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About 6 hours, I think. I had no front-end IO going though.

sure, but I have all the 8T drives :p And rebuilding off an 8T drive is WAY faster than a 24.

Yup. Lots of thunderbolt to fast nic for macs (especially since the new mac pro is kinda a joke), but they're weird on most OSes. I've tried - and USB just doesn't cut it for large scale things. Tbolt is better, but... still buggy for some things. Yup. The important stuff goes on boxes...

Dammit, same. I also purged it. Took one last glance yesterday, and sighed - waiting on Ryzen 8k, and I'll move away from HEDT on the primary.

60T? Uh... yeah, I'm thinking a different scale. My current archive build will have 10 of those 20T drives (starting with 10 8T, will swap them out over time). :D I do weird shit. So you'd need 4 of them, and we know that's an issue on DDR5 period - so... still not there :-/ But it's...

I'm running an average of 75% used on 128G right now. :p VMs burn through it FAST if you're doing enterprise ones. The servers have 2T or 3T depending on the box. I aim for half of maximum on any workstation or consumer system.

The TB4 to QSFP adapters were not popular, buggy as shit, and best handled with an external PCIE enclosure with an actual ~card~ in it. They also get hot as shit (like hot enough to melt things), which meant that "external" device either weighed a few pounds (heat sinks) or cooked itself. Many...

It'll tell you which nodes - if you bother to hook it all back up again. And no, the AI chips would run rings around it.

Teams auto-starting and ignoring the "don't start" option is garbage through and through. It's also a shitty program regardless.

I work in the security industry. I've done my research. Have you? Security ALWAYS fails. Assume breach. Always.

They use totally different fabs - the issue I suspect (and you're REALLY close imho) is that the old fabs are finally wearing out, and cost of maintaining them isn't justified given the reduced use of the older process. Might also be environmental concerns (fabs aren't clean), etc - so shut it...

So you'd rather just get compromised?

I really do not like alyx (see my post in the game review thread) - great demo, crap game, do better valve. I did pick up Radius, the wife loves moss, and I got red matter 1/2 and another one too. Just takes so much effort to fire up VR for anything significant...

Same. Driving me nuts. The workstation performance is great, but lord is the non-workstation... weak. Not terrible, mind you, but weak weak weak. Same struggle I'm having. I'm getting close to "gonna have to live with x4s on the third and fourth slot." Let me know if you find one Zenith...

It is very strange... I really love the souls series - I never thought I would, but I've literally spent a year now running through them back-to-back. Elden Ring lost everything that made "Souls" special in pursuit of streamer-friendly flashiness and spastic 20-year-old-on-ritalin hyper...

Elden Ring, Aka Miyazaki finally wanted to swim in liquid cash and sold out. See my reviews on the Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and other Fromsoft games. Play one of those instead. My mom said "don't say anything if you can't say something nice," so... It's kinda pretty? Every other part of...

Dark Souls 2. 9.5/10. I actually really enjoyed the slower, more methodical combat system in this one - and loved the lore, environment, and story. Minus points for the DLCs being ... not DS2, but more DS3/Bloodborne/etc... but still a damned good game. Fully platinumed on PC. Now Elden...

Already in the trash and taken out today :p

That's basically what I had before - never thought about getting a plate stand for it!

if you do that'd be perfect?

Literally just flung the LePow (aka LeShit) one out a window because the stand was garbage. Looking for any other portable monitors that can lie flat when not needed. Anyone got one not in use? Heat under Lopoetve.

Except this assumes you have someone in front of the machine to click it. Lots of times a box reboots you're not near and you can't see that (ugh).

It truly goes back to the novelty factor. There was a definite charm early on with what we could do in VR - "First Contact" as an intro via Oculus was brilliant (and is brilliant for newcomers) for a reason. As a way to see all the things you can do, move you into full body immersion, and let...

~shrug~. Every single part is "look, we did VR!" - the flashlight on the hand? Cool - you get to shine lights around corners. The shotgun flick-to-close? Cool, it's like a real gun! Dragging ammo by hand? Okey dokey, fine - it's like a real gun. Pulling levers/etc - neat. Grenades... ok...

Half Life Alyx: D-. 6.5/10. Graphics are good. Sound is good. The rest is shit that reminds you that Valve fucked off on their piles of money 10 years ago and hasn't done anything worthwhile except update the steam interface once in the intervening decade. Controls are garbage. Goals are...

Dark Souls. 9/10. Look. It's dark souls. You either like it or you don't. Now on to DaS 2.

I almost... ALMOST mind you ... just bought a Digital Storm Aventum for my workstation last time. Almost. I don't regret what I built - but next time, I might just buy it.

Well, this helped make my decision easier I think. On prior gens it was a competitive "general purpose" CPU while also being a top-notch workstation CPU. Even the HEDT parts are really "workstation" CPUs now, rather than monstrosities that they used to be. I'll miss my Threadripper, but it...

These are home systems :D

I don't think anyone is arguing that there weren't differences in the past - analog transmission will do that, after all (digital conversion on the early LCDs was handled at the screen). But we're well past that era - we're sending digital signals all the way through before conversion to...

Spec Ops the Line. 9/10. No, 7/10. No, 8.5... Fuck. Hell if I know. I've never been more ... torn... on a review than I am for this game. I honestly don't know how I fell about it. I really don't. I started this over the summer and enjoyed it a great deal up till about the midpoint...

My only issue with my custom loop is that installing a block on a GPU (or buying a pre-blocked GPU) makes it more of a pain to swap those around to other systems - unless everything is WCed. And with the number of boxen I have... that's a shit load of WC kit. 1st world problems sure, but...

Heh.

Homeworld Desert of Kharak: 8/10. made me miss the original. Graphics good, sound amazing, gameplay solid but not quite over the edge. No bugs on my side but one single crash, and having to reinstall EGS once after a patch. Too short in some ways - and the skirmish is pointless.

Same. The few certs for my level require you to "catch up" on piles of prior ones and then spend $$$$ to get them - and wouldn't get me much (VCDX, CCIE, etc).

What I'd do as I think it through in fact.

Original Rift and a 3070. Will upgrade if there's ever a game that makes it worth it, but everything I want runs fine and it's ... fine? Haven't found many great VR games so far. Just mostly do Beat Saber and Robo Recall still.

In all fairness, I might have been drunk Yup. Good point actually. Good point.

About 1-2 years. Then it'll burst. Then we'll figure out what it's really useful for and build that.

And I have 3T on some of my boxes - but building a workstation with that kinda sucks, since most of the RDIMM in that size are slow as crap. You talking in a consumer system? At full speed?