What's your latest tech purchase?

[SN2716057]

Just arrived.

Not for the A300, it's for the NR200p.

 

[Aht0s]

Got this little guy to replace my PFSense VM. It requires active cooling, so working on a box to overcome the fan.
Tricky part is the socket is not standard, so looking at heat pipe arrangement.

 

[Valantar]

Just arrived.
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Not for the A300, it's for the NR200p.

I would love to see you mod that into the A300

 

[SN2716057]

I would love to see you mod that into the A300

haha, let me grab my dremel.

 

[phill]

Got this little guy to replace my PFSense VM. It requires active cooling, so working on a box to overcome the fan.
Tricky part is the socket is not standard, so looking at heat pipe arrangement.

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That's awesome!! Would a Raspberry Pi be able to do the same or would you need more power for that?

 

[Aht0s]

That's awesome!! Would a Raspberry Pi be able to do the same or would you need more power for that?

I don't have any experience with a Pi to really give you any insight on that end. I would think modern cpu should be able to handle it. The challenge might be with single NIC.
Just to give you an idea, I have an old NUC and on average it consumes 20% cpu and about 14% memory(8GB), at the most the network sees 10 devices.
The little guy is an Epyc 3101 and it replaced a VM from an old Xeons 2xxx series. I gave the VM two cores and 8 GB. Average was 15% CPU and about the same usage for memory. However that network has more power user and devices. With the Epyc, I barely sees any CPU usage and I combined it with 32GB of memory at about 2% average usage. About half a Gig usage on memory compare to 1.5 Gig with the VM. This is not a scientific statement but my own personal observation. Don't quote me on this but I recalled seeing requirement for PFSense for high usage was at least 3ghz CPU. The 3101 turbo at 2.9 only. I upgraded my ISP to 1G and tested download and stream at 2K and 4K with no issues. Mind you, I didn't have many VPN sessions going though. I am planning on upgrading my network to support 10GB that's the reason for the Epyc, just to learn more than anything else. Anyhow, I will try to get my hands on a Rasberry Pi, for the price I should get one and play with it. Looks like there are few options to add extra NIC for the Pi.

 

[SN2716057]

And The Mugen 5 fits just fiiine in the NR200p.

Though installation is a pita as I had to take out the memory..

You gotta imaging the second fan as I'm debating on the orientation of the fans.
Help please? I'll use the perforated side panel.

The old setup was in from the back and out where ever it could.

EDIT
Nevermind, I just needed coffee. I flipped the cooler so there's more space to work with.

 

[phill]

I don't have any experience with a Pi to really give you any insight on that end. I would think modern cpu should be able to handle it. The challenge might be with single NIC.
Just to give you an idea, I have an old NUC and on average it consumes 20% cpu and about 14% memory(8GB), at the most the network sees 10 devices.
The little guy is an Epyc 3101 and it replaced a VM from an old Xeons 2xxx series. I gave the VM two cores and 8 GB. Average was 15% CPU and about the same usage for memory. However that network has more power user and devices. With the Epyc, I barely sees any CPU usage and I combined it with 32GB of memory at about 2% average usage. About half a Gig usage on memory compare to 1.5 Gig with the VM. This is not a scientific statement but my own personal observation. Don't quote me on this but I recalled seeing requirement for PFSense for high usage was at least 3ghz CPU. The 3101 turbo at 2.9 only. I upgraded my ISP to 1G and tested download and stream at 2K and 4K with no issues. Mind you, I didn't have many VPN sessions going though. I am planning on upgrading my network to support 10GB that's the reason for the Epyc, just to learn more than anything else. Anyhow, I will try to get my hands on a Rasberry Pi, for the price I should get one and play with it. Looks like there are few options to add extra NIC for the Pi.

Thanks for that! I would like to look into something since I'm hoping to upgrade my home network to 10Gb at some point when I do move home mostly, but I can understand the reason for the overkill CPU.. Make things easy for it rather than making it struggle to keep up...

What sort of things do you monitor on your network with PF Sense?

 

[Aht0s]

Thanks for that! I would like to look into something since I'm hoping to upgrade my home network to 10Gb at some point when I do move home mostly, but I can understand the reason for the overkill CPU.. Make things easy for it rather than making it struggle to keep up...

What sort of things do you monitor on your network with PF Sense?

Yes, I been lurking on your thread for awhile now and hoping to learn from the project It might be overkill but I want the power in case I need it. I wanted native 10Gb or at least 4 1Gb native and low power. It was quite troublesome to find something that meet those requirement with AMD or even Intel. AsRock server has an Epyc with 25W TDP and 10Gb native but couldn't find any in my country so settle down for a Super Micro instead and will add 10Gb card at some point. My network is really a mimic of my work infrastructure. It might not have the same equipment for obvious reason but the technologies are fairly similar. With the PFSense, I am testing LAG for the moment. PFSense has different option for LAG and will test them with VMWare and HyperV to see how well they combine. I am myself fairly new to PFSense as well. I just learn as I go. I just installed a PFSense box on the edge of our guest network at work. I am using Grafana to export data from PFSense. It gives a nice dashboard to view your key elements like bandwidth, cpu, etc... What I am trying to see it's the utilization of the LAG depending of the option. Is round robin different than the load-balance, things like that.

