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    Intel reaffirms Xe2 Battlemage "is coming"

    Tha ARC cards no longer completely suck as the drivers have matured a bit, but the next Gen of Intel GPU will be appreciated. Assuming Intel keeps up with the driver improvements they should be able to carve themselves out a small chunk of the market. Remember they are playing the long game...
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    Are we getting Ryzen Desktop 8000 or is it just APU

    Your math isn't wrong, expect a slight clk speed decrease for single thread turbo for most skus...
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    Are we getting Ryzen Desktop 8000 or is it just APU

    Zen 5 desktop looks to be a smaller update than we expected. The rumors are: Overall clock speeds are about the same, top skus will turbo a 200-300mgh higher, +15% IPC, 7-10% better single-threaded performance, 25% better multi-thread performance, 20% power usage decrease, AMX AI/ML...
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    current best air coolers

    Th I would debate the "way better" part. The 12A is by default configured to be quiet. I upgraded the fans... it's a bit louder but it does the job up to and past 220 watts. I'm not fighting against normal operation... I just want more precision boost overhead, and I don't like running my...
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    current best air coolers

    I have an AMD 5900X currently cooled by a Noctura nh-u12a. It's barely enough. The processor hits its limits while leveraging precision boost. TDP exceeds 260 watts in that condition, even while undervolting. I'm switching over to a ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 280 around Christmas and expect...
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    Frozencpu.com going out of business sale 50% off

    As an apple connoisseur, I strongly disagree. I'm not saying that all Crisp Pinks are terrible, but I am saying that I've never experienced a Crisp Pink that tasted anywhere as good as a good pink lady apple.
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    Frozencpu.com going out of business sale 50% off

    Sacrilege! A Crisp Pink is a Pink Lady that failed quality control, typically because the acidity level is off. True Pink Lady Apples, of which there are now several qualified varieties, have a very distinct flavor profile. Places that know this always charge more for genuine Pink Lady...
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    The Router Recommendations Thread (Consumer)

    Things WIFI 6 brings over WIFI 5 If the mobile client is WIFI 6, you'll leverage TWT which allows for less battery consumption when connected and idle WPA3 brings better security (yeah I know it's not practically ready) Supports 1024-QAM modulation resulting in higher connection speeds...
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    The Router Recommendations Thread (Consumer)

    I just did two of this exact upgrade, except in my case it was the TP-LINK AX1800 to the TP-LINK AX3000. Here's what you can expect: Assuming you don't currently have WIFI 6 Devices There's a pretty large functional feature set difference between the two. Mostly features you don't configure...
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    Johnnyguru.com its a sad day

    Seasonic is still 5 years ahead of most of the other power supply manufacturers. Only problem is there are some (avg) seasonic power supplies now, something that wasn't true 5 years ago.
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    Apple launched the M2 Pro and the M2 Max

    You can't buy such a thing out of the box, but I'd bet an AMD 6800 series 8 core processor held to a 25 watt profile while on battery and then switching to a 45 watt profile while plugged in, would give that a good run for its money.
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    Apple launched the M2 Pro and the M2 Max

    I have a 5900X that I modified the power parameters, OC and undervolted to run at 75 watts with a 165 watts PBS limit. Tuning it to be 100% stable was a nightmare, but I'm there now. I ended up with 96% of the oob performance with a fairly significant drop in power usage. It turbos single...
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    Apple launched the M2 Pro and the M2 Max

    Once upon a time, I needed to do some serious serial port connectivity. I needed it to be bulletproof, compatible with every weird standard I had to deal with and ensure it would never kill the embedded PC104 system we were driving it with. I found these and never looked back...
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    Intel 1226-V 2.5GbE Ethernet Chipset Showing Connection Drop Issues (Chipset Used on most Raptor Lake Motherboards)

    Wiring is just a small part of it. I built my house in 2017, all wired with Cat6a. The terminations are cat6 as cat6a terminations were x8 more expensive at that point. I've run adapter and link tests using 2 PCs equipped with 10Gbe copper cards and yes, I have no problem getting solid 10Gb...
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    Intel 1226-V 2.5GbE Ethernet Chipset Showing Connection Drop Issues (Chipset Used on most Raptor Lake Motherboards)

    My x570 board has the Intel 225 2.5Gbe adapter built-in. I screwed around trying to make it work at any speed for a week before disabling it and replacing it with an older Intel CT card.
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    The Router Recommendations Thread (Consumer)

    Wireless, no. Wired, yes. Ubiquiti Edgerouter Infinity is all 10Gbe The least expensive one I could find was this one, lightly used. https://www.ebay.com/itm/325488971035?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&srsltid=AeTuncqPeQSXGw5BFsVDlRJeMBOsyuitHYIeSY_nO6ZiC5H3_mxe98wpPiU
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    Inexplicably high temps on 5800x and 5900x

    On my 5900x I'm running 150/115/130 I see 5Ghz boost with an occasional 5.05Ghz, R23 runs 4.65-4.8 depending on the core. I'll have to run a Linpack to compare. My goal was to find the sweet spot between performance and efficiency.
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    Inexplicably high temps on 5800x and 5900x

    All your turbo speeds will be thermally limited. As a [H]ardOCP member and gamer type It doesn't make sense to spend $550 on a processor and leave 10%+ of the processor's potential performance on the floor. Unless you don't care about clock speed and are one of those users who are...
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    Inexplicably high temps on 5800x and 5900x

    PPT 150 TDC 115 EDC 130 These settings will limit your processor to approx 150 watts. That'll keep you at or near 80c with most of the decent air-cooled heatsinks. You can push PPT higher, but your temps will rise as well. With my older Noctura U12 raising the PPT to 165 raised the...
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    Inexplicably high temps on 5800x and 5900x

    Try these settings: PPT 150 TDC 115 EDC 130 You should see a 7c drop on Air before you touch the processor voltage.
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    Begun the AM5 Wars Have....

