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  1. Buy the highest res Blu-Rays or DVDs available for the movie/show you want, rip it yourself.
  2. From their page here: "The Folding@home project (FAH) is dedicated to understanding protein folding, the diseases that result from protein misfolding and aggregation, and novel computational ways to develop new drugs in general. Here, we briefly describe our goals, what we are doing, and some highlights so far." F@H is a bunch of simulations to try and figure out why protein folding fucks up, nobody has an estimate of when it will be "done". There isn't a set amount of math to do, as scientists don't know what the problem is, thus why they run folding simulations to begin with. You'll see a lot of "may", "appears to be", "hopefully", etc on their explainers of the various projects for specific diseases. It's a big ole guessing game, really most (all?) science is.
  3. RM's are newer, solid PSUs, should be as good or better than your TX. Fully modular too, so possibly a bit less cable clutter than your TX, depending on what cables you do or don't use.
  4. Yep, unless the fans are going absolutely crazy for no reason, it's fine. My 13" unibody MBP (2012) regularly sat in the 80s, my 15" retina MBP (2015) ran 99C flat under anything harder than downloading a file, fans didn't go silly mode unless it was sustained heavy load. I should say runs, not ran though, as my siblings have the 2012 and a coworker has the 2015 still (it was a work computer, not my personal machine) and both are still kicking. Folks get overly worried about Mac temps, but in my experience they've always ran within Intel spec. Said spec allows the chips to get up to 100C flat which scares people, but it's perfectly fine for a stock Intel chip. The only Mac I've had that wouldn't hop into the 80s or higher immediately was my 2007 Mac Pro, that would sit in the 60s-70s thanks to massive tower coolers. And my M1 MacBook Air now (also a work machine), it doesn't get very hot unless pushed with sustained loads, which I don't really do.
  5. Sliger Cerberus X. Closer to mATX size, but it fits EATX boards and multiple GPUs. Here's an example of one with two 3090s in it: If you want dual x16 GPU slots you'll need HEDT anyways, which usually comes in ATX boards at the smallest (given the massive socket sizes of modern platforms).
  6. 5.25" drive and MakeMKV. I dunno how to parse the file system on DVDs either, I just pull the large files as those will be the video ones, the menu stuff is in the megabytes not gigabytes. MakeMKV official free beta key: https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1053. If you want to do UHD Blu-Rays as well, then you have to pick drives more carefully: https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19634. I believe regular DVDs are fine with any old DVD drive.
  7. ^^^ Admin cmd, diskpart, list disk, sel disk (whatever # is the one you want to wipe), clean (this will nuke the drive, do not run it on something you care about by mistake), exit CMD, yay your drive is back to a single blank and you can format it however you wish.
  8. https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/fake-server-cards.198/ Art of Server has at least one other vid on counterfeits as well. I learned about em when I was looking at what HBA to get for TrueNAS, that's why I picked a single listing card with an authenticity sticker visible on it in the photos, that I could cross-check to confirm it was legit.
  9. Be wary, these are very commonly cloned (same with Intel NICs). I'd avoid listings like that with a bunch, look for one that says in the description that it was pulled from a server, and preferably one with an authenticity sticker you can double-check to confirm it's a real unit. That's what I did for mine, flashed it to IT-Mode myself, it works fine. Clones can be shoddy quality so you can run into issues with them.
  10. 1 for the house, 1 for the garage, 1 for the PC desk, 1 for the backpack, seems reasonable.
  11. Plug it in, the software that can take advantage of it will use it. I don't recall if teslas have display outs (my little AMD WX card does), they may be just for acceleration tasks. Which is again, encoding/decoding stuff that GPUs are faster at than CPUs, thus accelerating whatever task they're used for. Here's a success story from Nvidia's site, where folks used the K80s for massive medical visualizations/simulations: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Center/documents/tu-dresden-success-story.pdf. Yep. If your workload isn't particular to Nvidia's CUDA core setup, then look at AMD cards as they usually have more VRAM for the same price range.
