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    CRS504-4XQ-IN and Breakout DACs

    I had good luck w/ an optical breakout box from FS.com & using several different types of optical transceivers on the other end... 25Gb into an Intel/Supermicro/ESXi box, a couple Mikrotik switches, one ubiquiti switch & the 25Gb mellanox card in the PC I'm typing this on. So several different...
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    2024 AM5 Server builds (limited motherboard overview)

    Allow me to partially answer my own question with some details I found about my existing x570 configuration. It appears that pcie devices each negotiate their own generation/speed and width independently. I can't confirm this is also true for mux'd x8/x8 GPU configurations nor bifurcated...
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    2024 AM5 Server builds (limited motherboard overview)

    question re: these B650 boards - (although not really exclusive to these boards... maybe more of a general CPU/AM5 question) If I used that Supermicro board with a pcie Gen4 device plugged into the 1st x16 slot and a pcie Gen3 device plugged into the 2nd x16 slot, I understand that they'd only...
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    NUC9i5QNX for $391

    Not sure how good of a deal this is. I loved the Xeon flavor of this thing when it came out 2 years ago, but it was kinda pricey. But for a tiny box with a couple pcie slots, I jumped on one of the i5 models directly from Intel's NUCOutlet. :oops: Then, after I got it all configured, I saw...