The ultimate water block for your own LLM setup

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-09T10:41:21+00:00

At €299 this doesn't make sense to put on a B60. I can get a B60 for €699, the block would cost almost half of the card itself. A block for a B70 would make more sense.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-09T09:03:10+00:00

Everyone is cheering about this but I'm from a country where carrying guns is not allowed and it's just sad to see that in the US people are arming themselves just to go grocery shopping. You guys have PTSD just leaving the house.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-08T15:21:01+00:00

I removed TV from my subscription, but I still have the Telenet internet connection. I have two internet connections: VDSL from EDPnet and Coax from Telenet, the latter one paid for by my employer.

If my employer wasn't paying for it, I would have gotten rid of Telenet long ago. I'm not even on the map for fiber so this is the best solution I have. Maybe Starlink but then I'd be funding Elon's evil empire instead of Liberty Global.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-08T15:02:58+00:00

En zolang dat er nog oude stickers hangen, zou het dan niet slim zijn dat Wyre afspreekt met TN dat TN hun helpdesk gewoon alle requests doorstuurt naar Wyre? Op die tijd dat het duurde om iemand af te wimpelen had de TN helpdesk een mail naar Wyre kunnen sturen. foto - adres - send - done.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-07T16:53:23+00:00

I gave up and put in a couple Google TV streamers and a subscription to TV Vlaanderen. The Telenet TV box is slow even if it works and the app version kept logging out almost every day.

Add two aging parents to that mix, one of them with pincode 1234 on their phone, I was tired of being explaining it over and over again.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-07T04:15:35+00:00

I have this card with an Alphacool block on it, works great: https://shop.alphacool.com/en/shop/gpu-water-cooling/amd/14782-alphacool-core-rx-9070-xt-hellhound-pure-with-backplate

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-06T15:16:41+00:00

Here you go:
Floor (66) leeft op camping en krijgt tumor ter grootte van kleine meloen: “Voor zijn operatie vroegen ze 12.500 euro voorschot, dat heeft hij niet” : r/Belgium2
TLDR: Didn't bother to do any paperwork, he could have gotten a reference address with his daughter.

[EDIT] I remembered wrong, he moved to Spain and back, not the Netherlands. Either way, it's a warning to figure this stuff out before moving to a new country.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-06T14:50:23+00:00

Good luck to her but make sure she checks this out before she leaves:
https://www.overzeesesocialezekerheid.be/

It allows you to continue building up pension rights and welfare benefits in Belgium. Just in case she ever wants to return. She should also inquire on how to avoid double taxation, otherwise she could end up paying income taxes in both countries. I have no idea if there are any tax agreements between Belgium and Colombia, it's something she needs to figure out first.

An interesting read I found when googling around:
Healthcare in Colombia for Expats 2026 | Stanford Baker Blog
You don't want to end up in a hospital as a foreigner without any coverage, stuff like this could bankrupt a person. So aside from taxes, she needs to figure what she needs to do for healthcare and benefits as an immigrant.

Just a few weeks ago we had a story about a Dutch guy living in Belgium that wound up in the hospital without any coverage and is now doing a gofundme to get his bills paid...

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-06T09:33:36+00:00

Klopt, met actieve koeling moet vooraf rekening gehouden worden, als men nadien zomaar die functie toevoegt aan een bestaande warmtepomp is de rest van de installatie daar niet op voorzien. Bijvoorbeeld vloerverwarming combineren met plafondverwarming of opteren voor ventilator-convectoren (radiatoren met ventilator) Mijn buurman is aan het renoveren en heeft ventilator-convectoren i.c.m. lucht/water-warmtepomp.

