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Was just pointed to this thread. I own four Xeon systems varying in age. Newest being my workstation

then my primary image processing server

then my secondary image processing/storage server

and finally my oldest server, dual 771.

 
 

I checked in the bios and there was indeed an option for bifurcation. turned it on and it works again. Thank you so much! Have a great day!

is it a smart PCIe card? otherwise you might have to re-enable PCIe bifurcation in your BIOS again for the slot that card sits in.

Headphones. 

I agree:  a 400-500$ board is absolutely ridiculous here
And you could get a normal board, and also buy a 7800X3D with the price diff and be on AM5
 
AM5 X3D chips will have more cache than 96mb 

Why do you need a $400 to $500 motherboard that's at the end of life of it's platform?
Wouldn't it make more sense to go AM5 instead with that budget or instead just grab a $100 board and throw that extra money on RTX 4080?
 
IMO:
Ryzen 7000 X3D was already announced, just wait for that at this point. Obviously you have big enough budget so it makes no sense to spend that money on this platform.

Use a 2.5" drive and it can be the same, just drive up the other way. Those can hang off and be powered by a USB -> SATA data/power adapter, and then you can run the USB back to a router that supports external HDDs as a network share. 

That'd be better than integrated. I'd avoid the 1050 you mentioned above, the 2GB VRAM on those absolutely chokes them in any modern titles, the 970 has (functionally) 3.5GB VRAM so it should fare better. 

Use a 2.5" drive and it can be the same, just drive up the other way. Those can hang off and be powered by a USB -> SATA data/power adapter, and then you can run the USB back to a router that supports external HDDs as a network share. 

Most likely not. If you're targeting something like 1080p and some insane refresh rate then the 5900X might have issues in some titles, that's about it. Assuming you're going 1440p or 4K there should be no bottleneck that impacts your experience. 

Most likely not. If you're targeting something like 1080p and some insane refresh rate then the 5900X might have issues in some titles, that's about it. Assuming you're going 1440p or 4K there should be no bottleneck that impacts your experience. 

Why do you hold this opinion? What functionality do you think NTP servers are providing that isn't needed? We didn't spin 'em up for no reason. 

To add on to this, said tweaking probably still results in a system that draws more power than modern low-TDP parts, while being slower to boot and thus more wasteful with power. Especially the GTX 960, Maxwell is not an efficient architecture.

You're very close to the point. The amount of power your PC pulls is completely inconsequential. I pointed out the inefficiency to highlight how you're not effectively sticking to your own proposed practices (it is incredibly easy to buy used parts that are exponentially more efficient, and also already manufactured so you are not necessitating the carbon/moral debt of a new piece of hardware being created). Same as the original call for disabling NTP, it would cause a lot of function, reliability, and efficiency issues and solve about 0.
 
If you find it satisfying to tweak old hardware to the lowest possible power draw, hell yeah. I have friends who enjoy seeing how efficient they can get their computers. It's just important to understand that that is not practical across the board for everyone, and certainly doesn't make any difference in global power consumption.

To add on to this, said tweaking probably still results in a system that draws more power than modern low-TDP parts, while being slower to boot and thus more wasteful with power. Especially the GTX 960, Maxwell is not an efficient architecture.

You're very close to the point. The amount of power your PC pulls is completely inconsequential. I pointed out the inefficiency to highlight how you're not effectively sticking to your own proposed practices (it is incredibly easy to buy used parts that are exponentially more efficient, and also already manufactured so you are not necessitating the carbon/moral debt of a new piece of hardware being created). Same as the original call for disabling NTP, it would cause a lot of function, reliability, and efficiency issues and solve about 0.
 
If you find it satisfying to tweak old hardware to the lowest possible power draw, hell yeah. I have friends who enjoy seeing how efficient they can get their computers. It's just important to understand that that is not practical across the board for everyone, and certainly doesn't make any difference in global power consumption.

To add on to this, said tweaking probably still results in a system that draws more power than modern low-TDP parts, while being slower to boot and thus more wasteful with power. Especially the GTX 960, Maxwell is not an efficient architecture.

You didn't do much research did you? Windows, by default, syncs time ONCE a day or once a week to time.windows.com! This is a needless exercise in futility. Your Pihole VM/container/whatever uses more energy than all these DNS requests you're blocking, blocking doesn't mean it's not consuming any processing power, it's just going to null instead of being routed over the internet but they are still being processed by something. You're talking about saving a few watts of power over the course of weeks by blocking some requests locally. You're doing nothing in the grand scheme of things, the just a couple switches powering up in my lab consumes more power than you'd ever possibly save in a lifetime by doing this. Heck a single instance of windows updates probably nullify all your "savings" in one go.
 
Edit:
My statement about once a day syncs was incorrect, at least for Windows 11, it syncs once every 9 to 12 hours by default.

How much energy do you think NTP is using? And as I think I asked before, why is NTP the issue vs the other far less necessary and far more power hungry tasks we run (for example, a single Nvidia DGX A100 box for enterprise AI model training pulls up to 6.5kW, and those are made to run in fat clusters in a datacenter, not alone)? LTT has even made a video on atomic clocks and NTP:

I wouldn't be surprised if we are "stuck" with some things simply because it would be too major or expensive ot overhaul, but yeah I agree.
I would say "it worked just fine" on a surface level or because we couldn't yet do better. We in our daily lives don't need highly accurate synced clocks directly, but they have their place. It doesn't matter if our watches are 5 minutes apart or if they run slower, but for things that rely on timing it is rather important that you can trust the timestamps. As a niche example, radio astronomy needs to correct for nanosecond level clock drifts, GPS requires precise and accurate clocks to be able to do what it does.

Why do you hold this opinion? What functionality do you think NTP servers are providing that isn't needed? We didn't spin 'em up for no reason. 

They're clocks. Doesn't matter who controls them, they give out standard time.
 
As for who operates them... nearly anyone. NIST, US gov, Google, Microsoft, people with a homelab, your neighbor's dog if they have a computer with a static IP somehow. If you have a home webserver you can add it to the standard linux pool here: https://www.ntppool.org/en/join.html. In a shock to no one, they constantly need more servers for load balancing reasons. So literally what Tikker said above:
 
A lot of very smart people have put the internet together, there's usually a reason infrastructure runs the particular way it does.

Why do you hold this opinion? What functionality do you think NTP servers are providing that isn't needed? We didn't spin 'em up for no reason. 

2060 Super will be supported for longer and pulls a bit less power. If you do any non-gaming, some applications can leverage the tensor cores for faster rendering, so they're not exclusively for vidya game ray bouncing. DLSS also looks better than normal AA in many games, so I often use it even when I don't need the performance uplift. 

It's not about the effort. How can you guarantee that all of those clocks are both accurate and in sync? How can you guarantee that they're in sync not just with each other but also with clocks everywhere else? You can't if there's nothing connecting them all that helps keep them set properly, and for a lot of those clocks they're on their own. Why is having many NTP servers even a problem in the first place?
 
Not me. I'd like the clock on my computer to be accurate. Feel free to disable NTP for youself though.