Recent content by LaminarFlow

When an ITX case is big enough to house a 5090, it's way too big for me and defeats the purpose.

Currently I have a 8500G running my NAS on an A620 MB. While a 9000G APU seems completely unnecessary, it does get me interested as I start to throw more demanding tasks at it. Here's to hope it comes with one with decently low power profile and notable performance bump. I don't care about...

I would gladly play extra (to reasonable amount) just to have a physical Ethernet port.

I'm absolutely in favor of enforcing long password with special characters when creating one. But please for the love of god don't force me to use only specific special characters deemed worthy for whatever reason.

This past holiday season I decided to self-build my own NAS after using various commercial solutions (including Synology) for over a decade. A R5 8500G, A620 motherboard, 32GB ram (albeit non-ECC), Jonsbo N2 case, 1TB NVME cache, and all the minor stuff add up to be ~$700, almost exactly the...

Last year I was trying to self-build a NAS and was torn between cheap Zen 3 (A520) vs Zen 4 (A620) ITX boards. Zen 3 ones tend to have 4 SATA ports but only Gb Ethernet, whereas Zen 4 ones come with 2.5GbE yet only 2 SATAs. Either way I have to use an adapter/PCI-E card of some sort. Eventually...

In June 2023, two months after launch, I paid $550 through NewEgg promotion and grabbed a 4070 that came with Diablo 4 (lol) for free. Two years later, something that's barely faster and consumes 20% more energy, runs quite a bit hotter, has the same MRSP that you would be lucky to find. Maybe...

Thought I'd give an update on my situation. To much of my pleasant surprise, the 3rd party seller refunded me the purchase no question asked, with return shipping included. I got my money back within a week. Now NewEgg itself is selling Exos X18 14TBs for $220. Quite tempted, but also very...

As something that loosely follow the gist of the story, this past weekend I wanted to clean off and re-apply thermal grease on my 5800X. It turned out my alcohol wipe was too damped and some liquid (70% IPA) sipped into the CPU socket. I didn't initially notice it, tried to power on, and...

I am a victim of this. Around this past Black Friday I saw on NewEgg marketplace, a "very highly rated" 3rd party seller was selling 14 TB EXO X16 drives for $150, with 5 years warranty. I triple checked the fine prints that no where it said it was refurbished, so I ordered 4. They have been...

For my entire graduate school years, Intel was the top job choice for my group and a lot of fellow classmates/collaborators. I still have classmates that have worked at Intel straight out of grad school for more than a decade now. Last time I chat with them, the consensus was their jobs were not...

And I work there, not the same :p

LLNL, not LBNL

Gallium and Germanium are not rare earth at all.

Of course there was. A run-o-the-mill SB Live! Value PCI version for ~$60 CAD. Nothing particularly note worthy. Here's the full spec list IIRC: PIII 550E Coppermine, OC'ed to 733Mhz Asus i815 motherboard Asus GeForce 256 DDR Delux 128MB PC133 Geil Ram, later upgraded to 256MB CAS2 Micron...