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I'm just trying to work out the target market for the i9? Most people who need the cores (eg CAD, etc) will also want ECC RAM (which the i9 lacks support for) hence would be looking at Xeon's and most likely nVidia Quadros or AMD Raedon Pro? Additionally, the X299 chipset only supports 24 PCIe...

Just like to wish everyone a Happy Easter... (and for of the Orthodox Christian faiths, Happy Easter for next week).

Deadpool was a decent MCU movie, and the trailer for Deadpool 2 is now out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D86RtevtfrA

Since these are targeted at enterprise applications I would be a little surprised if they are using SMR and not CMR. (The lack of some sort of NAND based cache adds some weight to this)... Compare the datasheet for Exos 5E8 which clearly indicates SMR, but the datasheet for the Exos 7E8...

Interesting video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcvNWPPNWSE Disclaimer: do not try this at home (unless you have a clean room).

From what I've read/seen most smart watches last 3-5 days depending on use between charge... compared to most watches where 3-5 years is considered a normal battery life... 12mths ago I used to see a lot of them, but more recently they seem to be very rare... Also one has to to consider the...

I'm still wearing an old Citizen Promaster 2502 as my daily watch. The band was replaced early with a NATO strap, but otherwise hasn't had any issues since owning it. (I've always preferred the Promasters over the G-Shocks). All my other "luxury" watches have died over the last few years, and...

I did (after seeing it was an amazon link)

14-Mar is Steak and BJ Day...

At least it's not eat Kidney day... Still waiting for: https://yourcountdown.to/steak-and-bj-day

The Home to Pro upgrade is US$99 RRP via the store... OEM price appears to be around ~US$135 and full retail license is ~US$190... Also it appears that upgrade packs are no longer available (at least in the channels I have available to me), so it looks like MS is really forcing people to use...

Any reason not to purchase direct via the Microsoft Store? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12384/windows-10-upgrading-home-to-pro

I've looked at a few here in Oz, and most seem to be based on the same underlying hardware (there seems to be only 2-3 ODMs for these devices) especially when looking at ones that are GSM/3G/4G mobile phone based. As for service I guess it'll all be about connectivity options to the wider world...

I was under the impression that he was taking a break from things to pursue other interests? IIRC. Nitsirk is a personal friend and a post in late '16 indicates was fine at the time? (Her last login was 2mths ago).

Early models used LinkAMedia Controllers with Toshiba NAND, current PCIe/NVMe models use Sandforce controllers with Toshiba NAND. Very few detailed reviews of their current consumer based SATA SSDs so can't tell you. Typically firmware was customised by Seagate.

Either it's using multiple SAS connections, or it's not really SAS, but some sort of U.2 interface, OR Samsung are using the data rate off the NAND ignoring the SAS interface limitations. (I'm going the last one). Very little is currently known about it. FYI Seagate 60TB SSD in 3.5" form...

FYI: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/samsung-crams-30tb-of-ssd-into-a-single-2-5-inch-drive/ Drive uses 12Gbps SAS as the interconnect with reported read/write performance of 2.1GBs and 1.7GBs respectively... Pricing unknown.

OK, my 2cents... There seems to be some inconsistency with the requirements and planned usage. LM states that weight is a premium requirement of a new laptop, but yet talks about light planes and has hinted in the past about worldly travels... Now if worldly travels are part of his/her...

Last Christmas I was given a bottle of Galway Pipe 12yr old port as a gift. Opened it the other night, and is certainly a nice smooth port. Watched the first Jason Borne movie whilst having a glass of it....

Replaced the battery on the mainboard?

Flew over or very-very close to their airspace then?

Agreed. Unfortunately Supermicro isn't that widely available here. Another option would be AsrockRack. (They do 1P and workstation boards, and have bare bone servers as well: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=4U100-C612#Specifications )

I just had a quick look at options, and they are certainly scarce. Lot's of 1P servers in 1RU, but pretty much all 3/4RU servers were all 2P... I know many years ago the entry level HP ML150's had a rack conversion kit, but HP seem to only support the rack conversion kits with the ML350 or...

