Jay Deah

thanks all. went with an RM1000x. was plug and play other than needing to move an under mounted fan a small amount back and plug in all the cables upside down compared to the original lots of leaked water residue in my RM650i on removal, had a GPU block leak about a year back and it clearly leaked a LOT more than i'd realized!

oh forgot to mention. i'm using cablemod custom cables so ideally i'd want a PSU compatible with the same cables as the RM650i (which i think are type4)

So... I've currently got a corsair RM650i that i'm very happy with. especially like the USB connection to get stats out of the thing. Now i got this PSU back when i had an 8700k / 1080ti and now i'm running a 9900k and 3080ti so it's probably time for an upgrade. whilst it all works fine when stress testing i have had the computer just die on me a few times when gaming so i think that it's not a terrible idea to swap out this PSU. I also seem to have completely LOST the silcon lottery on both these parts so i'm kind of hoping that i do have some sort of power problem and *maybe* i'll be able to overclock either part once the PSU is upgraded (the 9900kf isnt stable at anything over than stock). question is, what to swap it out with... my initial thought was an RM850i but as far as i can tell these are discontinued/unavailable Also i'll probably switch up for a 12900k at some point in the next year or two so "future proofing" isnt a terrible idea for me. Any solid recommendations for a PSU here? dont want to just throw money down the toilet with an AX1600 or similar but also not looking to cheap out. TIA

A dl380 is probably the most common server on the planet so you'll have no problem finding cheap spares if needed. Gen 8 is still good by today's standards for home use hp only just stopped releasing g firmware updates etc. You can't really go wrong. The is it worth it question is really subjective to your own requirements tho, do you need/want it enough to spend 100 on it? If not it doesn't really matter how good a deal it is.

Hi Guys, I'm an Infrastructure Engineer and struggling with product selection on a suitable KVM switch for my use case, hopefully someone here has some practical experience with this and can help steer me in the right direction. I'm currently using a HPE LCD8500 Rackmount console unit connected to a HPE KVM Switch which used to have a selection of windows HPE servers connected via various VGA and DP Dongles. all working well... but now all the servers are decomissioned so this equipment is effectively spare. I also have around a dozen or so Mac Minis of various Eras what i need to manage via a console+KVM. Unfortunately i cannot use the HP setup because the mouse/trackpad will not work when connected to a Mac Mini. Google shows me this is a fairly common issue with some KVMs. my current workaround is to directly plug in a mouse to the mac ad-hoc but this is obviously janky. So, i want to get myself a new KVM just for managing these mac minis. requirements are: Must be rack mountable, must support at least 16 macs, preferably exandable. MUST WORK WITH MACOS!. Preferably using native HDMI and no sort of adapters. Preferably with IP remote access using something modern+secure (ie no Java apps or similar). Preferably a current/supported product with an active roadmap (ie not something that hasnt had a security fix released in 7 years) A nice to have would be something that can also do remote power control, but since i already have fully managed PDUs in the rack it's really not a deal breaker. I'm hoping to re-use the HPE LCD8500 console, but it's also not a big deal to use a standard monitor, keyboard and mouse in the rack on shelving as i have plenty of spare space and dont have any limitations around air containment. for those interested i'll be mounting the mac minis in these things: https://www.mk1manufacturing.com/Mac-Mini-Rack-Mounts/MMR-2G-5URS-c17/ Thanks in advance! Jim

Got myself a lancool2 from OCUK plus the usbc and vertical mount options and I love the thing. So much so I want to do another build in one... but... they’re retailing for about 100GBP at anywhere I can find them. So it’s not quite as cheap as I’d like it to be. anyone know of a UK supplier able to sell them at closer to the US retail price? cheers

you know, you made such a good point that i went ahead and swapped the cooler for a 212 LED Turbo i had spare. wow what a differnce, wasnt till i looked at the original cooler properly i realised how weak it was. it's now keeping a E3-1275v6 (similar to an i7-7700) at <60degrees without the fans ramping up above 800rpm! before after

Turns out the reason the fans were running so fast was that the plug in case temperature sensor wasnt connected. I omitted this when I transferred the board to a new case. Guess the system must have gone into some kind of fault mode with no signal from this sensor and ramped up the fans. Now with this connected the CPU, SYS and AUX1 fans all run at sensible speeds. Unfortunately AUX2 still runs loud so I'm just going to run a splitter off of AUX1 for my third fan.

