Bajantechnician

are you talking to me or the lads?
 
anyhow, sounds like I get to hit it w no condom after I leave my phone in my pocket

I think it came from a few different places. Star Wars is one, so are the running lights underneath riced-out cars, cocaine, the realization that blinky multicolored lights are kinda cool (probably a result of someone having cocaine). And yes, people like it. Again, cocaine.

I'll have some season tickets in the cancer zone please.

>strongest metal on earth
>scratches and thus breaks easily

Not authentic. 

It's one of my favorite designs we've ever done, tbh, but it's not 2019-friendly. 
 
And it's not really funny without the pun.

I've stuck by AMD even through the dreadful FX lineup.  I was very skeptical of the Ryzen launch.  I don't think there is much "hype" at this point.  Zen took the market by storm, and now the Zen2's are offering even better performance and lower wattage and much better pricing compared to Intel.  
 
If I didn't already have a 1st and 2nd gen Ryzen,  I would definitely get the 3rd gen right away, especially at the price.
 
If you're skeptical, just wait for some actual user reviews and benchmarks.  I'm almost certain they won't disappoint 

That's not the point. I don't give two shits how much you make or what the newest CPU that you have is. The point is that AMD is charging the EXACT same price that Intel was a couple of generations ago for their CPU that has twice the core count and twice the threads. Saying that you're disappointed in that solely because you can't afford it is pretty ridiculous and incredibly self-centered.
You're really grasping at straws here to find any way to make AMD look bad aren't you
The fact remains that AMD hasn't gotten the beatings that Intel has over the past couple of years in terms of hardware security. Will there be exploits that are eventually found that can be used against people who use AMD CPUs? Probably, but then if you poke around anything long enough you're bound to find something that you can exploit. These things were created by people after all...

Someone clearly missed AMD's keynotes on TDP-improvements.

330 bucks is cheap what do you mean lol

I'm basically plugging my ears and la-la-laing until July 7th. Cool to see official specs, but until I have independent reviews of these CPU's and how they perform, my wallet stays in my pocket. 

It's either you drop $329 for an 8C/16T 3700X or drop $399 for a 9700k that is beaten by said CPU. Or drop $399 for a 3800X which should trade blows with a $500 9900k. Or drop $499 for a 3900X which beats a $1200 7920x.
 
There is also a $199 3600 and a $249 3600X. 

So? I don't see anyone telling you to do that.

Zen 2 is a lot more than just "more cores", AMD for the first time since 2003 is the bleeding edge of CPUs and has left Intel behind, they will offer a superior product for a lower price point than the only competitor on this market, if this is not enough to make people who enjoy this market excited then I don't know what will.

I don't have 10+TB yet, but I still want to show off my home made NAS :D
 
You can find the full build log here.
 
Hardware
Motherboard: ASUS P8H77-I CPU: Pentium G1620 CPU cooler: Noctua NH-D14 GPU: Radeon HD 6450 RAM: 2GB no brand DDR3 1066MHz PSU: Corsair CX430M Boot drive: Kinston SSDNow V+200 60GB Storage drives: 2x2TB WDC Green (WD20EARX) Storage drive: 1x2TB WDC Green (WD20EARS) Storage drive: 1x2TB Seagate Barracuda (ST2000DM001) Case: K'nex revision 3.0 Total capacity: 8TB (raw), 6TB useable
 
 
Software and Configuration:
Running Debian Squeeze headless. I have the drives configured as a software RAID5. mdadm serves as the software RAID controller.
 
Usage:
Personal NAS, web server, cloud storage server, linux experiment box, [any other use cases I might end up trying]...
Right now, I have about 1.5TB of data on it (mostly media).
I'm going to start mining LiteCoins as an experiment at the end of this month (hence the GPU).
This thing sits in my bedroom and needs to be absolutely SILENT at night. That's why I put the giant Noctua cooler on there and that's why I put a Noctua fan inside my PSU. (link in signature)
 
 
Backup:
All documents (so no media) are being synced to a rented VPS in Amsterdam. I use Bittorrent Sync to achieve this. All documents are also synced to my laptop. Even if my house catches on fire and I lose my laptop, desktop and server; all the important files are still secure.
 
 
Photos:

Back when I use to use AMD CPUs that were PGA after loosening the cooler I would twist it (gently), slide it (gently), and attempt to lift one side (gently and not pulling strait out) this would remove the cooler without taking the CPU with it.

Yeah, thats what im assuming since theres no way when decommissioning a system, youd find a cpu on a single fan lol ?

Oh that’s what he means by fan, 
 
in in that case try twisting it slowly so the suction/connection between the cooler and the cpu looses (sometimes thermal paste does that)

I once didn't put on a side panel properly, so whenever the PC turned on, it made a rattling noise... Umm, yeah.
 
Hi.

I wish to introduce myself, even though I will likely be immediately forgotten.
 
