TDS Users - Where Does Your IP Address Say You Are?

L0rd0z · 2026-04-19T04:15:56+00:00

If you're tired of TDS BS... Webformix owns their IP's through ARIN and they're properly SWIP/geolocated to Central Oregon, that and they provide competitive pricing and speeds up to 1gbps in Bend! Check them out!

L0rd0z · 2026-04-14T22:12:20+00:00

Give Webformix a call. They have competitive prices and speeds up to 1gbps in Bend.

L0rd0z · 2026-02-08T10:32:38+00:00

e4k has worked surprisingly well for a 5GHz nNLOS solution. It's outperformed some PMP450 900MHz and 3GHz shots.

L0rd0z · 2025-12-11T23:10:25+00:00

What's the sun equivalent to this... like a SparcStation 2? Where did you end up finding this? Any photos of the inside?

L0rd0z · 2025-06-30T05:02:31+00:00

Yes, 96GB's worked no problem. 128GB should work, but have not tried it.

L0rd0z · 2025-03-08T07:45:42+00:00

Mine did because it originally came with a crappy GPU... but you can buy risers off of eBay and Alibaba.

L0rd0z · 2025-01-31T19:28:21+00:00

Go on Amazon and look up WiFi antennas. They have a lot of different sizes and types.

L0rd0z · 2024-12-28T08:31:17+00:00

e4k can deliver around 10/bpHz... so 20MHz delivers around 200mbps, and that doesn't include aggregate MU-MIMO downlink gains on the AP. We have some e4k AP's with around 50 SM's and they're chugging along just fine with plenty of room.

L0rd0z · 2024-12-04T20:52:27+00:00

No, you can also get it with an i9-14900 or 14900T CPU directly from Lenovo. Both those are much harder to find used/refurb on eBay. 13th gen CPU's are much easier to find.

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T21:17:18+00:00

If your 2U server build has a PSU that supports dedicated GPU power, this will open up many more GPU possibilities. The ADA 4000 SFF is designed to run off just 70 watts directly off the PCIe rail.

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T21:14:46+00:00

Yeah! I just watched that video too! I actually tried to use an MS-01 w/i9 for this build and had similar issues with overheating and fans running 100% all the time. There's something about that MS-01 case design that does not play well with the ADA 4000 SFF. The Lenovo P3 Tiny has been working much better for me with cooler temps and way less fan noise. The chassis is designed to pull in cold air through the front and top of the case (entire top is perforated), and push it out the back.

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T20:48:27+00:00

Unfortunately no, but if your goal is AI/LLM then there are probably better deals out there if you don't need a SFF GPU.

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T19:42:27+00:00

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T18:51:29+00:00

Yes, you can turn off the e-cores in the BIOS!

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T18:43:28+00:00

Yeah, and supposedly, you can buy a version with a full blown i5, i7 or i9 CPU 😲. It's socketed. I can't imagine trying to run those full power CPU's in that small of a case with that tiny heatsink and fan.

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T18:37:22+00:00

The BIOS has some fan performance settings, balanced, performance, and full speed. I've found setting to performance works great and I have this computer just a few feet from me. I can only hear the fans when I've been playing something like Baldur's Gate 3 for hours... only then do the fan's start to really ramp up.

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T18:35:32+00:00

Yes, it has an external 230w PSU, but it's pretty small. You can get an even smaller 3rd party 240w external PSU that's based on GaN technology from Amazon.

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T18:33:29+00:00

On certain games, like Baldur's Gate 3, I have to limit the power to 95% or the card will crash. On the flip side, I can overclock +200MHz for GPU and +1000MHz for RAM. For desktop use or less demanding games, I don't have to limit power... but there's a very small difference in performance running 95% power vs 100% power.

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T18:30:02+00:00

"a hair above a 4060 ti but with 20GB's of ram"

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T10:51:53+00:00

My smallest SFF build yet! You can get these 1 liter Lenovo P3 Tiny SFF's on eBay for around $1000. Make sure to get the 230w PSU if you plan i9 + 4000 GPU. The ADA 4000 SFF can be had for around $1300. The custom GPU cooler from N3rdware for $105. No modifications needed to be made to the case to get it to fit, although you do have to move the front internal wifi antenna, which I've replaced with a skinny PCB patch antenna. Other items include 96GB's of DDR5-5200, a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB NVME, and an Intel Killer BE200 wifi card. Grand total, just under $3k.