    Yeah, the Asus motherboard without the Wifi and built-in Ethernet was $40 more. The number of slots was also the same across all 4 variations of this motherboard. I chose the motherboard based on cost, stability and what items I required..certain number and type of PCIe slots. In this case...
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    Begun the AM5 Wars Have....

    I remember the Abit BP6. I also owned an EPOX board which was another of those exceedingly awesome boards from yester-year. But in regards to the 2.5Gbe post near the beginning of the thread, my brand new Asus TUF Gaming X570 Pro Wifi has an Intel i255v that I haven't found a single...
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    One of the worse PC builds you seen.....

    In that case yes, In something like a Fractal R5 or R6...cable management is still a piece of cake.
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    Your CPU progression

    Intel 486 DX4 100MHz Cyrix 6x86 PR90+ AMD K5 PR200 <-- Ran this with a Peltier cooler at 166Mhz for a while and then it actually did perform nearly as fast as an Intel 200 MMX Processor AMD K6 II 366MHz (Not inspiring at all) AMD K6-III+ 450Mhz (Surprisingly one of my favorites) Intel Pentium...
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    The core i9 12900K used 2.3x power than the Ryzen 5950x in official benchmark

    My first tiny apartment 600 sq , I heated the second floor with a Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor overclocked. When I finally decided to rebuild the PC, a month later I realized my electric bill dropped by $17 and the second floor temperature had dropped by 5 degrees. That thing idled at...
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    The core i9 12900K used 2.3x power than the Ryzen 5950x in official benchmark

    Ok...Since you're asking for me to pull out my crystal ball. Basically, the next couple processor releases are fairly set, unless AMD or Intel screws up. Here's what's most likely to occur for the server market: Desktop processors can/may have more refreshes, alterations etc... Winter...
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    The core i9 12900K used 2.3x power than the Ryzen 5950x in official benchmark

    So there's a couple things at play here. Intel chips have a burstable turbo mode speed that can only be sustained for a short period, they also have a different slower turbo mode that can run "x" number of cores indefinitely. The peak number is that short burstable number. AMD vCache...
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    The Router Recommendations Thread (Consumer)

    A somewhat newer linux based router is firewalla. Evidently the company is a bunch of ex cisco engineers. It integrates well with Ubiquiti equipment as well. I'd look at Blue Plus or the Gold Models. You need Blue Plus at a minimum to get fq_codel to mitigate buffer bloat...
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    Picking a home router

    DDWRT has been a pile of dung living off of its history running on the Lunksys WRT54G for over a decade. If you'd like to migrate into this decade, look at any of the superior forks such as Shibby Tomato the supported hardware for shibby's tomato is here: http://tomato.groov.pl/?page_id=69...
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    AMD 2018 Roll Out Schedule

    It looks like there's some marketing at work... a chunk of that 15% Is the increase in clock speed.
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    AMD 2018 Roll Out Schedule

    The rumors were for 15% performance bump from Zen to Zen+ and another >15% for Zen 2.
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    Cat6 or Cat6a for home?

    FYI... last time I looked cat6a terminations cost a pile more then cat6 ones. I remember cat 6 ends being about $1.00 each and cat 6a end being $4.97 each.
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    ESXi vCPUs multiprocessor limits?

    The accuracy of the info here for VMware and ESXi is all over the place. So let to throw in my 2 cents... vCPU allocation has changed in the past couple of versions of ESXI. The latest best practice for ESXi 6.5 is to NOT touch cores and to allocate sockets only. ESXI 6.5 doesn't do what...
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    Server load problem

    See if you can load the entire MySQL db into cache. 160MB is nothing. That should be an easy change and should removed some read latency and CPU overhead. It may also cause your CPU to be driven higher, but your resulting performance should scale linearly as well. After that you really...
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    Server load problem

    So you're entire instance is running within 1GB of RAM? That doesn't make sense. With that small of a database you could load the entire db into cache and have few fetches outside of updates. It makes me wonder what else is going on. What processes are eating so much CPU?
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    Server load problem

    How many CPU cycles are you consuming peak? How many CPU cycles are you consuming avg. during your high load period? How large is the database, your web page is reading from? How much of your current storage is being consumed? What's the RAM usage of your instance look like under load? I...
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    Intel NIC settings...a tweak too far?

    I'm not going to argue if you should enable jumbo frames, as you'll probably not get out of it what you are looking for. But operationally the proof is in the testing. Assuming QOS or VLAN tagging it not involved did you test at 1500, 4000 and 9000? Did you enable and match the maximum frame...
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    VM with passthrough "freezes" entire ESXi box when shutdown/rebooting guest

    You should look into the various options of implementing vSGA verses vDGA and vGPU. VMware convienently only tells you about it in the Horizon documentation but there's nothing stopping you from using it without horizon licensing. You'd have to load the VIB manually as well.
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