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I haven't noticed any issues with it. Super Flower Leadex VII 1kw for about four months. The fans in my system are significantly louder than anything else. Adding that PSU did not make it any louder.

PFsense VM gets 2GB Freenas 16GB

Used to think used drives were dumb but I've bought a few 14-20TB drives without issue in recent years. Had good luck with them. I'm looking at them now to build a replacement software RAID 1 NAS/file server with used 18-22TB drives. I've always had a machine for IT "nice to have" data and...

I had one in my cart at Newegg but out of stock when trying to pay.

The P44 Pro is a very solid drive and the Intel DNA sold me on it. Actually buying them was a challenge with big pricing discrepancies between Amazon, Newegg, and third party sellers when I was looking. Too expensive or so cheap it felt like a scam not worth trying. Intel is still the only...

I've been using the Google TV Streamer for a couple weeks now and it's an improvement all around over the Chromecast. Have them both connected to the same receiver so have seen them side by side. The Streamer is noticeably faster. My wife will sometime select the wrong input and you know...

Got for free along with Space Marines 2 with a new AMD CPU, installed last night. Hopefully get a chance to check it out soon. Have a crush on her from The Witcher. Game play sounds ok from a couple reviews I skimmed.

Looks like Copilot for it wrong too. August wasn't a three payday month based on an October 4th payday. August 9th and the 23rd were paydays. I tried to get ChatGPT to check me and it failed.

I get frustrated with the like of ChatGPT and Gemini. Find a problem I think they will handle easily and they just can't. Not without coaching. Whenever there is an exact answer they crap the bed. Question: What months have three pay periods in 2024 and 2025 if I get paid every two weeks and...

Using a 3080 ti and everything I play gets cranked to max visuals. DLSS balanced or quality. 50-110 fps usually. Haven't seen any flicker. Been playing Everspace 2 with some Space Marines 2 and Ghosts of Tsushima. Since I got the monitor Edit: Worth noting that I had a "real" gsync monitor with...

I've only been using OLED for a couple months and experienced none of the issues you mentioned. Moved from a 27" Acer Predator 1440 144hz IPS w/o HDR to an OLED Alienware 32 4K 240hz w/ HDR. Worth every penny. I have a Dell 4k IPS on another computer in the same room and the picture is inferior...

32GB is fine. 48+ is wasteful for a gaming machine today but decide if it's worth the extra $. Knowing you're probably good on RAM until the machine is obsolete is worth something. 64 GB will last until DDR6 and new platforms are knocking on the door.

$121.60 at Amazon

The 4090 and 5090 are pure luxury purchases now and they will be priced accordingly. People sitting feet away from me spent more than two weeks take home pay on 4090s. They are complaining about groceries but run a card meant for high earners. It breaks my brain but I saw the same thing with...

I didn't mention it in the original post but I may have seen that. Had the 20gb NIC team and 2.5gb NIC passed to the VM and was getting about 5 gbps. Assumed it was just my NIC team not performing how I'd hoped but it could have been defaulting to 2x the slowest connection.

It wouldn't be teaming and but could be SMB multichannel depending on how your network is configured. Your routing device or server would need to have two NICs as well. Team is a specific technology for bonding network cards together and presenting them as a single logical interface to the...

Attempting to upgrade my home Server 2022 Hyper-V server and my Windows 11 desktop by adding Intel X550-T2 NICs with both ports active. Had solid performance for a single 10 gig connection but nothing more. This is my first time messing with SMB multichannel and all the reading I've done says it...

The Mokerlink is not silent once you start plugging stuff into it. I have 7 of the 8 ports in use now and even with very little load it's the loudest thing in my network closet. It's not hot but the fans are spun up. This is not a switch you will want to run outside of a closet. I might need to...

My 7950X3D has been delayed twice now. First to Sept. 26th and now October 3rd. Anyone get theirs? This happened twice recently with Amazon and they ended up canceling the orders. I ordered 5x Beelink computers for $299 each on sale, they canceled the order after 10 days and the replacements...

Anything you want to know, it's on my desk right now with a laptop connected. My first device from them as well. I paid $200 for the switch but spent $320 on the X550-T2 NICs. Seems dumb but I had X540, Marvel Aquantia, and one other in my cart several times but nothing had straight forward...

