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No he doesn't need to... it's talking about the additional 4 pin power, not the usual 8 pin (4+4) that pretty much every ATX PSU has in the last IDK how many years, but a lot. The CXF550w comes with the usual 8 pin EPS connector. It's only extreme OC that would use more than the 8 pin EPS.

Again, not how that works.

Make sure your SATA cable isn't in a port that is disabled by an M.2 (if there is any).
 
Drives are drives. "Motherboard support" for them isn't a thing. Either they talk the protocol or not. I've had 10 and 14TB drives on my desktop without issue.
 
Some older (read pre-UEFI) boards may not be able to boot from >2TB drives, but those days are pretty long gone.

If it's ATX or mATX it will work in modern cases. There's a reason we have motherboard standards - it's to allow this kind of thing!

I can't imagine how the expert testamony would go in a case like that
"how would one go about hacking said website?"
'well they hit f12 on their keyboard'
"no, I'm asking how they hacked it"
'yep, that's all it took'
"get the next expert, there must be more to it"
 

Just remember x86 and AMD64/x86_64 are different things, Intel can only issue licenses on x86 i.e 32bit, AMD own 64bit.

Where's my popcorn. This is gonna be good. 
 
Not sure how. This is exactly what he's been about; calling people out on their BS. He did the same thing with MSI. NewEgg would be fools to not meet with him. 

I've had many RMA situations to solve where neither side can prove the wrong doing. Not the seller and not the buyer. Usually it's on store to go with good business practices and solve the issue on its own expense. If they have the insight on customer's spending, if they spent a lot and returns weren't a regular thing they did, it makes sense to eat the loss and solve the RMA for customer and ensure they'll return.

You are a 100% wrong about what commercial use is.
 
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Don't think this whole thing would really be much of an issue at all without that Linus adblock piracy take. LMG messed up, take the L. They made it kinda right, tho I feel like Linus should briefly address their screw up in a video. Only makes sense based on the adblock being piracy video.

If you're gonna make sense then I'm gonna have to ask you to leave, sir or madam.  

