Recent content by Rookie_MIB

Agreed. I'd love to see the 16TB market come way down. If they could come down into the $500 range for 16tb (about double the spinning rust cost) I could justify 4 of them for a nice 48TB raidz1 set.

It's interesting that the same thing makes it possible to get the maximum speed out of my 5800X3d which isn't overclockable. Moving the voltage curve down toying with the overall power limit without touching the clocks (which I can't adjust) allows me to go from a best out of the box max of...

Oh geez. Yes. Please. I don't care about 'blazing 7GB/sec speeds', just give me a plain jane 8TB SATA 2.5" drive in the $200 range so I can build a NAS that doesn't have spinning rust storing my data. Right now I'm limited to a 12TB NAS for my important stuff. I picked up a bunch of 2tb...

I've got a NAS with eight HGST 3 and 4TB drives (ZFS, 2 VDEVs, 4x3tb, 4x4tb, 20tb array), currently been powered on 204 days since last shutdown. No errors on the drives currently, I've had one fail several years ago, nothing since. I actually have a few failed sectors on my Crucial boot drive...

First - we already know Norton slows down your system horribly with just the AV software. How well is it going to be able to actually mine?!? Second - we wonder why (and see) legit mining software get flagged as infections even when we install it deliberately. Does anyone see this getting...

That's an interesting little machine. Dual ethernet? 4c/8t means you could easily run Windows, Kodi, and easily run a PfSense VM. You'd have a full blown media center/firewall/router in one itty bitty little box.

I must say, who would have thought that just 5 years ago AMD was barely a blip on the radar when it came to high performance processor sales - to this...

I think it's a broader problem than just the newer cards (although they certainly are one of the causes of it). A while back I was looking at a GTX 970 Founders edition to SLI in one of my rigs for fun. They were running about $120 USD on eBay. Now, they're sitting at $170+. GTX 1080's were...

Well, with the amount of cores that these higher end builds may have, setting up a small VM for a server is a piece of cake. Why have the expense of a completely separate machine when you can take the one you have, allocate 2 out of 16 cores to it, some ram, and then just add 3 or 4 large HDDs...

The truth of the matter is it's almost better to just buy a new 1TB HDD since beyond the issue of adaptives in the ROM, the replacement PCB is close to the cost of a new 1TB HDD anyhow. Unless you have a weird emotional attachment to it? Lol...

The only thing I've ever run into close to that is an older build of Firefox. It would have a memory leak issue which would start chewing up RAM after a bit, and would lock a process open even when I 'closed' the program. I would sit there and watch the memory usage, and it would start...

To check your voltages, you could install HWInfo (similar to CPU-z) and it would show the voltages and give you a rough idea if your PSU is in good shape. Install it, run the program, and fire up a CPU stress test, watch your voltages. Then try a GPU stress test and watch the GPU voltages...

The thing is - in order to get a HDMI 2.0 output (or DP 1.2) and the circuitry it requires to drive a 4k60hz display, you'd have to add in a graphics card with that capability. Nvidia cards with that capability are the GTX 900 series (starting with the 950) and onwards. So - you could add in a...

While they specified the wattage of the PSU, they didn't specify the brand of the PSU, and they're not all the same. While the Ryzen 5000 CPU's are good, and don't draw too much power, the 3000 series Nvidia GPU's will pull a pretty hefty amount. Your full wattage pull could be in the...

^^ What he said. Because the memory controller will transfer data on the rising of the clock signal and the falling of the clock signal, the DRAM 'actual' frequency in your case is 1600 mhz while the 'effective' rate is double that - 3200mhz.