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    Round 1: My Noctua Mini-PC Sandwich

    Thermister probe hooked up to a fan controller maybe? A couple decades ago I had some fans with a thermal probe built in. Weren't adjustable but seemed to work. Now I've got one on my AsRock mainboard. I shoved it into my GPU's cooling fins so I can control case fans based on GPU exhaust...
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    My vllm workflow

    Read up a bit on VLLM... not sure it's the right option for me. From the sounds of things it's good at multi-GPU and multiple simultaneous requests. Presently I don't have either. Aside from screwing around with image generation in ComfyUI I've just been firing up LM Studio, plugging models...
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    Anyone have experience with this company Plugable?

    I have a Pluggable Thunderbolt 4 dock. I got it in ~spring 2023. I use it with my work Mac mostly to connect monitors but it also handles USB keyboard, mouse and webcam + 2.5Gb ethernet. Never really get to use the 2.5Gb since it gets routed though my work VPN server and it's just not that...
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    Dual CCD X3D CPU's and thread scheduling

    BF6 is new enough that it probably detects multiple CCDs, Intel proc with a mix of P and E cores, and AMD chips with a mix of full size and compact (slower) cores and handles them appropriately. Shit is just not hard. We do stuff like that at work all the time. I'm not in the game business...
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    So why cards?

    The way higher end cards are going I kinda wonder if maybe they ought to be more like a PSU. Something you can bolt onto your case to deal with the weight.
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    5090 in stock and it looks like it is staying in stock

    I agree with both of you. I have a 5090 in my main rig. I also have an Intel ARC B580 in the little portable rig I built last year for ~$1k before prices went nuts. The portable rig can handle any game I have, and I went looking for heavy stuff after getting my hands on the 5090. Already had...
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    5090 in stock and it looks like it is staying in stock

    At least they're still in stock. Just cost ~$4k. Makes me feel better about grabbing a ROG Astral a year ago back when 5090s were hard to get. Now they're easy to get, just cost $4k. Ugh.
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    How AI will fail

    On a philosophical level I agree with you. It's not "intelligent". It's just a very complex system that responds to inputs and produces often useful outputs. OTOH that's what everyone seems to be calling this tech so we can just go with the standard popular label or cause confusion.
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    How AI will fail

    Ran this through Qwen on my 5090 to make some edits... Qwen apparently sucks at "Jar-Jar Binks" and "Emperor Palpatine". At least the Palpatine to Vader swap is consistent. Asked for Jar-Jar on the left and I get a different random critter every time. Just deal with it. Resistance is...
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    [Steam] Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 FREE till 5-27-26

    Added, because why not? Thx!
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    How AI will fail

    I'll take that for a spin. I mostly just tried Qwen when I decided to try a local setup instead of just using Gemini at work because it sounded like it would be good for writing code. And yeah I know I can load larger models than my vram can take and use quantized models. I've been playing...
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    How AI will fail

    I'm pretty impressed with what a 32GB 5090 can do locally TBH. I've been playing with Qwen 3.6 the last few days and, well, it knows its shit with Python better than I do. I've been writing code for decades, but I'm more of a C-style guy. Java, C#, C++, C, etc. We have basically unlimited...
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    Apple intros MacBook Neo: $599 with an iPhone chip

    A fan? No fan is not an advantage for the Neo. The Air doesn't have one either. No, the thing that makes the Neo good is solid build quality in a cheap machine. Chassis doesn't suck, screen doesn't suck, sound doesn't suck. It's not fast but it doesn't cause problems.
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    Does 128GB 2x64GB work well on Asus proart x670e with Ryzen 7950x?

    4800 at JEDEC speeds should work as long as your board and proc support modules of that size. 4800 is the low end. If your board can't do 4800 with 4 dual rank DIMMs at JEDEC timings there's something wrong with your board. Dual rank modules should be ok at that speed. 4800 is minimum speed...
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    2x 5090

    I'm looking at this one for the Corsair: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/psu/cp-9020309-na/hx1500i-fully-modular-ultra-low-noise-platinum-atx-1500-watt-pc-power-supply-cp-9020309-na?position=11&queryID=f64f6c5d2deb73ee30d12d682c14ca44 I just suggested the Seasonic TX-1600 because it's the...
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