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The thing with Wikipedia is: anyone can submit articles to it.  Here's an interesting tidbit:  MR fluids have been used in vehicle shock absorbers in GM high performance vehicles since the late 90s (experimental) and early 2000s (production).  That's a pretty stout "commercial application" if ever there was one.  Nothing you're going to do with your thumbs to a joystick over the course of its short life is going to match the stress put on shock absorbers in a Corvette or high performance Cadillac (or any of the other sports cars that have adopted the tech from GM).
 
 

As the grumpy ol' John Dvorak once wrote:



 
He wrote that more than a decade or so ago, and he's been right all along.  IB's got a great foothold because of its insane low latency, which is fantastic specifically for HPC workloads.  But there are tricks that can be done with Ethernet to rapidly approach IB's low-latent links.

Blackwinnnnnnnng!  Just picked it up last Friday.  Still working on the 500 mile break-in before I crack 'er open.
 

Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing.  670HP, six-speed manual transmission, and just plain comical to drive.

Blackwinnnnnnnng!  Just picked it up last Friday.  Still working on the 500 mile break-in before I crack 'er open.
 

Blackwinnnnnnnng!  Just picked it up last Friday.  Still working on the 500 mile break-in before I crack 'er open.
 

Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing.  670HP, six-speed manual transmission, and just plain comical to drive.

Blackwinnnnnnnng!  Just picked it up last Friday.  Still working on the 500 mile break-in before I crack 'er open.
 

Video by Nvidia, cooling by EK, and power delivery by CableMod.

Video by Nvidia, cooling by EK, and power delivery by CableMod.

Video by Nvidia, cooling by EK, and power delivery by CableMod.

Video by Nvidia, cooling by EK, and power delivery by CableMod.

The OP is sort of conflating what happened.  I think it's safe to say that the terminal folks use on any *NIX system got its genesis from X11.  Sure, VT100 ANSI-based terminals existed far longer than X11 did, but what we're used to playing on and with is a graphical representation of said.  And that came from X11.  Each *NIX OS had its own X11 server, and DEC was certainly no stranger to it.  But that far back, it was their Ultrix OS, not the Alpha and OSF/1 (original name for the UNIX that ran on the Alpha).  Ultrix existed way, way before the Alpha did, but it still had ye ol' X11 server and the xterm application.
 
Make no mistake: the Alpha was awesome for its time.  I attended Clarkson University from '91-95 and the school was saturated in IBM RS/6000 workstations and servers.  They were pretty fast; certainly trounced the snot out of the Sun workstations and servers we had.  The last year I was there, we finally got an Alpha and it was eye opening.  One of the guys I worked with there had written a Fortran 77 program that computed pi out to some ungodly number of digits.  The quickest time he could get out of the fastest RS/6000 we had was almost 21 minutes.  The Alpha did it in under 7.
 
A couple of years after I graduated I found myself as a fledgling network engineer at a little ISP no one's ever heard of: AOL.  We had fleets of Alphas used as web proxies for our dial-up users.  The I/O throughput on them was insane and the 64-bit memory addressing helped keep all that stuff in a RAM cache for quick retrieval.  I even had one under my desk as my workstation.  😉
 

I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about modifying anything.  MSI Afterburner is a thing, and let's you dial up or down the power usage of the card.

I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about modifying anything.  MSI Afterburner is a thing, and let's you dial up or down the power usage of the card.

Wow.  The amount of mis-information in this thread is hysterically epic.
 
1.  Sound Blaster cards work just fine when the on-board sound is enabled in the BIOS and the driver is installed in Windows.  I've done it that way for years.
 
2.  The problem our OP is facing sounds a lot like an electrical issue and with his PC and not anything to do with the on-board vs Sound Blaster card.  Buy quality parts, or don't be too surprised when you run into these sorts of issues.
 
3.  If the issue is due to grounding, get ground isolators and install them.
 
4.  Depending on what you're using the sound card for, nothing can come close to touching the Sound Blaster ZxR.  Nothing.  No external DAC is going to come close it it for clarity and audio location in games.  If, however, you're watching movies and/or listening to music, then sure, use a USB DAC if you want.

