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    Code Compilation, Web Server, Game Hosting... Epyc, Threadripper, or Consumer CPU?

    I've got a general-purpose home server with an FX-8350 that's running multiple VMs, each responsible for miscellaneous things: Webservers, game servers, Discord bots, SVN repos, etc. Me and a friend have been developing a game in Unreal Engine 4 over the past few years. I tried creating a...
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    upgrade to fastest cpu HP 290 G3 Microtower Business PC

    Hi first post here, i´m thinking about ordering this box https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c06469528.pdf and was wondering if everyone knows what the fastest cpu in that box would be 9700 is official but is it doable with a i9-9900 from what i googled it supports 32gb of ram but users...
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    Epyc Rome vs Scalable

    Need advice: It's time to upgrade my Xeon E3-1230 v1 home server. Current: ESXi, ZFS storage pools, video streaming server, a few VMs. Would like something that I can eventually offload archival video transcoding from my Xeon W workstation. A family member wants to do some basic machine...
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    Problem upgrading OmniOS r151028 to r151030

    I'm trying to update to R151030 LTS, but are having problems. I've followed the guide for updating, and it sort of seems to work (except for beeing way to fast), but when I reboot I'm still running r151028. This is the output when upgrading: # pkg set-publisher -r -O...
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    Turbocharge your Quanta LB6M - Flash To Brocade TurboIron - Big Update!

    UPDATE 7/11/2018 - It's been discovered that the version 8 Brocade firmware originally on the site was an internal-use only, untested beta version. It has been removed from the guide and replaced with the latest v7 mainstream release which is rock stable, well tested and has had a few more...
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    "The installed package is not permissible." when trying to upgrade OmniOS

    I'm trying to update another install of OmniOS from 151020 to latest 151022 (i.e not the same install as my previous post), and this time I'm getting "The installed package XXX is not permissible." Any input on how to solve this? (see below for all info, and let me know if anything else is...
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    Upgrade advice from AMD FX-9590 to Intel or AMD Naples?

    Hello, I had built a ESXi system originally with 5.5 on it, but have upgraded to VMWare vSphere 6.5. It runs an FX-9590 processor (220W, but undervolted) with 32GB DDR3 RAM (Max) on an ASRock 990FX Extreme9 board that is also water cooled (trying to quiet it a bit). Also have a 256GB SSD for...