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Makes sense. Thank you.

I am a programmer. I like hardware and sometimes give build lists to professional customers. I guess you can say I use messing with PCs as procrastination from getting code done, occasionally :) I learned that you cannot answer a "make this code faster" with "sure. Let's watercool and overclock".

Room treatment in addition to nice speakers FTW.

My Mini's wifi is fine. I am surprised that it is a known problem that the Studio's is not. If all else fails use a Wifi hub in client mode.

You're holding it wrong :)

I'm interested in the Supers, but I expect a price point that is unacceptable to me.

That did it. Thank you. I didn't realize this counts as a separate account. All good again.

I upgraded from Win10 home to pro. Since then it requires my MSN password to log into the local machine. How do I switch back to using the machine password? I troveled through all the related settings but couldn't find it.

I have a 2080ti that is pure 2 slots. But it is loud when in gaming.

I like. But the noise will be close to an aircraft carrier flight deck.

Don't do hardware RAID. Even without ZFS software RAID is better these days. You can mitigate the need for ECC by running memtest86 on a regular basis. You could do a monthly safety thing where you scrub the pool and then memtest a bit.

Looking for a 2230 NVMe M.2 SSD with DRAM cache and not being QLC. Any suggestions? Capacity doesn't matter much, 256 GB minimum, more is better. Any idea what the flash is on this one? I know it doesn't have DRAM...

ZFS has RAID "built in". RAID5 like functionality can be requested when creating the zpool. The bifurcation question only becomes relevant when you want more than one NVMe SSD in a x8 or x16 slot. If you only use one you don't need any support from the mainboard other than a slot of at least x4...

I have a pool of physical machines that can boot into a pool of operating systems from a heavyweight file server. Any machine can boot any OS based on the dhcp/tftp configuration on the server. It's very practical. And also good because the server has RAID and proper backup for all the OS...

Start playing DCS. 128 GB RAM is a godsent for its loading times.

Hmmm, I just got a laptop with 2 NVMe slots, and I could RAID these suckers...

How easy are these things to boot diskless via PXE? Anyone doing it?

Computing is not an exact science, especially not when BIOSes are involved.

I'd always pick the random seek advantage. Outside of copying files few things use constant throughput.

I still have the carrying straps that came with my DFI SLI-DR. That was around 2005.

No.

All anti-cheat has full access to your system. Set up a separate gaming PC, or at least a separate OS install.

No problem. Non-OLED aren't that horrible.

I don't think it is a separate issue. Has Apple invested less than Qualcomm? Probably not, rather more. Where's that investment being financed from? Patents should protect from copying existing tech without research. Not invalidate new research. In any case, I didn't ask to invalidate existing...

I maintain that the root of the problem is that nationwide infrastructure shouldn't be based on standards that are overgrown with patents.

The next thing we know is the car companies whining how hard it is to port their software to 64 bits...

Why 32 bit? Are they insane?

To me this looks promising: https://www.amazon.com/Channel-External-Surround-Optical-Adapter/dp/B0CNKTWJCK/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2D9ZLWH0899GF

I want holders for fans to point them toward arbitrary positions inside an open case. Something that clamps to the edge of the case, holds the fan and has something in between that is flexible but stays in position after flexing. Examples would be goosenecks (like on lamps) or the bendable...

I don't want to bother with scaling, or rather the lack thereof with some older applications. And I want to watch 4k movies. So it is 43" for me.

It should be safe. But be aware that there are products with low enough quality that can kill devices.

Yeah, but you still might be able to use a TIVO. You need a cablecard for that and the cable companies don't like that, but to my understanding regulations force them to offer cablecards.

You just need to get better stuff. A Tivo on Verizon or Comcast works very well, still.

The random chance to suffer a flipped bit from cosmic rays is one thing. DIMMs or DIMM slots going bad or overheating or whatever are quite another. There can be masses of bit errors from that one day to the next. With ECC you will be warned about this condition. Or in other words: if you...

Complexity takes its toll. But it looks like a fix is underway.

OP is looking for unbuffered ECC. Which is pretty expensive compared to registered.

Uh, who said I consume ads on cable TV, or ever did? Also, a TIVO allows you to skip ads on cable TV, whereas you usually can't skip ads in online services (with exceptions as mentioned).

Ads are brain poison. No way.

Did somebody try these "heavy metal headphones" (whatever that means) Heavys H1H? They have mics built in. https://www.heavys.com/products/headphones-case-aux I wouldn't mind a punchy shound every now and then.

I'm thinking about getting an optane SSD specifically for my browser profiles. It's all about seek times.