[Copied from Reddit, did NOT see a post on here] [https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/srhalz/linus_tech_tips_pirating_occt_answer_from_the_dev/]
Context :
I'm making this a dedicated post since things blew up in the post about the Newegg controversy, following this comment :
https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/srb92k/holy_sht_people/hwrbhts/
TL;DR : Linus tech tips use OCCT in their videos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJnrMNCahxc&t=270s
) and they didn't pay for a Pro license, which raised controversy in my Discord at that time, and mixed feelings. Aeryn brings that up, and it blew up, with mentions to their "adblock = piracy" stuff among others.
Seems my answer isn't publicly readable in that thread for some reason, and as it's far in the comments section, I thought it was a good idea to put it here. I jnust hope i'm not wrong. Sorry if I am !
My original answer :
OCCT dev here. I read the whole comment thread (wow, that blew up), and felt like I had to give my personal view of this.
Let me draw the whole picture quickly : i'm the sole dev behind the project (and I always have been a solo dev), and it's currently downloaded 20k+ times per day. I made that my main job due to COVID events since early 2021, and currently, i'm not making ends meet with the project, and if things continue that way, i'll have to put OCCT as a side job again, despite its huge success.
OCCT has been around for 18 years now, and has been free for personal use only for like 10+ years, at least. It's not new it's forbidden for professional / commercial use. Don't ask me when exactly, but it's been 10 years+ at least. I think it was since OCCT 2.0.
I'll say how I felt about this, without filtering anything.
First reaction was "OMFG I finally am featured on a popular youtube channel !". I was on JayZ's channel already (he used a very old version), and now on LTT, I was thoroughly REALLY happy.
Then, after a few minutes, it starts to hit you.
Did they contact you ? No. Did they pay for a license ? No. Are they out of bounds ? yeah.
Now, should I care about that ? That's the tough part. They have tremendous power. They make a video saying OCCT sucks ? I'm dead. No matter how 18 years of being "useful" are, i'm as good as dead. They can pronounce a death sentence instantly. GamerNexus, Jayz, and a lot of others can.
I never go the fight route with anyone, but here, even less so, like a David/Goliath stuff.
They also give me visibility, and that's a good thing already 🙂
Would I have offered them a free license with an email ? HELL YES. Why wouldn't I ? I mean, it's free ads for OCCT, and it can only benefit us both. So in the end, it was just boiling down to not being "nice".
I let the matter be, as I enjoyed +15% visits for a few days following this, and tried to forget about it.
Then, developing OCCT further, I tried to reach out to youtubers, as they started making content about software. Remember the CTR/Hydra craze a few months ago ? Yeah, around that time. I was introducing my benchmarks, with a new take, and tried to get attention. I emailed the 3 top youtube channels I knew : JayZ, LTT, and GamersNexus. I got a response from GamerNexus, which led to nowhere (I was still very happy about getting answered though, thanks !), and none from the two others.
Don't get me wrong - i'm not a special snowflake. I don't deserve answers. They are so big they can view me as an insect, easily, we just don't compare. But then, you realize the sole one that replied you was the one that wasn't using your work to make some of their content. I don't know if they do use OCCT regularly, I just know they did for sure, but still, it was a bitter taste.
So here I was, having no attention from major youtube channels dedicated to hardware/review, despite them using my work, and seeing them advertise CTR like crazy while the dev of CTR was being rude to his own community.
It all boils down to this : i'm not a marketer. I'm not a youtuber ( my videos are crappy). I'm not an entertainer. i'm a dev. People are so used to have OCCT around that they forget there's someone working behind it. I mean, 85% of my traffic comes from people googling OCCT, so it is a tad known 🙂
It's a lingering feeling. I read the twitter stuff about adblocking being piracy. Well, it's even more blatant in my case. I am down 10k€ of personal funds since I switched full time on OCCT since I need more money to support my family (and we aren't living the crazy life, I have 3 kids, my wife's working part time at minimum wage, so well...).
I felt like answering to their adblock is piracy tweet. It's like a big company complaining aboput not making even more money when I can't make ends meet, and it felt... unfair. Especially since they publicly "pirated" OCCT (i'm not sure you can say that since I would have given them a free license on the spot tbh).
I did not, being afraid of the consequences. I'm better off shutting my big mouth, and trying to increase slowly my income to support my family, rather than starting fires here and there, and put my "starting" business at a jeopardy.
Here's the whole picture, the situation. I'm not letting OCCT drop, i've been working on OCCT V11 like crazy (i'm at like 60 hours+ per week on it), hoping it'll be the version that makes me not worry about money anymore, and, that's a dream, being able to afford buying test hardware rather than constantly bug people I find here and there to let me access their computer to debug.
Am I mad ? no. It's just a lingering feeling of unfairness, and while you're experiencing it, you're always wondering if it's justified or not, if you're just being a special snowflake or a princess to whom everything is due. It's a complex feeling.
The times are to entertainers, not engineers, that's a fact 🙂
As a closing note, most companies are like that. Some are really nice. I'm not afraid to cite them : Asetek, NZXT, Cooler master, Videocardz,... they're all really, really nice people. They use OCCT, support me, and I even got an AIO for free from Asetek since I made a function they had the idea of (Steady mode) (I was beyond thrilled). But lots of others aren't. I did fight for 3 months with a popular graphic card manufacturer to make them pay for a Pro license when they were using it in their after-sale services (I had proof sent by a user).
It's a pretty common thing out there. So again, this is not isolated behavior, and also, I can understand it's tough to play nice with everyone and not make a mistake. On my end, it's just often... depressing 🙂

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"
 
Really needs to be changed to something like:
"No amount of incompetence rules out malice"
 
