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Yeah, my t755 also idles at 19-20w, and that’s with 64GB of RAM, a single 1TB NVMe SSD and a Mellanox ConnectX-3 with a pair of 40GbE DACs (doing nothing connected to my N40L Microserver G7) while on Proxmox 7.4 running about 5-6 small VMs. The AMD Zen2s can be fairly efficient if it idles...

Oh, that's not even the spiciest take from my Mainland Chinese contacts. They took one look at the non-Chinese site URL and quipped: "华南金牌? - why am I entrusting my data and uptime with a brand name that sounds like a second tier soy sauce maker?" Their non-.cn website uses 华南金牌 huananjinpai...

Considering that I have a bigger discretionary Lego budget than a homelab hardware budget (mostly constrained by noise, heat and circuit amperage in my home, and also because there really isn't that much home friendly equipment thats not just either constantly rehashed "here's yet another...

Well, it's not that I have a problem with the quality of the gachas per-se, it's that they don't pay attention to the details and drives a guy like me up the wall. For example, here's a recent 600 Yen blind box that I picked up (It's Re-ment's Petit Sample Italian Trattoria...this being the...

Okay, so a little more on that PNE3 set - as I mentioned, the center pillar was missing from one of the bags, so I would advise strongly on double checking and contact the reseller if that's indeed the case (note that the last 2 balls I unpacked only came with 5 legs, and it's missing an extra...

Oh, I actually don't need those gachapon balls as they took up a whole lot of space... The nice thing is that they are individually labeled according to the contents. The one thing that really pissed me off? You only get a single NEC Univerge RX5230 instead of a pair for clustering work...

Well, I am based in New York and I just received mine. An amusing tidbit from the customs declaration - looks like the item originated from the Chugoku region of Japan. (Yes, that's a little bit of a linguistics joke - the kanji characters for Chugoku (中国) is literally the same as the kanji...

Oh yeah, for those who are patiently awaiting PNES3 - well, it just came out in Japan, and on June 10th, Tarlin published their list of vendors in Japan carrying the series (in Japanese of course)...and it looks to have a much wider availability this time around. In terms of gacha chains a)...

Eh, Twin Lake is essentially just an Alder Lake-N re-spin. Same fab (Intel 7), same silicon, probably a few minor cleanups here and there, I would say very minor performance difference between the 2. Edit: Yep. 1-3%. It's nearly the same performance delta between AMD Ryzen silicon respins...

Oh yeah, I never bothered to do a writeup regarding the Nitto Kogyo System Rack FS series or NKFS1 - well, here's some photos of the rack packaging in question: Sleeve (for the packaging): Front of the box (it's really an enclosure+sever 2-pack, but since you are getting the enclosure the...

So, a few things: a) I would not use either the Minisforum MS-01 or the MS-A2 for jellyfin GPU based encoding. Well, I mean, in theory, for both you can do GPU transcoding using it, but thats assuming that you don't plan to do the next gen video codecs like AV1 or H266 (VVC). Neither the...

Try this one.

Oh yeah, I just ordered a set of PNE3 - hopefully will see how it looks when it shows up in 2-3 weeks.

Oh look, a surprised pikachu face from Broadcom regarding a mysterious and utterly unanticipated drop in usage figures and tech community goodwill in 2025 onwards.

Hmmm...it's an interesting little network appliance, and for the price demanded stateside (I am seeing about 40-50 USD each on evilBay) it's a bargain. I guess if you have a few desktop DDR4 DIMMs and SATA M2 drives sitting around doing nothing, this will be a nice router, as it's like a more...