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Cable extensions shouldn't really make that much of a difference in the grand scheme of things unless they are 18AWG and really low quality connectors. Also software monitoring is also not perfect, depending on the switching frequency of the power supply's DC/DC conversion, the voltage measurements on the motherboard could get locked in to weird sports on that switching frequency and report some slightly off voltages. Always best to use a known good voltmeter and test points on the board externally from software for true numbers.

Odd to see that level of 12V drop over time, not sure exactly what topology it's using to regulate the voltage, but a drop that far over time is a little worrisome. If the power supply only put out 11.9 V under load from day one, then I wouldn't worry about it, but if it was 12 V on day one with little to no change under load, then definitely time to retire that as a computer PSU and repurpose it as a benchtop electronics power supply, or for testing fans and water cooling.

As you mentioned, the PPD estimate is bollocks at best, when I'm testing settings for CPU or GPU folding, I relay much more on the TPF after a full 1% of a Work Unit under the ne settings.

Nah, I'm some random person on the internet and I claim that power supplies will last much longer when they are constantly being used, just not at full load...

Just over an hour to go time, get those space heaters folding some work units for the last event of the year!

This little kit: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B085HB3781 Using it to add some temperature and humidity monitoring to my server rack. It's working great so far, so might pick up a few more to monitor each room in the house and maybe tie them in to some solenoids and relays to control some dampers and fans via some insulated ducts through the attic to get some better air movement around the house. We have no central air and just electric baseboard heat and ceiling fans.

Yeah, free version does what you need, just has a nagging window on start-up, but if you leave your machine on for long periods of time, that shouldn't even be an annoyance.

I use Process Lasso for that, I lock the GPU fah_core processes to specific physical core affinity then lock the CPU ones to different cores with their SMT counter-parts, then lock my audio related tasks (Voicemeeter, etc.) to other physical cores.

That's okay, the EHW starts midnight BST time on the 23rd, so technically it runs for all day Thursday and Friday British time

That's a real pain... The last time I had RAM issues was on my X6-1100T, one bad stick that would not run at stock voltage and unfortunately you don't get per-module voltage settings on pretty much any consumer motherboards. Nowadays, I just take PSU and RAM to be the two most stable parts in a system as they have given me near-zero issues over 15 years of building.

Don't forget we have OCN and EHW foldathons this coming week, good source of extra heat for those of us in the northern hemisphere...

Hopefully you can get that working, have you tried just upping the voltage on the memory then bringing it back down? Sometimes that can just magically fix a DRAM stick. I know it's not actually magic, but it has worked for me in the past.

PowerShell should be able to accomplish this for, I found a resource here that talks about all the file properties and their ID's, so you should be able to just parse through a directory and just set those properties to empty. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64597009/use-powershell-to-edit-a-files-metadata-details-tab-of-a-file-in-windows-file If I have some time to play tonight or this weekend, I might give it a go myself.

I don't have media counts for mine, but I think I am at around: - 3000 movies going back to DivX era of rips - 300 TV shows - 400 Anime shows - 100 demos (4k, 8k, HDR) - 10000 songs I use ImDisk myself and had some Batch Files to update an Image file that would get loaded on boot if I needed persistence across boots on Windows. The largest culprit for Appdata growth is the Video Chapter Thumbnails. There might be a way to specify a specific folder for just that, I didn't get that far since I was stuck to a 512 GB SSD for VM's and Plex Appdata on my UnRaid so I just disabled the thumbnails to save some space.

Source: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/15/intel-launches-new-ssds-sees-plc-coming-and-ssds-replacing-disks/ Penta-Level-Cells (PTC) are coming soon, going to be great for large bulk storage on flash, so large read-only static data sets, media files, program libraries.

We teeter the triangular edge of tech podcast, rantings, and poking fun at each other. Still a great way to end my week though talking with these people.

My Work Laptop setup is pretty tame: Microphone: - Shure SM58S > Radial McBoost > Scarlett 2i2 (USB) Output - Fiio E18 (USB) Coax Output > Schiit Modi 2 Uber > Yamaha R-S300 - Speakers: JBL Arena 120 - Headphones: Audio Technica ATH-M40x No VB-Cables installed on my laptop, just use VoiceMeeter Banana to bring in the Microphone in as a mono and to separate out my programs so that I can use OBS to record a Teams meeting or Discord call without other system audio polluting the recording

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Some of you may already be aware of VoiceMeeter's better known little brothers, the VB-Cable line. These are super useful for adding virtual input/output devices to your system to separate out some audio. VoiceMeeter steps up that and provides you a virtual mixing board with the levels: Base, Banana and Potato. Each version offers more hardware and virtual assignments at slight increase in CPU usage, but still pretty low and shouldn't really affect your system unless you are loading it up 100%. VoiceMeeter works really great for going the extra step from VB-Cables in mixing audio between inputs and outputs, combining microphone feeds, adding effects and EQ's, and can be used in combination with Krisp, RTX Voice and most recording software to provide some really clean multi-track audio. I can use it to screen record a MS Teams or Zoom call in OBS on one monitor while I've got music playing in a Chrome tab in the background and not pull that audio in, or with the latest OBS, setup a multi-track stream/record where: - Track 1: Desktop Audio + Music + Microphone - Track 2: Desktop Audio + Microphone - Track 3: Desktop Audio I'm going to try to polish up this a little more later on and post a nice graphic of my setup.

If you have troubles connecting, let me know (private message on here or Discord), I just update it to 1.16.4 over the weekend and forgot to update the thread.

Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/275959/finalwire-releases-aida64-v6-32-with-amd-zen-3-and-rx-6000-support The release of this version might have also given some more meat to the various 30XX Ti models in the pipeline as well:

Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/275964/team-group-successfully-develops-consumer-grade-ddr5-memory-begins-validation We knew DDR5 was coming, glad to see them hitting these speeds at these voltages this early on. It is yet to be seen at what timings though. With DDR5 in testing like this, it might not be long till we see an announcement for AM5 sockets with DDR5 support. I doubt we will see AM4+ this time around, AM4 has more than enjoyed its stay at this point.

Source: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/26.1.0 The extra VOD track for Twitch will be a huge benefit to streamers who want to play music during their streams but make sure it's not present in the VODs for long term viewing.

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.10-Released Here is a summarized list from Phoronix as well ot some new features: - Continued work around bringing up Intel's forthcoming Rocket Lake and Alder Lake hardware - AMD Zen 3 temperature monitoring now works on Linux with the k10temp driver - On the Intel graphics side they have landed more Gen12 / Xe Graphics fixes - AMDGPU DC display support for GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" graphics processors - Raspberry Pi VC4 support is now present in the mainline Linux kernel - Instruction emulation to help any few games run on Wine/Proton with modern processors (AMD Zen 2 or Intel Cannon Lake and newer) - The XFS file-system now supports timestamps to the Year 2486. - The Creative Labs SoundBlaster AE-7 sound card is finally supported under Linux - Nintendo Switch controller support with Linux 5.10 thanks to the new Nintendo HID driver - There are a number of security improvements with hardening against possible DMA attacks by external PCI Express devices Looks to be a great LTS release for Linux, looking forward to testing the next Ubuntu release that includes this kernel.