Here is how it went (or what is my best guess):
1. Costumer_A  bought the mobo and damaged the socket when installing CPU
2. Costumer_A send it back to Newegg for repair
3. Newegg send it back to GigaByte for repair
4. GigaByte quoted 100$ for the repair
5. (guess) Newegg quoted Costumer_A 200$ for the repair
6. (guess) Costumer_A declined repair
7. GigaByte send the mobo back to Newegg
8. Instead of sending the mobo back to Costumer_A or disposing it, it got back into inventory (incompetence is plausible for that)
9a. Newegg sold the board to Costumer_B (Steve) as "open box" without checking content ( incompetence is plausible for that)
9b. Newegg sold the board to Costumer_B (Steve) as "open box" fully knowing it was e-waste
10. Costumer_B send it back without opening the box
11. Newegg checks the mobo, sees the damage but somehow fails to notice the old RMA sticker on it (not plausible at all)
12. Newegg tries to shaft Costumer_B (malice without a doubt)

I honestly believe most companies make things difficult on purpose so that 90% of the people will see how much of a hassle it is and simply give up. I mean at a certain point if the money isn't huge it really isn't worth the time to try and get your money back. 

In one sentence - Incompetence which is borderline fraudulent.
I had a retailer that tried to use dirty and fraudulent tactics on me - I sent scary legal threats written in a very convincing legalese (the language of lawyers :D)
Only then they gave me the money they should have given me from the beginning.
Don't give them time - That's a mistake,since they like to abuse it and basically do nothing.
The maximum you should give them is a month,and if a month has passed - press on them really hard,
Threaten them,harass them,don't let them BS you,and if that doesn't work then get the authorities involved and don't forget to clarify to them that that's something you can do.
And off course revealing it to the public,especially when you have a large following is another way to pressure them.
 
Most people don't know how to deal with such situations,and corporations are abusing it.

But that is exactly why everything you own needs to be backed by a NFT, so you can "prove" that you own it. So wherever it's been taken after it's stolen you can be safe and sound in the knowledge that you still "own it" lol

Summary
Meta states in an SEC filing it is considering leaving Europe if it can no longer exchange data from European users with the United States, following the Schrems II decision. 
 
Quotes
 
My thoughts
This sounds like a threat that kids do where the threat in of it self actually achieve exactly what you want them to. 
 
I’m sure there are people in Europe that will be sad if this comes to frutuition.
 
I personally applaude FB and say they should stick to their principles 😄 
 
Sources
https://itwire.com/listed-tech/meta-threatens-to-pull-facebook-and-instagram-from-europe-if-it-can-t-target-ads.html
 

Well first of all those are horribly old and slow CPUs, I'd look at selling them off and buying something newer and better that will be vastly faster.
 
As to clustering, you need to be aware that this doesn't allow a single VM, container, application, process to span across multiple systems. Clustering allows you to move these easily between systems and also treat them as a single management entity to deploy these types of services on to.
 
If you have a rather fixed requirement like a single piece of software then the best OS will be the one that this application is best supported or runs best on. If you need to host many different things then a Hypervisor like ESXi/Hyper-V/KVM(or KVM based derivatives) would be the best choice.
 
We'd need to know more about your intended usage of these servers to give good advice, however the general advice that those Opteron 6380 are older than their practical use today so honestly just shouldn't be used at all.

Boots & Chilli met Santa last month.

We have two kind of dog.

 
She saw a squirrel so I picked her up and when I handed her off she did this.

You do have an IO shield, its already installed.

Torrent *EVERYTHING!*
/humor, just in case it wasn't obvious
 

You can either buy a M.2 SSD and install it in that connector above or below the video card,   or you can install a SATA hard drive or SSD and use the SATA cables that are going to the back of the case  (or buy an extra SATA cable and plug it in one of the 4-6 sata connectors)
 
Looks like the M.2 header at top was never used - the screw and standoff is set for M2 22120 devices ... you may have to remove the screw and standoff if any and shift it to the right for the standard M.2 22080 SSDs  (first hole is 22030, the next 22042, then 22060 and 22080)
 

If this takes gains traction, they're basically supporting eWaste at a huge level. What happens if the motherboard dies? Or something else happens and you want to harvest components? Ridiculous. As much as I like Lenovo, I'd never support then again if they went down this route.