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I thought that Intel was the least efficient, followed by AMD and then MAC was by fart the most efficient.

Why care about most people? Are they the ones buying your prints or the ones you interact with in a photo club, competition, or workshop? The main issue I see is lack of artistic vision, followed by poor technique, same as always. Anyways there are much better cameras than the 7D II (there...

Welcome to Norway. Once I was sweating an ass off in Oslo during the summer. That's one reason why many people take vacations in the warmer months. How many hours per day do you really need to run at 800W? Maybe use a laptop for general computing and limit the hours of flamethrower usage...

There is plenty of travel to be done as a single. Most of the people on the tours I attend are active seniors traveling without a spouse. The challenge is ocean travel where the single supplements are very high, but boats suck anyways if you are a landy-luber.

You should at least get a passport in case an opportunity to travel arises. The initial application times are inconsistent, but complaints indicate it is slow lately. I was fortunate in that a friend convinced me at the age of 20 to take a holiday (mostly to Europe) and it changed my life. I...

Thanks. I didn't get the point that you had test fitted it.

I have a few and none are very reliable or speedy. My old 2TB M.2 860 EVO SATA is as fast or faster, but I don't need a whole pile of 2TB. It's just too small these days. I really want RAID and that is PCIe (Thunderbowls) only.

I actually had the older version 100R with metal panel. It was dirty and somewhat bent out of shape so I threw it out in 2021 when disposing of a lot of old stuff. :( It is long discontinued for the US. That N400 looks OK, but why doesn't it work with the D15? Is something blocking it...

Actually Canon just started the RF-S (MILS) series of 1.6x crop bodies in 2022 and another one (R8) is expected to be announced in February. All are $1500 or less. Sales volume should be higher than the R5/R6 and R3. Canon in partciualr is relying heavily on lenses for profits as they did not...

OOps. :eek: I mean two 5.25" drives. I will use them for swappable 3.5 and 2.5' drives.

Yay, the Dude is alive! I was thinking you were gone for good. I was stationed in Europe in the 80s and 90s, but never all that good with languages. Obtaining permanent residency was infeasible at the time (post cold war era).

Yikes, I knew that Canon was out of whack! They make real video cameras for a reason. But what do the pros and serious video people do on a low budget? Every day there are many events captured and others working on budget documentaries, advertising, etc. What exactly is the audience for your...

A few years ago I was rather disgusted that most of the cases had glass side panels, preventing use of fans on the side. Now I'm seeing that it's more grim now. Most cases either have no front panel (glass) or just mesh and no place to put 3.5" drive bays or optoicale drives. What can I still...

Some of deals appear to be over or decreased, so I will wait a few weeks to build. I will start another thread about casewoe

But you are still young, so there is expected suffering. I did not have a career position in my degreed area(s) until well into the 20s. I was also stationed in various regions and countries with either no heat or no AC and occasionally neither.

That would be a technical problem. Isn't it hot and humid in the summers, requiring A/C? I had some projects west of Chicago in the late 20th century up to about 10-15 years ago and the weather was often too hot or too cold and raining, snowing, or windy. I was glad when all that was completed.

I usually have the A/C at 70°F in the states, but it could be 3-5°F warmer in a room with all the computers, monitor, TV, NAS(es) and receiver in use on summer afternoons. I'd rather spend money running HVAC than computers. I especially don't like much running when I'm not home in case of...

😢 Sorry for your loss.

All of them? Of course not! However, they are all oriented on the Western side. Looking at the analemma for my location, it's apparent that builders did not care about solar radiation and summer heating. :( I suppose booting is not too bad, but does it go through that crappy DDR5 memory...

From what I am reading the DDR v5 RAM design sucks, so it has to be calibrated every time at boot and that takes a lot of extra time. :(

So there will be no G series on the Zen 4 since the DNA cores are as good, e.g., 7700 is a direct upgrade for 5700G?

I've had much difficulty in removing the large video card because the release lever is not accessible. I was hoping to get a video and install it only once.

I was not thrilled with the 65W 5700G, but the human user is still happy with it. Performance is relative and AMD is probably realizing they have a gap in the midranges. 80W would be better and not need a hugo heatsink. Is the internal GPU good enough for basic use like playing a videos?

I did the same with the 2x2TB EVO Plus RAID 0 for the past three years before upgrado to the 2x4TB SN850X last week. The SN850X are great but I'd like to keep using the EVO Plus somehow, since they were the older faster ones, not the ones they started selling in 2020. They are still at over...

