I made a full cabinet MAME arcade rig 8-9 years ago. There's a pic or two here somewhere. I will post more.
In that time I've gone through 3x 21" CRT's and 4x 21" LCD's. Every LCD monitor I bought was basically DOA from 'capacitor plague'. I just opened up the last monitor that died, yep...
Ok....
I spent many thousands of dollars to have a machine that would do HEVC onboard.
My processors do HEVC .
1.29$ for a codec ? Everything worked yesterday.
now you want cash ?
Go Fuck Yourself.
I'm going to Immediately start lobbying Adobe to get off your stupid OS.
Mebbie Adobe will...
Ugh....
As some of you may know ,in the last year or two , I have put together a watercooled dual Xeon rig ;
see https://hardforum.com/threads/project-snowballed.1950723/
The specs are there.
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I have a problem..
The machine ran really well , until a couple weeks after I installed the...
Woop !
I did a test of my watercooling setup, d5 vario from a reservoir of my own design to dual socket 3647 cpu blocks.
Seems to work quite well, however I have some questions.
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So a G1/4 watercooling fitting uses the o-ring to provide seal. The threads only provide 'compression' for the...
If I click the link at the top of the page, I just get an infinite 'wait circle'...
(yea it's IE,haha sorry....)
I assume I can just goto patreon .com ?
Is there any special info I need ?
I was just going through the extreme cooling section, and noticing all the red x's in my old threads there.
My FTP site is long dead , but I still have all the old pictures.
Would it be ok to upload those pictures here and fix those threads ?
I'm guessing mebbie 20-30, 1024x768 pics.
I have an Xperia Arc (one of the originals)....it's onto 10 years now.I only use it as a phone / camera.....I don't even do email on it...
I have now discovered a new little symbol up top : "Low-On-Memory"
I have moved everything I can to SD, and I can't delete most of the apps I don't use...
I'm in the process of building a WC loop for dual Xeons.
No video cards, the WC is for the cpus only.
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With a parallel loop like this , I would normally use slightly larger tubing on the runs before the splits.
I'm using all g 1/4 stuff , so that's kind of irrelevant.
Are there any...
So with my new gopro6 , I am certainly envious of the hardware HEVC encoding/decoding on the Kaby lake stuff.
My workstation is xeon skylakes , but I've gotta run the re-encode.
I'm using handbrake right now , I also have Adobe media encoder CC....
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That's 1 more step than I want...
What's...
I'm back in town from the mountains to pick up a couple HERO6 blacks.....4k60 baby !!!
What's the best uSD ( u3 class or better) card around ?
I'm running SANdisk Extreme U3's right now.What's the state of the art ?
:D
[H]o ho ho !
I've been working on this for 8 months.It started out with buying a reaaaaaaaaly nice case.
I'd like to say thanks to the people here that helped me along the way !
Cheers !
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Caselabs Magnum SMH10 ( custom white )
Supermicro X11DPi-NT
2x Intel Xeon Gold 6144 Scalable...
Just got these today !! (and heatsinks)
Socket p uses a new mounting procedure......The cpu's get attached to the heatsink first, via a plastic clip.
The heatsink/cpu assembly then attaches to the mobo with guide pins....I'll take some pics when I install em.
Interesting , more foolproof...
Hmmm...
This pic is from a supermicro X11DPi-nt motherboard.
The connectors in question are the silver ones.You can even see the 'nvme' tags on the mobo .
What are these ? They sorta look like e-sata...
The manual is no help, I cannot find similar ones anywhere.
Thoughts ?
I'm about to buy a bunch of ECC ddr4.This shit is so boring, classic green pcb gah !
I'm constructing a custom modded Xeon workstation, I am looking for low-profile RAM heatspreaders I can attach myself.
Google is failing me at the moment.
I am assuming I can use std ram heat spreaders , with...
Ok, this might belong in the multiprocessing subforum, but I'll start here.
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I'm about half done building a 'bleeding edge' workstation.Dual processor Skylake-sp .
This is my new motherboard :
Supermicro X11DPi-NT. I have 2x Xeon gold 6144's paid for and on the way.
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Please...
I have finally dived into the big boys pool.
My supermicro X11DPi-NT is paid for and on the way.....I've saved up about half of $$ for the 2 xeon 6144's I want.
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As I stand on the deck stinging from the fir$t dive, contemplating the second dive, I have questions.
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The x11 mobo that I...
This is probably an [H]staff question , but I thought I would put this out there.
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I am looking for the complete datasheets on both Ryzen processors , and Threadripper processors.
I've spent some time going through AMD's website , I see nothing.
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Are these documents still under NDA ?
What...
I have an issue with a current control loop , I know there's a couple people here with insight. ;D
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I have a PLC that is running as a 4-20mA 'source' . In an Ideal situation , the pH meter I am trying to interface should be a 4-20mA 'sink' .