I picked up a used Mokerlink 10G080GTM for $199 last week. An 8x10gb ethernet switch that does 1/2.5/5/10gbps. Just got it an hour ago and it is completely silent at idle and 1 gbps transfers. Fans are not running. Web interface is nicely laid out. It's a fully managed switch. Have not tried...

I have a new Google TV Streamer preordered, September 26th release. Don't usually preorder stuff but everything else seems old and I doubt the Chromecast replacement would be worse. I debated on a mini PC as well, have bought dozens of Beelink 5800H max machines and they're nice. My...

TSMC is going to rule the world if this trend continues.

I have a small underdesk shelf to mount yet to move audio equipment underneath. Hid almost all cables under the desk with these. I mounted them far enough inside that you can't see them.

I often find it faster to reinstall the OS when things get like this. The time and frustration to repair can be significant. My computer wouldn't idle to sleep ever. If it turned on because a pet stepped on the keyboard it would never sleep again. Not good for OLED monitor. Months of...

Company going bankrupt so buyer beware. https://www.techspot.com/news/104697-fisker-ocean-evs-low-miles-selling-less-than.html...

Can't say anything about those specific models but... They are often loud and power hungry. Generally speaking about enterprise switches. Sometimes configured exclusively from command line interface. Can also require a license and/or registration to get access to firmware. Often have to replace...

Price is back at $430 as I type this. The game bundle for me really adds as I was going to pickup Space Marines 2 anyway. Basically feels like $370 for a 7950x3d to me and that's crazy. The 7800X3d was over $400 two days ago. For the price difference a person could just disable the non-vcache...

I couldn't resist, 7950x3d for $430 is too good to pass up. Didn't want the heat and didn't want different cores but to hell with my plans. CPU performance going up nearly 3x, L3 going up 6.5x. That is so much horsepower for the money.

Any recommendation for a streaming device? I'm open to buying one or multiple. The whole streaming device ecosystem is confusing as hell to me. The product naming and lack of transparency in the hardware seems intentionally opaque. Roku 4k is better than Roku Express 4k+... Stuff like that. I...

Sad day. They were a site that would check many times per day for years. Much like [H]. To this day I still read every major desktop hardware related article they publish. Always trusted their numbers.

32" Alienware OLED center and 27" Acer Predator on the left. In the process of mounting the audio gear under desk.

I'd like USB4 and a bit more PCIe than B650 delivers. Would really like a x4 or x16 slot with four PCIe 5 lanes for 100gbps NIC alongside a GPU.

I'm waiting. Knowing the 9000X3D parts and X870 motherboards are coming soon, have to. 9700x seems like a terrible buy with the 7700x still available and far cheaper. My armchair expert opinion thinks the 9700x points to good things with the 9800x3d. Performance per watt/heat improvements may...

AMD Thunderbird from 800 mhz to 1 ghz. Around 2000-2001. It was a Counterstrike machine.

Just FYI, I've had good luck with all Easus software I've tried. Bought Easus Partition Maser Technician lifetime license like 10 years ago that has a recovery built in. Had worked many times we've tried it. I run their backup software at home and on small business servers. Only seen two...

I was buying $780 Dell micro desktops w/ 13500t CPUs in them and wasn't impressed. Started buying $350 Chinese micros instead to save money. Ryzen 5800H CPUs with double the RAM and storage. RAM and SSD are Crucial/Micron. Before buying them in bulk I had every technician give me their opinion...

My Dell guy has changed three times in the last year. Emailed the current one after the layoffs just to see if he survived, no response. Dell churning employees has been a big issue for me in years past. I threatened to switch to HP and Lenovo some years ago after I got two AE changes while...

I would think an Intel 14400 or 12700k at $200 makes buying a 9600x foolish. If you already had an AM5 motherboard you'd be running a 7600 or better and doesn't make sense. Even if you want to get into AM5 the 7600 or 7600x makes more sense.

Thanks. I use a 36"x15" mouse pad that covers most of what I touch day to day. Doesn't look as nice for pictures :) The top is two sheets of plywood glued together, 3/4 with a nice veneer and 1/2 construction grade. If I had to buy them I'd do 3/4 for both but they were essentially free, had...