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Source Interesting article for those that really like some of the more technical details of mechanical keyboards. It wasn't really a news article so I'm posting it in here instead.

Glad to help, what did you decide on parts wise? Also feel free to post a build log for it here as well.

I didn't see a good breakdown in the article about business/commercial sales vs. consumer sales. Since Laptops were the main chunk of the sales, that would lead me to believe it could have been more businesses and school purchasing laptops for work/school from home purposes.

So for Minecraft, I just found out the hard way that you do not want to run Minecraft in any sort of VM at all. If I had the budget to build a dedicated little gaming host, I would probably grab something like the Ryzen 5 3600x for a nice amount of thread overhead as you can run variants like PaperMC with Dynmap that actually can use more then a couple threads for certain tasks like chunk generation, networking and Dynmap web map generation. I ran a Space Engineers server for a little while a few years back so I don't know how it has changed since then, but the server itself would not run without a GPU. Even worse was trying to start the server while using Remote Desktop failed to start as well. There is also the upcoming Ryzen 5000 series CPU's coming on November 5th, assuming enough supply, that look very promising if you can wait. So probably something like: Any B550 board that has the I/O and slot configuration you need and decent VRM's (might be able to sneak in a B450, but less chance for good BIOS updates) A Ryzen 5 3600x or wait for the 5600x if you can Can always grab a 3600x now then swap CPU's later 4x 8GB of DDR4 RAM, anywhere from 2400 MHz to 3200 MHz, just check the Motherboard QVL for models that run with all 4 slots filled at that speed Personally I'm running two kits of CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 on both my X570/3600x NAS server and my X470/2600x Gaming PC Any low tier slot power GPU unless If you have decent electricity costs, you could always look at something like the GTX 1050 Ti or 1650 and run Folding@Home on it too to help out with COVID-19 research A good Power Supply Personally I like the Sea Sonic Focus Plus Gold line-up right now, EVGA's B and G series have always been great to me in the past as well

Source The source article has a great table of all the current BIOS updates for boards. Most manufacturers have BIOD updated that include the required AGESA 1.0.8.0 to provide basic support for Ryzen 5000 series and MSI seems to be ahead of the game with AGESA 1.1.0.0 BIOS updates already. No news yet on available Beta BIOS Updates from any of the motherboard board vendors yet. It is some poor marketing to still be selling 400-series chipsets that won't support the 5000 series Ryzen CPU's, and lots of already 400-series owners might be a little annoyed about lack of official support, but there is still time for that to change by January 2021 if AMD and its partners can figure out a BIOS solution to give the basic support required for everyday users.

Glad to have you here mate

Welcome to the site, glad to have you aboard.

Glad to have you here, hopefully we can all build this place up as a great community.

Source NVMe Raid is going to be interesting to see come out. With the sheer amount of data that can pass through NVMe SSD's, it might make sense to offload that processing to some dedicated hardware while also increasing flash density in a system that has unused PCIe x8 or x16 slots. Here's hoping that NVMe Raid is robust enough, but even Marvell themselves seem to be pushing this for use as a boot device. To me, that implies putting the actual important data on other types of redundant storage.

I'm going to guestimate ~200W under continuous gaming loads with peaks up to ~275W. The 350W brick might have just been the next option up. I can't see Sony wasting R&D budget on the Power Supply and would instead source an ODM for that and looking at Laptop power bricks for rough sizes, my 240W Dell power supply is the largest I've seen so 350W might just be the next size that makes sense to design and build at scale to help save money by an ODM. It also helps that it would have a larger safety margin when the power brick gets inevitably thrown behind the entertainment unit along with all the other cables and power bricks.

Source That heatsink + Liquid Metal is quite nice. Also that large black plastic skeleton/air diverter looks nice and durable too adding some good strength to the structure. That added strength is almost wasted though as gone are the days of bringing your console to a buddy's house or to camp because this console is huge and has some pretty high power draw.

Worked perfect, thanks mate!

Yeah, I just bought a server rack and UPS battery module when I wasn't able to snag a RTX 3080 as I'm really hoping that Ryzen 5000 and Navi 6000 are launched closer to the end of the month so I can pad my bank account up again... Luckily this year with COVID, I've been spending significantly less money on gas, insurance, takeout, phone bill (reduced my plan since I'm always on WiFi), restaurants, entertainment (movies, bowling, etc.). Also none of my family wants to travel for birthdays or holidays so we've all agreed on no Xmas presents or big meals this year, just Xmas cards and professional photos since that has been a dying tradition and most photographers are willing to give you the digital high-res copies as well now so you can distribute those and keep them in a nice archive. That means Xmas budget opens up for some personal upgrades as well which is a silver lining to COVID I guess.

I might have to give that a try, the sidebar is useful for some people and on the home page. Is it possible to have Stylish apply the "no sidebar fix" only to pages like "https://forums.extremehw.net/topic/*" so that way on the home page of the forums, the side bar would still be there.

Personally, I'm all for having at least 3 proper competitors that actually compete with each other as long as they still are compatible and no pricing corruption... Intel + Nvidia + Radeon for GPU might start having proper competition next year Intel + AMD are currently duking it out for CPU for consumers, if Microsoft can get proper x86-64 emulation on ARM to make ARM an actual competitor, well then we could have Intel + Nvidia/Arm + AMD in the CPU space as well. I think it's fine for the companies to have their own focused tech additions as long as they all meet a set of standards.

Cool signature badges are only obtained once you start Folding@Home for EHW ?

It's slowed down a little, right now one point behind on 1.16.2 instead of 1.16.3 and working with some other members on coming up with a better server to run it on.

This guy finally comes out of hiding

Yeah, there are varying strength models with these that have taller backs with more mounting holes and a lot of people will mount a piece of plywood or something across studs then the 4U frame to that.

Just gotta get yourself a nice strong 4U hanging wall mount and hang the CFP from the wall:

Lots of great AMD laptops finally coming out too now that AMD has proved it's performance in mobile and laptop manufacturer's have finally been able to tool up for AMD options.

I migrated over to here form good ol' OCN

Well that's some damn good news for sure, can't wait

Even for the site's 18+ rating, it would have still needed a further "Listener's Discretion is Advised" warning and a Mature Rating, it was fun though.

Welcome to the forum mate