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    Cheap USB-PD Laptop

    I've searched but it doesn't seem easy to find a cheap USB-PD Laptop. I'm looking for something the kids will use so specs really aren't important. Ideally I'm looking for sub $400. I found a couple Dell models in the $500 range but figured I'd see if anyone had recommendations.
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    WTB - cheap HDMI video card

    Thanks for all the replies but I need a card that is at most x8 in length to fit into the MB slots. From what I could tell all of the above cards are full length cards. I can do x4 or x1 as it will only be displaying the output of an ESXi build.
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    WTB - cheap HDMI video card

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    Where do I go now?

    At the end of the day I could have spent my time scouring other sites trying to make sure they all lined up just to come up with the same conclusion the reviewers here did. I also knew that I didn't need to be worried about bought reviews or even toned down reviews as they always let the results...
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    WTB - cheap HDMI video card

    I'm looking for a really cheap preferably fanless/low power video card that has an HDMI output to go into an ESXi server so I can connect it to my new KVM. The motherboard doesn't support x16 sized cards.
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    Where do I go now?

    The problem was I didn't trust any of the other baskets.
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    AMD drops Threadripper3 from latest roadmap-Tom's

    Another issue for Ryzen chips not meeting needs in the HEDT would is three 64GB memory limit.
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    FCC Wants To Cap Spending on Broadband for Poor and Rural Areas

    Interestingly enough my relatives live in the middle of nowhere and their utilities company recently rolled out fiber to every location that had power. They now have cheaper and significantly faster internet than most people can get. Granted until just recently they only had satellite or dialup...
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    WTB Battlefield V code & 10gb NIC

    I'm also looking for a copper 10gb card.
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    WTB Battlefield V code & 10gb NIC

    I'm looking to purchase a BF V code. I do have a 2070 card. Let me know if you have one you want to offload.
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    Least expensive 10gb switch?

    I paid almost $300 for first Intel 80gb SSD. It seems the more things change the more they stay the same.
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    Need a firewall appliance with certain abilities

    I actually do this using pfSense and know that it works as I tried to VPN from overseas and couldn't.
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    Netflix May Be Losing $192M per Month from Piracy, Cord Cutting Study Claims

    But did they take into consideration that those accounts that are sharing would be reduced to lower subscriptions if they couldn't share?
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    Backblaze Analyzes SSD Reliability

    I'm still using my first gen 80gb Intel SSD.
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    MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING Z Performance Review @ [H]

    I took it that a non overclocked model wouldn't compete with the 1080 in performance but be more expensive than the 1080.
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    MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING Z Performance Review @ [H]

    Just curious what the relative power consumption is for the 2070 vs 1080.
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    FCC Tells Court It Has No "Legal Authority" to Impose Net Neutrality Rules

    The only reason AT&T offered an unlimited plan again was because TMobile was actually starting to take enough customers away from them. As for your local ISP be happy they like you but it wasn't because of the repeal of NN. My local ISP has only raised the rates and while rumors of faster...
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    Noctua AMD Threadripper Air Cooler Roundup @ [H]

    Thanks So how long before we get TR4 specific AIO units....
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    Noctua AMD Threadripper Air Cooler Roundup @ [H]

    So I've been waiting on this review to get a better idea what the cooler landscape was for Threadripper. One item that has me wondering about some of the "compatible" AIO coolers that I have seen listed is the quote you made about these Noctua units having a customized larger base. These other...
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    Evidence of Supermicro Infected Hardware Found at U.S. Telecom

    Also I'm not sure how many places don't do Sticky MAC filtering because that would easily prevent this from working or being found very quickly.
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    Evidence of Supermicro Infected Hardware Found at U.S. Telecom

    Different MACs would allow for the two systems scenario but would not allow for the traffic to all come from the trusted server.
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    Evidence of Supermicro Infected Hardware Found at U.S. Telecom

    The problem I have with this is you either have two "systems" or one. So how do you have the traffic appearing to all come from the same trusted server?
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    Ryzen 2400G – integrated GPU passthrough

    What host OS are you using?
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    Newegg Threadripper Combos ??

