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It'll come with a fan unless you buy it used or in 'tray' format (not retail packaging!).
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What's wrong with just finding some old SAS controller on eBay or similar for a few bucks, and setting up a system to wipe the SAS SSDz using the tools you know how to use (ie: DBAN)? Doing all this stuff to be able to access them through what sounds like some sort of SAN box sounds like a mess unless you know what you're doing, and might not even insure that you're fully wiping them. If there's client data on them, surely you owe it to them, if not are contractually obligated to use a verifiable wiping method before you tender the parts for resale or disposal.
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FIOS = you must use an ONT that is provided by the network provider that supports GPON. Your 'wall connection' is likely just Ethernet over coax. So no, it won't work. At best, with FIOS, you can change the gateway.
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Not enough information there, but those parameters look just fine. The drive has been powered on for 2368 hours, and was power cycled 1978 times. Are you having a problem?
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Most of that stuff you're going to have to find a gamer to buy if you want to sell it as a whole system, and even then, there's not that many out there who will plunk down even $2000 on used gear. Otherwise, throw the individual parts on eBay or similar, and roll the dice on whether they sell at decent prices.
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Hmmm, a dual E5-2670 system perhaps? 16 cores, 32 threads, you can piece it all together for ~$150 in CPU's, ~$300-$400 for mobo, some RAM, and an E-ATX case. Agree with the others, the 4/8 (hyperthread) core platforms probably aren't worthwhile at this point for you. Time to step up to the big boy stuff.
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ES/QS's are clearly marked "Intel Confidential". But you can do some searching around and see that there's some custom chips and even custom optimizations done for certain large buyers of CPU's. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/11/13/intel-designs-custom-aws-cpu-for-fastest-ec2-instances-ever/ There's probably a decent chance that the CPU pictured in this thread was acquired illicitly from one of those companies.
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Probably a custom Amazon/Google/Facebook CPU. Basically those companies promise Intel that they'll integrate them in an appropriate way, and buy a gazillion of them. They get a bump. Intel obliges knowing that those companies would move to ARM-based server CPU's ASAP if they don't.
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What about the non-coloured HGST drives? Technically they're WDC these days, and their reliability record has been stellar. Superior to "Blacks" for most applications and the prices are usually reasonable. But to answer this question fully, do you have any particular performance requirements?
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EOF = End of File So basically that program is just reading from STDIO (ie: console), and will keep reading until it encounters "\n" (which has a specific meaning in C), or the EOF symbol. Hence, "flushing input". getchar() is just like getc(), instead it defaults to reading from STDIO instead of taking a file descriptor.
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Its heat transfer will be significantly less than optimal, and the thermal protection will probably kick in prematurely. But it should still boot and everything, and not destroy itself. The whole point of thermal paste isn't to provide broad heat conduction, but is rather just to fill in the discontinuities between the two surfaces, ie: the CPU and the heatsink.
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They sell a buttload more drives to OEMs and into the market than Intel and Micron, so people must be buying them, and OEMs must be qualifying them on their products. As for speed, I'll leave that to the benchmarks which you can probably look up online for whichever specific products you're interested in, but they're definitely competitive.
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Not sure I really understand. Your motherboard has no onboard video capability (the model you bought was cost-engineered down to the very basics, so MSI omitted $2 worth of parts to use the embedded video of the Skylake chip!), so the only board you can have your DVI cable plugged into is the 1070. In "Safe Mode", generally, it reverts to a very basic set of drivers ie: the Microsoft Basic Display Driver. Of course its running off the 1070 -- that's the only input you have. Sorry, still not convinced its the GPU. What you're describing, in "safe mode" is perfectly normal. Make yourself a memtest86 boot stick or CD and try that. Failing that, find someone who can test your GPU for you in a known-to-work good computer. Its quite unlikely, but not entirely impossible that the GPU has a bad RAM chip or something on it.
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I found a refurb on Newegg for $320, the MSI brand, with 4gb. Its low, but it is used hardware.
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Yup, yup. I'm kind of stumped here, but leaning heavily towards one of RAM/CPU/mobo as being bad here. RAM is easiest to diagnose generally of the three. The other two are basically trial and error.
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Yeah kernel 3.13, that's crazy old. As in, 2-3 years old. That kernel in and of itself might not even like Skylake hardware and Nouveau or the Nvidia proprietary definitely would not have 1070 support or even the PCI ID's compiled in.
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First time upgrading need advice/help
Mark77 replied to Zawsze's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Windows 10 is remarkably tolerant of hardware changes. Licensing aside, I've pulled drives out of 8-10 year old AMD dual-core machines, and put them onto Ivy Bridge and Haswell systems without issue. Have proper backups, of course, just in case something messes up, but the old rule of thumb to re-install Windows with a new motherboard is something that really should be put to rest. -
Oh that'll work too. I don't use Google Voice so I wasn't familiar with that option.
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If its an older Linux CD, the driver might not even be updated enough to get it to work with the 1070, so it fails to load either the proprietary Nvidia driver, or Nouveau (the open source Nvidia Linux driver!). Wouldn't worry too much about that at the moment, and unless you're sure that you're using new drivers and a new kernel, you shouldn't use the failure to load the driver as a reason to blame the graphics card.
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Mere recognition of the RAM sticks, and having them be perfectly error-free can be two different things. I seriously doubt you have a GPU issue though. Usually when a GPU has an issue, you don't get any display. I've never heard of any troubles with ADATA SSDs (there are a few OCZ SSDs which create issues with Haswell and Skylake chipsets!) As far as RAM compatibility lists, people run RAM not on the lists all the time. Its rarely an issue. But if you have a bad stick for some reason or another... Other than that, you're probably going to need to look into swapping components with known-to-work ones.
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You'd have to arrange with your personal phone number provider for such, and probably a dedicated forwarding endpoint (ie: DID). They probably will charge you a fee for the service.
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Oh well if you have video, even just "BIOS", then its probably *not* the GPU. I'd seriously look at RAM, try and go to a 1-DIMM configuration if you have a pair of DIMMS, etc. Could also be your SSD -- so maybe try booting it from a Linux live USB stick or something, just to see if it works.
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I did an engineering degree on a machine running Excel with only 32mb of RAM. People before me did it with half or less of the RAM. So certainly 16gb isn't strictly required. However, if you're building/buying a modern computer these days, 16gb is a fairly standard configuration. For the extra few bucks it costs, "just do it".
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Ah. I guess I didn't read the message that well. If its randomly crashing like that, assuming its not overclocked or anything, I'd seriously hit the entire machine with an overnight of memtest/memtest86 and see if anything bad RAM-wise comes up. Might not even be a GPU issue at all. I didn't know that the OP was able to boot it to Windows at all, or even use it to manipulate BIOS/CMOS/UEFI settings.
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Do you have a friend on the other side of the border you could have a laptop shipped to? $500 Canadian (~$400 USD these days) can get you a slightly older 1080p laptop, like a Dell Latitude E6440, E7440, etc., with 1080p screen, 8gb RAM, and a Windows license. All pre-built, ready to go, with a Haswell chip. Spend another $20-$30 on a docking station, and you have a very nice setup for school.
