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[Lord Tin Foilhat]

So it'll be 2-120mm in the front, 2 on the radiator and 2 80mm on the back

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Fuck. Prepare to bend over further.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Yeah massive cpu and gpu increases coming

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

USB Thumb drive speeds like Whoah.

Picked it up for work, need a USB drive I can send out with laptop replacements for work. I'm putting a custom Powershell script on it for Profile transfers and wanted something with fast write speeds.

Corsair Flash Voyager GTX 256GB USB 3.1 Premium Flash Drive
by Amazon.com
Learn more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079NWJTGG/?tag=tcg21-20

 

[Fish]

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

So, the computer market is FUCKED right now. Between shortages, and asshole scalpers GPU prices are double to triple what they should be, even on last gen hardware.

My co-worker wanted me to put together a few system recommendations from budget to wild. I can't even come up with a basic price point because of the GPU prices and CPU shortages.

The CPU's aren't as bad stock wise if you want to run a cheaper intel chip or a 3000 series Ryzen. But the AMD 5000 series stuff is vaporware.

Fucking 2070 Supers are going for $1000+ at times.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Did 1080 prices blow up too?

 

[ZXMustang]

So, the computer market is FUCKED right now. Between shortages, and asshole scalpers GPU prices are double to triple what they should be, even on last gen hardware.

My co-worker wanted me to put together a few system recommendations from budget to wild. I can't even come up with a basic price point because of the GPU prices and CPU shortages.

The CPU's aren't as bad stock wise if you want to run a cheaper intel chip or a 3000 series Ryzen. But the AMD 5000 series stuff is vaporware.

Fucking 2070 Supers are going for $1000+ at times.

I was able to grab an i9 10850k From amazon for $399 a few weeks ago. Thats the 10900k with 100 less mhz on base and boost clocks. Same everything else 10 core 20 thread. Plus I was lucky enough to get a founders 3080 a few months ago. The 10850k and the 3080 are a match made in heaven.

My advice just keep looking everyday. And wait it out. You'll be pissed if you pay scalper prices and then a month later they all plummet because of some sort of miner fallout over bitcoin or ETH.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

So, the computer market is FUCKED right now. Between shortages, and asshole scalpers GPU prices are double to triple what they should be, even on last gen hardware.

My co-worker wanted me to put together a few system recommendations from budget to wild. I can't even come up with a basic price point because of the GPU prices and CPU shortages.

The CPU's aren't as bad stock wise if you want to run a cheaper intel chip or a 3000 series Ryzen. But the AMD 5000 series stuff is vaporware.

Fucking 2070 Supers are going for $1000+ at times.

Guy at our Roselle office asked me about building a computer for his kid since his kid's friends are all now PC gamers and swore off consoles.

I laughed and told him good luck. Then proceeded to spend 45 minutes going over his kid's build before I reiterated and said "lol good luck" again.

Might be time to sell off my 2070 Super for twice what I paid. Shit, it's the white Gigabyte version so probably $1200 because it's white. I've got a 670 FTW just sitting in my closet that can easily run everything I play anyway. :sendit:

 

[Chester Copperpot]

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They were inflated about 2-3 weeks ago. They were actively selling for $600-700. Think I paid $550 for mine.

 

[ZXMustang]

So, the computer market is FUCKED right now. Between shortages, and asshole scalpers GPU prices are double to triple what they should be, even on last gen hardware.

My co-worker wanted me to put together a few system recommendations from budget to wild. I can't even come up with a basic price point because of the GPU prices and CPU shortages.

The CPU's aren't as bad stock wise if you want to run a cheaper intel chip or a 3000 series Ryzen. But the AMD 5000 series stuff is vaporware.

Fucking 2070 Supers are going for $1000+ at times.

Amazon.com: Intel Core i9-10850K Desktop Processor 10 Cores up to 5.2 GHz Unlocked LGA1200 (Intel 400 Series chipset) 125W: Computers & Accessories

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This is what I bought. Its a screaming deal at $429 as well.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

See, this is one of those times where I really want to support Team Red. When non-intel can come up with a competing, and even Winning product I like to buy non-intel. Its not always the case that anyone can compete with Intel because they have a huge Fab advantage.

On either side of the 10850k you have the 5600x, and the 5800x.

The 5600x is nearly identical, except 4 less cores. And the 5800x is still down by 2 cores, but dominates it.

