Aremis

Haven't seen that orange button in a honkin MINUTE

TBH 4090 is a "just in case" and not even on my table anymore. If I can't get anything good compute wise, then I'll get something like that. I'm getting something a bit stupid A) because I put up with the reality of physics a bit too often (I could tell you so much weird shit that has happened) B) I don't trust lower tier tech anymore C) I'm shit at building hyper modern stuff, but want to be able to support my whole network in a pinch. If I just got rid of the NAS and ran it on my desktop, it'd save me power, and some physical storage space. D) The gigabyte PSU stuff spooked me, I'd rather just go server grade and not hustle around. This is legitimately what I have done since my first real PC build using a precision 670 mobo. I started thinking about this really hard core last night and TBH deleted and rewrote this post twice because I thought I was being too autistic and worried because of past issues. Obv due to your reaction, I did. I'm going to finish waking up now. The CPU isn't doing the major load. I am getting either 1 or 2 Vega MI25's to throw in the machine. Display card doesn't have to be magic, it just has to be better than an RX580 and not catch on fire. I have EPYC on deck mostly because I want to play with it, and when I get to doing VM's, I want to be able to do active switching on my PCIe bus. My current machine can do it a little bit, but it chokes after 2 GPU switches. So I have to be careful. Straight up, cool, don't care.

Budget (including currency): 2K to maybe 4K, depending on circumstances. Country: USA (USD) Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Content creation, design, gaming (source engine, tarkov), recording on-site (will be moved), VM's / multiboot, science simulation, CAD / 3D modeling / physical design, materials testing simulations, 3D printing, music production, network work (file moving, management, acting as a server at times, ETC), AI / ML research, Mycroft Personal Assistant development, C / Python / Lua / Ruby / emulation of old machines, emulation in general, White Hat research stuff Other details: Already have -Cards (GPU, in case I don't want to buy a display unit from them), Some Storage Mediums (could use faster, ofC), desk peripherals (monitors keyboard junk like that)- Currently the proposed specs go as follows: i9 12K series or i7 13K series Willing to do AMD, all the way to EPYC, but unsure about boards / core organization / tooling available 6 to 7 pcie slot WS board A water loop of sorts (GPU and CPU isolated) Display GPU: 3060 / 3070ti (not sure which yet) Compute GPU 1 or 2: AMD MI25 (Vega 56 Equiv) (No idea if they can loop these, if they can DOPE) I haven't got the whole thing pinned down yet. I want to send Xidax a completed build list of exactly what parts to put together. However, I am not familiar with recent crap on the market. To be honest, advertising drives me crazy, so I plain just can't do it right now. Got too much crap to do. I need: 1) A motherboard that has NO 3rd party controllers on it for host busses (USB, PCIe, etc) 2) A Low Latency, High Capacity, Storage Solution Currently I have a NAS and will be getting new drives ASAP and reformatting. But, beforehand, I wanna back up all the crap on the NAS and dump it on the machine, probably ending up running it in a VM for a while. Because of this, I need about 6TB of relatively fast storage for the task. Should I do NVME or SATA? SSD or HDD? I would assume with multiple repeated uses of staged memory, HDD, since I'm not editing using the server's hardware. Anything like that will be done locally. If I do NVMe, should I use the on-board slots, or would I be better to use a riser board and put the SSD's into the loop? Can I put SATA SSD's into water loops? If I put a radiator on each side of a hard drive rack, can I use the loop as a phase change condenser? I ask this because I want HDD's to be more than just blown on. I'd want the heat moved away from the inside of the case. If I do 10K HDD's, SMR or non SMR, what is the most reliable AT THE MOMENT...? Should I do a raid HBA and just get 10K HDD's? SMR drives are pretty cheap, and if I am just running them for a NAS VM, do I really need to care? If I do SSD's, should I do SATA or NVME? No matter what I need to be able to put it in the loop so I can specifically direct where air goes. Lastly, they already said I'll need to do 2 PSU's. I want server redundant PSU's in a caddy, in that case. Where do I even look for that sort of thing? I don't have room for an O11 Dynamic/Flow. THX bruvz

