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As I understood it; They are capable of running at lower speeds; but it wouldn't bifurcate on it's own; meaning I'd be eating 16x PCIe G5 lanes while only running them at G4 speeds. That said, attempting to find even a raid controller that allows me to install 4x NVME SSDs and refactor them to 8x Gen5 lanes doesn't seem to exist; so I may just have to bite the loss of lanes. Given that We only have 28 Gen5 lanes (from the CPU), of which 16 of the Gen5 are available for slots, with 12 Gen4 lanes available from the X670E; my intent was to have 8 Gen5 lanes for GPU, 8 Gen5 lanes for NVME storage as originally planned out; and then use my 12 Gen4 lanes for SFP+ NIC/spare monitor GPU/other misc such.

Ah, y'know, now that I have the word, that is exactly the word, thank you.

Trying to come up with a title for this was a pain, and I'm still not sure that it fully encompasses what I'm actually asking for here. But; to dive into the question at hand - I'm looking to see if this is a sound concept; Effectively taking 4x PCIe Gen4 NVME SSDs and allowing them to be accessed over fewer, though higher bandwidth, PCIe Gen5 lanes --- saving on semi-valuable PCIe lanes, and on new hardware costs (as in my use case, I have 2 PCIe Gen 4 NVME SSDs as it stands). Instead of burning 16 lanes at Gen4 speeds, I could utilize 8 at Gen5 speeds and get the same (or, close enough) bandwidth to suck most of the performance out of the drives while not needing to shell out cash on Gen5 SSDs themselves. The goal would not be a hardware raid controller; but to allow software direct access to the drives themselves. In my personal use case this *would* be an array of 4, 2TB NVME SSDs in Raid 0 for maximum speed, so a raid controller wouldn't be out of the question, however. I've been made aware of the Aorus Gen5 AIC Adaptor; which seems almost exactly like what I'm interested in for this use case, but I have a few questions 1: Will this actually save me Gen5 lanes; or will they operate as Gen4 lanes and I'm still back at square 1 but with a fancy hunk of metal in the way 2: Is this even something reasonable to care about on Zen4 on an X670 boards, given the number of available general purpose PCIe lanes? 3: Am I absolutely mad for attempting something like this in the first place, or should I just get a larger, single Gen5 NVME SSD for a less 'messy' build?

Planetside 2: Get a 192v192 fight in a Biolab going on. Everyone else's rigs will die and wither, but you shall fight strong like ox.

Well. This topic was exceptionally more dead than I had anticipated. I was hoping for questions.

