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    Anghammarad got a reaction from dogwitch in Show off your latest purchases   
    Replacement Parts for my Homlab/Mediaserver
     
    Mainboard, CPU, RAM, CPU Cooler, wanted to try out the new EKL Alpenföhn Panorama II, and not on the picture a 750 watt cooler master 80+ Gold PSU...
     
     

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    Anghammarad got a reaction from sub68 in Show off your latest purchases   
    Replacement Parts for my Homlab/Mediaserver
     
    Mainboard, CPU, RAM, CPU Cooler, wanted to try out the new EKL Alpenföhn Panorama II, and not on the picture a 750 watt cooler master 80+ Gold PSU...
     
     

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    Anghammarad reacted to vetali in Show off your latest purchases   
    First time taking off the plates on a PS5... only yeeted it 5 feet.
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    Anghammarad reacted to SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    solid effort sir
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    Anghammarad got a reaction from soldier_ph in Show off your latest purchases   
    Replacement Parts for my Homlab/Mediaserver
     
    Mainboard, CPU, RAM, CPU Cooler, wanted to try out the new EKL Alpenföhn Panorama II, and not on the picture a 750 watt cooler master 80+ Gold PSU...
     
     

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    Anghammarad got a reaction from RoseLuck462 in Show off your latest purchases   
    Replacement Parts for my Homlab/Mediaserver
     
    Mainboard, CPU, RAM, CPU Cooler, wanted to try out the new EKL Alpenföhn Panorama II, and not on the picture a 750 watt cooler master 80+ Gold PSU...
     
     

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    Anghammarad got a reaction from SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    Replacement Parts for my Homlab/Mediaserver
     
    Mainboard, CPU, RAM, CPU Cooler, wanted to try out the new EKL Alpenföhn Panorama II, and not on the picture a 750 watt cooler master 80+ Gold PSU...
     
     

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    Anghammarad got a reaction from SimplyChunk in What song are you listening to right now.   
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    Anghammarad got a reaction from SimplyChunk in What song are you listening to right now.   
    dunno why but this melody stuck in my head and searched for it... after hearing it once, the head loop is gone =) 
     
     
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    Anghammarad reacted to Spotty in Got a virus/trojan when I installed hwmonitor. What do I do if I cant clear it and mrt full scan do not work   
    If you just installed windows the easiest option would be to wipe the drive and reinstall. 
     
    The official website for HWMonitor is www.cpuid.com 
    Did you download from the official website or a different website? If you downloaded it from a different website can you send me the link to the website via a private message.
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    Anghammarad reacted to GuiltySpark_ in NOT GETTING 2.5 GBS   
    Details. PC specs? Does it have a 2.5GbE capable NIC? What does that NIC connect to, any switches in between? Are they 2.5GbE capable? Is the port on your router/firewall 2.5GbE capable? What does Windows say as your link speed? 
     
    Please don't type in all caps.
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    Anghammarad reacted to YoungBlade in NOT GETTING 2.5 GBS   
    What was it that you upgraded? Are you still using the same router and Ethernet cable as before?
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    Anghammarad reacted to overbuilt_gaming in NOT GETTING 2.5 GBS   
    Nope.  You need to first get a NIC that is capable of handling 2.5gbit, have the right drivers for it, and also the correct Ethernet cable.  You also have to have a fast PC and not a potato.  Most on-board NIC's on motherboards are just 1gbit, the higher end boards have 2.5 but you know since you didn't bother to post your specs or anything I'll just say good luck.
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    Anghammarad reacted to Donut417 in Out of sight out of mind. My rarely seen Fallout collection.   
    Reminds me of when my friend bought the collectors edition of Duke Nukem Forever. Got a Duke Bust. I always jokingly tell him he should display it.
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    Anghammarad got a reaction from MacBookBoy96 in What is your favourite past version of Windows?   
    a special edition of 98 SEF, it has had some work from some students picking the most stable things from 98 and 98 SE, even usb was working like a charm or the network stack... 
     
    After that win 2000 ... it was way more performant than XP. but sadly it had to go due to hardware driver support. 
     
    After 2k my favorite was 7, and now 10. 
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    Anghammarad reacted to 8tg in Show off your latest purchases   
    Gainward gtx 670 phantom
    Needs a good cleaning and repasting 
     
     



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    Anghammarad got a reaction from kirashi in What song are you listening to right now.   
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    Anghammarad got a reaction from Bersella AI in Small Homelab and Media Server rebuild and upgrade   
    And back with the livin... or online... after 2 Weeks of only LTE and even that broken due to a faulty antenna outside from the provider, today the fiber is getting into the xmas spirit again and started glowing. 
     
     
    Server gone... *poof*
     

     
     
    So first here is the old new case with its 8 drives:
     

     
     
    The reason why I wanted to swap out the case again were the dual drive cages. Even though the space is enough, cooling too, those cages have no hdd decoupling, so the vibrations with 8 HDDs were way to noisy to have that machine standing in its place, next to the TV/Receiver etc.
     
     
    So out everything has to go...
     

     
     
    The ADATA SSD got swapped with a MX500 1 TB, due to having only 240 GB space for the hyper-v virtualization.
     
    So the new case is a Fractal Design Define XL R2:
     
    I already plugged one of the cages out to rotate them 90° . In the beginning the case comes with 3 fans, one in the front, one in the back and one on the bottom.
    The bottom one needed to move, else the drive cages can't be moved to where they should go. So out it went and got moved to the front, so that 2 of them are now blowing cool outside air through the drives.
     