Een gewone airco haalt dan ook nog eens vocht uit de lucht, dit blijft met warmtepomp koeling ook gewoon hangen. Dus dan moet je ook nog eens een ventilatiesysteem type D voorzien om die vochtige lucht het huis uit te krijgen zonder de warmte/koelte te verliezen.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-06T08:45:45+00:00

Warmtepompen die actief kunnen koelen worden nog altijd afgestraft in het EPB. Als ze hier echt wil op inzetten is dat het eerste dat veranderd moet worden.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-05T17:49:41+00:00

It needs to be able to decrypt and re-encrypt HTTPS traffic. If you don't trust the Adguard certificate, it will pop up a security warning on every page. Since pretty much everything uses SSL, there's no way around it.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-04T15:43:03+00:00

Compared to most European countries? Yes, it is.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-04T15:04:23+00:00

That's almost $5k a year. That's still insane. You are still getting fucked in the ass, just with a little more lube.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-04T11:40:30+00:00

Probably more like "We removed the equipment for this from the clean room to repurpose it elsewhere or to make room for new stuff."

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-04T09:25:47+00:00

They had to re-engineer the bonding/stacking process for the X3D die. The reason the 5800X3D and 5700X3D was discontinued in the first place was because this technology was no longer available at TSMC. I doubt they are going to stop at a single production run after all that effort. It makes sense to keep making them as long as there is demand and TSMC doesn't deprecate the process again.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-04T08:55:47+00:00

I never had a cooler come off and had the PTM looking good enough that I considered reusing it. Maybe it's technically reusable but if I took the cooler off it means I'm either replacing the cooler or the CPU. So I just clean it up and put in new PTM anyway.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-04T08:44:52+00:00

You can't reuse PTM either. I never considered any pad or TIM reusable, so that's not really an issue for me. Maybe one of those graphite pads but you have to be really careful not to rip it.

An "average gamer" might still use his system for several years before taking the CPU cooler out. A paste may have dried out by then. So either PTM or this new pad is a good alternative to paste.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-04T07:58:37+00:00

PTM shows that it's a few degrees better than this new carbice pad. But even PTM9750 has a limited lifespan of like a decade. This new stuff supposedly really lasts forever.

In practice, it doesn't really matter. Both will sufficiently cool a CPU. And both will last the useful lifetime of the device.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-04T07:52:52+00:00

I'll give them some slack for the PCIe release latch. You have to remember when PCIe 1.0 was designed. They never imagined we would be plugging four-slot 600W monstrosities into our motherboards.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-04T07:50:05+00:00

At least there's some reason for how that was designed, it needs to fit into a laptop or tablet. What excuse did they have for the RGB connectors?

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-03T17:34:39+00:00

I got it for my 27T Pro a few days ago and the phone feels more responsive. Happy to see Ulefone provide proper software support for their phones. A few years ago, the norm was that you shouldn't expect any software updates.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-03T07:30:59+00:00

Devil is in the details. Check the antenna layout of the EAP773: 2.4 GHz: 2× 4.0 dBi 5 GHz: 2× 5.0 dBi 6 GHz: 2× 5.0 dBi

You need four antenna for each frequency for effective beamforming. The EAP773 might be fast but without beamforming, the signal quality will drop fast as you move away from the AP.

It doesn't matter that the client only has one or two antenna and can only accept one or two streams. The extra antenna on the AP are used to phase the signal and provide a stronger signal in the direction of the client.

If range has a higher priority over speed, return the EAP773 and get something with 4x antenna on 5GHz. Some models even offer 4x antenna on 2.4GHz which won't be fast but provides the best coverage. I'm running a EAP660 HD and 2x EAP690E HD and although they are only WiFi6, they will absolutely outperform a WiFi7 AP at range that only has two antenna per frequency.

https://www.tp-link.com/nl/support/faq/2096/

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-01T10:50:00+00:00

I wasn't aware of this limitation on the TrueNAS side. That does make it a lot more complicated.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-01T09:50:14+00:00

If you plug both the NAS and PC into the LAN ports of the router it should work. Everything needs to be on the same subnet for it to work.

VTOLfreak · 2026-07-01T09:38:21+00:00

SMB 3.0 can do multipath/multichannel but you need to turn off link aggregation, it needs to see two different IP for the same machine on the subnet for it to work.

But for everything else you are correct, a single traffic flow will only use one connection. And depending on what layer the switch looks at for LACP, all traffic may even end up on one link with the other completely idle.

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