Alright, so something in the 3D Printer video caught me off guard, that seemed like Luke and the boys forgot to follow a few steps when setting up their printer, though, all printers aren't the same and not all of them come with instruction manuals. PART ONE - THE TYPES Shameless Tomska reference. I only have experience with FDM printing, but there are 3 major types that are used and are available for home purchase. Fused Deposition Modeling - Fancy dandy printing plastic, just like your regular, printer that just lays down layers of hot plastic. Stereolithography - Fancy dandy laser that again prints in plastic - it shoots UV light at a bathtub full of liquid plastic that sets in UV light. Selective Laser Sintering - Another laser printer, but this time it sinters (melts) a metal powder, usually an aluminum based one, and wow is it messy. You can pick up home based of all 3, though, price for performance, FDM is cheapest for the base, but medium in expensive for it's 'ink'. SLS is impractical unless you /need/ it to be made of metal, and Stereolithography is actually the middle route here, though the liquid can be messy. PART TWO - THE INK Now, this is a big thing. Some printers, like the Ultimaker 2 (video to hit youtube soon) only have 1 ink cartridge, allowing you to only print in one color, while others have up to 4 colors and 2 different support material cartridges allowing you to print in multiple colors at the same time. Something that cropped up in the video was that he complained about changing ink - you need to slice the tip at an angle and ensure that you tell the printer you're changing inks. A lot of printers have a manual on how to do this, and it needs to calibrate itself (extrude the last bit of the last color and extrude a bit of the next color to make sure the print head is printing the right thickness). I hear you going "Well then what's this support material!?". Well if you cool your jets for a moment, I'll tell you - the support material allows you to make either break away or solvable with water or acid (warning, the acid burns if you leave it on over time, don't do that, but you won't melt your hands away just touching it). This allows you to do some crazy things, like print an entire toy car with the axles and everything moving, or print a gearbox with the entirety of it working fresh out of the printer (after it's cooled, acid bathed, and dried off... so not really fresh out of the printer but you get the point). PART THREE - THE USE Something interesting about these printers, FDM in particular, is the rapid print times. You may wonder why you would do this and purchase one over anything else. Well, for home users who don't have things break frequently, not a whole lot, and you do have to be wary of those applications where high temperature is of severe concern. The primary use of 3D printers was for an industry application called "Rapid Prototyping" - the name is exactly as it sounds, an application where you need a rapidly built part just to test how it fits in constraints of a project. It's primarily what was printed, where I used the 2 tower FDM printers ( 24x24x48 for the first, and 30x30x60 for the second, inches for all measurements) to allow us to rapidly make and test parts of various machines to see if the tolerances were close enough (there is a margin of error on the printer's side). Some foreseeable uses of FDM printers in the home include, but aren't limited to - custom keycaps for your keyboard (assuming you know how to read a caliper), custom figurines you can paint (yes, you can paint FDM printed parts. It's actually rather common), rebuild a mouse housing to one that fits your hand because travel mice are all your family ever purchases and you hate getting the hand me downs (er, that's a touch specific...), custom wrist rests (say, for your Orion Spark with the crummy wrist rest... Logitech I'm looking at you), custom router casings to personalize your gear, small plastic parts for repairs, and a half dozen other things. The only limiting factors are how much plastic ink you have, and how big your workspace is. PART FOUR - THE FUTURE It's spooky isn't it? So, now we're here, we've got the technology as it sits right now. But what about the future of this? Well, as we figure out how to get more and more detailed and precise in FDM printers for lower cost, we'll eventually be able to make pretty wicked 3D printed things. There's a company that has made a completely food safe 3D printer that prints using SLS technologies in melted sugar to turn it into caramel, there is a team researching how to 3D print biological constructs, there are a couple of companies looking into 'flexible' 3D printing techniques that allow a printer to rapidly switch between two printing types to allow more flexibility (as each type has it's strengths and weaknesses as far as accuracy, printing size, cost, time and the like go), and a half dozen other fancy things, like 3D printing electronics directly into a prototype part using a tin/copper twisted thread that's 'glued' into place with an insulating semi-melting rubber, and more. This stuff is amazing, and supporting it ensures we get all of these cool features to play with. Now go, be free, and art, tech, and geek up the world with your 3d printed creations.

Having to troubleshoot someone using their disk drive as a 'retractable sandwich holder'... >_<

I've done that 4 times on AMD chips. Arctic silver was the paste on the last time, but it was stock on the first three. Don't get me wrong, I loves myself my AMD, but it still scares me half to death.

Attempting to Theme windows 7 beyond the basic stuff. My machine BSOD'd so frequently due to the dodgy shenanigans required to change out the custom interface... Not happy with me there. (VistaGlazz anybody?) (Yay Gnome and again being lazy and using a friend to do all the artwork for the assets and stealing his setup because it's effectively yours in a different colour. ) S'pose the other big mistake I have ever done to my machine would be let it render out a 40 billion particle scene in 3DS max for a week... for a 30 minute test... Next time, I'll drop those extra two 0s.

That's my issue v-v I'm trying to find games that either use it to trick you (like a horror game that gives you nothing but a blank screen or something, kinda like the old text-based RPG's of my 5-year-old-days), or to cause puzzles to revolve around you. CS and all of it's various counterparts use this in a way (emulating it) to give you positional audio, but I'm thinking simpler. The game revolves around the audio more than the actions in the game. I'm mostly just looking for ideas to test with a silly "Choose your own adventure" audiobook/game. It wouldn't take hardly any processing power to produce if recorded as binaural in the first place, or if they used virtual surround sound in some fashion. I do admit that the game supporting it on their own are lacking, or headphones designed around positional audio being mostly snake oil.

