Recent content by mattcintosh

The numbers line up. 8,000 kwh @18 cents each is $1,500. Thats 16 kW that is easily doable on a 100 amp service. 10 computers pulling 1.4kw each would easily hit that number. The EV charging is a red herring though. Lets say they drove 2,000 miles the time they were there. The average ev gets...

Yeah, thats through the board. Getting snapped off pins removed can be rather tricky. https://www.ebay.com/itm/143203285372

I had an intel motherboard with a couple bent pins. Got a couple back, but one broke off. Took a few minutes to realize that it disabled 2 of the 4 RAM slots on the board. (board won't post with RAM in those slots)

Its a surface mount capacitor. (its probably not through the board, otherwise it wouldn't have broken off. They board may run, but may crash randomly. Its a cheap part, and with some skill, can be soldered back on, or replaced with another

Kingston makes a lot of "System Specific" RAM, which I have never really understood what that means. Like KVR16N11/2 or KTH9600B/2G. I really hate that because its not as simple as "hey, this stick is DDR2, 4GB, EEC Server RAM, 1066MHZ" You actually have to look up the dang part number to see...

What about Flash Cache? These cards have 512GB, most likely designed for heavy read/writes and are dirt cheap? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017UXTADW