It's not, the pH meter runs as a 'source' as...
I play Q3A 5 times a week still.I even load up quake 2 several times a year.
I talk to all the people I play with about what they want from a new quake.From what I've heard , Quake Champions ain't it.
The most common denominator I hear is : " We want Q2/Q3A physics/gameplay , with better...
Is Windy/soldam dead ?
What's the state of super high end aluminum cases from Japan these days ?
I only ask because I might have a pipeline there to buy a case.
=D
Ok.....I know you guys and gals have sworn off the CC.
What would it take to get you back in ?
It does'nt seem right that you are not in this.
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It's my advice to my team (HWC forum) that we don't get involved in any rules.
How would team 33 setup a ruleset that would...
I have finally decided to build a proper 'rough power' supply......I'm sick of not having good power for my peltier work.
The specs I am looking at : 0-24 VDC @ 26 amps.
Here's what I am doing ;
I have a powerstat variac ....1.4 kVa...(116cu)..I intend to buy a Hammond toroidal...
Ok , I run a PfSense router ( v1.2 rc4).
I have set my main rig as a static IP , and opened both a) the required incoming ports and , b) the outgoing ports (outgoing PAT is essentially disabled.) , for Modern Warfare 2 to run correctly.
It works perfectly , MW2 reports NAT as...
Ok.....this has nothing to do computers....but I know a couple people here that might know about this so here goes :
I was asked to help troubleshoot a power issue with a machine.
I *think* I solved it , but it brought up a couple questions.
The machine in question is a mixer...
Ok.....
/me treads lightly....
:D
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I just bought this :
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I intend to build a MAME cabinet with it.
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Now I realize so-called 'emulators' are a touchy subject here .
I actually own my own roms.Several of them .....Buying legit roms is...
It's probably time I started this thread. :D
I am about 18 months into the evolution of the Thinktank
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I am designing the thinktank 2.0 to be a submersion rig , with pure alcohol (anhydrous isopropanol ) as the liquid.
This IPA will be pumped from a large vacuum insulated...
Heh...
While I bought this pump for something other than watercooling :D , I thought I should share this for those of you that run multiple setups/large watercooling setups....
I bought this pump from Chinook pumps in Calgary...
This is an investment cast 316 stainless steel...
I'm trying to get some more production outta one of my borgs.
It's a sempron 3000 or some such thing with 1.5 GB ram , windows XP...AGP slot , and a ~350 watt psu.
Upgrading it fully is out.It's too much machine for it's user now. :D
However , it's only running onboard video , so a...
I'd like to dedicate this thread to Dan_D , sd11 and anyone else who got screwed with the 680i.....
I gave my striker the sweet release it so richly deserved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZp_lHVO48
Haw haw.....
I made sure to sweep up all the bits for the RMA...
Heyaz !!!
I'm putting together some pure silver gas/liquid heatsinks.thought I'd share teh pics so far.
cut :
shaping :
Lapping plate :
starting;
Finished to 220 grit ;
Final slug weight 4.57 Oz , .999 silver.
I'm ready for the next step...
:D
/me pokes Agent 420..
Here yah go.This is my current project. ;
This is the bench computer I'm putting together.
P3 Katmai/512 Mb ram.......
Matrix Orbital 22x series
USB Instruments DS1M12 "stingray" digital ocilloscope/DMM/logger/etc
Omron K3TL series digital...
Heh
This Asus strikeout extreme is exhibiting a new flaw.(aside from the ram eating and death)
I now need to reset the cmos every single time I reboot.
Haha
Sometimes that isnt working even.....it takes 3 or 4 resets....
gg.
:p
My cooling experiment is proceeding well , however , I'm going to need to externalize all the electrolytic capacitors on the motherboard.
Which brings me to the question.The easy way is to use short (~12") twisted pair pigtails.
Is this going to cause impedance issues ? or should I be...
I'm sitting here thinking about full system cooling.
Regardless of method , whether gas or liquid cooled , the same question keeps popping up.How cold can a mobo/cpu/ram/video card go ?....My initial research is showing mixed results below -40c......Now, this is 35 ish degrees below spec for...
2 days ago my rig decided to not boot.
Intel e6600
Asus Striker Extreme
Muskin redline pc8000
etc
After a reboot , Bios beeps indicated memory error.
I took the machine apart , reseated ram etc , finally it decided to work.
It worked for 3 more days.
Then same error.....I had to remove 1...
I have a couple questions I'd like to bounce offa Y'all.
I'm working on combining several different projects into a single unit.Here's the deal ;
With my recent upgrade , I managed to get in on the first batch of Matrix Orbital GX Typhoon LCD's...
Awesome display.
Anyways , this...