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  1. Yep. It'll even snitch on apps now, it will double-check with you on whether you want to allow the app to track you cross-app (to other apps in general or back and forth from your browser). I always say no to this.
  2. It's the 2nd M.2-ish connector behind the M.2 slot I believe: The spec sheet notes it's a "High-Speed Custom Solutions Connector (PCIe x4)". That connector looks like what you'd need for x4 PCIe. EDIT: actually re-looking, I think that is the SATA M.2 slot, the one below it looks like an M.2 slot for a wifi card? Unless that's integrated on the board. The custom PCIe connector may be on the other side of the board. You would need a separate PSU to run the drives, yeah. I'd grab a USB 2.0 (not 3.0, needs to be a 2.0) thumb drive and give Unraid a shot. If you don't need the speed of ZFS - and I assume you don't, as you wouldn't get it over a USB hub to begin with - then Unraid should do what you need as far as NAS duties. It's set up for consumer drives, can handle mismated arrays, AFAIK it should be fine with USB hubs, and can do stuff like sleep the drives, which will help with power draw. ZFS keeps them spinning always, and will have issues if you stop it from doing that (drives drop from arrays). Honestly the drives spinning (assuming you are using HDDs) was probably most of the power draw you were seeing. Each drive is ~6-10W, so you're looking at up to 40W for 4 3.5" drives spinning constantly.
  3. ZFS is built for datacenters, it wants/needs full access to and control over the drives. It won't work with RAID controllers unless they're flashed to function as a basic HBA, no shock that it'd dislike a USB hub. Does the NUC have an M.2 NVMe slot? You can get an M.2 HBA with IIRC 4 or 6 SATA ports.
  4. Yep. CPUs are the same basic tech across the board. Enterprise motherboards can use higher quality capacitors and be built a tad better overall as they're intended for 24/7 operation with minimal downtime. If you're worried about that very small percentage chance of failure then you can just get a server board for a mainstream chip, ASRock and Supermicro make some. ^^^ 1st gen Threadripper has poor single core performance (very important to many game servers as they are often single-threaded), and the power draw will be quite high vs a mainstream chip. It does add up when ran 24/7. Also, if you're running Windows as the host OS, 1st/2nd and 3rd gen TR still have TPM stutter with Windows (the whole system hitches for a couple milliseconds). AMD fixed this for AM4 but never bothered to for the X399 and TRX40 platforms. I believe if you run Windows 10 with TPM off it should dodge that, but W10 will be EOL sooner rather than later, so given there's 0 advantage to TR I don't see the point of trying to make it work for this to begin with. The best machine for this sorta thing is usually a 12th gen Intel based setup, as you can get DDR4 boards for them (cheaper RAM, though DDR5 is very cheap now so this matters less), they have very low idle power draw, and great single core performance. Anything Ryzen that's Zen 2 or newer is excellent as well. What exact chip you want depends on what board you wanna go with, and how many cores/threads you think you need. You can get up to 16c/32t on AM4/AM5.
  5. Not really. As I said, it can work as a neat space heater. Not gonna beat a proper HVAC system for anything but a single room though. My power bill doubled when I ran a few GPUs 24/7 for a folding event. In winter, so assisting the HVAC not fighting it. Not everyone can do so, nor do they want to. <- that's the only appropriate reaction I have for this statement lmao. You assume everyone's parents can just magically afford a higher bill. Mom and Dad don't poof money out of a hat infinitely for their kids projects. I've had the privilege of financially stable parents who can both shrug off an increased power bill and have helped me financially in a bunch of other ways, most people do not get that. It is very important to understand that that is a less and less common privilege these days, so you don't come across as an entitled twat. I don't get the fixation on F@H. As I said earlier it seems to be going fine, and they regularly have more hardware than they can actually use enrolled. I'm not sure what point there would be in the masses running F@H on very slow and inefficient devices (really anything but a decent to great GPU is practically useless for F@H, I only run CPU folding when I want the heat output). If you want to effect the world in a positive way, look into how batteries are produced from raw materials to final product (both environmental and human cost), then come back and advocate for burning through the limited useful life of mobile and laptop batteries to accomplish barely anything as F@H doesn't scale well on those devices. If they could even be served work units. On the speed of F@H, back during the covid push in 2020, the network was 2x faster than the fastest supercomputer on the planet: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/folding-at-home-worlds-top-supercomputers-coronavirus-covid-19. This article also does a good job of mentioning that you can contribute with your hardware if you want, but not being too pushy over it. On mobile, unless they've changed it, DreamLab seems especially bad on modern phones: https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=32951. Relevant bit here: Lots of even cheaper phones now are often OLED, seems a bad idea to try and kill screens faster for dubious benefit. TLDR: Folding @ Home seems a weird thing to want to get regular (non-techie) folks into. It's doing very well (again AFAIK, I haven't seen some massive "we're losing hardware help" message from the F@H team, and we have some hardcore Folders here on the forum so it would have been mentioned if so) in its niche, and doesn't really fit anywhere else due to a multitude of overlapping concerns that may or may not be an issue depending on the individual non-techie person.