If this actually happens (note the emphasis on IF) I can see a migration over to YouTube.  The barrier to entry for monetization on YouTube is somewhat high (1000 subs, certain number of hours watched, etc) but a larger streamer could pretty easily cross that and begin making money.  Once they do cross that threshold, the sky is literally the limit.
 
The streamer UI on YouTube is atrocious (they know that) and pales in comparison to Twitch's.  The chat on YouTube isn't as feature-rich as Twitch's.  And there are some streamer features on Twitch such as gifted subs, etc, that aren't yet available on YouTube but are supposedly coming.  The "bot API" for lack of a better phrase is really slow and done in batches, I think.  That means if someone in chat fires off one of your !commands for a bot to answer (eg: "!specs" and the bot responds with your PC specs) it can take a couple of seconds before the bot responds.  That needs to be looked into.
 
The benefits?  EVERYONE gets transcoded to ALL resolutions from your base streamed resolution down to 360p (maybe lower?)  It doesn't matter what status you are as far as monetized, partner, etc.  EVERYONE has immediate access to the transcoders.  And they work wonderfully and quickly.  YouTube also has a significantly higher max bitrate; the official one is 51Mbits/sec.  Unofficially? ... 🙂
 
Technically, and possibly financially, YouTube is a vastly superior streaming platform.  From a community perspective, it's still "work in progress."

Hercules (left) and Zeus:  Literally brothers from different mothers.  At this point, Herc is 5, and Zeus is rapidly approaching 3.
 
During our snow storm in VA yesterday:
 

I don't like the some of Elon's product ideas or how he's gone about getting them mainstreamed.  However, I do think he's genuinely a good person and he truly means well for the human race.  Whether you agree with him or not is another story, of course.  But I think he sees how much of a cesspool Twitter has become, specially with the way it takes control of what it considers good/bad speech.
 
I think this is a good thing for Twitter.

I don't like the some of Elon's product ideas or how he's gone about getting them mainstreamed.  However, I do think he's genuinely a good person and he truly means well for the human race.  Whether you agree with him or not is another story, of course.  But I think he sees how much of a cesspool Twitter has become, specially with the way it takes control of what it considers good/bad speech.
 
I think this is a good thing for Twitter.

I don't like the some of Elon's product ideas or how he's gone about getting them mainstreamed.  However, I do think he's genuinely a good person and he truly means well for the human race.  Whether you agree with him or not is another story, of course.  But I think he sees how much of a cesspool Twitter has become, specially with the way it takes control of what it considers good/bad speech.
 
I think this is a good thing for Twitter.

As I've explained on LTT a few times in the past: this is NVidia following the exact, same pattern they do with every previous generation.  The year they intend to change generations (eg: this summer), they also release a top of the top, best of the best version of the current generation.  That, and only that, is the reason this product exists.
 
They did it in the 2000-series, the 1000-series, the 900-series, etc, etc.  And they'll do it for the 4000 series, too.  On and on.  It's their usual cadence.
 
 

As I've explained on LTT a few times in the past: this is NVidia following the exact, same pattern they do with every previous generation.  The year they intend to change generations (eg: this summer), they also release a top of the top, best of the best version of the current generation.  That, and only that, is the reason this product exists.
 
They did it in the 2000-series, the 1000-series, the 900-series, etc, etc.  And they'll do it for the 4000 series, too.  On and on.  It's their usual cadence.
 
 

As I've explained on LTT a few times in the past: this is NVidia following the exact, same pattern they do with every previous generation.  The year they intend to change generations (eg: this summer), they also release a top of the top, best of the best version of the current generation.  That, and only that, is the reason this product exists.
 
They did it in the 2000-series, the 1000-series, the 900-series, etc, etc.  And they'll do it for the 4000 series, too.  On and on.  It's their usual cadence.
 
 

I could be mistaken, but I believe this is the first full bandwidth Thunderbolt [3|4] cable at that length.  The previous "hard" limit was 2M.