    I'm aware that the 550 number is the whole system however it was for a system that didn't have the GPU under load. That's why I added the GPU numbers to the whole system numbers.
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    Newegg Threadripper Combos ??

    I'm not sure about the 1950X but here is the quote from Kyle in the last review: "Using the 2950X , at 4.2GHz (1.375v vCore) hand overclocked, would pull 550W at the wall. With PBO we saw 410W, and PB2 would give us 300W at the wall." So adding 250-275 to the 410 gives us just shy of 700. That...
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    GIGABYTE X399 Aorus Xtreme TR4 Motherboard Review @ [H]

    I was in a Micro Center today and got to see it in person. Wow is it a really nice looking board.
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    Newegg Threadripper Combos ??

    Why does Newegg even offer half the 2950X/PSU combos they have listed? They have a slew of 550/650/750 watt PSU combos that unless you are planning on barely using the CPU and nothing else in the system, then it will be woefully under powered and potentially create serious problems.
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    GIGABYTE X399 Aorus Xtreme TR4 Motherboard Review @ [H]

    Wow that was an awesome read. I'm in the boat of trying to determine which board/CPU combo to go with. This review is definitely seating my decision though. PS I'm not sure if I'm understanding it correctly but it appears the benchmark numbers for AoTS don't match the write up below it.
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    2950X build now or wait for mobos? First AMD since Phenom2!

    I'm waiting for the TR4 heatsink review so we know what can actually cool these monsters.
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    Study Finds that Millennials Prefer Multiple Content Providers for Streaming

    Interestingly enough I grew up without cable and only had it a couple of years while in college because it was included with my rent. Currently I have Amazon simply because it came with prime and we watch the in-laws Netflix account some. Otherwise I simply don't care enough to actually want...
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    [Discussion] best "bang for your buck"

    I stopped using Fedora long before that OS was created. I first started using a PC router from a floppy distro (FreeSCO) around 2000 and migrated to Fedora about the time Red Hat spun it off. I then moved to pfSense around 2009.
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    [Discussion] best "bang for your buck"

    I agree it can be attainable. I used to run my router on Fedora and made my own custom iptables rules but after awhile I got tired of maintaining the underlying OS. I wanted to tinker more so I built a 12C/24T, 48GB ESXi server fairly cheaply and then run a few VMs on it. I think if someone...
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    R7000 vs R8000

    Been running it for years and it works great in fact I only use the R7000 as an AP. The link I posted is the site that Kong posts the R7000 DD-WRT firmware that he builds.
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    [Discussion] best "bang for your buck"

    I run pfSense in my ESXi stack and then run an R7000 as my WAP. I had considered getting a few Ubiquity APs for my house until I got the R7000 and had no more need as it provides excellent coverage over the whole house and yard. The question of bang for buck is indeed a personal question. Some...
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    R7000 vs R8000

    Have you tried the DD-WRT Kong firmware for your R7000? I have used it with great success. http://www.desipro.de/ddwrt/K3-AC-Arm/
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    QNAP 10G switches - any good ?

    I replaced the fan in my switch with a Noctura and have never heard it again.
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    Tesla to Close a Dozen Solar Facilities in 9 States

    For me the ROI is between 15-20 years which is not exactly good. Also I would need a new roof in 3-4 years so that really makes it not a good deal until after the roof had been replaced.
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    Seminole Tax Collector Begins Accepting Bitcoin as Payment

    Well since FL has no income tax it doesn't really matter...
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    Ring Doorbell Tech Possibly Stolen from Skybell

    All I can say is this appears to be another poster child case for why our patent system is completely screwed up.
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    Seasonic FOCUS PLUS Gold & Platinum 750W Review @ [H]

    Those are some impressive numbers. Will put this onto my short list.
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