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Parts will be here Friday and working to understand the process for overlocking on AM4. Not world records but the low hanging fruit. My first AMD system since a Phenom II X4 945 build. I've read seemingly conflicting opinions about overclocking Ryzen 5000 chips. Enable PBO and walk way. Leave...

I'm considering a new backup drive for home. Use 4 TB 2.5" drives that get about 100 MBps. A bigger and faster unit would be nice. Anyone have a WD or Seagate prebuilt 16-20 TB drive they use and if so what kind of write speeds do they get? They spend 99% of their life unplugged. Only online...

Was playing Atomic Heart tonight and the whole computer restarted mid game. No display after reboot. Power cycled several times and nothing but could hear Windows booting, could ping the machine from another computer. Changed from one displayport to another and that got me so I could get into...

A couple years ago I bought a Westinghouse 9500DF generator as a whole home emergency backup and for portable welding. Works fine other than my battery backups will not charge with the power it provides. Chatted with CyberPower and APC and the recommendation is a double-conversion online UPS...

I've been drooling over Ebay 6-8 TB NVME drives lately. Western Digital SN200, SN640, and Intel P4608 for example. Any reason these wouldn't work or be a bad idea with a PCIe to U.2 adapter in a small server? Seeing them for under $500 occasionally. Cheaper than even a RAID set of SATA SSDs...

Curious if gamers and general purpose users who made the jump beyond 32 GB of RAM found it noticeable? I decided to order an extra 32 GB today for my home machine after seeing some talking heads on Youtube say it's worth it. I'm skeptical but feel I should find out if there's something to be...

This year I installed our first network that wasn't 1 gbps. Have servers connected with 25 gbps DACs with several teams of 2x25 gbps. I've used iperf for performance testing for many years but I've yet to get it over 5 gbps and change. Wondering is there's something else that's a go-to tool for...

Guess I'm getting old and can't remember how some of this works. I have a Schiit Modi 3 DAC connected to my computer via optical. It connects to a Schiit Magnius headphone amp. A failing Logitech powered 2.1 setup connects to a preamp output from the headphone amp. I'd like to do away with the...

Considering upgrades for my home server and can't find a good solution that supports Windows Server 2022. Supermicro says their X12 line of boards are compatible but there are no drivers available for download. Ideally I'd get at least four Sata ports and two m.2 NVME slots. A x16 pcie 3 slot...

I've been having trouble for years with cats chewing on cords. Anytime I walk away from the computer and come back my screen flickers and audio will glitch as soon as I touch the mouse or keyboard. This also happens if a cat touches the desk, monitor, cables, or case. Happens all the time. I...

I've been using this software for about 24 days and the trial is about to expire. Went to purchase a license but Paypal says the payment is going to "ИП Зинухов Станислав Игоревич". Well I'm not looking to giving my money to Russia anything but I do want to ensure it's Russian made before...

I might have some SAS SSDs pulls from Dell servers and Equalogic SANs this year, 6 and 12 gbps drives. I'd like to try transplanting them into less critical machines that don't have SAS backplanes. Most of the solutions I've found appear to be rinky dink work around stuff. Can anyone recommend a...

Edit: fix noted at bottom. I've been struggling for two days trying to get an Asus RT-AC66R connected to a NordVPN server. It technically connects just fine to three different servers but no traffic gets routed down the tunnel. I can ping both sides of the VPN tunnel so I know it is up. I...

10850k ordered from Newegg came in three days ago and looked ok. I opened the shipping box and saw the 10850k box and it looked good at first glance. Today I go to open the CPU and the back had been ripped open and the CPU is gone. Been trying to connect to Newegg chat for 30 minutes. What are...

My wife is getting my old 7700k and debating if an old video card is worth installing. She's been surviving with onboard graphics for a decade. Would an 8800 GT or Gtx 260 be worth the heat and power over HD 630 integrated graphics? Online video as demanding as she gets. I think it's probably a...

Newegg has it for $430 - $40 promo code EMCGFEG26 https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i9-10850k-core-i9-10th-gen/p/N82E16819118175

I could put a cooling setup in my home network closet just 2 feet away from my home computer. It has a dedicated AC vent. Punch a couple holes in the wall and route the water pipes out to the computer. Maybe move the whole computer into the closet. The idea is the amount of cooling I could have...

I have core envy but my 7700k still games well. Haven't been [H] in awhile and it calls to me. Something AMD with quadruple the cores sounds nice.

I've been obsessing about upgrading my home computer audio for a month. Been using motherboard audio, Corsair usb headphones, and a Logitech 2.1 for about 12 years for gaming. Decided to go with the Schiit Modi DAC, Schiit Heresy amp, and Hifiman Sundara headphones. Cost including cables, tax...

I spent hours last night troubleshooting a problem, figured I’d give you guys a heads up if you ever run across it. I installed two brand new Western Digital Ultrastar 10TB drives into a brand new Asus X570 MB with an EVGA Supernova 850 G5 power supply. Not detected in anyway. Not in the bios...