Hello I have an H100iV2 that needs a cleaning and coolant replacement. I'm rather mechanically minded, so I can do it no problem. But, thing is, I don't know what to use. My dad is an engineer and for big industrial coolant systems he puts an electrified probe in the loop and that mostly takes care of it. But, I obviously can't do that, or at least, not easily. Nor do I want to electrify my cooling plate. So, def not going to work. In looking some things up I had seen about different biocides and what not. This cooler is a cooper plate with an aluminum radiator. At first I thought, ok I'll just do all alcohol, but apparently that boils. So I want to know what I would actually want to put in the loop to not cause corrosion or shit growing. OBV distilled water, and I can get anhydrous alcohol really easily. I'm just wondring, what else is there, and how do I get this set up so I don't have to empty the loop for at least 3 or 4 years? I'm willing to clean it out regularly, but I want to know what the best options are for the moment. THX

Ye I know, and thats just a forwarding thing from them anyways lol. IDK how to trust factories thru just a text chat, I don't think you can.

For phones? Where would I look? I obv don't want to use wish, don't exactly wanna use AliE right now either. By the way I do have a PC for linux. This is just an actually convenient form factor

Lol I know. Part of me wants to know if theres small enough wish.com water blocks that I could try to do something stupid with lol

Not really an option lol

Its literally out in the open. Look at the setup thread, you can see it.

Oh like Novell? Yeah thats what I'm talking about. Exactly. Just didn't know what it was called lol.

Allo My switch runs linux and I use it as a general "Gaming Computer" of sorts. Runs the switch stuff, hacked the console so I get emulators, need a computer I flip it back to linux. Quick, easy. But, the damn bugger is a hot one. I run it at OC HI which means the lowest clock is 1.024GHz and the highest is 2.1, though the chip COULD hit 2.7 if I could find out how to unlock that. thing is, I get about 62 to 70C on it in linux while doing stuff. Fans going and whatnot, but it has me wondering if a different thermal compound could be used, or if I could get / make a better heatsink, or even water loop it somehow. Its annoying to have the CPU switch back to console clocks while I'm watching a video and doing an email. Everything goes wonky lol. Yes I know this isn't the intended use of a switch. I don't care either. I just want to come up with something stupid to cool it better. Docked or not. Also, these are temps while its docked, not mobile. Outside of the dock its at 52 ish. Do I just stick a blower on the dock and call it good?

VNC is a horrible end user experience. Its good for a concept, but does not do what I'd need it to do.

Link me I don't know what you're talking about lol. It might be, but I don't feel like learning about new types of config files.

Apple can do some things like that but eh not really lol. The remote session stuff is cool but the individual machines all use the same ammount of power. The CRD video shows exactly what I'm talking about. Rather than every machine be a pentium 4 running barely any software, run 1 machine with a terminal hookup. Then you get 7 users, all at once, on one machine. Like ok heres an example for all of you. I'm pretty sure most of you would see a nintendo switch and think games console or mod thing. I see a switch and I think, oh thats the perfect netbook to put in my bag with a bluetooth keyboard. Mine happens to run Ubuntu, but I'll be swapping to an arch setup soon. If I were to do normal computer beep boop whatever, I'd do it on my switch and use 16 watts. If I wanted OOMPH I connect to the server and open my remote terminal. If I had a different terminal with less power used, cool. Where the apple stuff falls flat is my desktop 3,1 uses 250watts idle, has 1600 watts of capacity with 2 PSU's, powerbook uses 125 watts no matter what, MBP 2012 uses a lot of power, almost everything around here except my arm machines and my consoles use too much god damn electricity. If I had this sort of island-to-hub setup, then I have one server that runs all the power hungry stuff, using power like a fridge would and largely being ignored, but your terminals that you can have all over the place use almost nothing. But, you still get the bonus of the server's firepower. PRobably to make this work legit thered need to be an optical option anyways, which honestly annoys me, but its not like I can do anything about that.

You know what linus has with his big ass machine and the fibre runs going to his office? I want that but done on a network connection so I can turn my phone on, it does a network check, boom it connects to the server, phone terminal runs on the server. Desktop, laptop, wherever, independant of site. Obviously to game you'd need to be local but thats not the point. The point is keeping all your data from being in a big ass mess and keeping all your clients secure. Like true nas with a desktop OS front end that runs on another machine. Schools set up mini terminals that connect back to a server right? I want that as an entire user system.