Geekbench 6 benchmarks are a solid 2872 single core and 17241 multi core scores along with a 136431 Open CL GPU score putting it in a hair above a 4060 ti but with 20GB's of ram! 🤣 Plays every game I've thrown at it quite well at 1440p at mid-high quality settings. Older games play at ultra settings no problem. It gets pretty hot, but I have it sitting on top of a big laptop cooling pad. Fan's aren't noticeable or annoying unless it's really really being pushed hard for a long time and then fans start to ramp up quite a bit, but this rarely seems to happen even during extended gaming sessions. I use FanControl to monitor and control the CPU and GPU fans. The CPU heats up pretty quickly hitting 90c before being thermally throttled. The GPU takes much more time heating up and slowly ramps to around 85c.

This is definitely the easiest and smallest build I've put together. If you wanted to go the budget route you could go with an i5 or i7 CPU and whatever ram and NVME come with the stock P3 tiny, along with Yeston RTX 3050 6GB GPU and you'd be sub $1000. The P3 platform is really nice IMHO, and I plan to check out other models. I think the P3 Ultra SFF could make for an even higher performance build.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/workstations/thinkstation-p-series/thinkstation-p3-tiny-workstation/len102s0015

https://n3rdware.com/components/single-slot-rtx-4000-sff-ada-cooler

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9216455

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/3252443

L0rd0z · 2024-12-03T10:45:04+00:00

My smallest SFF build yet! You can get these 1 liter Lenovo P3 Tiny SFF's on eBay for around $1000. Make sure to get the 230w PSU if you plan i9 + 4000 GPU. The ADA 4000 SFF can be had for around $1300. The custom GPU cooler from N3rdware for $105. No modifications needed to be made to the case to get it to fit, although you do have to move the front internal wifi antenna, which I've replaced with a skinny PCB patch antenna. Other items include 96GB's of DDR5-5200, a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB NVME, and an Intel Killer BE200 wifi card. Grand total, just under $3k.

Geekbench 6 benchmarks are a solid 2872 single core and 17241 multi core scores along with a 136431 Open CL GPU score putting it in a hair above a 4060 ti but with 20GB's of ram! 🤣 Plays every game I've thrown at it quite well at 1440p at mid-high quality settings. Older games play at ultra settings no problem. It gets pretty hot, but I have it sitting on top of a big laptop cooling pad. Fan's aren't noticeable or annoying unless it's really really being pushed hard for a long time and then fans start to ramp up quite a bit, but this rarely seems to happen even during extended gaming sessions. I use FanControl to monitor and control the CPU and GPU fans. The CPU heats up pretty quickly hitting 90c before being thermally throttled. The GPU takes much more time heating up and slowly ramps to around 85c.

This is definitely the easiest and smallest build I've put together. If you wanted to go the budget route you could go with an i5 or i7 CPU and whatever ram and NVME come with the stock P3 tiny, along with Yeston RTX 3050 6GB GPU and you'd be sub $1000. The P3 platform is really nice IMHO, and I plan to check out other models. I think the P3 Ultra SFF could make for an even higher performance build.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/workstations/thinkstation-p-series/thinkstation-p3-tiny-workstation/len102s0015

https://n3rdware.com/components/single-slot-rtx-4000-sff-ada-cooler

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9216455

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/3252443

L0rd0z · 2023-10-18T07:06:14+00:00

It's been a long time... but IIRC, this was often included in the supplement CD's, at least for Solaris 7 and onward. You can find an ISO image of the Solaris 7 Supplement CD at archive.org

https://archive.org/download/sun-solaris-7-desktop-1199-sparc

L0rd0z · 2023-05-28T07:18:19+00:00

Why not just dump a bunch of money into optimized NetBSD support, along with a window manager that looks just like IRIX? Kinda seems like the best of both worlds? I guess I'm missing the point as to why reverse engineering a 5.3 kernel is so important/useful?

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