messages and calls, you break even. If you try to contact...

It is just an absurd gaming box. Additional cores beyond 4 is nearly useless. Max clock (and IPC) is key. Only PCIe device will be the single GPU. I've never seen a game successfully eat even 32GB of RAM, much less 64. Expandability is not relevant. This system will be replaced entirely when...

Got my first order for a 1080 build. Current thoughts ($3000+): ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition GTX1080-8G 8GB GDDR5X PCI Express 3.0 Intel Boxed Core i7-6850K Processor (15M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz) FC-LGA14A 3.6 6 BX80671I76850K Corsair Dominator Platinum...

Indeed. Those kinds of scams are awful. From personal experience, I can attest that the IRS first sends a letter to your employer to withhold your pay. This is how I first found out, anyway.

Sometimes?

Even two is enough to setup RAID-1 (mirroring), 3 is enough for RAID-5 (parity) and 4 is enough for RAID-6 (double parity).

Indeed. It isn't tricky, particularly if you have a reasonable budget and are buying new hardware specifically for this task.

It seems that I've had this position long enough that lots of sales peoples CRM databases must know that I am in charge of evaluating and purchasing IT stuff for my company. The receptionist is great at routing all these calls to my desk voicemail that I never answer (currently 98 new...

Flash is tricky enough that I avoid it whenever possible. I prefer LED panel lights attached to Magnetic Gpods. The lights stay on so you can better understand where and how much light you need.

That is a tricky one. All other things being equal, what you are looking for is a sensor with less noise at higher ISO. There isn't a good metric for this, just have to read the reviews. The other thing that allows better low-light pictures is to open the aperture, but as we discussed this...

I'm typically 5-10' away. My wife doesn't complain about feature distortion so long as I stay above 18-20mm. A smaller f-number means that the aperture is larger. This lets in more light, but narrows the depth of field. Putting the camera in Av mode (this lets you set the aperture and the...

I end up shooting from much closer, and my wife likes full-height photos. I use the 24/1.4L.

I cleaned a sensor once a long time ago with success, but haven't in years. Now that kid pictures are the norm, I don't change lenses often.

I actually had a spare mixing board. Problem identified-ish. Swapping the Onkyo receiver with a spare resolved the problem. This is hard to explain, as other inputs to the receiver played fine, and swapping the mixer to a different input didn't resolve the issue. I'll be picking up the old one...

Yup. Thanks for joining. Multiple batteries for everything.

Jaybird does seem to have the best rep out there for this kind of thing. Good review of their latest here: https://youtu.be/GiNSOLpC1-Y I have a pair of AfterShokz Bluez 2S that I use in nasty conditions. The audio quality is poor, the maximum listening volume is low, and they feel cheap...

Swap one of the chips with one running some code, wire the chip to the contacts. Install memory modules at doors that can interrogate the chip for some kind of crazy authentication. Or just find a way to use some of the traces on the DIMM to act as the RFID antenna...

Sorry, something I forgot to mention. This system worked for nearly a year before it failed in this way. It is, however, operated by randoms of unknown technical expertise.

The Behringer Xenyx 802 mixer board is serving as pre-amp. The mic receiver has a battery and doesn't require phantom power. The "Main Out" from the mixer is connecting via RCA to the Onkyo as "CD in".

I've tried with two separate, identical mics (Sennheiser AVX e835) each with their own receiver, two copies of the Behringer Xenyx 802, then wired into an Onkyo TX-NR646 and onto some speakers. Other sources play fine, but either mic only plays the lowest frequencies. I've made sure all the...

My home NAS lives in the garage. Dusty and with thermal fluxuations. It has been on for about 4 years, being restarted two or three times for drive upgrades. I wouldn't worry about that.

That is a cool looking device. Would be awesome if they had a 2x and 3x unit.

Tannin likely got this one right as well. Using the thermal camera, the ceiling is no warmer than interior walls. The insulation is likely sufficient; 1.5" of expanding foam (R-7 per inch in addition to being air-tight), R-30 fiberglass on top of that, and 3/4" outdoor-rated plywood on top of...

The solar panels seem to be having a significant effect on my need to cool the house. They cover the two sunniest planes of the roof, and stand about 4" off the surface. I suspect that having those parts of roof shaded helps keep attic temps significantly lower.

I knew you were a secret agent. No one else arms their horses with frickin' laser beams...

After reading your post, I was certain I had great news for you. The new version of the Dell 30" that I have is a nice unit and is less than $1k! (Follow the link)...Ah. AU$. Sorry, not much to offer. You seem to have found the good'uns.

Some local EV Shenanigans. https://youtu.be/j433Y83ta0o I didn't get to hang out long, I had the opportunity to do some fun field work; pioneering a road in a Cat D5 dozer (first time!). 650ft of elevation gain, about 1500ft of road total, in 6 hours of work. Amazing what a mid-sized dozer and...

If you are looking for new hardware from a major vendor, I can put you in touch with my sales rep from IT Creations. He can find a current supported spec that will fit your needs.

Did your driver update automatically? I have had MS Update override 3rd party drivers with older ones.

That sounds pretty epic, but the 100-400II is enough for me ;)

Yup. Will be a good test of the redundancy, just pull the drive and swap it live. Make sure you know which drive, first.

Some of my games do that in fullscreen mode. Windowed mode does what I want.

I knew you were a robot...

Another point worth making is that GPU tasks are absurdly parallel. This makes just throwing more cores at something a completely viable solution. CPUs would have made much larger strides if this was the case.

Ugh. My gag reflex is very...sympathetic? I have no doubt I'd be joining them even if I felt fine to start. This is particularly difficult when you have a small child.

I'll second that. Synology does have several great NAS units that have 10GbE (or support adding cards) and higher end CPUs. The DS3615xs is a great unit; at a fairly competitive cost for what it is. I've installed them and have no complaints. $3200 before drives and before 10GbE NIC is probably...

Yup. Very familiar. I was expecting them to use poisonous spiders in your part of the world, instead it is the same phone maze.

Not forever, but possibly days.

Absolutely. 1. Move all energy consumption to electricity (appliances, HVAC, etc) 2. Maximize efficiency of all those systems (LED lighting, heatpump-based water heater, heatpump HVAC, induction cooktop, smart thermostat, etc) 3. Measure energy consumption to size system (optional add for...

It really depends on how much space you have. With the current cost of panels (so low), it is rare for tracking mounts to be more effective than more panels. Mine are arranged on two different planes that combined offer some generation all day. Same with the high-efficiency panels, I ended up...

I have some retail Win10 USB sticks coming soon, but I'd guess those are the same as the MCT.

Indeed. Just upping the surface area more than anything. Copper/Aluminum aren't even that necessary.

These came from Amazon with double-sided thermal tape. I do also have some of the arctic silver 2-part thermal epoxy, but I didn't think that it was necessary for this application.

Used the themal camera to locate hot spots and that was one of them. It isn't just a waterblock, the pump is in there as well and did get hot. I'd rather it not fail, and the system as a whole doesn't have that much airflow.

I suppose it depends on how good your backup infrastructure is. If it would be inconvenient to lose the entire array (meaning, more drives than you have redundancy fail within the rebuild time), run the tests. I don't, and am lucky enough to have never lost an array, but that is luck that will...

Rebuilding my work computer, finally got a case for it instead of just sitting the parts on the motherboard box on the floor with cables everywhere. I consider it a step up.