Recent content by NateD

Yep, the razor (scalpel) worked fine, but it's a dangerous step since one slip can mean buying a new CPU. All the other steps are 100% safe. I'm tempted just to see how much better the delidded watercooling is but nooo, no watercooling on this one. Keeping it simple! I'm away from it ~6...

Sure, if it's not too much trouble for me to get it done. PC Mark is supposed to run productivity apps and trace how long things take. I tried it but it's junk -- after it checks system info, it stops and says "no result was provided". Maybe there are better real world benchmarks? Here's Real...

That's an awesome build, thanks for pointing it out! It is super cool. I'm a sucker for comparing everything to the latest tech, then it feels like I'm missing out if I use older tech. I think the timing will align better on my next build in mid-2023, when Epyc is available. I just need to...

This is dope, thanks for sharing! I recently set out to do a ridiculous build over here. Mine Zen 4 stuff is cool and I've been dorking with Optane in RAID 0, but your dual CPUs and GPUs and tons of RAM and storage are really over the top. Kudos! How do you get 10.4Gb/s read on the Sabrent...

Here's the previous with RAID 0 added: I think the writes are basically just measuring the FireCuda's DRAM buffer. That's fair though, since if you don't normally exceed the buffer then you never experience any downside. Without and with RAID caching: Interesting the write RND4K, Q1T1 is...

What a loss. Enjoy your MacBook. Seems the Graid card is hardware to do software RAID. The drives don't connect to it and it seems the data doesn't even go through it, which would limit bandwidth to PCIe 3.0. As I understand, it gets only parity data, the idea being to save the CPU effort and...

Bah, bring on the encouragement. There's tons of threads about bang for the buck -- it gets boring. You won the lotto, what do you build for a workstation/server hybrid monstrosity? No comments on the Graid SupremeRAID SR-1010? Yep, case is Meshify 2, though everything is still laid out on a...

somebrains, cool trolling. Now do a bit more OT rambling and we'll be convinced of your smarts. I went with no read or write caching and a 64KB stripe size. I'll try turning the disk benchmarks into charts soon!

It's not so complex: I want to dork around making a hybrid workstation/server and I don't have a budget to do it. It is used for work but it's also plain fun to optimize and use a fast setup. Computer go BRRRR The dual U.2 works! I'll post more and results soon, but first I want to test RAID0...

Things are getting spicy 'round here! If only I had a #%@$ing case to put all this in! Comes tomorrow. My patience is already thin, I might just fire it up without a case -- sleep is overrated. Dual U.2 card hasn't arrived, but I have a single U.2 card. I think I'll briefly run off the...

LM is supposed to be fine on nickel plating. Some discoloration without affect on performance.

IIRC, the gallium in LM soaks into copper, creating an alloy. There's no point in trying to clean it off, unless it's uneven as rhkcommander959 said.

Note there's two 22H2, Windows 10 and 11. I'll stick with 10 until 12! FWIW, a number of Windows features can cause Windows to run apps in virtualization mode. For example, enabling WSL will do it, even without enabling Hyper-V and with core isolation off. It's called "virtualization based...

I ordered dog shampoo and a PSU, which came together a few days ago. Shampoo exploded. PSU was wrapped in plastic and is very clean now, but where it was sitting in the dog shampoo somehow a little shampoo got inside the plastic. Decided to return the PSU, still in plastic. They're damn well...

Winter is coming and people need to stay warm.