Mishotaki

it's not a bad idea, making sure that the heatsink is clean and fresh thermal paste is better than what you would have on it. you don't have to listen to all the people saying those cards are bad, just make sure your price is better than any non-blower card you can get your paws on. like linus says: there is no bad product, there is only badly priced products

to me, the biggest problem is that they print the shipping label and it takes about a week for the package to actually be picked up by the carrier. it's been like that for most of my packages, like my recent Uncle Linus water bottle and windbreaker(they were separate orders), one was picked up 6 days after the first notification and the other 7 days. to the american customers: crossing the border takes multiple days, as a Canadian, i expect any package i order from your side to take about 2 weeks to reach me, as it always stays a couple days for customs to clear the package.

But Linus has had "the operation"(if i remember well), so he doesn't need the product, therefore he won't be interested in making something he doesn't have any need for...

as i'm located in Canada and it's a business purchase with a budget, I don't think we would be able to get one of the 3rd generation before we lose the allotment.

at the point of getting that Dell system, we might as well just upgrade our quoted system with the quickest processor for the SR550 that we've been quoted... we're meeting our consultants tomorrow, i've sent them a build sheet of the 9900k and TR2950X systems, they were very interested in the options that it would bring to us. we'll see what comes from that.

we are still rocking a warranty on our HP system, we had a power supply and fan failure last year... thank god for redundant power supplies. we already have a VM cluster on that server, we're still discussing on how and what we would transfer. we currently use Hypervisor-V the "gaming" system option is what's being "recommended" as a system that is being used by another client of our software supplier that has a similar number of users, that's why we're looking at that option.

we're rocking a HPE ProLiant DL360e Gen8 with xeon E5-2440 the uses for the single core system and the server are different, also if there is any problem with the built system, we can get parts and repair it fairly quickly and we have a solid backup solution, it would be a part of our infrastructure, far from a vital component for our network, while a real server would take that task.

it seems i wasn't looking properly when i was looking up my components, thanks for the tip on the TR2950X, i'll be updating my build for that also, the motherboard i choose on the Intel system was for a Xeon E(why do they have the same socket, but can't use those features?) because i searched for the socket and ECC memory support... building a computer at work is so much harder than at home, the multitasking that i do doesn't allow me to focus enough on compatibility. thanks a bunch guys!

we've been quoted a Lenovo system with dual Xeon 4214, but as our program's perceived speed is mostly coming from the database seeking the data, our current system is being perceived as very slow because of it... we're also considering getting it to upgrade our server and spruce it up (it's a budget transfer that give us what we would need)

so Threadripper would be the best choice for single thread speed with ECC?

Hi, we need to build a computer as a server to host a program that its database doesn't use multiple cores, another company that uses the same program has reported that using a 8700k machine made it very fast. we are looking into building a computer to do the same thing, but we are looking to upgrade the database in the future to something that can be multi-threaded. Therefore the small hit in single core performance of the 9900K wouldn't be that bad.... but now that ZombieLoad has been discovered and that the performance of all intel processors will have to take a hit, would the single thread performance of the Threadripper 2990WX be equivalent, while having the many core could be beneficial to run other programs at the same time? off course, we would run them both with server boards with the max ECC memory they support 128GB and raid 10 enterprise SSDs in 4U rackmount chassis, with a cheapo video card. the price difference doesn't really matter to us, the licenses required to run the final setup will cost more than the hardware anyway... if it can make work life of 50 users that uses it better, it's worth going TR instead of Intel. thanks for your opinions.

I'm the IT guy at the office, I get called by the boss wife telling me that her computer doesn't work and that none of the 3 girls around her could figure out why. I get to her desk and see that the computer is on by the light, move and turn over the mouse and see that there is power to the USB.... look at the screen and see that it's not powered on... i press the power button and it's alive! none of the girls could explain how they didn't think that the reason that there was no video to the computer because the screen was turned off... Last month, I had a designer call me about her computer shutting down all of a sudden without any reason, I got there and saw that she had plugged a space heater and a toaster in her battery backup unit... when both of them were started at the same time that the computer was working, it totally flipped the breaker on the unit because it overloaded the circuit... She then tried to explain to me that there is no way that it would trip the breaker, they don't use that much power since they are simple machines that only do simple tasks... I then informed her that nothing that its sole purpose is to produce heat should be plugged in with a computer, i haven't heard anything about it since. last year, a CAD designer moved her desk, she was proud of it and told me that she plugged everything back in and didn't need my help.... a couple months later, there was a small power outage and she called me to inform me that the damned backup battery unit was dead and needed replacement. I got there with a new unit and when i was about to do the switch, i checked the connections, only to see that all the computer equipment was plugged in the surge protection side and her cell phone charger was the only thing in the battery side... so i told her that there was 2 good news: 1- the unit doesn't need to be replaced 2- her cellphone didn't stop charging while the power was out!

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