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...that does look tasty ? Breakfast time here before I drive to Purolator depot to pick up two packages (?) they were supposed to 'deliver'...Starbucks Sumatra + rye bread with Nutella, raspberry & wild honey

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..exciting - other than 'Daily Mail' as the source ? I think I'll be burning reindeer poop for a little while longer

...bought out the lease of the company car today; had been driving it anyways since new...only real problem: Neither Starbucks venti nor I are a good match for ivory-coloured leather ?

...and then add a 500 W +- Ampere 3090 on top ?

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...since I also like it super extra hot with Cayenne pepper, better add 2x Hertog Jan beer

...chciken + this and that...

..."for science Linux"

...yeah, looks sort of like a baby Threadripper, which always had LGA - and one of the best mounting mechanisms out there, IMO

...so much more we can learn from nature, including about 'eye sight'. ...Not directly related to algae proteins, but this ocean critter has the most sophisticated vision (we know of so far) on the planet - needed for his incredible 'punch'...would be interesting to see this 'technology' reproduced by man...

OK, so I'm fond of harmonics...

...it's been a while since I updated....have been extremely buys at work with a project that got initially delayed by Covid-19 but is almost caught up now. Project Raven will become Project Ravens' Nest ...decided on two workstations with two cases (one with three mobos, one with two). I've been ordering extra parts seemingly to frustrate myself with FedEx and UPS (still don't know which one of those is worse - they're both in the running ? ), and expect that 'actual build updates' to start late next week. ...in the meantime, to pass the time, I gave the 5950X / Asus Dark X570 a real workout today at 4.8 Giggles all-core...

...one can never have enough Arctic P12 pwm pst value packs; so two more for the 'Raven's Nest' build (5 mobo / 2 cases)

"It was just earlier this month that IBM announced an incredible manufacturing breakthrough with its 2-nm manufacturing process that crammed 50 billion transistors into the size of a fingernail. While that's still a future-looking technology that hasn't made it into mass production (and thereby not a solution for our current chip shortage just yet), it's already being surpassed. The combined research brainpower at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have announced some big breakthroughs using non-silicon materials to make very tiny transistors (as small as 1nm)." source even more than...'50 billion transistors into the size of a fingernail' ...that should be 'fun' trying to cool for oc ?

...I've never been a big fan of companies buying their own stock back - at the very least, it is inefficient from an economist's point of view as the money spent on its own stock actually doesn't do anything productive. It can also get very 'addictive' to a company's management, whose leadership's pay is linked, among other things, to the stock price, not to mention their own stock options... ...AMD has done exceptionally well to come out of the hole it found itself in a few years back, with questions then whether it would even survive and not go bankrupt. Since then, it enjoyed a meteoric success via Ryzen et al, but the stock became a 'darling' of investors and was a bit overbought / overvalued (I bought and sold AMD stock on the way up). IMO, it would have been better to let the market sort it out instead of artificially pumping up its stock price via 'self purchase'; unless there was some sort of short-seller attack happening.

...I picked up one of these last week for one of the update-builds in my home-office...holds 300 pounds, just about what I need ?

...too late now, if I don't feed the ravens, they'll feed on me ? Then again, I'm actually updating my home-office by retiring some older (circa 2014) Intel HEDTs in dev servers - that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it ! ...I want one, too (croc that is; you can keep the birds, coz...flock of ravens already here...)

...there was only one thing to do...just got a 5 L jug of Mayhems X1 UV Blue for the next maintenance cycles of all my w-cooled machines.

"...Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in", 'they' being the ravens in Project Raven...now a 5-mobo-2-case productivity-and-play build ? ...didn't think I would be buying more DDR4 GTZR at this point, but the flock of ravens made me do it...at least it's DDR4 4000 CL15. 5 L of Mayhems X1 to help cool things down

"We're gonna need a bigger boat !" Also, K/M40, other:

...have three concurrent, w-cooled builds going on...one of the older D5s (Swiftech MPC 655) is getting a new toupee ?

...this is their 'revised' PCIe 4.0 riser, supposedly tested with X570, 3090 & Ryzen 5k ...hopefully it works as the GPU w/ custom front and back blocks in my Raven build is getting too heavy for anything but vertical mount. But if this riser doesn't work for that application, I have other builds that can use it, ie. with 4x M.2 daughter cards (PCIe 4.0 and 3.0)

...^ noice - soon, you're out-competing builds like the one below (though definitely choose different GPU blocks ? , and add more serial D5s)