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I'm pretty sure the Ryzen 9000 will be my next upgrade. Gaming is the only stressful thing I do on my home PC and doubting there'll be an 8 core X3D part at launch. I bought more cores than I needed last upgrade cycle and haven't regretted it though. Next upgrade will probably be an everything...

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War. Single player only. Slowest game I've ever played. I was probably 3+ hours into my very first game using Space Marines before realizing that I had only been fighting the wildlife. I thought they were the other team. Finally discovered the other...

Wonder if these monsters will create a glut of second hand 7-15TB drives from datacenters in the near future. That is an incredible amount of data on a single device. Coming from SME size companies it's humbling what the big datacenters can consume yet want for more. 20-25 years ago I was buying...

I'd wait for 15th gen if you're not willing to go AMD. The cooling and power needs are nuts for Intel. Maybe 15th will bring them down to more realistic levels. 250+ watt CPUs are bonkers for machines that sit a few feet away from your ears. If you have a hell of a water cooling setup maybe that...

Check that the 12v rails provide enough amps for the GPU. If the performance is good enough, I'd use it. I run power supplies until they become insufficient, die, or no longer have the connectors I need.

I use a 2.5gbps Trendnet TEG-25GECTX as the LAN connection of my PFsense. Hosted as a VM in Hyper-V. Works fine. I occasionally use the iperf package on it for testing network performance on the network.

I find it more interesting now than I did at launch due to the price. For the same price as a 7800X3D and being sub $400, those extra four cores are enticing. My personal use computers will be solely full power, full feature cores, until I'm not able to buy them anymore. I'm going to look hard...

I've been running Hyper-V in production and at home since shortly after Server 2008 R2 came out. Probably upwards of 20 physical boxes in play including some small HA clusters. I've had problems with it along the way. * Just this weekend, cluster aware updating crashed two VMs and left a cluster...

Neither would be a bad choice. These days storage is a minor consideration for client workloads to me. Buy a reputable brand from someone who makes NAND. TLC and not QLC. DRAM not DRAMless. Price per GB. Have some kind of drive utility software for easy firmware upgrades and health monitoring...

Can you throttle the network connections of the VMs to less than 40gbit? Perhaps balancing it so you aren't fully maxing out the switch but still gain significantly from your 10gbit. I have the option in Hyper-V.

It's not that surprising to me as DAC cables seem to be a bonus, a perk, rather than the intended purpose of the SFPs. I've been using SFPs optical transceivers for about 19 years and only had a use case for DACs for a couple. Didn't discover they were an option until then.

Your single thread performance seems impressive to me. It's higher than I remember seeing on 25gbps connections however I always had a pair of switches in the middle. Will be interesting to see how yours performs with a switch in the mix. The best results I ever got was from: iperf3.exe -c...

Once you get them all setup I'd like to see what your transfer speeds are. Maybe some iperf tests if you're willing. Never used 40gbps stuff. I've read things that it's really 4x10 gbps bonded in some way, other things said it should work like a single 40 gbps link. The 25 gbps stuff I've worked...

For me, nothing to reasonably justify it. For fun and learning. Plenty of people have toys that cost multiples of projects like this. A high performance Microtik is significantly cheaper than a slower big name switch. New Dell Powerswitch N2248X-ON was $4,905. Used Aruba 2540 w/ 4x10 gbps is...

I've thought about getting a Microtik CRS504-4XQ-IN for a long while now but compatibility concerns have kept me away. 100gbps QSFP28 ports and some QSFP28 to SFP28 breakout cables. Seems like for around $1000-$1300 w/ NICs and you could have 25-100 gbps networking. Might be worth considering a...

I'm not sure this is directly helpful but may help someone in the future. I just crossed a similar 10GB SFP+ scenario with Intel X710-DA2 NICs and HP 2910AL switches. HP compatible DAC cables from 10Gtek would result in no link on the Intel NIC. Nothing I tried could change it. Intel compatible...

HDD for very cold backups only. Redundant backup of the backups. Used 2.5" U.2 and AIC enterprise SSDs are cheap and big. I moved big files this weekend. 60 GB in two vhdx files. 970 evo wrote at 2.5GBps for about 3/4 of the time then dropped to 900 mbps. 7.68TB SN200 writes balls out 2GBps for...

Go to power it on Sunday morning and got beep codes instead of a boot. Undid the PBO curves. Left +100 on CPU and GPU along with XMP. Guess AMD really does push them to the limit from the factory. 155mhz additional boost clock was too much to keep the vcore under 1.3.

Probably my most rewarding overclock as it solved a problem. Was able to get the CPU to about 4.55 and GPU to 2100. Improved memory timings slightly. Max vcore doesn't go above 1.29. Smoothed out 4k 60 HDR video noticeably. GPU use dropped 5-10% I did the PBO curve optimizer all core. Per core I...

