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[dogwitch]

On 10/21/2023 at 4:44 PM, atxcyclist said:

I’m starting to question my setup plans, but I have other options. The Ethernet controller on that AMD board is a Realtek, and apparently those don’t work too well. I have a Supermicro LGA 1150 board for 4th gen core processors, and it has a stronger processor in it (i5 4570) as well. It has dual Intel Ethernet controllers onboard, and I discovered I have a 6 x 1gb Ethernet card that has Intel controllers.

Aside from the higher memory bandwidth (2133 on AMD vs 1333 on Intel), and only SATA support on the Intel board, the Supermicro is probably better for this task. Also, I may go Opnsense rather than pfsense, but haven’t decided yet.

how old is it. the older ones seem to worker.

also seems that ever sub manf /part manf that asus and msi used for the 10gb rj cards.

the driver for it perm damage the card.

am very wary of wifi cards atm from 2021 and up.

many manf cheaping out on parts.

 

[8tg]

Got an asus ap201, it’s an matx case I saw a while back and liked, a friend of mine uses it and likes it, and I’ve been recommending it for decent matx builds 

so I figured I should get my own

I put the chad pc in it, asrock n100m + arc a380 + corsair rm1000x + Samsung 980

[atxcyclist]

22 hours ago, dogwitch said:

how old is it. the older ones seem to worker.

also seems that ever sub manf /part manf that asus and msi used for the 10gb rj cards.

the driver for it perm damage the card.

am very wary of wifi cards atm from 2021 and up.

many manf cheaping out on parts.

 

The AMD board is an FM2+ platform, I believe it’s somewhere in the 2015-2016 manufacturing timeline. It’s a really nice board otherwise, but it’s mATX and with the limited amount of lanes from that chipset, with an M.2 NVMe drive installed it actually reduces the number of expansion slots available.  
 

The Intel board is Haswell, so roughly the same vintage but of course all Intel controllers.

[WhitetailAni]

Xserve 2009 (2.26 dual CPU, 48GB RAM, 3x6TB SAS drives, LSi 7404EP Fiber Channel card) and Xserve RAID

Spoiler

They're sitting on my PowerEdge 2850 which is acting as a glorified shelf.

 

I am purchasing another Xserve to use the 6TB drives as my current Xserve has the RAID controller backplane. This limits the max drive capacity to 2.2TB, while the non-RAID backplane has no such limits. However the backplane is not currently sold standalone.

[dogwitch]

1 hour ago, atxcyclist said:

The AMD board is an FM2+ platform, I believe it’s somewhere in the 2015-2016 manufacturing timeline. It’s a really nice board otherwise, but it’s mATX and with the limited amount of lanes from that chipset, with an M.2 NVMe drive installed it actually reduces the number of expansion slots available.  
 

The Intel board is Haswell, so roughly the same vintage but of course all Intel controllers.

ah ok.

i bring that up seeing.  many people had issues with 21 to early 23 rj45 nic cards from asus and msi 10gb..

not built in but add on cards

yeah early fm2+ with pci lanes where awful.

 

[Rarity]

well, there goes the bank account .... 

 

Spoiler

 

[DANK_AS_gay]

 

Rx 6700XT to upgrade my 1070ti. About a 40% increase in most games I play. Went from 80 fps average in Cyberpunk to 144 average at the same settings. Mostly because no async compute in the 10 series, and that's best case scenario for the RX 6700XT, but this should last me another 5-6 years after this. I don't play very many intensive games, that is, unless Horizon Forbidden west and God of War Ragnorok end up running like dog on pc

250$, sold my 1070ti for 100$, so cost me net 150$

[SimplyChunk]

Newy newness until i can sort the *LOUDNESS* of my poorly A2000 out  

 

Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 Gen 7.  AMD 6600H and an RTX 3050 at 85W

 

First thing i did was this  

 

I wanted to add another M.2 but those bastards at Lenovo have used the 2280 slot for the boot drive .  Still it's got 512GB so it's not Danny Dyer just yet.  Just means I'll have to copy my games over instead of having them on the second M.2 ready to go.  8GB of RAM might be an issue in the near future but a 16GB kit of 4800 isn't a super expensive problem to sort  

[Kilrah]

Gift rather than purchase, but a neat 16GB 7th gen iPod nano

 

So smol

 

 

[mapegl]

I got myself a tiny amp for the living room to hide it in our small media console. Is it the greatest sound ever? No. Does it sound pretty good, especially for 46bucks? Very much so. 

My old and large amp from the 90s still has more detail and will remain as my home theater amp in my man cave, but the misses wants less stuff in our living room and this totally works. Bluetooth works really well, sound is quite good actually and despite it only providing roughly 50watts to each speaker due to the power supply being too weak it gets loud enough for my taste. Fosi kinda (really only kinda) screws its customers here, however, it does say so on the product page on amazon so I guess that is ok, especially considering the price. You do have to read through that though and I didn't. I only checked the actual specs of the AMP itself. Oh well, I will keep it in this configuration for now, since that is more than enough to watch some tv and listen to a bit of music. 

 

All in all, can absolutely recommend for about 50€. Get yourself some decent speakers for another 50 (people really throw old speakers out for cheap, despite amazing quality )and you have pretty great audio. 

