Mattias Edeslatt

@WinWX
 
That is not how the efficiency of a PSU works. If a PSU is rated for 650 W it delivers 650 W to the system, but with 80 % efficiency it draws 812 W from the wall to deliver the 650 W
 
 
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/psu-buying-guide,2916-3.html
 

Give me 1 Billion points... or I will destroy the world.....

Well, as I didn't quote the post that it was a reply to and that now is gone, I now looks like a fool 🙃

Oi, so I'm alive, just been busy.
 
In mean time, this weekend shall be enjoyable one.  Big main boi is finally getting the full refresh I been working on.
Finally piece is gained.
Some proper crunching in F@H/BOINC shall occur to get this chap tune.
 

It won't be happening particularly soon but I have roadmap plans to build a GPU compute server. At the moment the most appealing candidate is the NVIDIA Tesla M40 12GB. If I can pack 5 or 6 of them into a box it'd be a fantastic F@H rig. Looking to get some forum badges for folding.

@Windows7ge Well I would have taken 1st place on Team LTT for Einstein today but we had a new member "magne56" join the team this weekend with 2,125,099,591 points so I have a little bit more work to do 🤣
 
So stop whining about me and my GPUs in WCG!
 
Something about karma being a bitch ...

18.04 LTS is end of support later this year and 22.04 will be out very soon so I figure it's time to get going on 20.04 LTS. Besides, I want the newer kernels available in 20.04 which have better support for Zen3.
 
The biggest drawback for many with 20.04 LTS is the lack of Python 2 support and the attendant issues with getting the F@H GUI working but I believe there is a Python 3 FAHClient in beta and, if not, there are work-arounds. Doesn't really bother me as I run all my Linux Rigs headless but I'll get that working and document it.
 
My main compaint is the crappy system.d support. It would be really nice if
service FAHClient start|stop|restart actually worked properly so I'll be spending some time on that as others have gotten it working with custom init.d scripts and making the client a member of the "video" group like what's needed for AMD GPU drivers.
 
First I have to upgrade my monitoring system to 20.04 which means moving from Zabbix 3.4 to 4.x then when I'm upgrading the rigs to 20.04 the native Zabbix 4.x client package will actually work and I'll maintain my telemetry.

Damn I have not been paying atention I  passed 3B points and didn't notice. 🙂
 

That's a nice collection of chips... I even spy a 486 DX50... those flew for their day if you had cards that would handle the 50mhz bus, if not, then well you had a lot of system instability. A DX2-66 should be similar in performance but far more stable due to the 33mhz bus, though I'd imagine a dx50 would still beat it for memory performance.
 
Definitely a neat collection. I myself only have one each of a 286 and 386... my 386 is a DX33, which I see you have several of.

just found a load of old processors and bios chips

Hi, everyone!
 
I've been incommunicado for a while but not without good reason... my wife and I welcomed our third (and final!) Future Folder to the family a week before Christmas. Her name is Clara Noelle and she's doing great-- as indicated by her weight of 14.5 lbs at 2 months old! We, and her two older sisters (yes, three girls 🥴) love her already.
 
On the folding front, I'm just about 60 days from joining the (not Diamond!!!) Platinum Club! Thanks for the support, everybody.

Anyone else been getting some sweet work units recently? I am pushing past 18M ppd right now which is fantastic!

Whole slew of tech centered insults just opened up to me now. You're a few pins short of LGA 1156 aren't ya bud? Oh boy this one's a few bits short of a byte. This guy must be running on PCIe x1.

My late wife, before we knew each other, gave private PC lessons, for woman and seniors. 
 
She told me about one Granny that has been her pupil. 
 
The Granny one day called her and said she wanted to build herself a new computer and if she would come with her to supervise and eventually help. So being the persoan she was she agreed happily. 
 
The day arrived and they both went to a pretty big IT store, a little like Microcenter but not as ginormous. 
 
So the old Lady stood there with her small piece of paper where all the parts she would like to have were written on. 
 
The salesman was quite impressed by the choices and when summing all up at the checkout he said :"Gosh I think your grandkid will be very happy for the new system!." The Lady pulled herself up and said :"Young man, this computer is for myself!" and nodded like making a point. The sales man looked impressed. 
 
Later she did build the system completely on her own, my wife didn't have to intervene... same with the os and driver installation. 
 
This all happend while dialup internet was still new, and Compuserver as well as AOL CDs were crammed into your outside mailbox ^^

Today (Mar 5th/22) Adam from Corsair reached out to tell me they are going to send me a new power supply and let the warehouse deal with finding my old one. I believe @jonnyGURUhad a hand in getting this expedited and I thank him for all he has done. I've been told that Corsair moved their RMA department or perhaps the entire process from California to Georgia and when something like that happens, it can be a logistics nightmare. In any case, Corsair has stepped up to the plate and are showing they deserve to be the company of choice for their many products. Kudos to all those involved, including jonnyGURU.