That said, I'm just going 5900x when they finally come down to reasonable pricing. I'm not dead in the water, so I'll wait.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

See, this is one of those times where I really want to support Team Red. When non-intel can come up with a competing, and even Winning product I like to buy non-intel. Its not always the case that anyone can compete with Intel because they have a huge Fab advantage.

On either side of the 10850k you have the 5600x, and the 5800x.

The 5600x is nearly identical, except 4 less cores. And the 5800x is still down by 2 cores, but dominates it.

That said, I'm just going 5900x when they finally come down to reasonable pricing. I'm not dead in the water, so I'll wait.

I'm still rocking the 4770k you helped me put together. Other than adding memory, some SSD's, and a CoolerMaster CPU fan it is the same build. Speaking of which, I really need to power it down, open it up, and clean the dust out of the case and power supplies.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

USB Thumb drive speeds like Whoah.

Picked it up for work, need a USB drive I can send out with laptop replacements for work. I'm putting a custom Powershell script on it for Profile transfers and wanted something with fast write speeds.

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Corsair Flash Voyager GTX 256GB USB 3.1 Premium Flash Drive
by Amazon.com
Learn more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079NWJTGG/?tag=tcg21-20

So,

After having this a few days and using it at work?



Amazing speed out of a USB Flash Drive. Digging into the specs on this thing, the deep dive.

This isn't a Flash Drive. It has an honest to god SSD controller on-board.

Which makes it an SSD on a stick.

Corsair Flash Voyager GTX USB 3.0 256GB Flash Drive Capsule Review

www.anandtech.com

Corsair's Flash Voyager GTX series brings SSD controllers to the flash drive market. Coupling it with a SATA - USB 3.0 bridge allows them to set benchmark records for their product line. More importantly, it brings some unique features. The rest of the review will present the DAS (direct-attached storage) benchmark numbers from our evaluation of the 256GB version, along with a few observations.

The Flash Voyager GTX is also recognized by Corsair's SSD Toolbox. One of the interesting facts revealed by the toolbox is the firmware version, S9FM01.7. A cursory search of the version number on the Internet reveals that the controller in the flash drive is the Phison S9. Readers might remember the previous generation Phison S8 controller being used in the Corsair Force Series LS SSD. It is heartening to see that the SSD controller along with the flash chips and the SATA - USB 3.0 bridge can be packed in such a small form factor.

So, even though it supports USB 3.1 on the box, the bridge chip is 5Gbit/s. Which means a maximum theoretical speed of 625MB/s.

But being that actually a SATA interface for the SSD controller, you are looking at 550MB/s maximum. So, its not bad, its certainly not slow, but won't come close to a newer NVMe SSD inside a NVMe enclosure that utilizes a 10gbit/s bridge..

Still, at $75 bucks, that's a heck of a deal for something so small and so fast. Its Random IO performance is leagues above non controller based flash drives.

 

[Fish]

I havent been actively looking like I was before when posting, but when I do look, I still occasionally see Nvidia 3000 parts at Microcenter, and have seen the 5600 in stock at one of the locations. Its usually before they open and also usually in the middle of the week. Forget the idea of going on the weekend and Mondays at least.

I actually bought a Ryzen 2200G and 1050TI from a guy at work for $140. I thought about putting something together for a buddy to use for his business but he is adamant on not really needing anything other than his 5+ year old laptop for now. So who knows what Ill do with this stuff for now. Maybe just hold onto it. I know the 1050TI could be resold for what I bought both for. LOL.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

One of the drives in the FreeNAS might be taking a shit.

Got an email from the system stating that one of the disks in my RaidZ3 array was removed by the administrator and was now in a degraded state.

This is unusual. Usually when an array goes into a degraded state there are errors in the console, in this case there were none. Its like I went into the system and offlined the disk. I tried to do a SMART test on the disk, and query it, but it was showing up as "Unknown" and couldn't query it at all.

I offlined the disk, then yanked and reseated it. Thankfully, I keep a map of exactly which bay each disk is installed in. So when I get a notification, I don't have to try and guess or run a test, I can just get right to pulling the disk. I was able to online the disk after reseating it and it resilvered about 450kb. A short smart test shows no errors. Makes me wonder if I have problem with the backplane starting up, or if the disk is truly failing.