  6. As others said, power is a cost. If you use a laptop or phone and don't leave it plugged in all day, then the additional battery cycles are another cost eventually, as you'll have to get that battery replaced or suffer with shite battery life. Temps and noise are also a concern for both, running loud and hot can be a major inconvenience. There's also no great need (AFAIK) for a massive influx of folders. F@H already struggles with distributing work units during some folding events, they'll often have access to so much hardware that they don't actually have anything for it to do. ^ basically this. It's a fun thing (due to the points system/leaderboard) for computer gearheads to do. Like charity events for car or motorcycle gearheads, etc. An excuse to flex the stuff they work on in their hobby for a good cause. Not a practical thing for everyone to engage in. Though it can be practical in the winter if you have cheap power and a very power hungry computer, you can run F@H as a decent space heater under those conditions. As dedayog noted it's the opposite when it's warm out, you fight your own AC then.
  7. Thermal paste isn't great for CPU Die -> IHS, that's typically why people delid to begin with, in order to replace the original thermal paste with liquid metal. Given that + the load the temps don't sound too crazy. A little high for that voltage, I've run soldered chips at far higher voltages and similar clocks (4.7GHz) with much lower temps, but A) solder is better than most TIM and B) they were HEDT chips with a larger IHS and CPU die, and thus a lot more surface area to get heat out through.
  8. Yep. The only ones that were killer value for gaming was seven years ago when Ryzen did not exist, and you could get a cheap 6-8 core chip with an X chipset motherboard and easily overclock to 4.2-4.5Ghz with a competitive IPC at the time. Zen/Zen+ endangered these Xeons, Zen 2 wiped them out. EDIT: Worth noting that this is in the US market, overseas I know mainstream Ryzen/Intel chips can be much more expensive, even used, thus why these Chinese boards exist to take advantage of mass Xeon selloffs from upgrading datacenters.
  9. Between the IHS and CPU die or between the IHS and cooler cold plate? ^^^ Also this, P95 smallFFT is no joke, it will pull some obscene numbers. You can run ASUS Realbench if you want a similarly beefy but less intense load.
  10. What board do you have currently? 4K is not super CPU intensive, if you have a decent B550 board then just throw ~$250 at a 5700X3D and put the rest towards a new GPU (likely new PSU with it depending on what you have rn) and a nice display.
  11. The only cases I know of with that layout are old, large ATX cases. Why not just get a compact mATX or ITX case and simply set it on its side? Lots have airflow options that would allow for this.
  12. Oh that's a good point, hadn't considered that. Where is the max throughput stated? I can only find the throughput for the whole thing (not just the SATA bit), seems to be 6.4GB/s for the higher end chip. Wikipedia claims up to 8GB/s for the later versions. Should be an Athlon 64 system, given the nForce 3 chipsets were made for that platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NForce3. Isn't fully compatible with Windows Vista, likely why OP appears to be on Windows XP.
  13. That would be considered hardware RAID. It's running in the firmware for the hardware itself, not in software. It should do RAID 0 fine given that's an intentional feature of the SATA controller: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1274/8. It allows for hot spares and such as well, if you want to do hardware RAID then it seems a capable chip.
  14. Hold CMD + I when it boots up to boot into Internet Recovery. Or CMD + R (regular recovery mode keybind, but it will boot to Internet Recovery if no OS is present). It will usually try and download the launch OS though, which can be annoying to upgrade from. On my mid-2012 MBPs that was Mac OS X Mountain Lion if I booted to Internet Recovery with no OS present.
  15. Not loose. That's basically it. Very lightly snug. Don't need to crank em down, they just need to keep the board from flopping around. Nope. The equal-length standoffs keep the board even, the screws just hold the board to those standoffs. No need to worry about super precise torquing on the screws.
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