I've just done a new build in a Lancool 2 with all the lighting running off the case fan controller which is 3 pin A-RGB. Thinking of swapping the 80mm Fan on the CPU cooler (Lenovo OEM Cooler) with an ARGB one but cant seem to find any one amazon. Anyone know of any? Alternatively i could swap the cooler with a hyper212 i have spare and then use a standard 120mm ARGB fan but want to see what my 80mm options are first. Thanks in Advance

I'm not sure I'll have to wait until it turns up. I gather even the pictures are no good to go from as the board you get sent might not be the one pictured . It's my first time using aliexpress

sorry i misread what you said. yes there are a lot of processors suported that are "better" than yours if you want "the best" look for the ones pushing 130W TDP

for HP stuff always search for the "quickspecs" document and it'll give you all the supported hardware: https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=c04123238 also the "p" at the end of the name means yours is a "performance" SKU and as such will come pre-populated with some of the best performing gear, as you cant buy a DL380p with entry level specs. (or it'll be a DL380 sku) also "better" is subjective. your processor is 10 cores @ 3.0 Ghz, there's an 8core 3.3, 12 core 2.7, and a 4 core 3.5 available at the top end (130w)

just as Jarsky points out, there were SIGNIFICANT changes to how virtualisation worked once hardware assisted virualisation came in. nowadays the CPUs fully understand HOW to run multie virtual OSes and it's all handled on the CPUs themselves. and there is little to no overhead from virtualsed workloads. all modern hypervisors take advantage of this. "back in the day"... Before HW Assisted Virtualisation existed products like vmware GSX etc. used to use software trickery (Binary Translation) to get guests to run and this had a significant overhead. Almost all (if not all) modern hypervisors DO NOT SUPPORT this method anymore as it's super old. That's why you wont get things like virtualbox and vmware products to run on a Pentium 4 etc.

got a pile of old HP Gen8 hardware lying around at work on the scrap pile and this video insipired me to order a board got literally NO IDEA what i'd want the system for tho... lol

I have a lot of spare Ivy Bridge Xeons and DDR3-R Memory so i ordered one of those AliExpress Chineese Dual X79 Boards. I don't really have a use case other than "i'm bored" and "because i can" Now to choose a case... So considering the board is pretty big (EATX?) it would need a case that physically fits it. And also as the only use case i can think of is some sort of home server type setup it would want to take a lot of 3.5" Drive Bays (i have a few SAS RAID Cards spare too so i'd probably just bung in a load of 3.5" drives) Now i was thinking something like a fractal design R6... but... those arent cheap, also the only real use i can think of for the thing means it would be hidden away so no point in TG etc. SO anything similar that's a budget case?

if you read what i said, it doesnt RAMP on POST. it rams after POST. and it's not an older mobo. the 1275 v6 is Kaby Lake. The BIOS has some Thermal settings in it with some presets so i'll tweak that.

swapped the SYS_FAN to PWM and it now POSTS without AUX1_FAN connected which is good... read the reviews of the case and people said the fans it comes with are average anyway. slightly more concerning is that the fan rams up to high RPM as the OS loads. the mobo is from a Lenovo workstation (its running a Xeon 12755v6) so possible it's "supposed" to be 100% fan speed. hopefully i can do something with software fan control..

for the price of 2 of those i may aswell just buy some PWM fans

Just got myself a LANCOOL II case that includes 3x DC Fans. Then motherboard i'm using is a lenovo prebuilt and it has 3x PWM case fan headers. Unforunately 2 of them need to be plugged in for the system to POST. If i connect a DC fan it posts fine but the fans fun @ 100% What i'm after is a cheap alternative to running out and buying PWM fans to replace the included DC fans, retaining the fan speed control do i have any options?

The back pci slot covers are black on the blackout and white on the black. You could notice that on a windowless case still

what games do you want to play and whats your goal with framerates? 32gb is overkill yes

Try going to userbenchmark and running their benchmark suite. It gives you a comparison of your score to other identical hardware results and it will be clear to see if you are underperforming or not. I suspect there is a genuine problem as ive played games on a 940m whichbia significantly worse with playable frame rates on low end games

Please stop advising people ‘it’ll be fine’ without actually knowing what the risks are. pit too much current down too thin a wire and you will generate a lot of heat. Heat can turn to fire. Fire isnt fun The reason the PCIe connector can take more power is it has many more pins, so the current is more spread out.

Try ekwb web shop.

So this is definitely time spent in BIoS/POST and nothing to do with any windows settings... in the old days a common thing to slow down POST was a memory check, the bios would check all the ram and boot and that would Allen it down, not sure if that’s a thing anymore but check the bios settings anyway. If not drop a line to gigabyte support and they would be able to tell you what settings affect POST time. 20 seconds is quite slow for something set to fast boot but I have no experience of that board, it could be normal for the board.