 

 

 

[8tg]

Onza porcupines arrived 

these things cost more than some car tires, they better be good 

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

24 minutes ago, 8tg said:

these things cost more than some car tires

* looks them up; expecting a ridicules price *

I really hope nobody around you drives car tires this cheap ....  there are reason why you shouldn't buy the cheapest car tires for you own safety and those around you.

[SimplyChunk]

33 minutes ago, 8tg said:

Onza porcupines arrived 

They any good for tubeless running?

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, mapegl said:

I got myself a tiny amp for the living room to hide it in our small media console. Is it the greatest sound ever? No. Does it sound pretty good, especially for 46bucks? Very much so. 

My old and large amp from the 90s still has more detail and will remain as my home theater amp in my man cave, but the misses wants less stuff in our living room and this totally works. Bluetooth works really well, sound is quite good actually and despite it only providing roughly 50watts to each speaker due to the power supply being too weak it gets loud enough for my taste. Fosi kinda (really only kinda) screws its customers here, however, it does say so on the product page on amazon so I guess that is ok, especially considering the price. You do have to read through that though and I didn't. I only checked the actual specs of the AMP itself. Oh well, I will keep it in this configuration for now, since that is more than enough to watch some tv and listen to a bit of music. 

 

All in all, can absolutely recommend for about 50€. Get yourself some decent speakers for another 50 (people really throw old speakers out for cheap, despite amazing quality )and you have pretty great audio. 

 

 

 

I got a fosi amp but more basic model to drive some meh speakers for my gf's room, sounds fine enough for her!

[mapegl]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

I got a fosi amp but more basic model to drive some meh speakers for my gf's room, sounds fine enough for her!

I got it connected to some pretty good ELAC speakers and just got done watching tv for an hour and it is actually pretty darn nice. 

[flibberdipper]

7 hours ago, FlyingPotato_is_taken said:

* looks them up; expecting a ridicules price *

I really hope nobody around you drives car tires this cheap ....  there are reason why you shouldn't buy the cheapest car tires for you own safety and those around you.

Even "normal" price car tires can be shit. I had Michelin Defenders on my last car and Goodyear Assurances on my current car and they're god awful turds.

[Bitter]

5 hours ago, mapegl said:

I got it connected to some pretty good ELAC speakers and just got done watching tv for an hour and it is actually pretty darn nice. 

I don't doubt it, I just had some cheapo Dayton 6.5" bookshelf speakers laying around that fit on her desk. I'm sure with better speakers it would sound better, it's not high on the list of things that need upgrading, just adding a small powered sub somewhere would fill out the room and make it sound a lot better than better speakers. Other than the harsh tweeters and lack of anything below 80hz and overall bland flatness of the speakers well they sure do produce noises that are somewhat similar to the original noises.

[CommanderAlex]

10 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

Even "normal" price car tires can be shit. I had Michelin Defenders on my last car and Goodyear Assurances on my current car and they're god awful turds.

How funny that is as I had Defenders on my car and Assurances on another car (same model) and can definitely say they suck. I replaced the Michelin Defenders with Bridgestone Alenza AS Ultras and they were significantly better. 

[SimplyChunk]

10 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

Even "normal" price car tires can be shit. I had Michelin Defenders on my last car and Goodyear Assurances on my current car and they're god awful turds.

 

10 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

How funny that is as I had Defenders on my car and Assurances on another car (same model) and can definitely say they suck. I replaced the Michelin Defenders with Bridgestone Alenza AS Ultras and they were significantly better. 

I used to go see ''A Dude'' when i needed new boots for the old Focus when i was running that.  used to charge me 100 quid for all four corners plus  including fitting and balancing.  They wern't 'new' tyres they were usually taken off fleet vehicles on service contracts.  but they were always good 'named' brands and i never had any problems with them

[Bitter]

Got the GF some decor for her room, turns out it's also a projector of emotion

[8tg]

After a new jewel case for vol 2, vol 1 was fine though

these are a great example of how some albums are distinctly more scarce than others, vol 2 cost me $10

vol 1 was $100, because the only one I could find for sale was at a speciality store and I’d been looking for months, so I just said fuck it and bought the $100 one

 

later I learned why, it was never at retail, the cds were given to the original artists on the album and some were given to radio stations and djs, there’s very few of them out there 

vol 2 on the other hand was sold on retail shelves and is a lot easier to find

[SimplyChunk]

 

I don't think that's a bad price for a dual channel 16GB upgrade to put in to my new Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3.  It's apparently taken from new HP laptops that are being upgraded in the shop before being shipped out.

[Velcade]

New stubby screwdriver and bits!  Can't wait to put these to use.  Shout out to @Morpheuskibbe for the 3D print design, it's a perfect fit.

 

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, ChonkerFox said:

 

I don't think that's a bad price for a dual channel 16GB upgrade to put in to my new Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3.  It's apparently taken from new HP laptops that are being upgraded in the shop before being shipped out.

Nah that's a good deal. I'm actually eyeballing upping my laptop to the full 32GB as I'm bumping 16 sometimes with a game running and watching too many browser tabs open at once. 16GB dimms still aren't as common to find 2nd hand like 8GB ones are. Yet. Hopefully that changes soon. I wish so badly that I could set my own timings and speed to give the iGPU a little more help but nope.

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

Today's episode of 1500 useless parts lying around at home: Panel feed-through terminal block.

Didn't worked out like expected. 

 

Looking for good ideas what todo with them. 

I might repurpose them as fancy PCB mounted screw terminal since they are compatible with jumper/bridges and maker strips.