Its an old Seagate 4TB desktop disk with about 50,000 hours on it. 6 years on is getting pretty old. Its one of the oldest disks in my system, I have 3 more like it this same array.

Welp, was considering at some point with replacing the RaidZ3 9 disk array with a 6 disk RaidZ2 8TB array and striping it with the existing 6x8TB RaidZ2 array. This would give me a single mount point 96TB volume.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

That sucks but thanks for reminding me thst I need to setup email alerts myself.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Also,

I'm keeping an eye on TrueNAS Scale. I might migrate from TrueNAS core to Scale for its hypervisor features while keeping ZFS 2.0 file system.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I still want to get myself one of those ssd flash drives lol

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

That sucks but thanks for reminding me thst I need to setup email alerts myself.

When you have this many disks....

NAME                                             SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP    HEALTH  ALTROOT
Frigga                                          32.5T  19.0T  13.5T        -         -     0%    58%  1.00x    ONLINE  /mnt
  raidz3                                        32.5T  19.0T  13.5T        -         -     0%  58.6%      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/b7432e3a-d111-11e9-870c-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/b8be9294-d111-11e9-870c-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/ba3a9006-d111-11e9-870c-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/bba02aa4-d111-11e9-870c-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/bf454eb7-d111-11e9-870c-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/c1b37904-d111-11e9-870c-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/c5613e60-d111-11e9-870c-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/ca0e85cf-d111-11e9-870c-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/cf114a1e-d111-11e9-870c-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
Loki                                            1.38T   886G   530G        -         -    33%    62%  1.00x    ONLINE  /mnt
  raidz1                                        1.38T   886G   530G        -         -    33%  62.6%      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/cbdb1b59-ea49-11e8-827f-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/cc3a233b-ea49-11e8-827f-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/cc90bda8-ea49-11e8-827f-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/ccf18666-ea49-11e8-827f-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/cd539d8c-ea49-11e8-827f-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/cdad167f-ea49-11e8-827f-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
Odin                                            43.5T  20.5T  23.0T        -         -     0%    47%  1.00x    ONLINE  /mnt
  raidz2                                        43.5T  20.5T  23.0T        -         -     0%  47.1%      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/ce154254-811b-11e8-8fe5-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/cec15941-811b-11e8-8fe5-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/cf690916-811b-11e8-8fe5-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/d0128439-811b-11e8-8fe5-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/d1527ef9-811b-11e8-8fe5-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    gptid/d1fece30-811b-11e8-8fe5-408d5cb9e8ed      -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
freenas-boot                                     118G  13.9G   104G        -         -     2%    11%  1.00x    ONLINE  -
  mirror                                         118G  13.9G   104G        -         -     2%  11.8%      -  ONLINE  
    ada0p2                                          -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE  
    ada1p2                                          -      -      -        -         -      -      -      -  ONLINE

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

I still want to get myself one of those ssd flash drives lol

I currenltly have 6x 256GB in RaidZ1, before this disk failed, I was considering moving to a simple mirrored 2TB array. two 2TB SSDs. But just hadn't justified the cost, its not like 6x SSD's use all that much power. It was mostly to gain back 4 bays in the NAS.

If I did the SSD's and replacing the 9 disk RaidZ3 with a 6x disk RaidZ2, I'd go from 21 bays in use, to 14. Opening up expansion opportunities again.

Then again, My HBA card also has the an internal expansion port for an External SAS port. So I could easily add another 24 bay disk shelf. did build for future expandability.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Didn’t a backplane start to go out like two years ago?

Also, I’d help pitch in for upgrade costs, as always.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Didn’t a backplane start to go out like two years ago?

Also, I’d help pitch in for upgrade costs, as always.

Nope, that was a HBA card that died due to heat, which turned out to be a common problem for those cards as the heat sink is not large enough, and there is no fan on it. So I fixed that by adding a fan for active cooling.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

OH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Users at work were having an issue with Kodak Prinergy. So they called Kodak.

Kodak used their remote support to remote in an turn SMB 1.0 on.

Jeesus christ you fucking Morons. SMB 1.0 is disabled because its InSeFuckingCure.

I turned that shit right back off and sent a NastyGram to Kodak and our Security teams.

 

[bmoore04]

It is finally time to replace the old 4790K gaming setup I built 6 or so years ago.

Pre-ordered this and am expecting it to show up early March.

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
16GB DDR4
RTX 3070
1TB SSD