Recent content by Gordon Fecyk

At least we have an option. Not with the C621 I guess, but there are C621A boards out there. There are quite a few Xeon W pulls from Mac Pros and some relatively inexpensive Xeon Silvers available. Also at least, I can expect that these systems will offer independent CPU lanes vs chipset lanes...

I was looking at Xeon W as a potential solution, but kept getting tripped up on the C621 chipset having only 20 lanes. After more reading though, that sounds like it'd be chipset lanes only and there'd be at least 16 lanes from the CPU to a x16 card slot then, leaving the chipset lanes open for...

OK, at least that's a potential solution. I already have questions out to some board maker forums and am looking at Asustek's WS 621E SAGE board plus some used CPUs. Looks like I can use 1st gen Xeon scalable to start and graduate to 3rd gen when budget allows. I'll try to be careful when...

Why can't I just get an answer to the question of getting more PCIe lanes out of a PC? I have a unique use case, but I thought I described it with enough detail to get a useful answer. This is a video editing and video capture PC I'm trying to either fix, or build anew. The problem is a modern...

The Z590 chipset of the ROG XIII has a similar problem as everything else: Supported Processor PCI Express Port Configurations: 1x16+1x4 or 2x8+1x4 or 1x8+3x4. And the GPU will try to hog 16 lanes making the 1x16 + 1x4 the only running configuration.

And And this is where I'm getting stuck, trying to find a board with more lanes. It's looking like modern boards have just enough expansion room for one NVME device and one GPU. Some Micro-ATX boards even ship with just one PCIe slot now. As a consequence, I can't capture video from my PCIe...

If I can get more PCIe lanes out of a single CPU system, that's good too.

The drives would be spinning rust just to get more storage on the cheap. I already have a hybrid drive on SATA 6 Gb for this purpose, plus File History backups, but after graduating from 1080p to 4k I'm finding this isn't quick enough. I also use VEGAS 20 Pro as my editor. I'm otherwise aware...

I have a system with a Core i9 10th gen CPU and MSI MPG Z490 motherboard. I also have a NVME storage device, a PCIe Aver Media video capture card, and a PCIe Firewire card - I still have some old video cameras using that. All of these used to work with an RTX 2070 graphics card. When I replaced...

OK, let me toss one more wild idea out there for vendors to possibly steal and build. And if you're a vendor who makes this, just give me one or two for free and we'll call it even. ;-) My worst experiences with iSCSI as shared storage come from the low bandwidth of 1 Gb Ethernet, compared to 3...

I was looking at Intel NUC boxes as ESXi hosts to replace my Microserver. With vSphere Essentials being relatively cheap, I could get as many as six NUCs and use small USB devices to boot ESXi from, then use external storage of some kind to run my virtual machines from. The NUCs are dreadfully...