     

     
     
    Cage turned, first connections made:
     

     
     
    And both cages in:
     

     
     
    And everything connected up:
     

     
     
    Partslist:
     
    Case: Fractal Design Define XL R2
    PSU: Cooler Master V550 full modular
    Mainboard: AsRock Z87 Extreme 4 TB
    CPU: Intel Core I7 4770S
    GFX Card: Gainward Phantom GTX 560 (still got a Phantom 760 here, may swap it in)
    Ram: 32 GB DDR 3 1600
    Drives: 1x Crucial MX300 250 GB, 1x Crucial MX500 1 TB, 4x Seagate Ironwolf 4TB SATA drives configured as Raid 5, 4x WD Red 4TB SATA drives configured as Raid 5
    Raid Controller: Avago/IBM Megaraid 5015 with BBU added and SAS to SATA 4 way splitter cable.
     
    OS: Windows 10 professional current build 64 Bit
    Hyper-V: Ubuntu Server LTS 22.04
     
    Services: Open Kodi, PiHole, XAMPP, ...
     
     
    Right now I'm sifting through all the stuff to remove double files, when done I'll rebuild the backup and add services to hte Linux VM like Nextcloud, WAZUH, and other stuff.
     
    If you want a little guide how to set up the Hyper-V with the additional NIC, let me know. 
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    Anghammarad got a reaction from Bersella AI in Small Homelab and Media Server rebuild and upgrade   
    And the next iteration for this small cutie. 
     
    Due to the Cipher being a nice case for 8+ 3.5" HDDs it has a drawback for me. The drives aren't dcoupled from their mounting cages. So the now 8 drives inside make the case humm to a level where it is distracting for having it in the livingroom. If I had the same drives as SSDs I really wouldn't care, but sadly even though having a nice job and having gotten the december gratification, didn't sway me to buy 8 4tb sata SSD drive but to stick to the 8 spinning 3.5" ones.
     
    So I went out and did what I often did when building a new machine and grabbed my still favorite bigtower case the Fractal design Define XL R2. This will now be the fourth one here at home. Well it definetly has no rgb bling to it, or what I call "Ninja RGB" (TM by me).
     
    Grabbing my tools I'll head over to make the tower move. I'll post pics at a later date due to working on LTE right now, because some numb nut set the buildings fibre box on fire. Provider told It'll take 1-3 weeks to get prermission from firedepartement and police to start fixing it. So all ~50 flats are right now cut of from cable tv, telephone or internet... 
     
     
    With this out... let me start ^^
     
    Cheers
    Ang
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    Anghammarad reacted to SimplyChunk in Show off your latest purchases   
    Not a purchase but a gift for my hard work.  I've been helping my Uncle MOT his client's cars over the last few years for favours.  He wanted to get rid of this little 206 cause he's got hold of another car and he put 2+2 together and gave it to me 🙂.  It's a nice, clean, little motor and ULEZ compliant thanks to it's 1400cc Petrol Engine.
     
    Side note:  Image Resizer from Microsoft Power Toys works really well at resizing jpeg by batch.  Got this little lot from 32MB down to 2.2MB
     
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    Anghammarad got a reaction from soldier_ph in Show off your latest purchases   
    This:
    https://www.amazon.de/Fractal-Design-Gehäuse-Modding-schwarz/dp/B00AZQTZFU/ref=sr_1_2?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=2C52236TQHOO4&keywords=fractal+design+define+xl+r2&qid=1701778583&sprefix=fractal+design+define+xl+r2%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-2
     
    Because this:
    https://www.alternate.de/Aerocool/Cipher-S-BK-v1-Tower-Gehäuse/html/product/1824341?sug=Aerocool Ciph
     
    Has no decoupled hdd sleds making the case humm like a hornets nest. So it was only in place for 4 weeks...
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    Anghammarad got a reaction from leclod in Computer wont start after psu change   
    I think @leclodis asking if the new PSU is the same Model as the dead one.
    This may be important because cable managed PSU may not use the same Pinout so that using cables from a different brand, even if they might fit into the psu side, may deliver shorts and wrong voltages due to different pinouts on the PSU side.
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    Anghammarad reacted to will0hlep in Gen5 vs Gen4 NVMe   
    On most gen 4 drives, the nand chips are the limiting factor of how fast the drive is, not the PCIe bandwidth, even in sequentuial reads and writes. As early gen 5 drives are using the same nand chips, gen 5 drives only see a small improvement over gen 4 drives, even in the home field turf of sequentuial reads and writes. In random reads and writes there is basically no difference.
     
    Furthermore, increased speeds give deminishing returns. As an example, going 30mph instead of 20mph means you'll save 60 seconds per mile travelled. But going 80mph instead of 70mph will only save you 6.42 seconds per mile travelled. Boot times are already pretty quick on NVMe drives, so increasing the speed of the drive won't show much of a return.
     
    At this time it is definately not worth the premium you'll pay.
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    Anghammarad reacted to Tan3l6 in Gen5 vs Gen4 NVMe   
    Gen 5 SSD-s cost too much and the speed increase compared to a good Gen 4 drive for everyday use is marginal at best. WD SN850X is surely a good one.
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    Anghammarad reacted to sub68 in Show off your latest purchases   
    Streamlight microstream.
     

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