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  1. Good morning all. Looking for opinions. A friend is in need of a new editing system as they make short films. in 4k. Their primary usage is After effects and Davinci Resolve. most films they make are in 3 sections at most at 40 min each. they also have a budget of 1500 CAD. beyond the normal 16-32gb Ram 1tb Sata SSD and 256 nvme. probably a 1060 to help out what it can. capable PSU and standard ugly case. questions where i am not sure. High end i5? mid i7? Ryzen 2700? or xeon workstation?
  2. Where did the crucible come from? we have had limited luck finding a good size one in ontario for a while now. VS just ordering from the US.
  3. oh nice newark also has the pads i was looking for. I have measured the space available. i have 3.8 MM of space between the chassis and the ssd. So i am thinking a 1mm copper shim. then a 2mm thermal pad with at least 15W transfer. going to try to prototype the process and test my speeds. also need to kick it into high gear incase it works too well and creates a crazy hotspot on the laptop chassis alone.
  4. the copper one seems pretty good plus we can easily cut that here with our tools. Ceramic i have no experience with other than Cooking . though i have never used digikey. i will have to check them out some more. thanks for the links.
  5. i will order a few and see how it goes. Thanks.
  6. we only notice it on full IO operations such as a massive code scan. though with more and more security reviews of code this is now becoming common place on the dev systems. though most don't notice it. a few rock stars do.
  7. we have the 5510 and 5520's
  8. Curious if anyone has any good luck with these and or has ordered some? I have a few (42) precision laptops here with the samsung p951 SSD's in them. the m.2. thermal throttling on them kicks in a lot and well they get slow as heck. Dell has a small thermal pad on it but its crap. I have not found anywhere that i can order a 14w thermal pad here in canada or the states. everyone i check is out of stock. So i was thinking a copper shim or heat spreader. as there is basic airflow. plus if i add a copper shim. plus the crappy thermal pad it will touch the metal chassis of the laptop. my idea is that it will help with thermal transfer. thus limiting the throttling. Anyone have any good suggestions on where to find some m.2 heatspreaders? i have not had much google luck.
  9. Curious what the estimated cost is for that flash storage. If its comparable to nimble or compellent and even EMC all flash arrays.
  10. from my understanding as we have 30 NVME based laptops and 20 SATA ssd laptops. windows and basic apps wont start much faster than they already do. It has to do with how its built. it also has a built in wait for some services and systems to start. if you want to see the real bang for the buck get a badly programed game like Just Cause 3. See the load time differences. Or some big reads or writes. That is where you will really see it. we got NVME for our dev's only due to the compile effort. It will compile into ram and dump to the disk before they do a test. It has great gains in such a thing. Other than that and special cases of big data pushes or dumps. there is no big difference i have seen.
  11. would love to. though they have updated the tool to now be 5.0. it seems to remove all previously provided info from non samsung drives. since Dell has a dammed custom bios on it. it wont let me. oh yay OEM. I am searching for the old 4.9.7 version to install. it should be able to dump its smart status.
  12. Thanks ZeilzMastr. i will check the thermals on it when i get to the office. a fresh cold laptop from great Canadian winter should be a decent baseline test monitoring the change in temp.
  13. Also just checking other laptops in the house. though they are using Sata SSD. Precision 3510 Read - 539, Write - 455. Intel Sata SSD. Latitude E5580x Read - 541, Write 523. Samsung 850 Evo why would the Nvme be slower writes than a standard sata ssd? am i doing something wrong? or am i miss-interrupting the benchmarks of NVME online?
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