Recent content by Gavin Greenwalt

For those that don't know: 3 Copies ("a safety copy" according to the article is only 2) 2 different formats (e.g. one on hard drive and one on LTO tape, which 2 HDDs again does not satisfy) 1 off-site (ideally the different format) So put a copy on two hard drives and one in the cloud would...

Yeah I ran a very similar PC for my router in Highschool on my 10Base-T home network when I finally got "broadband" aka a 600kbps wireless uplink to a rural WISP. I think I was running Coyote Linux off of a floppy

Ok... So one HDD on SATA and one Blu-ray drive on the other SATA done. Most people backup to external drives these days anyway. Also optical drives are rare. Also... Also... Optical for backup?? At 50GB per disk? Even a full spindle of 50 blurays is 2.5TB. You could get a small external 4TB...

There's already enough power. There are loads of active fiber cables. Even some that are XBox certified for 4k 120hz.

Have you talked to someone at NewEgg yet? I contacted them just this week about a product going on sale after I hadn't even received it yet. They gave me store credit for the discounted amount as a goodwill gesture.

Will they include the NVlink connector or will they reserve that as a 3090 exclusive? That's the real question. 40GB would make for a great pair of GPUs.

I remember the Matrox G400 Dual Head. Awesome to have dual monitors and accelerated bump mapping but the second buggiest, most inconsistent, worst GPU purchase I've ever made. (Worst GPU award goes to the voodoo Rush card)

Why would you be surprised that dedicated hardware (Raytracing chip) can outperform a general compute approach (Cuda raytracing). I would be *shocked* if raytracing weren't an order of magnitude faster on a dedicated chip. In fact full disclosure I demo'ed Caustic's previous raytracing card...