TubaMagna8
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They are, However i have been recently checking the British Heart Foundation Ebay page... some good stuff appears on there....
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They are, However i have been recently checking the British Heart Foundation Ebay page... some good stuff appears on there....
Been playing musical SSD's today lol.
Started a few weeks ago, I had a 250GB SSD in a work laptop, which was a bit overkill, so swapped that with a 120GB drive, and put the 250GB drive in my server with a new drive adaptor.
Then this weekend I got a 480GB SSD, so I have taken the two SSDs out the server (120GB and 250GB) and cloned them onto the 480GB drive. So my server now has a nice big SSD to run Windows Server, plus all the virtual machines are stored on it. Then also cloned the HDD on my netbook to the 120GB drive to speed up boot times, and cloned another laptop drive onto the 250GB drive. Confusing, yes lol.
Also did some updates on my microserver which runs pfsense and pihole, had to plug in and do manual ip as the network pretty much goes down when this thing reboots.
With work done on my server I had a rare opportunity to turn it on, which I love
In other PC-related updates.. thought I'd see if my gaming PC would do 5GHz.. it was just like.. yeah sure.
Not stress tested it or anything but it was fine in Battlefield. For a 6 year old CPU it's flippin brilliant. Sits at 60°C in games all day long.
Started a few weeks ago, I had a 250GB SSD in a work laptop, which was a bit overkill, so swapped that with a 120GB drive, and put the 250GB drive in my server with a new drive adaptor.
Then this weekend I got a 480GB SSD, so I have taken the two SSDs out the server (120GB and 250GB) and cloned them onto the 480GB drive. So my server now has a nice big SSD to run Windows Server, plus all the virtual machines are stored on it. Then also cloned the HDD on my netbook to the 120GB drive to speed up boot times, and cloned another laptop drive onto the 250GB drive. Confusing, yes lol.
Also did some updates on my microserver which runs pfsense and pihole, had to plug in and do manual ip as the network pretty much goes down when this thing reboots.
With work done on my server I had a rare opportunity to turn it on, which I love
In other PC-related updates.. thought I'd see if my gaming PC would do 5GHz.. it was just like.. yeah sure.
Not stress tested it or anything but it was fine in Battlefield. For a 6 year old CPU it's flippin brilliant. Sits at 60°C in games all day long.
Umm are you a government hacker out of interest lol
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It's surprising how cheap servers can be the moment they're a year old and no longer power efficient.
Wouldn't want one in my house tho, those fans are obnoxiously loud
Wouldn't want one in my house tho, those fans are obnoxiously loud
Yeah very cheap really. This thing only pulls around 120w it's not all that bad.
I did have it in the dining room when I first got it and the fan noise was OK, fans only spin up loud when you first power it on.
Mine's in the garage. Pulling 870 watts last time I checked
TubaMagna8
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Bought an iMac 27 inch, used off ebay, Should be coming next week.... looking forward to more floor space and less noise/heat lol
i7-4770 (3.5GHZ with 3.9 turbo)
24gb ram
GTX780m 4GB
i7-4770 (3.5GHZ with 3.9 turbo)
24gb ram
GTX780m 4GB
Not bad specs on that 
1°C temperatures outside are doing wonders for my server CPU temps lol
1°C temperatures outside are doing wonders for my server CPU temps lol
TubaMagna8
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That's running cool like....
I've added another server to my collection, so currently running a C6100 and a HP DL380 G7. Got the 380 from work for free, was just going to be recycled and it had a load of drives in it but not a good CPU and only 18GB RAM, so it's being used for dirty storage and a backup repository. Currently deduping that store, which is saving me 75% of my used space. Not too shabby.
Both servers together are pulling around 960watts, but since the C6100 is flat out mining XMR with 2 GPU's hanging out of the back of it, I can forgive it slightly.
On to the latest project. A PC made mostly from scrap. A lot of the guys at work are playing PUBG, and I kind of wanted in on it, as well as actually having a PC. I haven't owned one for years! Never mix work and pleasure and all that, so I decided to build a budget build. Specs so far are a quad core i5 4430 which was reclaimed from a scrap PC, 8GB of RAM which was reclaimed. I did have 24GB but the 2 8GB sticks were dual rank and didn't work, so just need to find some more, a reclaimed 180GB Intel SSD, and a 500GB normal hard drive. So all I really needed was a case, and PSU. Found a cheap corsair 450watt PSU on amazon for £30~, and a bargain CIT gaming case that they were selling off for £19. I was going to wait to get a GFX card, but the prices tempted me too much around black Friday, so in the end I went for a 1060. Plays PUBG on high settings around 70fps, so it's achieved what it needed to, it's also paying for itself by mining ETH constantly too
So good to have a PC again.
Both servers together are pulling around 960watts, but since the C6100 is flat out mining XMR with 2 GPU's hanging out of the back of it, I can forgive it slightly.
On to the latest project. A PC made mostly from scrap. A lot of the guys at work are playing PUBG, and I kind of wanted in on it, as well as actually having a PC. I haven't owned one for years! Never mix work and pleasure and all that, so I decided to build a budget build. Specs so far are a quad core i5 4430 which was reclaimed from a scrap PC, 8GB of RAM which was reclaimed. I did have 24GB but the 2 8GB sticks were dual rank and didn't work, so just need to find some more, a reclaimed 180GB Intel SSD, and a 500GB normal hard drive. So all I really needed was a case, and PSU. Found a cheap corsair 450watt PSU on amazon for £30~, and a bargain CIT gaming case that they were selling off for £19. I was going to wait to get a GFX card, but the prices tempted me too much around black Friday, so in the end I went for a 1060. Plays PUBG on high settings around 70fps, so it's achieved what it needed to, it's also paying for itself by mining ETH constantly too
So good to have a PC again.