  12. Yep. Both SLI and Crossfire also only work with the same GPU core, so your tesla and a GTX GPU won't work in SLI. As noted, VRAM does not pool in either. Nvidia NVLink on some of their enterprise cards will pool VRAM, but that's about it (and don't confuse NVLink SLI for NVLink, it just uses the NVLink connector for regular SLI, still no VRM pooling). To accelerate graphics. For display out, or encoding/decoding, rendering the viewport in CAD software, etc.
  13. Not quite clear what you're asking. Are you wondering why it pulls more power when under more load? What stress tests are you running?
  14. Looks like a standard USB-C charger, so it should work. I've charged my Airs/Pros with a regular 5-port USB charger using a USB Type A to type C cable, using the USB-C cable from a Caldigit powered dock, using a Jackery Powerbank, and various Apple USB-C chargers. The wattage of the charger will decide how fast the Mac charges, but it should charge. I haven't tried using my Nintendo Switch charger to see if that works, IIRC the USB-C port on the Switch is non-standard, so I don't know if the charger is as well.
  15. Didja try checking the settings? I doubt mobile games default to 120hz. The only 120hz-supporting game I've tried is Genshin Impact, had to go into the settings to enable that, doesn't default to it. Wouldn't shock me if the devs restrict the option to only certain phones too (for reference I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max).
  16. As others noted, they're basically the same as 13th gen. On most markets, a 14th gen chip costs noticeably more than a 13th gen for little to no performance difference. On your market it seems they're basically the same price, so you may as well get the 14th gen chip.
  17. Probably couldn't anyways. Windows 7 would need CSM enabled to be able to boot and display video out, Windows 11 wants CSM disabled (and Secure Boot enabled, which also requires CSM to be disabled).
  18. Don't need one, Ryzens can run on teeny heatsinks. I've had up to a 3700X on the tiny stock Wraith stealth cooler from a 2200G without issue. Especially as you can power limit the chip in the BIOS if you are worried about power draw or temps, they come stock with an ECO mode and depending on OEM the motherboard may have its own presets as well. As Jaslion has said, HDDs are less reliable. Sounds like you just had a bad SSD, which isn't inherent to SSDs alone, every mass produced device will have a dud every now and then (I've had one SSD die, and then like 6+ others that I've ran for years with 0 issues whatsoever, plus even more than that at work which have also all had 0 issues). If you're worried about drive failure then run 2 SSDs in a mirror array, and keep backups of your important files on an external drive (or if you're super worried, then keep a backup offsite too).
  19. You can run Windows on the Steam Deck, it's officially supported: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6121-ECCD-D643-BAA8. I believe there's DIY options for dual booting also. Valve has promised official dual-boot support but it isn't out yet.
  20. Should be fine, 4K is very GPU heavy, 1440P not as much but the 9900 should keep up well enough to dodge any stutter issues.
  21. I have some audiophile friends, from various things they've said when discussing music/audio gear, I believe a large part of it is sitting down and learning to tell the differences. Sort of like how, when I was learning piano as a kid, the teacher had me sit down with a set of headphones and listen to various songs, learning to pick out specific instruments from them in order to hear what they were doing. For a lot of folks it likely is placebo still, but if you want to justify it with a reason other than "I like it", you can learn to. I buy CDs and rip them to FLAC so I can put the files on my iPod, I haven't put the time in to listening so closely to music that I can tell the differences between a FLAC or MP3.
  22. Looks like it's just for marketing as most of the UW resolutions are not actually exactly 21:9: ^^^ especially changing to a resolution that is not exactly 1/2 or 2x the native res, it'll often look really bleary. If you have high enough ppi it won't (I can run 1440p on my 4K 27" panel and it won't look too terrible) but a 1440p ultrawide likely isn't sharp enough. It does.
  23. 2560x1080. That's the resolution all the 1080p UW monitors I have used or looked at are.
  24. Find a slim-ish clamshell briefcase, you can likely use industrial strength velcro (it has very grippy adhesive on the back) to hold everything in place while still having it be removable if needed. If you wanted a keyboard and trackpad you'd have to get more creative with where to put those, if you have access to a 3D printer you could likely make some sort of support scaffold for them.
  25. If he did videos on 'em then it wasn't money wasted. If he had quietly put them in his house and never mentioned them, then you could argue he wasted that money.
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