GeorgePatches

So I have a question about the thermal testing. For Prime95, did you actually dissipate ~250watts continuously with the Noctua D15, or was there a switch to water cooling for that?

So the Asus board does support 8 SATA, but you need a cable for the U.2 port. It took me a little while to unravel what that cable was as "U.2" is shockingly undescriptive. Apparently I need a SFF-8643 to 4 SATA cable. https://www.amazon.com/CableCreation-Internal-Mini-Cable-SFF-8643/dp/B01B1IVEM2 I think the ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE is the winning board right now. The Asrock boards look a little too server for my needs, like no USB-C on the back panel and while I don't need fancy audio, I do need some audio. The 8 SATA ports is really the killer, but without 8 I'd need to run an add in card for my 8 SATA devices and I want to save my PCIe slots for more interesting things.

After 8 years or so I'm going to be replacing my 4770K and Z87 board based system. The system has served me well, but it just doesn't suit my needs like it did when I first built it. 8 years ago I built a gaming rig, now I want a workstation that sometimes games. I got a deal on a used 3700X from a friend, so I'm going AMD for the first time in probably 10 years. I plan on building out virtual networks with this as part of my personal work training (day job is sysadmin) so I want at lot of RAM. I also really want IOMMU as I'd like to pass a GPU through to a VM. I also use this system to host redundant file storage, so I really want to switch to ECC memory. I'd like suggestions for workstation motherboard to fill my needs. I'm already looking at the Asus Pro WS X570-ACE, but if there's anything else I should be thinking about please post up. Needs: -AM4 -IOMMU/AMD-Vi/PCI Passthrough -128GB RAM (so 4 DIMM slot MB only) -ECC support -Dependability -8 SATA ports Nice to have: -IPMI -10G networking -wifi -affordability. Price: flexible. I'm already thinking about a ~$360 board, so anything within a couple hundred of that is something I'd consider. Getting the things I need are more important than the cost, I'll probably be using this system until 2030.

The Amazon delivery donkey finally arrived today with the replacement fan for my CPU cooler. My PC can finally get back to work!

In case anyone is curious, after spend half a day testing and crawling over performance metrics, I gave up. I can't find anything obviously wrong with this Intel drive, but it's behaving strangely none the less. Like when I do a quick format to reset, it takes a really long time, a minute or so. Where as my 2 other SSDs are nearly instant at the same task. I'm just considering the drive compromised and moving on. I reformatted again using the Kingston drive as my boot drive and the San Disk as a swap drive (I have it, might as well use it). I'll pick up new SSDs to host my VMs at a later date.

90+% They're basically blank.

Yeah, but both the drives I'm using here are DRAM-less, Kingston A400 and Intel 530.

Yeah, I'm not expecting blazing performance, but it's acting like a HDD or worse. This was my regular Windows 10 Home boot drive until Friday night when I reformatted with Windows 10 Pro for Workstations. I wasn't seeing any issues with it there. So I deployed a Windows 10 VM and that didn't seem to have any issues, which perplexes me. I deployed an Ubuntu 20.04 server VM, and that was slow, but only sometimes. It was mostly fast, but sometimes did the slow down to nothing and disk went to utilitization 99%. A CentOS 8 VM performed similarly to Ubuntu. It's like when it needs to do a SYNC write everything comes to a screeching halt on linux. Background of what I'm trying to do here, I wanted to test out ReFS and Hyper-V. I'm testing the viability of building one box to rule them all. Gaming PC, hypervisor, and storage server in one rather than 3 separate machines. I was trying to build a mirrored ReFS pool out of 2 240GB SSDs, the Kingston and this Intel, but ran into the terrible performance issue. Destroyed the pool and broke the drives apart to try and figure out what's going on. I'm super confused now, anyone have any ideas? I've got no idea how to troubleshoot this, if it can be fixed at all. If nothing else I think I'll steal the other Kingston A400 out of my spouse's PC, and give her the Intel since it seems to work fine for Windows.

It's an Intel 530 series 240GB. I'll try a different guest, but I doubt that has anything to do with it since it's fine on one drive and not the other. I'm not doing drive passthru, it's just a storage file based VM like a standard deployment.

So I have a fairly old Intel SSD that I'm trying to host some Hyper-V VMs with. The trouble I'm having is that the performance is terrible for some reason. Run crystal disk mark and the numbers look normal, but try to install a Debian VM and the utilization hits 100% and the writes slow to a couple MB/s at best. I checked the SSD over with Intel's utility, no issues found and reportedly plenty of life left. Did a firmware update, no change in the issue. Do the same thing on a Kingston A400 and it works as you'd expect a SSD to. Snappy and fast. Even my SanDisk boot drive kicks its butt (which scored way lower random reads and writes in diskmark). I'm very perplexed as to what's going on here. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?

Question for the group, is there any advantage to giving my GPU slot more than 1 CPU thread to use? EDIT: Never mind, I totally misinterpreted the UI, that's not possible.

Yeah, when I was doing this 15 years ago I was never wanting for WUs. It's awesome for the causes that we keep running the well dry.

Hey all just joining the team now. I started folding last weekend when there was a story about the need for SARS-Cov-2 processing time. I used to fold some way back in the day on my Pentium 4, but never really kept going because running the computer 24/7 was noisy 15 years ago and it would keep me awake at night because it was also in my bedroom. My computer is not as cutting edge as it was in my college days. Just an old 4770K and a 1060GTX, but I hope to make up for lack of power by running it full blast 24/7 (hooray for having a bedroom that my computer isn't in).