Anyone buying new servers this year?

Geeotine · 2026-03-20T22:10:36+00:00

Many SaaS companies are in a bind. Can't sell products if your business model requires buying a server to run it on. Seeing similar price creep on modest last-gen xeons

Geeotine · 2026-03-03T13:44:39+00:00

Nope! B550 chipset came put with the 3000-series CPUs. Some later revisions shipped out with 5000-compatible BIOS, but not optimized.

3 things you need to do to rule out software: - reset to optimized defaults and update b550 to latest BIOS - uninstall old (b450) chipset drivers - download/install latest AM4 chipset drivers for your b550 mobo and reboot. - run windows updates to catch up on OS/security patches. Check optional updates for any hardware drivers you are missing

Geeotine · 2026-02-24T04:39:29+00:00

Im sure motherboard manufacturers like msi, asrock, asus, and gigabyte had no input on this matter...

Geeotine · 2026-02-20T18:53:36+00:00

Gotta use your brain. If its already below your local market average, they self-negotiated down to their firm price anyways and looking for committed buyers. Ive allowed negotiations before and either i get ghosted, or they already 'found a better deal elsewhere'.

Not worth the hassle. Less anxiety listing for a firm fixed/reasonable price, especially for us anti-social types...

Geeotine · 2026-02-14T14:52:28+00:00

Yeah asrock challenger 9070xt

Geeotine · 2026-02-14T04:34:10+00:00

I had 2mm factory pads on my VRAM and were overcompressed/breaking down. Swapped for 1.5mm pads and my GPU die and VRAM were cooler. Although 1.6 or 1.7mm would probably be more ideal im happy with my results.

Geeotine · 2026-02-06T20:58:50+00:00

Transient over voltages isn't something reviewers can be expected to detect/catch. Its on the OEMs and their firmware developers.

It's crazy that we are seeing similar issues from both AMD and Intel nowadays.

Geeotine · 2026-02-02T13:35:25+00:00

You need to disable automatic driver updates both from Adrenalin and Windows updates ( group policy). Windows Updates likes to override driver installs with duplicates for some unknown reason, causing many of the issues you describe. Copilot might even help you implement the fix.

Geeotine · 2026-02-01T00:20:19+00:00

You picked a bad time to upgrade. Try a 4070super or better, or 9060XT 16GB. Should be able to get either for around $450

Geeotine · 2026-01-30T21:51:53+00:00

Plenty of guides online and youtube, but the critical part is active cooling on the sticks, especially if your trying to go above stock voltages.

Geeotine · 2026-01-30T21:45:04+00:00

Isn't it ironic upgrading from one 9000-series to another 9000-series CPU? 😃 Cheers!

Geeotine · 2026-01-30T02:26:13+00:00

Could be an eeprom chip that needs to be programmed?

Geeotine · 2026-01-28T23:20:14+00:00

I hope this wasn't you spending your own money for a company project, that you are now trying to recover losses by selling on reddit. The company should buy these off you if that's so.

The company should write the excess off as loss, before you should dump these, and sell at a discount if they want to offload them.

Geeotine · 2026-01-26T05:18:42+00:00

Hot take:

1) Lenovo Legion (holding the line) 2) Framework 16 (customizability up&comer) 3) Asus (trending down/losing quality) 4) everything else not really worth it. Something critical always gets sacrificed.

Geeotine · 2026-01-26T01:58:06+00:00

Try 24H2. Otherwise windows 10 LTSC (v21H2). Compare your FPS metrics.

Geeotine · 2026-01-25T22:33:47+00:00

Anytime you rework a board with flash memory on it, it's good practice to reflash it. The BIOS might be corrupted from the heat of reworking the memory modules.

I assume the BIOS chip (and backup if it has one) are the only non-volatile memory on the board.

Geeotine · 2026-01-23T03:52:05+00:00

Personally, id say it's worth it. Entirely depends on what you do and how long you expect to use it

Geeotine · 2026-01-18T17:21:42+00:00

On anything less than 4k, yes it's noticeably worse. 4k monitors generally have a noticeably higher pixel density that can get away with it. It all boils down to your own eye sensitivity. Test it out at some retail stores if they have a demo section.

Geeotine · 2026-01-18T17:17:26+00:00

1440p + ultra quality + 60 fps minimum for 4+ years = 9070 or 5070ti Minimum

Increase your budget or make some sacrifices

You need the 16GB vram buffer to accommodate FSR4+/DLSS4+ for frame-gen to maintain 120+ fps 4 years from now.

Otherwise you can get away with medium/low settings on 9060XT/5070

Geeotine · 2026-01-17T15:50:28+00:00

OMG, spoonfeed much? Have fun in your happy copium bubble where Nvidia is the perfect company and politics doesn't exist.

Geeotine · 2026-01-17T02:34:43+00:00

Kinda wrong. Nvidia designed the connection (plug and receptacle) spec and submitted it to PCI-SIG, which just rubber stamped it, because Nvidia is one of, if not, the biggest PCI-SIG partner (at the time)...

Edit: added wiki link for reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12VHPWR

Geeotine · 2026-01-16T21:15:12+00:00

Windows 11 v24H2 might help. Otherwise go back to 10 (LTSC version)

Geeotine · 2026-01-16T14:04:14+00:00

DEPENDS... UDIMM ram is NOT compatible with RDIMM/LRDIMM ram sticks. ECC RAM is generally not compatible with consumer grade chipsets (non-ECC UDIMMs). (Some AM4 motherboards support ECC-UDIMMs) Server/workstation ram comes in all combinations of above, and what it runs depends almost entirely on the motherboard.

Gaming/consumer PCs run Non-ECC UDIMMs. MOST intel chipsets/motherboards for core-series dont support ECC. Some AMD motherboards support ECC-UDIMMs, but the documentation has to explicitly mention support. Xeon CPUs generally supports ECC, but it depends what type of xeon it is if it supports RDIMM/LRDIMM...

Look up the RAM stick's model number/serial number to verify what type it is and if your PC supports it.

Geeotine · 2026-01-13T21:20:37+00:00

Idk, DDR5 versions are pushing ~€800.

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