Using Chrome, yes. I will have to check the hardware acceleration setting as I've never heard of it. It's on for this computer and Chrome is synced so likely it is. I did try Edge last night briefly on one of the videos and it was the same as Chrome.

Got the 5600G system put together last night. Was a cake walk, everything worked. Forgot screenshots at home but the frame dropping improved significantly. On the Norway 4K 30fps video 0 frame drops out of ~3000. Perfect play back. On the Cost Rica 4k 60 fps HDR video drops were way less but...

I tried playing it windowed, probably about 1920x1080 size but set to 4k in Youtube . Use dropped to about 71% and smoothed out. Screenshot below is that. Going full screen 4K and use shoots to 100% and frames drop like a rock. Local playback is pretty smooth or at least smooth enough. I...

Chrome. Local video playback w/ VLC of some random 4k video I found on the internet puts it at about 52% GPU usage. For reference her monitor is 4K HDR connected via DisplayPort. Dell Ultrasharp U2723QE. I do have HDR enabled in Windows. File used is biggest one listed here...

Codec pack didn't make a difference. Maxed out GPU on both and 34-36% dropped frames. It's really terrible playback. I'll be interested to see how the 5600G compares. No codec pack. 4k 60 fps HDR 7700k Klite Codec pack installed. 4k 60 fps HDR 7700k Test video...

I will try it tonight. Thanks.

That was just an example from a different PC. On the other PC it was 10+% dropped frames and looked terrible.

It was dropping 10%+ of the frames. Obvious hitching, stuttering. Newest drivers, newest bios, sfc /scannow, latest updates. Windows 10. Temps were fine. I wanted an excuse to build a machine either way but it legit can't keep up. Even moving windows around on the desktop isn't as fluid as it...

Parts will be here Friday and working to understand the process for overlocking on AM4. Not world records but the low hanging fruit. My first AMD system since a Phenom II X4 945 build. I've read seemingly conflicting opinions about overclocking Ryzen 5000 chips. Enable PBO and walk way. Leave...

I haven't used Optane on the desktop but I would tell someone who asked, not worth it. Speaking from experience with SSD upgrades I've experienced. The improvement in benchmarks compared to the improvement in the human experience don't align. There's very little "seat of your pants" improvement...

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Here's some points of comparison for you from equipment I've owned and tested: 10850k 5ghz, 3080 ti gpu, 64 gb DDR4 3600 16gbx4, WD SN750 ssd 1TB, Samsung 850 evo, Corsair Dual 140 AIO water cooler, EVGA 850w PS 164 watts idle 227 watts performing backup. 592 watts gaming Spiderman Miles...

This will allow you to run 4x NVME in a single PCIe 3 x16 slot. https://a.co/d/56yeqKr HighPoint 4-Port M.2 SSD7105 PCIe Gen3 Bootable NVMe RAID Controller for Windows & Linux Systems It's not a real common use these days.

I see you have a 6800XT in the computer in your sig. Might try a temporary swap to see if stutters persist between cards. No experience with 4k media server performance.

Started as a dial-up help desk tech in 1999 and been doing IT professionally since then. Internal IT/IS for companies for the last 21ish years. I've maybe built a few dozen machines from components and have supported thousands of endpoints from big OEMs. Servers, ERP systems, SANs/LANs/WANs...

I haven't known anyone to deploy one yet. I've looked occasionally for my own home but they're too expensive. Compared to Wifi 6 equipment that's cheap these days. One could realistically deploy 3x Wifi 6 devices for the same price as a single Wifi 6e. They would be deployed closer to the...

I keep a USB ethernet adapter and USB wifi card in my toolbox for randomness like this. Depending on how complex your environment is, you could have a misconfiguration in your router such as QoS or bandwidth limiting. I've done that on my routers in the past to prioritize traffic back by MAC...

At work I use both diesel and natural gas units between 17KW and 21KW. Kohler branded. They power two rack datacenters + AC and the UPS work fine. However I use online UPS there to. So it's good power and good UPS units.

High THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) coming from the generator combined with the type of UPS you're using. What you describe is what I experience as well. The power isn't "clean" enough and the UPS detects it, runs the devices off battery power. I've heard an online, double conversion, UP{S may...

How many do you want? Probably have 10 used Intel S3610 400GB (Dell stamped), a fist full of 1.6 TB versions of the same drive. Have a Samsung 850 or 860 evo 500 gb BNIB and a 1.6 TB Intel-Dell S3610 brand new. I'd have to check them for health % as they were in Dell R730 servers I just pulled...

It will be straight sequential writes of a few files 30GB to 550GB in size each. Each time make a copy of my backups it's 2-3 TB of data that gets written.