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I have an interesting idea for a bifurcation riser: something to allow putting an Optane H10 SSD in a standard machine. That drive is an M.2 device where the x4 slot is bifurcated into two x2 slots. Most mainboards don't support bifurcation to x2, so this riser would have to take an x8 slot...

"This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes." It may be recorded... okay, then I'll do just that. Did you mean to say it might be recorded?

Does anyone else have this board? I've switched to using Windows as the host, at least until the PCIe bus reset in KVM/VFIO is fixed. Now, almost every time I hotplug a DisplayPort display (as happens when a DisplayPort KVM switch switches away), Windows crashes, either with...

EDIT: somehow ended up with a duplicate post. The "edit/delete" button didn't actually give me an option to delete.

I don't know about ESXi, but for KVM, those three slots are tied together. It's easy enough to override that with a kernel patch, but that kernel patch will likely never be rolled into mainline Linux. Also, perhaps the CPU ports have an isolation feature we don't know about. Regarding HDMI...

Hmm, 2 gaming VMs? Anyway, here are the IOMMU groups with the latest Intel Root Port patches ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/20/453 ): ### Group 0 ### 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3 Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0c08] (rev 06) ### Group 1 ###...

Hmm, I just checked the Intel DisplayPort with my BenQ XL2420TE, and I get no audio no matter what I do in Linux, even without intel_iommu=on. I don't have any HDMI cables to check HDMI.

It seems like Super Doctor III merely sets at run-time some parameters that can also be set under Linux via via lm-sensors. I installed lm-sensors, then ran sensors-detect, which picked up the w83627ehf module. Once I loaded the module, I was able to chdir to...

I bought myself an X10SAT, but now I realize that the PCIe lane allocation on the X10SAE is actually better, since I don't need Thunderbolt. I'd like to change to an X10SAE instead -- but only so long as my 510RPM (at idle) CPU cooler doesn't trigger that crazy fan cycling. Do any of you own...

Speaking of wake on schedule, I seem to recall seeing such an option via vPro. I use vPro for the Serial-over-LAN and hardware VNC server features. (Oh, and it does do power controls, too.) For me, I absolutely wanted all three of VT-d, ECC memory, and vPro. Of the Haswell boards I could...

Also interesting: in LightBoost mode, the top of the screen has visible "scan lines". It's easily visible in the Windows 8 window decorations.

Hmm, now that you point it out, I do see that. No matter where my head is (vertically) relative to the display, I can drag a window up and down, and the window border gets brighter and darker. I have mine at 0% brightness.

I bought myself the XL2420TE, and it's pretty nice -- but now I'm wondering if I should've tried the TX first. I kind of want to try the stereoscopic 3D, but I have some brand preference towards AMD video. In the 'TX' model, does the emitter appear on the USB bus, or is it via DVI / DisplayPort...

I found a few more disadvantages of Intel vPro: No NMI switch function, and no way to send "break" (for Magic SysRq) over the Serial-over-LAN interface.

The description page for the X10SAT actually specifies that it has a Thunderbolt port, interestingly enough. In terms of remote access, the X10SAT claims to have Intel AMT/vPro. Assuming Supermicro hasn't done anything stupid, this means it has built-in Serial-over-LAN and KVM. You can even...