I've been seeing a lot of YT commenters recently asking about ways to support LTT/LMG, such as on the recent LMG clip titled "Why LMG needs more money".

Just thinking out loud here; do you guys think folding for the LTT folding team could be a potential a way of showing support and engaging with LMG's content? We're already the 2nd most productive Folding team after banano.cc, and it costs very little in electricity to run Folding@home to achieve what I believe is a big contribution to healthcare research. Children and students strapped for cash (such as myself) may be more inclined to show support this way - I know I do.

I continue to fold with the LTT team because of the community here, but I wouldn't have found them if I weren't a fan of LMG's work!
 

What's up guys! Long time no see.
It has been months since I thought about my x58 boards, they're still sitting in storage. I didn't have any plans to get more until I made an offer on this board with bent pins.
 
Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-7TESM - with 5 LAN ports and the optional SAS connections which make this board so desirable. Using my boxcutter I was able to bend some pins back to a correct-ish location. This motherboard is notable as it was featured in JDM_WHAAAT's " $145 Nas Killer 2.0," Once I saw it I had to buy it.
https://www.serverbuilds.net/145-nas-killer-v20
 

 
Well at least all of the ram and both CPUs were detected, that's a win, but like all exotic hardware of this age there is bound to be a mound of headaches.
 

 
Ubuntu 21 livedisk worked perfect for testing out some light videobrowsing and testing, but I wasn't able to verify the SAS controller was detected or working. It could have to deal with some of the bent pins that I was dealing with on the motherboard. Hard to tell, and I don't want to rip into my working desktop to get my only powersupply out.
 

 
X58 still lives on! And that means I have some extra boards laying around... Hope you guys have a good day, and a happy 2022!
 

Just to follow up on this, I finally had a chance to pull the MB from the case and do some diagnostics.
 
Pulled all the DIMMs, re-seated one in A1 slot, re-pasted and re-seated the AIO and booted, still running up to 105C and then thermal shutting down.
 
Let it cool and then flashed bios from backup bios (very useful feature that one).
 
Back into bios, it ran up to 105C but didn't shutdown, and then all of a sudden it just plummeted in temp and hung out around 35C. It sat there for 5 minutes, happily idling at 35C.
 
Re-seated all the RAM and sure enough, back to 105C and thermal shutdown.
 
Removed RAM and proceeded to add one stick at a time. Booted and hung out at 35C, until I put the seventh stick (there's 8 slots) in and then up to 105C.
 
Pulled it out and put the other DIMM in the same slot, 35C.
 
Thinking it was a dodgy DIMM, I seated it into the last slot and wouldn't you know 35C.
 
So in the end I really don't know what was wrong - could have been corrupted bios. Could have been that the DIMM is in fact dodgy but for whatever reason it doesn't get affected in the particular slot that it is in. All very weird.
 
All I know is that I now have a pretty decent gaming rig for free (well, for the cost of 2 hours of my life) and in the current state of desktop computing, that's a win!
 
Thanks everyone for your help!
 
 

posting this from the thinkpad s30
in a survival situation, one could use this for daily internet browsing

Yeah i thought as much gonna have to get a new pc gonna have to get lucky and find a buyer for this current one and buy an op laptop that's worth the price that will last for 10 years or sm

Update: lian li sent the hardware. It just shipped today! 

no, they shouldn't have listed the pc i ordered with an estimate time if they can't even keep a record of how much components they have in stock, they shouldn't be selling what they don't have and make their customers wait until there back on stock. It would've been simpler if there was any notification or message before ordering that said something like "we are currently experiencing part shortages, there will be delays" or something like that. I'm

They were saying "in general". With the iGPU Quicksync's available and it's "one of the things that don't add CPU usage".

Yes, and now he works at a leading psu maker, thats why when he offers advice, the smart person listens to it. 😉

Disassembled a CF form factor microdrive. Its whole platter assembly is smaller than the spindle clamp on a 3.5" Barracuda.

It only has a head on one side of the platter. I wonder if this was totally needed because the tiny head would get too heavy double sided, or if there was a model with 2x the capacity of this one that used both sides.

I see what broke on it, part of the wiring on the head was torn up. I used a pair of tweezers to remove the rest so it would look a bit nicer for decoration. I also removed part of the parking mechanism that was in this part of the drive (by about where the head is now) since it was loose and was probably what broke it in the first place.

Its controller board. There's an Atmel chip, probably the controller, the cache and something else are under the black epoxy stuff so I can't read markings.

Here is the top of the drive, with the head magnet, noise dampening/shock protection material, and part of the parking mechanism.