Recent content by rkd29980

Intel Meteor Lake-S desktop CPUs to feature 20 PCIe Gen5 lanes, Z890 platform to support WiFi-7

Honestly, I didn't know that the CPUs weren't out yet and I haven't built a PC in almost 10 years. My current PC is a very old Z97 DDR3 build and I am just waiting for a DDR5 HEDT motherboard with the features I want so I can finaly build a new PC.

Don't know. I don't think it has actually made its way to retail channels yet as I can't find it anywhere. I fully expect it to be well north of $500 though.

Well, one is for a GPU, one is for a Mellanox Connect X2 card and one will be for additional SATA ports. It's always nice to have enough PCIe slots for whatever I may need them for even if I never use them. That's the entire point of a HEDT motherboard. "Options"

The Asrock W790 WS looks like the closest thing I have seen to a DDR5 HEDT motherboard with it's 5 full x16 PCIe lanes 4 of which are 5.0. This is aimed at workstations though but still, should I pull the trigger or wait for more and better offering to soon be released?

YES! Like I have been saying. I have been looking at the new Asus and Asrock DDR5 motherboards and all I would like is for them to take either the X79 Extreme11 or X99 Extreme11 and update it with all of the latest tech. Is that really too much to ask? Lots of USB4\Tunderbolt and USB3.2...

That is such a dumbass response. What, did I hurt your feelings or something?

I don't care about pure performance, I care about capacity. I only need 1 high performance, high capacity drive for the OS and my games. So it isn't necessary for motherboards to have multiple/many M.2 slots and for these drives to even be twice as expensive. As for U.2 drives? I have never...

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't know about these and this will help me plan my upcoming build nicely.

Old man? I am in my mid 30's and most of my drives are 10TB or above. Higher capacity drives means I can download and store more stuff. Yes, there is still a need for more than 4 SATA ports. You know, back in the early 2000's, there was a local computer repair shop that had been around for...

No, as a data hoarder who has literally spent many many thousands of dollars on hard drives in just the last decade and is well up on storage trends, I think it is you who needs to "get caught up on storage options". Just looking at Newegg and nowhere else, the cheapest 8TB M.2 SSD is $1,075...

But I don't use or care about M.2 drives. I get that they are faster but 2.5" SATA SSD's are still plenty fast and are a lot cheaper and can you even RIAD M.2/PCIe drives? I would rather have many cheap high capacity mechanical SATA drives in a RAID than several really fast over priced M.2...

OP here. So in my current PC, I have my 980Ti, a Mellanox ConnectX-2 10G NIC card, a USB 3.1 C card and a card to add more SATA ports. On the new build I am planning, I will have an RTX 3 card and I will keep the Mellanox ConnectX-2. I can eliminate the USB 3.1 card since the new motherboard...

So I have been looking at the EATX and ATX Intel 1700 motherboards from Asrock and Asus and they ALL only have have at most a measly pathetic 2 PCIe 5.0 x16 slots and some will also have 1 additional 4.0 PCIe x16 slot for a total of three. It also seems the new AMD DDR5 motherboards are just as...

I have two servers that are completely full. Continuing to fill up individual servers seems like it will be problematic going forward so I want to consolidate my data into one pool as well as allow for plenty of room for future storage. My setup so far is FreeNAS running on separate servers so...