TubaMagna8
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iMac Came yesterday, its in iMac-ulate condition, and its all working, got it connected to my dell 25inch as a second monitor, Great that i can leave it doing tasks and go to sleep without the noise of fans and hard drives spinning lol
will put 32Gb in it at some point, just coz i can but the 24gb is fine for the moment...
Just got to decide how I'm going to sell the dell workstation, might take the graphics card out and sell that separately.
will put 32Gb in it at some point, just coz i can but the 24gb is fine for the moment...
Just got to decide how I'm going to sell the dell workstation, might take the graphics card out and sell that separately.
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Looking at Virgin media alternatives for bargaining as I am on around 100mb (should be 200mb) but sick of price increases etc.
Sky, BT etc no one else does fibre say up to 6mb.
Connected my pc to my phone as a test -
Its alot better than anything other than Virgin
Sky, BT etc no one else does fibre say up to 6mb.
Connected my pc to my phone as a test -
Its alot better than anything other than Virgin
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We are on BT, Got fibre over Copper, and another just fibre line... they combine in the router, and we get about 70.88 Down and 18.81 Up... ping is about 20ms
Looking at Virgin media alternatives for bargaining as I am on around 100mb (should be 200mb) but sick of price increases etc.
Sky, BT etc no one else does fibre say up to 6mb.
Connected my pc to my phone as a test -
Its alot better than anything other than Virgin
That's the problem if you're not in a BT fibre area, the speeds are shocking. Virgin all the way for me.
Do you just load balance over the 2? Or is there some sort of bonding going on?
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I have a trick to see about a reduction in cost but we will see
I've added another server to my collection, so currently running a C6100 and a HP DL380 G7. Got the 380 from work for free, was just going to be recycled and it had a load of drives in it but not a good CPU and only 18GB RAM, so it's being used for dirty storage and a backup repository. Currently deduping that store, which is saving me 75% of my used space. Not too shabby.
Both servers together are pulling around 960watts, but since the C6100 is flat out mining XMR with 2 GPU's hanging out of the back of it, I can forgive it slightly.
On to the latest project. A PC made mostly from scrap. A lot of the guys at work are playing PUBG, and I kind of wanted in on it, as well as actually having a PC. I haven't owned one for years! Never mix work and pleasure and all that, so I decided to build a budget build. Specs so far are a quad core i5 4430 which was reclaimed from a scrap PC, 8GB of RAM which was reclaimed. I did have 24GB but the 2 8GB sticks were dual rank and didn't work, so just need to find some more, a reclaimed 180GB Intel SSD, and a 500GB normal hard drive. So all I really needed was a case, and PSU. Found a cheap corsair 450watt PSU on amazon for £30~, and a bargain CIT gaming case that they were selling off for £19. I was going to wait to get a GFX card, but the prices tempted me too much around black Friday, so in the end I went for a 1060. Plays PUBG on high settings around 70fps, so it's achieved what it needed to, it's also paying for itself by mining ETH constantly too
So good to have a PC again.
The scrap bin in your job definitely yields better stuff than mine does
Dedup is amazing though, don't know how it works so well, but it does.
Nice...no Ti though?
Looking at Virgin media alternatives for bargaining as I am on around 100mb (should be 200mb) but sick of price increases etc.
Sky, BT etc no one else does fibre say up to 6mb.
Connected my pc to my phone as a test -
Its alot better than anything other than Virgin
If you can't get fibre through BT line then don't bother. Virgin is horrendous in over-subscribed areas, but without fibre nothing else will come close sadly.
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Its load balancing, The Fibre one is more reliable than it used to be, so i can see the other one going. Can also plug a 4G dongle in if the fibre goes down.
Seller Described it as that... so not my invention, i take no credit for that
I forgot how heavy my server was until I had to lift it off a shelf at head height today My mrs can lift it about an inch off the ground
But it came down so I can check it over for dust (there was next to none) and also, fit this (the little black and gold card!):
It's a DVB-T2 TV Tuner, basically a twin Freeview-HD tuner. It came out of my HTPC, I used it a few years back with Windows Media Centre, which I think died off a few years back now. But I plan to use it with Plex, it's not officially supported so some tweaking will be required. But if it works, it means I can have live TV anywhere I have Plex, anywhere in the world. But basically means that I'd need a TV aerial to the server and that's it, for the whole house. Plus anything recorded can be watched anywhere in the house too, or anywhere with internet access!
The first hurdle with this is that, my Plex server runs on a Windows 10 virtual machine hosted by Windows Server 2016 using Hyper-V, it took a while but I eventually managed to passthrough the TV tuner to the virtual machine, which involves a few lines of commands in powershell. Now just got to make Plex play ball
My mrs can lift it about an inch off the ground But it came down so I can check it over for dust (there was next to none) and also, fit this (the little black and gold card!):
It's a DVB-T2 TV Tuner, basically a twin Freeview-HD tuner. It came out of my HTPC, I used it a few years back with Windows Media Centre, which I think died off a few years back now. But I plan to use it with Plex, it's not officially supported so some tweaking will be required. But if it works, it means I can have live TV anywhere I have Plex, anywhere in the world. But basically means that I'd need a TV aerial to the server and that's it, for the whole house. Plus anything recorded can be watched anywhere in the house too, or anywhere with internet access!
The first hurdle with this is that, my Plex server runs on a Windows 10 virtual machine hosted by Windows Server 2016 using Hyper-V, it took a while but I eventually managed to passthrough the TV tuner to the virtual machine, which involves a few lines of commands in powershell. Now just got to make Plex play ball