I've been a techie since I was about 13 years old when my parents bought me my very first computer: a Tandy 1000 with no hard drive, no modem, 640k of ram, and a built on flash drive with about 1mb of total storage. It ran on DOS 3.1, and Tandy's GUI called Deskmate. Because of this, I couldn't play any games at all, so I started on my 30 year journey(As of this day since it was my thirteenth birthday when I got that PC). I was forced to learn how to use GW BASIC, and I got pretty good at it. For a few years my friends and I would write various little games that got harder and harder for the express purpose of pissing each other off.
 
I got pretty good at it. Sadly, this system had zero upgrade potential. Happily, I met a man who saw my interest, and found a way to help me learn more.
 
A week after he learned about my rapport with computers, he pulled up at my door with over a dozen 8088 and 8086 IBM systems that had been recently replaced at a local government office. 20MB and 40MB hard drives, 5 1/4 disk drives, 900 and 1200 baud modems.  The best part was that they ALL worked. The second best part was my new keyboard was an original IBM mechanical type M.  It wasn't just one either.  Every single system had one! and I had NO IDEA what I had at the time! How I wish I had!
 
These computers gave me a lot of experience in hardware configuration. Remember that nothing I owned ran windows, and I had no high speed internet. All configuaration had to be entered into the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEXC.BAT files, and any error didn't tell you anything. ANything it did tell you couldn't be Googled. If all else failed, you had to employ a hex editor. There was a lot to learn, and having othat many computers meant I could break a lot of things.
 
...and I broke a lot of things.
 
Ever catch a computer of fire?  I have. Twice. Once was the Tandy (I exploded a capacitor while trying to rewire the onboard sound to support 6 speakers), and once was a 386, which was when I learned how NOT to plug in an AT power supply (Two plugs, can be switched, but shouldn't be).
 
Then I entered the BBS world. I ran a BBS for almost 5 years called Moe's Tavern, which was absolutely wonderful. Forums like this are the closest comparison, but everyone who used it was local, so you not only met a lot of people, but attacking someone online could easily turn into a knock at your door, so you were polite. 
 
Moe's still has a single blurb on the bbslist textfiles page (Under 709), and I still have a single backup left on a 3.5 1.44mb floppy. I haven't checked it in years though so the disk is probably degraded beyond recovery at this point. I'm afraid to check.
 
From there I got online through our local cable internet provider. Any Internet access I had before that was via the University computer lab, which meant a 45 minute drive across town. It was at the university that we watched the Shoemaker Levy 9 impact with Jupiter live - the first time anything like that had been possible.
 
Since then I have done a lot of living, and lot of upgrading, repairing, changing, and generally messing around with every system I could get my hands on. I had developed almost a 6th sense for hardware diagnostics, which many do after going through so much (And intentionally causing problems). I even played with Netbus while that was a thing, though I never did any damage. I would demonstrate it's potential, then inform the person on the system I had connected to that they needed an antivirus app.
 
I've worked for some big companies, and some tiny companies, and I have a very diverse resume as well. Every single job I've ever had hasn't involved computers, but they always make use of my knowledge.  I even spent 5 years as a truck driver until just a few months ago when I was ordered by my doctor to stop or else he would take away my licence. In that though, I still found a way to incorporate technology into my world. I had no less than 5 screens in front of me with weather, traffic, dispatch comms, music, truck specific routes, truck diagnostics, electronic logs...that sort of thing.
 
If there's anything to be taken from this, it's that I am old school.  Very old school. I've used punch cards, I've used laser discs, I've used many tape drives...  lots of old tech.  I've been keeping as current as I could though, and I have been helped a lot by the LMG world. I am somewhat current in my knowledge right now, and I have gotten back into my comfort zone - repairing computers, with a specialty in laptops, unusual set ups, finding ways to do what others say cannot be done, and doing it all for far, far cheaper than most others can do. For example, I just set up a 5 screen work station from a 10 year old laptop for under $60 because someone said "that's impossible". 
 
I will readily admit if I cannot do something, or if I just don't know how to start, but when someone tells me something cannot be done, I refuse to accept that. Some call it a good trait, others remind me of the fires I started. As a part of this forum, I am willing to offer whatever input I can, and I will be reaching out for assistance whenever required so that I don't burn down another computer, possibly taking my house with it.
 
Thanks for reading this far folks!  I hope to get to know many of you in the future!

And yet still more people demand further government intrusion upon our lives in the name of safety.
 
This is the outcome of that demand.

Here's an idea.
 
Drop social media like a hot rock. Go back to what people did before, take interest in the people in your life and I don't know, maybe communicate with them directly?
 
Fuck Facebook, Fuck Twitter, Fuck. Social. Media.
 
The machine must die.

I had an iPhone X. Gave it back to my parents after just 2 months. Brought a new phone with my own money. I ain't spoil ?
 
Edit: I really did. Not joking. I hate the iOS. 

>joins
>shitposts
>leaves
 
a classic.