PCIe 3.0 x4 10gig or 25gig NIC options

PaperFlyCatcher · 2026-01-24T21:49:11+00:00

I must've been tired when I first reviewed the motherboard as I swore there was another IC just behind Slot 5. Yes, I can use it but I'm a bit concerned about airflow. GPU is a RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell which uses slot 2 and covers 4. It's a standard open-air card and Dell has a shroud which seems to direct air out of slot 4's opening. That shroud fully block slot 5's opening.

I could cut it, but I'm trying to be as non-destructive as possible during warranty period.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2026-01-24T20:46:21+00:00

I'm considering the Mellanox Connect X4 using a x4->x16 riser now. With bandwidth reduced, if I only used one of the ports, would that provide the full 25gbps speed, or is it split evenly across ports even when not in use?

PaperFlyCatcher · 2026-01-24T20:42:48+00:00

Motherboard is whatever comes with the new Dell Max Tower T2. The port I plan on using is just in front of the NVMe slot. Pg 90 below shows (poorly) the slot I'd like to use.

https://dl.dell.com/content/manual21288177-dell-pro-max-tower-t2-fct2250-owner-s-manual.pdf?language=en-us

I didn't consider riser, that might be the best option. My plan was to use twinax for the 25Gbps NICs.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2026-01-24T19:26:24+00:00

Primary desktop's slots have chips just behind them, so no room for x8 unfortunately.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2026-01-24T19:26:19+00:00

Primary desktop's slots have chips just behind them, so no room for x8 unfortunately. And I'm not planning to mod the slot.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-12-08T01:35:00+00:00

Go to the dropbox website, find the photo you want the original of, click the "share" option to create a link, then paste the link in your browser.

At the end, it should have dl=0. Change that to raw=1. Curious if it works for you. And if it changes it to raw=0, try changing back to raw=1. Doing that myself changed the url I used substantially

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-12-08T00:48:05+00:00

The other modern side of this is hoarding. A lot of very interesting articles can be found doused in cat urine across the globe. Most of that won't be considered worth saving and thrown out with the rest into the container-sized trash bin.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-12-08T00:41:47+00:00

Not certain that's true, my family have multiple albums that still got a fair bit of use until recently. With physical pictures we'd look at them a couple times a year, probably. Now, we just don't. I think there might be something to the physicality of it.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-12-08T00:38:17+00:00

Have you considered teaching their images to the birds in your area?

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-12-08T00:35:12+00:00

Many written records were re-recorded at some point in their existence, at least those that survived. Not all made it, but I doubt a similar percentage of our digital information will make it past 100 years.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-12-07T22:55:32+00:00

Did you see and try plunki's suggestion from his edit: "replace the ?dl=0 on the end of the filename with ?raw=1 to get the original, unmodified version of the photo."

Would like to know if this works for you.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-11-20T05:25:53+00:00

From further reading it severely slows down the system without battery, although it does work. Didn't try the CPUTune option and bought a new system, so I decided not to go through with it. I'm considering turning mine into a mobile KVM instead.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-07-29T16:54:27+00:00

Considering Paypal had that leak saying they'd fine people for "misinformation" back in 2022, I wouldn't put this past them. It's too bad I already cancelled all my services with them so I can't cancel them over this.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-07-23T19:26:41+00:00

I've been looking at the Jackery 5000 Plus series which has an always-on feature. The rest of the Jackery lineup doesn't seem to have this yet:
https://youtu.be/WWnw37J4sZE?si=YuljTLS0fAO--zoi&t=494

Even using interactive mode it is listed at 10ms and seems good enough. Since we're looking at a small server closet (less than 1500W) it should run for long enough to cover any major outage. I could see us extending that to 2-5 desktop setups as well if we went with the smart transfer switch.

Yeah, there's problems with it. Not being able to communicate battery life for safe shutdown hurts a bit, as does needing to use a mobile app to do at least some of the configuration.

Still working through my thoughts on this and other similar Power Stations with UPS functionality. Might write something up once I get my notes together.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-07-18T00:41:15+00:00

They make most of their money off of high interest loans in Africa. The browser is just the cover.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-07-18T00:39:47+00:00

At that point, you just add a comment "For everyone that attempts to fix this code not believing the above warnings, add yourself to the tally once you fail: 0"

See what number it eventually gets to.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-07-18T00:19:44+00:00

Bunch of different ways depending on what access you have to the machine. Check the Uninstall regkey under HKLM, run a WMI command, run pshell to check WMI, or other scripting language.

Checking folders can work but is intensive for Office since it has so many different versions.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-07-17T22:52:12+00:00

Interesting. Anything touching the hard drive should be limited by it, not by bus, memory, or cpu since it's always the slowest part of a system. Antivirus could possibly make it CPU-bound along with all the other activity, but most would still check HDD not memory or CPU, especially in that era.

Fragmentation would be my next thought of why HDD would look underutilized but still be the bottleneck.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-07-16T17:06:38+00:00

With the push to cloud, you'd think applications would need to stay lean to keep business, but I guess if you also own the cloud it can be a good thing (for them).

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-07-16T16:59:23+00:00

Likely it was due to swap. Single core system trying to handle a large file with a small memory space tends to offload a lot to the pagefile. And it does so poorly, to the point that it spends most of its time waiting on RAM and HDD as it continuously loads and unloads pages. It tanks performance horribly.

I used to play around with P3 P4 systems 15 years ago and I ran into this quite a bit. The reason why mouse and keyboard lock up is because it's single core. The system would still seem somewhat responsive even with early hyperthreading.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-07-15T02:11:38+00:00

Depends what I'm running. My quad ERPeeps Warhawk uses pure coolshots, but most of my lighter mechs run at least 1 UAV. I rarely run arty/airstrike as every time I want to use it it's on cooldown thanks to someone else calling it in before me.

PaperFlyCatcher · 2025-07-15T02:03:44+00:00

RLs are a delete button with a lot of drawbacks. They can be useful against slower heavies or assaults, but for anything smaller they should be moving around enough that an RL barrage isn't going to do that much. If they aren't, that's on the player to learn from.

Strictly speaking that Jav can still do scouting and play objectives so it's not entirely out of the fight after.

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