 

[xkm1948]

Not mine, but one of friend from my last job just got his hands on a RTX3090. This will be going into DL/ML workstation. He does development of personalized cancer histology scoring system at his local hospital. The 24GB VRAM will come in handy for the training.

Got to say RTX3080 / RTX3090 is so popular with data scientists and genetics researchers. Well that is if you can find one GPU at MSRP though.

Another friend of mine (microbiologist) just got this.

Ryzen 5900X
128GB DDR4-3600 RAM
NZXT AIO
Gigabyte RTX 3080
2TB Sabernet PCIE-4 NVMe SSD
LianLi case

 

[FireFox]

Got to say RTX3080 / RTX3090 is so popular with data scientists and genetics researchers.

And Mining too

 

[jboydgolfer]

i think i have 6 of those bags, never opened a single one, i just use bread ties

 

[cst1992]

This will go into my secondary rig to replace a seasoned Chieftec:
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One can never have enough cable ties, right? They also included this gimmick to jump start the PSU, and actually encourage you to try it out before installation
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I think I'll pass:
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Wait... WUT?!? Where is my cable pouch? I've been ripped off!
That's it, Seasonic! I'm returning this unit and will never recommend this brand again!!!

Cables?! Don't you know we're in the age of wireless???

Then again, maybe they sacrificed the cables to make way for the $50 eGift...

 

[R00kie]

Yet another revision to the VR PC is now finished. The block for the RTX 2070 Super is a peculiar one, even though the manufacturer website states it is for the card that I have, it would not fit for the life of it
After some milling and drilling it was made to fit

 

[Valantar]

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Yet another revision to the VR PC is now finished. The block for the RTX 2070 Super is a peculiar one, even though the manufacturer website states it is for the card that I have, it would not fit for the life of it
After some milling and drilling it was made to fit

That's an impressively thick rad you've squeezed in there, I like the tight tolerances!

 

[R00kie]

That's an impressively thick rad you've squeezed in there, I like the tight tolerances!

Thats what makes these builds ever so more exciting to work on

 

[Fleurious]

You've got eneloops for gamepads?

Just using the AA batteries that came with the controllers for now. After googling what Enaloops are they look similar to what I'll probably end up replacing the batteries with.

 

[thesmokingman]

Just finished setting up this G9 screen. It's damn large obviously but still damn! I finally retired my triple Benq 1080p 144hz panel, omg from 2014 geeze. I used amazon's free installments so barely notice the price. Thanks Jeff!

 

[dorsetknob]

Ebay buy

 

[tabascosauz]

View attachment 185839Snagged one from the MS store for the kid. Laughed after getting a prompt to update the controllers.

Oh man, if you don't plan on keeping them plugged in, you'll want some rechargeables in your life. I have white eneloops and black eneloops, and go through 2 of them every 7-10 days. Even the included Duracells only lasted me about 12 days. Controllers absolutely brutal on batteries, thank god for eneloop pros.

The white regular eneloops I have are quite old and from a much older generation (I wanna say 7 years??) and they still work as well as new. Used to use them in my G602 and they'd last me half a year.

 

[Sithaer]

This will go into my secondary rig to replace a seasoned Chieftec:
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One can never have enough cable ties, right? They also included this gimmick to jump start the PSU, and actually encourage you to try it out before installation
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I think I'll pass:
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Wait... WUT?!? Where is my cable pouch? I've been ripped off!
That's it, Seasonic! I'm returning this unit and will never recommend this brand again!!!

I got the same accessories with my Core GM I posted earlier.

I was wondering what the hell is that thing so had to check the manual. 'did not try it tho'

 

[Valantar]

Oh man, if you don't plan on keeping them plugged in, you'll want some rechargeables in your life. I have white eneloops and black eneloops, and go through 2 of them every 7-10 days. Even the included Duracells only lasted me about 12 days. Controllers absolutely brutal on batteries, thank god for eneloop pros.

The white regular eneloops I have are quite old and from a much older generation (I wanna say 7 years??) and they still work as well as new. Used to use them in my G602 and they'd last me half a year.

Eneloops are awesome, I still use the ones I initially bought for my first DSLR back in ... 2008? Something like that. They still work great, and don't seem to have lost any capacity. It's been a while since I ran my Xbox controllers off AAs though (I've got rechargeable packs in all of them), but back then they lasted a lot longer than 7-10 days. How many hours a day are those controllers used?

 

[SN2716057]

Ebay buy

oh nice. Is that a Silverstone expansion card?

 

[Valantar]

Ebay buy

Hope it works well for you! I've had some bad experiences with that style of riser cable for PCIe 3.0 signalling, though I guess an SSD might be more forgiving than a GPU.

 

[Aht0s]

Eneloops are awesome, I still use the ones I initially bought for my first DSLR back in ... 2008? Something like that. They still work great, and don't seem to have lost any capacity. It's been a while since I ran my Xbox controllers off AAs though (I've got rechargeable packs in all of them), but back then they lasted a lot longer than 7-10 days. How many hours a day are those controllers used?

++ for Eneloops. Just got the new version as I can't find the old one. They are definitely worth it. Chargers plus 6 AA and 6 AAA for 80$ can't argue with that.