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Hell yeah, thats lovely

While not good news I did still chuckle at "W11 Cancer" lol Have you tried to set up the drive exclusively through cmd? I sometimes have issues with Disk Management albeit, fairly uncommon.

Would you mind testing with something like H2Testw? Unless you have already done something similar? It essentially will write dummy data to the drive to verify its capacity. From what I understand the software is free to use. (Haven't used it personally) Otherwise the results are promising, obviously not blazing fast but still more than enough for what I would use it for (Games and VM's) Thanks for sharing what you have thus far!

Very interested to see if those work out as I have a workstation/server that would love the SSD treatment for the VM's. Would make my life so much easier in terms of cables too lol. Even if its SATA based and not NVME, still would be worthwhile if the storage is actually there. I agree also with your perspective on resolution, at 27" 2560x1440p @ 100% is very comfortable. On my 4K120hz TV I still use 125% and thats at 42" probably around 3-5Ft away pending how I am using the screen.

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I will definitely look into that, thanks for the tip!

So @Hiew ran an idea by me last night and unfortunately the proposition does seem quite attractive given the price points things are right now. Heres the scenario I have been entertaining, Selling the RTX 3090 for about 800(+/-) and buying the 7900 XTX. The XTX looks to be a healthy bump in performance over the 3090 and in some titles actually quite substantial. Would only need to spend about 150 or so tops for the upgrade. Before anyone points it out I really dont care about Ray Tracing or DLSS. Raster performance is more important to me.

I still want one to play with, finances and time have been discouraging against it but perhaps this year unless they release something.

They are probably focusing on getting gaming optimized before worrying about VR. The current product stack wouldnt do that well with VR if my understanding of it is more or less accurate (resource heavy).

My daily driver system only has 2x dimm slots and sadly my cpu doesn't support ecc ram. I don't have any system that I am aware of that I can install them to. Used to have a 5820x precision but I gave it away

Most people dont sit on new coins, they transfer it into ETH or Bitcoin. I'll be passing Qubic mining, CPU mining seems like a pain. I mine Raven from time to time but usually during the Winter to warm up the house.

Yeah, its a compromise at this form factor with OEM's. My own x570 board only has 2 NVME's and 2 DIMM's for ITX

Took me a moment but it looks to be the Dell Precision Compact workstation. Not sure how long they've been making this SKU so prices are likely still to be high, but like most enterprise hardware the value tends to drop off like a rock after their service period. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/precision-3260-compact/spd/precision-3260-workstation

I looked at the Samsung offering first but they were much more expensive, almost settled on the SN850x but the GM7000 was 25-30 USD cheaper for near same level of performance. At that level of performance I doubt I will be able to perceive a difference relatively speaking. I have been dabbling with ImageUSB to provision multiple drives (each with multiple partitions) so I finally had a use case where I needed a really fast drive to host the data that it pulls from. Up to this point I still didnt really see much merit to NVME (for my use case), of course now I want to make a Windows installation via RAMdisk as an interesting project (no idea how though).

Might also have better luck finding something used locally. At least here in the US AC Adapters tend to be expensive to buy new, but are relatively cheap to source locally

So I got that tower M.2 heatsink installed in my PC on an Acer GM7000 2TB PCIE4 drive (that I have my OS on). Acer doesnt make it in-house, its one of those OEM supplied but branded Acer products, BINIX iirc? Im not running anything particularly intensive (at all) but I just had to have it on. Thus far havent seen temps above 32c Now I want to get the Sonnet 4x10Gbps USB C pcie adapter or perhaps the GV-Titan TB3 card from Gigabyte. That might actually be better since it would be actively powered by the PSU. Wont be until next month or so.

4x32GB DDR4 3200Mhz ECC 20+16GB 1333/1866 ECC 200+GB DDR4 sodimm unbuffered Anything interesting I can use these for? Looked to see if I could build a RAMdisk but that seems to have gone extinct with DDR2 Honestly if I were better at electrical engineering / PCB related stuff what I would love to build would be the following. A USB4 enclosure that can house an NVME drive that would clone to a 128GB RAMdisk that then reports (and behaves) as a (bootable) Mass Storage Device to a PC. My work does a lot of Windows deployment type stuff so it would interesting (to me, at least) to see how long a deployment would take when the PC and its own storage are the only limiting factors. The NVME holds the data that we want to deploy (non-volatile) and clones to the RAMdisk (volatile), Naturally would need its own power source as well. I dunno, I just have an abundance of random stuff and am trying to think of an interesting use case for it. You guys got any ideas?

I use a number of seagate drives and so far the only drive to fail me is a Samsung 850 SATA M.2. That being said I did have pretty much all of my "FreeAgent Xtreme" drives fail on me but that was 15-17 years ago.

Oh that must be a sweet little box there! @Snowleopard Perhaps in the future you might come across the micro form factor with dedicated pcie come down in price (Dell sells them now as "precisions") but they dont have HX processors. That Minis Forum PC looks pretty sweet though

This intrigues me greatly, I have been on the fence about getting an RTX 3080 for my Clevo since it doesnt have external power

Its an unfortunate bi-product of the current times. Spend more time dealing with those with the loudest wailing instead of addressing probable constructive criticisms.

I like products that have modularity in mind. While you do have to mod it a bit, thats a fairly small compromise for what you get in return. Thanks for sharing!

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Do you have a programmer? Maybe needs a different vbios? Tricky part would be what to cross flash, I dont know of another MXM 6600 XT to even suggest...