When looking at new SSDs I keep coming back to this drive. It seems to check the correct boxes. 8 channel controller, TLC, on-board RAM, and great 4kQD1 in reviews. Downsides seem to be the lack of software suite and virtually no information that I can find on HP's website. A review site said it...

I have a white box backup replica target that is out of internal storage and SATA ports. A direct attach tower form factor external SAS enclosure with 3.5" drives would seem to be the best choice. Can anyone recommend a fairly inexpensive 8 disk box and controller? I'm familiar with Dell MD DAS...

https://www.computerbase.de/2019-10/high-end-cpu-intel-skylake-x-preis/ At Cascade Lake-X , a significantly lower price is being sold as a major innovation, but Intel will drastically lower its predecessor Skylake-X in the coming days . ComputerBase awards have been received from the retailers...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14838/intels-nextgeneration-cascade-lakex-hedt-cpus-due-in-october "According to Intel’s internal testing, its Cascade-Lake-X processors will provide a 1.74x – 2.09x relative per-dollar performance improvement when compared to Skylake-X."

My wife's old 840 evo 120 GB is full. I was thinking of going with a used Intel MLC SSD off Ebay. They just seem to be immortal. Something like a S3500 or S3700 in the 480GB to 1TB range. Any reason not to go old enterprise stuff for a computer that' surfs the web and stores pictures? Any other...

My home file server is Server 2012 R2 standard with a 4 TB Intel RST RAID 1 array with dedupe enabled. It's storage for backups and surveillance video. I'd like to add a SSD write cache in the 128 GB range. Ideally only caching of certain folders or even volume/partitions. PrimoCache might work...

I bought several outlet Athlon II and Phenom II machines around 2009-2010 for family and friends. I'm impressed how well they've hung in there. Windows 7 was brand new and the whole computer was < $450. All received Samsung SSD upgrades and some memory during the free Windows 10 upgrade period...

I've been running this Samsung 960 EVO 500 GB SSD since March of 2017. 4k read performance has slowed 46-48 mbps down to 28-30 MBps. Write performance has slowed from 146-176 MBps down to 128-144 MBps. Have tried quite a few things to figure out the cause but I'm nearly out of ideas. My 850 pro...

My cat persists in laying on top of the PC and causing it to overheat. To the point where coretemp does an emergency shutdown. I have a top exhaust H110 radiator in a Fractal Design R5. Would I see a big temperature increase moving it to the front and blowing the hot air in? Otherwise I'm going...

I recently built a new PC and found that Hyper-V hit memory and cache performance hard when installed. Screenshots were taken @ idle. No virtual machines running or created. Basically Hyper-V installed, restarted, benchmarked. Virtualbox does not seem to have the same problem. Before Hyper-V...

Preemptive thread I guess to see what works and what doesn't. Maybe someone currently testing it chimes in. Have one on preorder and the Asus validation list isn't up yet. Wanting to get some ordered ASAP so it's here when the board arrives next week. Currently leaning towards this GSkill kit...

Due to an unfortunate run in with feline last week I had to replace my 11 year old Z2300 speakers. I've installed them in exactly the same positions and thought I'd give my quick thoughts. The new speakers are tiny in comparison. The Z623 subwoofer must weigh 2/3 or less of the originals and is...

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/56124/amd-ryzen-flagship-cpu-r7-1800x-8c-16t-4ghz/index.html http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-am4-processor-family-leak-r7-1800x-flagship/ Edit: Looks like some prices have leaked as well...

I ran the benchmark three times and my R730 Haswell based system with 4x32GB and 8x16Gb outruns a newer R730 with 4x32GB. I didn't know memory scaled like this in dual CPU machines. I would appreciate it if someone with dual Broadwell CPUs and 8 memory slots populated run the same benchmark.

Looking for a motherboard and memory combo proven to work in 8x8 or 8x16 GB configuration of really fast memory even if it's not officially qualified. It's a home computer for single GPU gaming primarily along with VMs and RAM drives for test/learning. Memory something like two of these...

I built my wife a computer many years ago with an Athlon II 445 triple core @ 3.1 ghz and a single 4 GB stick of memory. This week I upgraded it to a Phenom II 945 @ 3 ghz and added a second 4 GB stick so it's now dual channel. What an upgrade in regard to system responsiveness. Searches are...

We're installing a small server room at a remote office 12'x13'. I'm estimating six 2u servers (700-1100 watts max each) and three 48 port POE switches. Small stuff like UPS, WAN equipment, etc. In the past I've used mini-split systems from Mitsubishi and Fujitsu. Great in the summer but they...

Windows 10 compatible version is out. Just enabled and seemed to use 1 GB. 850 Pro 512 GB standard 850 Pro 512GB RAPID mode

I'm working on a new SAP server build that would be well served using a single P3700 for the main database. I'm not willing to give up redundancy though. Is there a NVME U.2 controller that allows hardware RAID 1 using the 2.5" form factor?

What in the desktop computer space can't be achieved with today's hardware? July 2015. A better question may be, what workloads are still heavily dependent on single or single digit number of threads? Gaming at very high frame rates in older games or at low quality settings. 120 fps in 3d for...