CrystalInfo indicates correctly that the SSD is 970 Pro, but Windows sees it as 970 EVO Plus. Very strange. WD does not see the drive at all. I know it is the Pro because the capacity is 512GB not 500GB. But why is it wrong in Windows and other software that just reads from Windows? I've...

Thanks. I'm not sure all that is worth it. Maybe I can hardware RAID 0 two 2TB SSDs with the SATA controller (same models) and then Windows RAID 0 those with the 4TB SSD (also same model)? Then I will figure out the M.2 drives later.

I should have explained that I wanted to have 8TB, but not use the dreaded JBLOD. I have several extra drives and cannot figure out how to use them. I have three 2TB M.2 SSDs, a spare 4TB SATA III SSD and several 2TB SATA III SSDs. There seems to be no way to use the M.2 drives through USB and...

Can I RAID a RAID or is that too much, for example 2TB, 2Tb, and 4TB?

I watched about 5 minutes. Does he work for Warranty Week? LOL What is the normal percentage of COGS to gross sales for video cards? I would have no clue.

Meanwhile, in my main computer the boot SSD is misrepresented by Windows. What can possibly cause that? Is Device Manager not reading the model info from the drive, but taking it from historical data?

I'm seeing 64°C on the external 4TB Sandik Pro AF55 during sustained writes. The drive appears as the WD_BLACK SN850XE 4000GB in the Disk Info. It is strange since SN850XE does not exist as a model. I'm not sure how reliable that info is because the S/N does not match the product label.

ADHD?

I was planning on the MSI X670E. The non-E versions of the chipset are inadequate for the onboard PCIe yet many X670E are eATX. I want that bisected PCIe with x8/x8/x4 and the 6 SATA ports.

I am confused about the RAMs. I cannot find the specific part numbers on the mainboard compatibility list at the usual stores. Does it have to be on the list? Normally I buy the Corsairs or Crucials. From what I understand 2x32GB would be operating at 5200 speeds.

The 4070Ti is just too large to fit in the case with everything else. I need a card with about 2.5 slots wide and less than 12' long. 285W power drain is the problem. Realistically the next card down in power would make more sense, probably a 4070. I don't know if the performance is much of...

The 4770 Ti is like $800-1000 and humongous. Bummer. :(

They are 47-50°C idle and 88-90°C under full write load. After further testing, the highest observed in natural use is about 65, so maybe that is acceptable for now. Some of the new motherboads have thermal pads for both sides.

In the x570 the drives are hot as hell under loads. The bottom chips are not connected and it is not feasible to use the 3rd party M.2 heatsinks since they are under PCIe cards including the video. :(

I'd shave my head completely before coloring it some unnatural way.

That is not surprising. Why not buy a good 4K camera and stop messing with the goofy Canon MILS and oddball resolutions? Very few customers will pay for high quality 8K.

How is the camera relevant to the computer-monitor resolution? Even what are today low to medium resolution sensors like the 24MP D3X 14 years ago far exceed 4K or 5K displays. You need 8K for that and then higher for the 50+MP bodies.

So I should still target the 4070 in Q1 or whenever they are sold? It appears the 4070 Ti will be out first, but 285W and probably won't fit.

I'd say that you are an active senior by definition. :) You choose a trip by purpose and the people are the ages they are. Many people in their 60s-70s+ are hiking miles each way to get to the best sites and carrying tripods and photo gear including 600/4s. It all depends on the person's...

I sure don't like to fly, but you have to get there. There are plenty of small group travel opportunties for active seniors. Many of the people I travel with don't travel with a SO or spouse, either because the other party is not physically capable or (more often) not interested. It's mostly...

Are there any specifically that you use and can recommend? I tried one once off the Amazon and it did not fit the chips (not square to the PCB) even with the droopy pad. :(

Are they as good or better than the RTX 3000 series, more like the 4000 series?

My trips are rather expensive and my time is limited as I am still working to paty for them. Generally you have to get somewhere to board the ship. I cannot imagine taking a train to Ushuaia for example and I doubt there is a ship from NYC or Dallas.

I'm platinum on AA, but not on Delta. They don't fly where I need to go, other than connecting through ATL or MSP. ATL is not bad, certainly better than MIA. For obvious reasons, I fly through MIA, ATL, DFW, and LAX.

It depends on how much time you spend in the states. Get TSA pre-check and CLEAR for the US. International security can be tougher, but you just allow a little more time. I'm pretty sure we will never have trains to the other six continents. 😆 Smaller airports are no so bad, assuming the...

It's way more than a configuration issue. It's called being cheap and not upgrading the systems over time and having enough staffing like normal airlines.