As per above:

I assume he means at airports and similar?

The Open where players win by grunting the most in 40C+ temps? nope.

Just like to wish all fellow Aussies, a Happy Australia Day*... * Or "Invasion Day" as some are now calling it...

Find a motherboard with enough PCIe x16 slots and you could use a few of these: http://www.aplicata.com/quattro-410/ (Not recommending the above mentioned product, but to demonstrate that this sort of product exists). PS. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x10drg-q.cfm...

Saw this review this morning... We've had a few Intel and Samsung M2's at work, and it's pretty much a either/or with either brand... https://www.anandtech.com/show/12349/the-intel-ssd-760p-512gb-review

I know (in Oz) we're getting a lot of mixed stories about it, ranging from the US gov is now in free-fall unable to service it's debts (at a federal level) which may lead to another great depression for the US through to business as usual except some federal employees are now effectively on...

Anyone here directly affected by the US gov shutdown?

Digitally signed emails. No IM or social media allowed for office correspondence.

I guess you won't be buying a new system for a while. From what I've read, the full impact of Spectre isn't known yet, so mitigations will take time.

FYI, Meltdown patches for Win10 being released today, patches for Win7/8.x released as well, but expected to be widely deployed next Tuesday. Patches for some GNU/Linux distros are already out (all my Arch Linux boxes are patched). (kernel 4.14.11 includes initial patches for Meltdown, distro...

There (reportedly) is a POC for Spectre that runs via javascript on Chrome that extracts details from other running processes on the system and displays them in the browser... Could mean possible leaks of username/passwords for online sites (banking, social media, etc). Could mean attacks...

Intel list for Meltdown: https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00088&languageid=en-fr Looks like my ancient Atom N570 powered netbook is safe from Meltdown at least... What's interesting is, the above list shows no Pentium4, Core or Core2 based CPUs (these lack the...

IIRC, exploits for AMD are only theoretical at this point, as no proof of concept code has been made available. are a lot harder and some POC has shown AMD CPUs to be affected by Spectre. Note: There are actually two items going on, one is a deep flaw in the OOE (out-of-order execution) engine...

Details of actual products are now becoming more available: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12207/intel-with-radeon-rx-vega-graphics-core-i78809g-with-31-ghz-base-100w-target-tdp-overclockable

Happy New Year to all...

Yes, but since there is no guarantee what you actually get (exact model/firmware) in each laptop (they only provide based on size/capacity), IMHO it's fairly meaningless giving out scores... Most range from 3.5GB/s down to 1GB/s depending on the device, chipset, CPU and OS combination. (Not to...

Just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy a safe and pleasant holiday period. For all others who also celebrate other events at this time I also wish a: Happy Hanukkah Io, Saturnalia! Happy and Joyful Kwanzaa Happy Constitution Day Joyful Feast of Winter Veil Happy...

I'm guessing budget... Agree the XPS 13's are nice machines, as well as the 840's. I would go the 840 over the XPS13 mainly due to screen size.

Probably on Diego Garcia, performing maintenance on a Boeing 777...

The most interesting aspect is how this will affect the international community? eg Internation sourced traffic destined for US Based data-centres and even for transient traffic that crossing US soil, Japan/NZ/Australia traffic going to Europe... Will it break the Internet, not a chance... but...

With the massive rise in BTC value, has anything changed in regards to the cost/benefit ratios with mining techniques?

Thanks guys, yep it's been a long time here (and also on SR as well).

I wonder if they will release a Quadro version of this card? From the Anandtech link, the Titan V has less memory bandwidth, less total VRAM and less L2 cache per core than the equivalent Tesla V100... (With the V100 missing the video out components).

And my sister got engaged to her long time boyfriend yesterday as well... (He proposed on her birthday).

My 10yr wedding anniversary yesterday....