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There is often good value in either buying cheap or buying expensive, but not in the middle. Wait for the R5 II for the higher end of IQ and capability.

Your luggage is 20kg altogether or do you mean that you are overweight?

Is there a problem with it?

It is probably related to the new Nikon Z6 III, which has a super sensor with semi-stackable pixelfi.

The most exciting thing I read recently was that the 9950X will draw a max of 190W compared to the 230W of the 7950X. If correct, that will mean that the 9950X is much less likely to throttle back with air cooling and perform better for those of us on the NHD-15. For example, my 7950X...

Won't the shipping cost negate any advantages of buying from there? The price of the 9950X is only slightly higher than the 9900X so it's an easy choice to get the better CPU. I wonder if there will be a MicroCenter deal with a cheap mainboard.

That's nice, but huge compared to the M.2 drive. I typically use much smaller NVMe enclosures since there usually multiples and weight limits are strict on small aircarft. I don't like to fly anything with less than 3000kg MTOW.

It's a big ripoff that there are not more PCiE lanes on the non-server systems and the stupidly X870E Thunderbowl steals even more. The threadwarper 7970X is only $2400 or do you need more than 32 cores? At least you get quadro-DDR5 RAM and a crapload of PCIe 5 lanes. I'm pretty sure water...

What are enterprise users doing, or they use 3rd party software to avoid the MS?

OMG, that is horrible! :cry: Were you in an auto accident? I had some medical issues in the past, but surgeries were not like that. Ironically the Dr. is dead and I'm still alive. I thought you were a lawyer or something like that.

I have no idea what you are comparing and why the full screenshots. The 5700G has a video benchmark at passmark if you care. It's a cheap CPU/APU nowadays as fits the market for that performance level.

I had a Gulftown, the 2010 6-cored version of your PCU, with 24GB. But I only used it until the later part of 2014.

I found the 512GB SM851 from Q2 2015 and installed it into the 2280 slot. According to the Samsung Magical app it has 99 Critical errors (marked red) and 4 reallocation events (marked yellow). Apparently that's why I stopped using it in 2020 after disbanding the hexacored Hasbros E. I never...

You were using nothing new between that 2008 Bloomfield and the Zen 4? 😲

You bought into a nearly end of life Zen 4 CPU though they are all a pretty good value now. I can understand since you are so into gaming and it will be later in the year when the Zen 5 X3D arrives.

Looks like the 78003XD would be a great choice, value wise. You bought into a nearly end of life Zen 4 CPU though they are all a pretty good value now. I can understand since you are so into gaming and it will be later in the year when the Zen 5 X3D arrives.

Yes, it is listed as 2.5Gb and I'm getting >200MB/sec. read/write to NAS #2 and NAS #3. The drivers are from 2019, but the Realitek one that AMD suggested to use. In the diagram above the NUC is now the 4x4 8840U with the Realitek 2.5GbE and the afflicted NAS is Main NAS. I'm not sure if there...

There is only one speed of 2.5GbE. How can I see the up and down speeds separately? I don't know what the drivers want. Everything I install loses the connection.

AssRock 4x4 2.5GbE transfer speed is quite slow through the 10Gb SFP+ switch to the 10Gb SFP+ of the NAD. The read speeds from NAS therough the switch to the 4x4 are good. The 4x4 has 2.5GbE Realitek. I don't recall this same issue with the NUC 11 which has an iNtel 2.5GbE. What would be...

https://www.storagereview.com/review/wd-6tb-portable-hdd-review

The challenge with that asymmetrical extra L3 cache is that the impact is all over the place depending on how the application uses it. Games are one of the main use cases, whereas other software benefits more from fewer faster cores like iNtel and the extra cache does little. Did you run...

Disabling the SMT for the Ryzens was the most effective for me. 16 cores is enough and it keeps the CPU from throttling. Single-thread is so dependent on the generation of architecture.

Are you saying that if 12 cores are used in a 12-core CPU that is better than using 12 cores from a 16-core CPU? I did not think there is much if any performance advantage to fewer cores in modern desktop CPUs and most programs. The core power/speed is so dynamically managed and also the...

For this purpose the NUC FF is just fine as it sits on top of the large mid-tower. Years ago I used a laptop in a tray underneath a table. Unfortunately that's no longer allowed as there has been no Ethernet in the small laptops for years. I've seen some displays where the display does NOT...

