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I think it's an excuse to ditch the R, which is an oddball option that will still be stinking up retail for a while yet, but the R7 is a better deal for the same money almost across the board. I'm glad they finally brought out an EF-S body alternative though. The M50 was an increasingly terrible...

The place my family lived in as a teen was like that. It was added on to so much that it wound up with multiple electrical panels and in a couple cases, something was on a breaker in a less-than-obvious panel. It had a downstairs finished basement that had been turned into a private apartment...

Just had to drive an hour to resolve a trouble call for an on premises server system, the document management system used by a paperless insurance agency. "It's been making a terrible beeping noise all morning! Also all our computers are down for some reason. Are those two things somehow...

You're between a rock and a hard place on latency, because it's sometimes true that lower latency RAM will be subjectively faster for actual applications in use vs. the higher throughputs, although it most favors gaming rather than content creation, which usually benefits from extra bandwidth...

Speaking of color processing, since almost no one makes presets for Capture One, I use a commercial application to take either Lightroom Presets or LUTs used by Resolve and Luminar, among others, to Styles that C1 can use. As a bonus, I get to apply the same color processing for video the same...

Based on everything I've read, you can take the XMP timings as fully applicable EXPO timings you can set by hand.

I I think Canon has really pulled ahead on autofocus, at least comparing an A7r4 to an R6 or R7. The R6 is particularly strong in low light; I use one in a, uh, nightclub all the time. Canon reproduces skin colors in a pleasing fashion. Sony's colors skew to slightly bluish and washed out...

I haven't had an opportunity to build one yet, though I have built a few 13th gen Intel systems with DDR5. I know the RAM struggle is real but given your use case, I'm sure I'd err on the side of capacity over performance, which might mean a move to that 1:2 timing that sounds unappealing...

What sort of heat compound are you using? What sort of HSF? The 7000 series are pretty well known for having an overly thick heat spreader of their own, which makes getting good contact with a proper HSF tricky. The components on a motherboard probably tolerate the heat a lot better than you...

I was in Chicago yesterday due to a rare occurrence of decent, sunny weather in February. My roommate and I were walking around with cameras. She likes to collect old video games and vintage clothes ("vintage" for her definitely means things people were wearing when I was about 10), so we were...

My friends take off their clothes for money, Lunar. I've had an association with a strip club that was technically one of my first jobs, and that trust has held and been applied to years of people who have worked there since. My dearest friends now are or were dancers. Some of them have other...

Some people pay me and some people don't. I've sat down and taught people lighting and photo processing (please shoot in raw. Yes, even on your phone). Also, digital marketing, storage organization and even just an explanation for how to use the most relevant platforms for the kind of content on...

I believe you can get a driver for a decent chunk of USB NICs if you really want to play with it. re: SMBv1, you might consider setting up NFS as an alternative. Free clients exist for even DOS-based versions of Windows.

I use a pair of QDR Infiniband adapters between my two big systems. At the time I bought them, the 7m twinax cable was the most expensive part, but these days even that is genuinely reasonable. Even an Infiniband switch is reasonable compared to 10GbE hardware.

LTO numbers are always WILDLY optimistic, like every file type we use now doesn't already have compression applied. The claim for LTO9 us 45TB but the actual capacity is 18TB. In my experience, you might as well not bother to compress anything getting sent to tape.

Cinebench is a pure CPU benchmark that offers an apples to apples comparison across platforms. Most anything else you'd care to name will be impacted by architectural differences like memory bandwidth. AMD 7000 vs 13th gen Intel is kind of the same broad story. Intel can usually claim it has...

There's about $1000 in budgetary slack involved. Will the desktop Ryzen with a desktop GPU by THAT small? Nope, but an mITX build is within the realm of reason and it'll STILL be $500 cheaper, even in a premium chassis like a Cooler Master NR200P (which will also work with at least some uATX...

Apparently, the $2000 12 core Mac Mini Pro with an M2 Pro and 32GB RAM is in some ways superior to the Mac Studio, but it also tops out at 32GB, which isn't exactly a ton of RAM these days. I looked into it a bit and it's core-for-core about as powerful as a Ryzen 5900 (Apple is a little faster)...

I'm 99% sure SLC is just used for high speed NAND cache now.

Are you snapshotting in addition to running dual parity or just relying on dual parity? I'm assuming you are, but that eats into the capacity of a pool depending on how much your data changes. Plain old RAID6 or RAID6-like arrays run in to the same statistical certainty of a read error at...

If you REALLY don't care, they made little 1x to 4x Physical adapters that just put your slot on the end of a ribbon cable. You can also get USB 3 to 4 1xPCIe slots, which sounds weird but found a lot of use among the mining community. Remember that PCIe will operate fine with fewer lanes so...

They're supposed to be TLC NAND but it wouldn't surprise me of they are actually QLC with a TLC or MLC cache. They're also only good for .3 DWPD, which is half what the truly MLC 860 Pro supported, even in the same capacity, or against the .75 DWPD TLC in Intel P4500s. That suggests there is...

Not always. There are vendors willing to warranty them for five years from date of purchase, if that's a concern. I've noticed that a couple resellers are offering variable length warranties for the same model of drive, which suggest that they're aware of that issue as well. I get datacenter...

I mean don't go hastily buying WD drives. But you should be able to find HGST He8s with a 5 year warranty for under $100. Datacenter used second hand drives can be an absolute bargain though.

One of my friends developed what might be a life-long heart condition after having long covid. I've also heard of otherwise healthy people becoming Type 2 diabetics. If only we hadn't had the most spiteful and incompetent people in charge of public health at the start of the pandemic. As it is...

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.