Fluxmaven

First thing on the limitations tab is that you can only use processors using socket LGA1156.

I'll look through what all I have laying around. I know I still have a fair amount of older GPUs but not the appropriate platforms to run them on. Plus most of them are waterblocked... I need to get more sets of quick disconnects lol @UltraMega I thought Sandy Bridge was LGA1155... If it's not, I have a 2700K I could dig out to help. For the DDR4 category I have all da i5's baby! 11400, 11500, and 11600K.

I usually have the best luck selling locally or on r/hardwareswap on reddit. I've actually done this experiment before with great success. I mixed it up and was open to trade offers. Often times I received items in trade that were higher value than the laptops I was selling. Granted this means you end up with different products to sell unless you get things you would have otherwise purchased.

I was also curious to see how I did since I borrowed two extra 3090s for a few hours, but it doesn't really matter. I probably won't be around any of my PCs for the last couple weeks of August. I will be busy traveling for work then flying to my mom to pack her stuff and help her move to Florida.

Kinda wish I would have held onto mine. One of the best Craigslist deals I ever made was straight trading my Radeon HD 5770 for a 560ti Classy. Dude just wanted to use Eyefinity. I assume his parents bought the classy because I don't know anyone who would have made that trade lol.

Pretty sure I had an m2000 in a Dell Precision years ago. It ran Premier, After Effects, etc just fine. But those are pretty old cards so I wouldn't be surprised if they were no longer supported. The Adobe suite doesn't really need a Quadro though. Any newer GTX or RTX card would work fine.

I have 3 builds to do so I'll breathe a little life into the build log section. I typically document everything on OCN but all the cool kids are here now.

Just won an auction for this PSU. I'll get a build log going for the mom PC at some point. Also microcenter just dropped the z590 Dark to $200 so I'll go in and get a price adjustment and have $80 back to spend on PC parts Update: PSU showed up and is an SF600 gold with the rubber cables instead of the platinum with the nicer sleeved cables... Deciding if I want to just accept that it's still a fine PSU and a good deal still or be petty and try and get a partial refund since it really isn't what was described. The listing used the model number and stock pictures from the platinum.

I'm sure they will have no problems flipping them all for a small profit. Enthusiasts like us don't really see the appeal of a laptop because we value performance over portability. General consumers don't want to be tied to a desk and don't really care about specs as long as it's reasonably responsive which these 8th gens with SSDs are perfectly snappy for general web browsing. I hate my work laptop too... Mines a heavy 17" touchscreen Dell. Unfortunately most of my work involves going out on site so a desktop isn't really an option.

I really don't get why people don't pick it up a bit when making a left across traffic... It was obvious that both you and the blue SUV in the lane next to you were approaching... Not sure why she would just casually pull out. She could have easily avoided the accident by just giving it a bit more gas and actually getting through the intersection in a timely fashion. I have to turn left across traffic every morning to jump on the highway and there's always some indecisive person that holds it up forever. Or worse, causes an accident like yours. Although the alternative route would involve a roundabout and dropping into downtown Cincinnati before jumping on the highway and I'm definitely never in the mood to deal with that BS first thing in the morning As far as speeding goes, less than 10 over is fine most of the time. As long as it's not residential or a school zone.

Always willing to help brother. I'm actually still figuring out the specifics of TrueNAS/FreeNAS myself. I'm more used to larger enterprise SAN setups from my days working in IT.

So my mom mentioned that if I had any extra computer stuff laying around she could really use a decent desktop PC for working from home since her work laptop is crap and her personal computer is a Macbook Air that won't run all the software she needs... She requested just using spare parts if I had some and not to go out of my way to buy anything... I can create a surplus of spare parts if I buy myself new parts for my rigs Decided I'll give her one of my ITX boards and an 11400. Hoping to get myself a Ryzen 7700x to replace it. I picked up a Louqe Raw s1 but decided it's maybe a bit too minimalist for her. Also picked up a Phanteks Evolv Shift which I think will work great. Sort of similar design but it's a bit bigger and IO is accessible from the top. Just wanted something relatively small that didn't have a "gamer" aesthetic. Thermals aren't an issue since it's not going to be doing anything super intensive. For my Sim rig update, I picked up a couple cases. An Asus Strix Helios and TUF GT501. I think the Strix looks nice, but I'm leaning towards the TUF since it has slightly better airflow and I want to run dual 360 rads. I'm going to have to have a yard sale at some point... The office is starting to look like a Microcenter storage room

I think there might be some confusion on what's going on when swapping boards, NICs, etc... All the actual data in ZFS is contained within the drives themselves. When you say "can't connect to the drive" I think you are referring to your SMB share that you have mapped in Windows. Breaking the share doesn't harm the actual data. If you go from a board with one kind of network controller to another, you would need to reconfigure your settings because the underlying device name changes ("em0" -> "igb0" for example), but the data will still be there. Also, Gigabit is fully saturated at 125MB/s. Even spinning rust can manage more than that in ZFS. I tested this myself by transferring the same folder with 31GB of video files across two different NICs to my NAS. Over gig it averaged around 110-115MB/s. Over 2.5G it was 280-285MB/s. At the end of the day, you have it up and running and it seems to meet your needs currently. So there's no big rush to change anything, I just like giving you a hard time

I must have just gotten lucky. My 2.5g NIC and LSI HBA card both worked flawlessly right out the gate. I'm on TrueNAS 13 though.

Sounds like just removing and reconnecting the share on Windows would have fixed it but a whole OS re-install never hurts I love the comical overkill of the i9 mixed with the mediocrity of the onboard 1G NIC.

Lol looking into the 24 hour average... We're all out here playing checkers and Firedfly is playing chess. Really though, It's all in good fun and nice to see a good turnout!

I'll definitely fold more when it's colder out. It's hard enough to keep the house cool in the summer without a bunch of PCs dumping extra heat into the room... Need to slip a folding rig or two into the server room at work

Unrelated to the thread, but just wanted to comment on the fact that we had very similar upgrade paths lol. My old main system was a 4790k + 980ti with an SSD + HDDs and now have a 5900X + 3090 with all SSD storage. Even use an OLED for a monitor! Basically, you have good taste in computer components fine sir.

Yup... Used to just be able to do a lil strange for some change to afford a new GPU. Now you gotta be a full time onlyfans model on top of a day job to keep up with the latest tech. On a more serious note, I am glad to see them pushing more VRAM. Helps keep cards relevant for much longer. I still have a Titan Black that I was actively using up until a year ago. The 780ti with only 3GB became a paperweight much sooner.

This looks like fun. I'm in the process of rebuilding my racing sim, but once I get it going I'd be down for a drive.

+1 for TrueNAS. Tried it for the first time recently and really like it.

Sure, I wouldn't mind helping out. Having projects with deadlines would motivate me to not leave my personal projects half finished since I'd need to keep the workbench tidy. That said, I don't have a dedicated test PC and all of mine have custom loops. So I might not have the quickest turn around if I need to pull a build apart to swap components.

in Fluxmaven Haru is also in. Folding = lots of heat coming from the PCs which he is fond of.

Congrats

I'm also completely self taught on working on cars. I initially started doing my own maintenance because it was cheaper. Now I do it because I know if I do it, it's done to a standard I'm happy with.