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I can only speak for myself, but my folding at home setup is a 4070ti Super and a 3080ti. I run different projects off my CPUs (7950, 5950, 16 raspberry pi 4s), and everything is power limited to run at ideal points per watt settings. My home solar covers all my Usage. From a certain point of...

Distributed computing to find very large primes. Math folding@home essentially.

I stopped the generational upgrades at roughly Sandy Bridge. Before that I was close to every generation, but hopping between intel and AMD around the P4 days made that a bit muddy if I was really upgrading every generation or not. I skipped Sandy Bridge for reasons I don't remember, went...

well, that's unfortunate. Hopefully they at least announced the 9950X3D so we can get the official details.

I played Diablo ii resurrected for 6 months solid, so I apparently don’t have an issue playing blizzard games. That said, I only played d3 one play through and haven’t bothered with d4.

How much do most developers have to do with graphics at this point? Isn't like 90%+ of the industry using either unreal 5 or unity engines? I don't do any game development, but I understand that Unity is supposed to sacrifice performance for cross platform compatibility and ease of use, while...

Thanks, Now I’m having nightmares about future consoles that are basically just cell phones that front end your sub to XBox cloud, and no PC ports because “you can just play it in the cloud”

If you're really worried about power draw, but also want cutting edge, just drop the power limit to 75%. It drops power draw at a fairly minimal decrease in performance because they are pushing these cards right to the edge. For Folding@Home, I set my cards to 55% - I save power and my points...

Because NVidia has diverted much of their production to AI cards and fab space is finite. People are willing to pay $3000 for top end cards, so that’s what the price is going to be - either A because that’s what NVidia charges, or B, because scalpers buy all the inventory and charge $3000 for cards.

It’s always relative. The retail price will seem cheap when the scalpers get them. In relation to other things, it only takes like 5x 5090s to have an approximate value of a magic the gathering black lotus. I won’t even bother to figure out the cost relationship to high end audio gear or...

for anything I do for work, my machine is basically just a simple terminal. For example, I had to generate 20 TB of data for a test, so I provisioned a 64 core machine, SSH’d to it, and then generated and loaded the data. I could have done that with my old 2700k. If it weren’t for Boinc and...

if the 9950X3D is basically just 2 9800X3Ds merged together, that would be a lot of cache available, as long as each process stays pinned to it's own chiplet. At this point I'm ready (and impatient) to get the actual details.

I've now upgraded 3 x470e systems for buds of mine. 2600x 2700x, and a 3600x, and all went to 5700x3ds. The price is just right on those upgrades - it's a big upgrade from what they had, and still half the price of going low end AM5.

cost per TB for cold storage is very much a concern of enterprise, both for backups and legal compliance. Magnetic tape for offsite backups is already at 50TB uncompressed and might even be higher at this point

Putty - a dramatically inferior implementation of WSL2 :D. Really that’s probably half of what I use WSL for - to command line ssh to servers and run shell scripts.

I have roughly 20 pis at home. None of them have attached monitors - I just ssh to them and run BOINC on them. I don’t even use a monitor for setup :). I just flash them with raspberry pi os lite, and setup ssh at that time

In around 25 years of using Linux, I’ve never really used any of the GUI options, so I wouldn’t call it critical for learning. Getting a raspberry pi and SSHing to it from wsl2 would be a potential way to learn a lot of things. I find I need a project to really get something done - my first...

Their customer service is amazing. I've had one of the original DH 15s forever - bought it on as part of a Black Friday build I did in 2014, as I don't like to water cool my NAS (I'm rarely in the same room as the system). I've gotten 2 different mounting brackets for it from customer service...

Oh no, not a website download! ;) I see no particular advantage to an App Store - I’m perfectly capable of installing without one. I get that Microsoft would like to skim off of every purchase as well as watch everything you use at a finer grain than they already could, but I don’t really see...