Anyone have any games that either are really good with binaural funsies, or even just have more fun binaural plays (like Virtual barber shop)? I'm curious as to what could be done with this in a game, and am rather interested to see what other people do with it. I mean, it does take up quite a bit of time recording binaural sounds, due to the nature of them, but even 'mostly emulated binaural' suffices.

Not necessarily a brand, per say, but a circuitry styled background, with things that look distinctly like circuit traces on the old green and copper boards we used in Highschool soldering class. Also, a hexagonal themed wallpaper, in 3 colours (red, green, blue, common internals colours) that's simple, yet still feels 'futuristic'. Kinda like the stock wallpaper on old Alienwares. EDIT: The hexagonal bit should be used as a background for various logos (It actually make's corsair's new logo look not like crud... kinda. )

Parents, grandparents, and siblings galore. The only technically inclined individual in the house, sans my father (he doesn't know everything, but he knows enough to game when his work allows and is actually pretty good at TF2 and America's Army style games) Two new computers due to siblings in online school. Within HOURS of them arriving in the house, my two youngest siblings managed to install ~40 different spy, ad, and bloatwares across the two while trying to install games. I was tasked with scrubbing it. Weekly. I eventually forced them over to a Ubuntu install just so they couldn't get the virus's to function anymore. They didn't like the "bubble windows because they can't have all their funny programs" ... >-> Grandmother has a biig book of all her passwords and all of the info I've given her on how to do things, still calls me every week to figure out a problem she's done 80 times before >-> She then sells me out to all the members of her gated community as cheap tech support. So now I'm stuck doing antivirus updates and full purges for nickles. >~> My mothers Vista machine was being bogged down, I took a look at it, and found 18 different auto-update apps running in the background for almost any software you can find... I'm in the computer room at my (other) grandmother's house, and, me not realizing where I am, was asked to come help in the kitchen. I blurt out "I'm just looking at Hardware porn" Nearly gave my grandmother a heart attack, as she rushed into the room to find me staring at liquid cooling setups and LED Fans. Still doesn't trust me alone in the computer room. Back in the day (Like, 512Mhz CPU, 512Megs DDR2 days, with a 128Mhz GPU kinda dinosaur days) I would frequently talk to my parents about getting a more powerful computer, and while they understood it, my friends couldn't figure out why I'd need a more powerful computer, thinking the case was what really made the computer better. IT In school - Some kid thinks he's tough crap in tech in 8th grade, showing the teacher how to connect things up. I snicker under my breath as I watch him create 4 different network loops in the computer lab. Ahh, the beauty of that moment. Debating consoles with friends was another good one, we were talking about the hardware specs of the PS3/Xbox360 to modern PC's. Mind you, these guys never /really/ played on a good PC, mostly just played on older rigs that cost about as much (4~6 years older than the consoles) and that was their argument, that the console would still play games as well as it does now, but the PC can't, even after the time. I retorted with the price changes in electronics and the improvements in them in recent years. They still don't believe me, despite me showing them the glory of massive Planetside 2 battles on Med at 60FPS on a 125ish USD GPU. A cousin trying to upgrade her system put the new 16GB QuCK in her hard-disk drive bays... couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work... Teacher thinking that turning off her monitor would activate the smart-board system in the new school, A teacher blatantly blaming computers for the poor test grades, and so many other wonderfully naive individuals I've ran across... I'd love to open a tech support shop, but I couldn't hold a professional face or tone of voice in front of some of these people. I applaud those who actually know things and don't merely read off of pre-scripted cards.

Yes. You need the best toilet paper while planning out what you're going to do with your assets once you've keeled over while you're preparing to watch a video about windows 10.

Shh! You'll awaken the demons that ban ABP from chrome again! But no I hear your point, and I do what I can (sadly, I'm a broke scrublord, ruler of the change under of the couch), but if google's going to go the route of paid youtube subscriptions, this seems like the least painful way to do it.