I can understand that few cores are faster but you said, "maybe the single core advantage will make me look at the 9900x instead."

Why would that be? The single-threaders are the same for the 7900X and 7950X.

I don't see any prices yet. Will the 9950X be $700 or so? If replacing the old 7950X, then is it just a matter of removing the fans, unscrewing those two screws with a long screwdriver, gooping the new CPu and then reinstalling, right? I really don't want to remove the motherboard and the...

The more I listen, the more it seems like a power supply switching sound inside the case. It's not changing with the fan speed. The huge brick of a 120VAC-19VDC supply is barely warm and not making any sound. I think the PSU is overdone unless the 4x4-BOX is set to the CPU performance mode...

Is there any air cooler better than the NH-D15? I have two of them in use. One is black and one is the crappy 2-tone brown color like a 1980s car.

I've noticed two more levels of foolishness in the 4x4-BOX. There is no drive activity LED and the two LAN ethernets are not identitifed as to which is 1 GbE and which is 2.5 GbE. The latter is less important as we have the BROTHER. Is there any reason that the unit cannot be used upside down...

You guys are missing the point of what a mini means.

Why not just start with the newest CPU and chipset, e.g., 9950x on X870E?

Hahaha. That rather defeats my purpose of a mini computer to sit on top of a mid tower, but it makes sense for a silent computer to some degree.

It just needs a BIOS that allows auto-fan speed in the higher power mode. I could live with the fan being loud under load, just not all the time. Another strange thing is that the ventilation is just a 9*80mm opening of the larger perforated grille on one side and the opposite side grille is...

Here is the preliminary Passmark 10 data from the website and actuals from my machines. I'm not sure if I should be using 11 for the AMD. It's pretty obvious that the iNtel far exceeds the average reported data, probably because most data is from laptops rather than NUCs at high power...

Searching on Amazon is terrible. I think mostly the sellers put in various BS terms so their goods rise to the top. When you search by ratings, some items suddenly disappear for no good reaason. AI search is terrible since it treats you like a child. When I'm looking for a particular product...

It's an AMD 4x4-BOX-8840U. Win 11 is suffering for later on. I think I need a new Windows 10 license. The old one was Win 10 upgraded from Win 7. The old NUC v.11 had a 15W CPU, yet the software indicted up to 50W under Burntest. At that point the temps are right at the limits and fan on...

It's no big deal, just an 8040U mini-computer. Not only that is not so good, but I damaged the iNtel NUC also. The whole point is that would be my primary computer on the internets as the main machine must become Windows 11 with the AIr Gap in 2025. 1) I practically had to destroy the back...

I'm not sure who is deserved of blame, since there are numbnuts in enignereing, marketing, and manufacturing. I have desecrated too much to return.

But can't the user still save files wherever they want?

The 5DsR's 50MP was fantastic for 2015. Today we have the a7RV with 61MP and the older a1 with 50MP. Unfortunately the 61MP sensor is slow, but the IQ is usually better than the common 45MP or 50MP sensors. The resolution is fantastic, although some of the sharpness is at the expense of...

What a bunch of crap. :mad:

I'm sure they are fine within the limitations of a Canon APS-C body. I wonder if they will release FX type of lens designs the same as for Nikon.

Supposedly there is one in Texas.

Newer technology allows for greater volumes of crap content. :LOL: In the old days we used large format like 4x5", 8x10" or medium format (cm) 645, 6x6, 6x7, 6x9, etc. for high image quality.

The main reason they use excessive pixels is for cropping (digital zooming) and for averaging out the noise when using the full image. You are correct that more pixels results in more information, but there are diminishing returns as the pixels get really small. The ARMos in the phones do...

Those pixels are about 800nm, just more than visible light wavelength. You need to do the math and decide what Airy disk to use, but it's nothing like having 4.1µm pixels each with 26x the area. Sony cranks out those types of mini sensors in stupendous volume so the cost is reasonable. A...

I cannot find the 8840U of AsRock. :(

I did not have an M.2 SSD on an X99 (XP741) until January of 2015 and I had to get the 512GB SM951 from Australia in May. After 5 years it had a number of reallocated sectors. What were you using over ten years ago?

The new ones are easier to service. https://www.ifixit.com/News/96998/from-0-10-to-8-10-microsoft-puts-repair-front-and-center