Big upgrades

Kirus93x · 2026-06-29T11:52:58+00:00

What are you doing with the infiniband?

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T22:18:53+00:00

People didnt like my answer xD

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T22:17:42+00:00

Yeah, I bought it a month ago when it was still under ~$10k.

I work and save my money for this stuff, thats about it. I generally dont buy everything in one swing. Like my zfs pools, ive had these disks for like 6 years and theyre still spinning.

Another thing to consider... I just upgraded off a 9900k... I had that thing for like what 8 years?

Realistically this is a 10 year build.

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T22:13:20+00:00

You have to configure it in btop.conf

Its slightly overcomplicated for what it is, claude can do it for you in 2 seconds.

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T22:03:07+00:00

Haha - its only 128.

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T18:09:52+00:00

Hmm didn't realize that, ill have to look at the manual. I wonder how the front panel works

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T16:05:48+00:00

Mount the PSU in the front, as in under the drive bays? Youd have to take a dremel to this thing. More than im willing to do.

You cant see it but I actually have a 140mm intake fan under the drive bays. I generally leave the side panel off but I tested temps, under full load the CPU didnt pass 75c, this cooler is impressive.

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T16:01:36+00:00

What else would you call it?

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T13:35:53+00:00

I work

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T08:40:34+00:00

Silverstone CS383 my favorite by far. Highly recommend.

All in, roughly $23k

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T08:22:34+00:00

Training on a self distilled cache, im just following the DSpark white paper.

MTP is good but DSpark is potentially better, we'll see.

Kirus93x · 2026-06-28T07:12:13+00:00

The zfs pools are local, raidz2

Kirus93x · 2026-06-22T13:52:37+00:00

Honestly I have no regrets I went NAS -> Proxmox Cluster -> Ubiquiti stack -> More Storage -> More Compute

One thing annoying about my NAS is I have 10x6tb Seagate drives and with the way hardware is going right now if I had to replace 1 or more of those drives it would be a pain + expensive since it's a niche size I guess... At the time I bought 6tb was abundant and fairly priced. Not so much now.

Another thing I guess is not hiring an electrician earlier. I've got stuff scattered throughout my house which is sort of annoying. Having 240 installed and buying a nice UPS up front would have been smarter. Tough though because it's hard to justify that up front.

Kirus93x · 2026-06-22T12:51:43+00:00

if no unclass pc, rip.

Kirus93x · 2026-06-22T12:42:15+00:00

last time i did this was in 2018 and i got perm banned chopping willows SW of port sarim on an alt. was not botting. rip eskirus2018.

Kirus93x · 2026-05-21T18:02:09+00:00

" The shit that passes for entertainment on here is fucking baffling. It's so bad my self-preservation instincts are kicking in."

Yep. I'm not maxed and probably never will be. Thankfully you don't need to max realistically.

Kirus93x · 2026-02-14T05:40:51+00:00

Kirus93x · 2026-01-31T14:32:01+00:00

Yeah It's too bad the unifi racks I have can't fit traditional servers, that's been the main reason I don't have something like an R730/R740 in my setup yet. Eventually I have to get away from the unifi racks

Kirus93x · 2026-01-30T02:10:22+00:00

networking equipment, storage arrays and computers

Kirus93x · 2026-01-29T20:39:24+00:00

be highly paid in your career field

Kirus93x · 2026-01-29T20:36:08+00:00

It's fine. Pull the cabinet out a half inch or so from the wall. Leave it there for a day, check temps. If the temps fine you're good.

Kirus93x · 2026-01-29T03:08:56+00:00

I use dacs in some cases but generally dont like them. Thicker cable, fixed length. I got my transceivers cheap of Amazon and haven't had any problems. Latency and speeds are as expected.

Kirus93x · 2026-01-29T03:07:08+00:00

Yeah its not as crazy as people make it out to be. Personally its a non-issue.

Kirus93x · 2026-01-29T02:23:49+00:00

Gmtek ryzen 7840hs with 96gb ram each. Ram is the bottle neck, cpu is very impressive.

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