megatron-uk wrote on 2023-10-28, 14:01:

Work sucks and won't give me the opportunity to continue to develop my technical skills or keep up to date, so I've ended up buy […]
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Work sucks and won't give me the opportunity to continue to develop my technical skills or keep up to date, so I've ended up buying enough kit to set up a home lab:

Circa 2016ish Dell PowerEdge T430
- 2x Xeon E5-2660 v4 (14c/28t, 35mb, 2.0-3.2ghz)
- 192gb ddr4 2400
- 8x 256gb ssd in raid10

Just started putting VMware 8 on it and building out the core infrastructure (dns, DHCP, pxe, LDAP, nfs etc).

So 28c56t total? I like it!

H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-10-28, 17:15:

megatron-uk wrote on 2023-10-28, 14:01:

Work sucks and won't give me the opportunity to continue to develop my technical skills or keep up to date, so I've ended up buy […]
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Work sucks and won't give me the opportunity to continue to develop my technical skills or keep up to date, so I've ended up buying enough kit to set up a home lab:

Circa 2016ish Dell PowerEdge T430
- 2x Xeon E5-2660 v4 (14c/28t, 35mb, 2.0-3.2ghz)
- 192gb ddr4 2400
- 8x 256gb ssd in raid10

Just started putting VMware 8 on it and building out the core infrastructure (dns, DHCP, pxe, LDAP, nfs etc).

So 28c56t total? I like it!

Yep. It came pretty bare bones with a single processor and I did a bit of a comparison of the available cheap parts - the 2660 v4's are at a sweet spot of cores/clocks and power consumption (105w) and cost (£30 for them both, Inc shipping).

Ddr4 registered dimms have also dropped in price like a stone. Used 32gb modules are under £25 a stick.

megatron-uk wrote on 2023-10-28, 22:50:

H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-10-28, 17:15:

megatron-uk wrote on 2023-10-28, 14:01:

Work sucks and won't give me the opportunity to continue to develop my technical skills or keep up to date, so I've ended up buy […]
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Work sucks and won't give me the opportunity to continue to develop my technical skills or keep up to date, so I've ended up buying enough kit to set up a home lab:

Circa 2016ish Dell PowerEdge T430
- 2x Xeon E5-2660 v4 (14c/28t, 35mb, 2.0-3.2ghz)
- 192gb ddr4 2400
- 8x 256gb ssd in raid10

Just started putting VMware 8 on it and building out the core infrastructure (dns, DHCP, pxe, LDAP, nfs etc).

So 28c56t total? I like it!

Yep. It came pretty bare bones with a single processor and I did a bit of a comparison of the available cheap parts - the 2660 v4's are at a sweet spot of cores/clocks and power consumption (105w) and cost (£30 for them both, Inc shipping).

Ddr4 registered dimms have also dropped in price like a stone. Used 32gb modules are under £25 a stick.

Nice, that's what I would call a regular powerhouse 😁

Added the original GTX Titan to the stable. The 7 series of Titan class cards is now complete.

This GTX Titan can run Tomb Raider 2013 on an i9-9900 with almost everything turned up to 11 on a CRT running 1024x768@100Hz. Only AA has to be kept at FXAA. If I bump it up to SSAAx2, the framerate drops to 75-80ish.

EDIT: System was running at PCIe 1.1 specs - tests thrown out.

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-03, 00:49:

Added the original GTX Titan to the stable. The 7 series of Titan class cards is now complete.

This GTX Titan can run Tomb Raider 2013 on an i9-9900 with almost everything turned up to 11 on a CRT running 1024x768@100Hz. Only AA has to be kept at FXAA. If I bump it up to SSAAx2, the framerate drops to 75-80ish.

SLI?

Nexxen wrote on 2023-11-03, 02:04:

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-03, 00:49:

Added the original GTX Titan to the stable. The 7 series of Titan class cards is now complete.

This GTX Titan can run Tomb Raider 2013 on an i9-9900 with almost everything turned up to 11 on a CRT running 1024x768@100Hz. Only AA has to be kept at FXAA. If I bump it up to SSAAx2, the framerate drops to 75-80ish.

SLI?

No, each is a different model; Titan, Titan Black, and Titan Z (SLI on a single card)

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-03, 02:11:

Nexxen wrote on 2023-11-03, 02:04:

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-03, 00:49:

Added the original GTX Titan to the stable. The 7 series of Titan class cards is now complete.

This GTX Titan can run Tomb Raider 2013 on an i9-9900 with almost everything turned up to 11 on a CRT running 1024x768@100Hz. Only AA has to be kept at FXAA. If I bump it up to SSAAx2, the framerate drops to 75-80ish.

SLI?

No, each is a different model; Titan, Titan Black, and Titan Z (SLI on a single card)

No quad sli then... but one day maybe 😀

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-03, 00:49:

Added the original GTX Titan to the stable. The 7 series of Titan class cards is now complete.

This GTX Titan can run Tomb Raider 2013 on an i9-9900 with almost everything turned up to 11 on a CRT running 1024x768@100Hz. Only AA has to be kept at FXAA. If I bump it up to SSAAx2, the framerate drops to 75-80ish.

I love that you run a ninth-gen rig on a CRT! 👍🏻👍🏻

An eVGA 980Ti Classified arrived today. What a great looking card. It benchmarks Batman Arkham Knight with all settings maximum at 125fps on the CRT at 1024x768; which means if I ever want to run Arkham Knight @90fps widescreen resolutions, I'll need an RTX 4090, heh!

H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-11-03, 08:20:

I love that you run a ninth-gen rig on a CRT! 👍🏻👍🏻

🍻

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-04, 01:58:

An eVGA 980Ti Classified arrived today. What a great looking card. It benchmarks Batman Arkham Knight with all settings maximum at 125fps on the CRT at 1024x768; which means if I ever want to run Arkham Knight @90fps widescreen resolutions, I'll need an RTX 4090, heh!

I love all the EVGA cards that KingPin worked on. Even the motherboard boards that EVGA had him work on we're just works of art and performed just as good as they looked.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2023-11-04, 02:16:

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-04, 01:58:

An eVGA 980Ti Classified arrived today. What a great looking card. It benchmarks Batman Arkham Knight with all settings maximum at 125fps on the CRT at 1024x768; which means if I ever want to run Arkham Knight @90fps widescreen resolutions, I'll need an RTX 4090, heh!

I love all the EVGA cards that KingPin worked on. Even the motherboard boards that EVGA had him work on we're just works of art and performed just as good as they looked.

I couldn't agree more.

Yeah, EVGA's Classified video cards are beauty to behold.

Cheers,

gdjacobs wrote on 2016-03-08, 12:56:

The one big downside to a Pi is the inferior network solution. Dedicated router platforms with custom/customizable firmware are almost always better.

And yet there is many a youtuber who would swear by them for a Pihole.

2016 tho, what did we have then a PI 2+ ??? The network capabilities got a bit improved on 3 and more again on the 4, now we've got the 5. If your external WAN speeds are limited to 50Mbit then even the old 2 was probably adequate at piholing, the 3 coped with an actual 100mbit the 4 got most of the gigabit, hope the 5 does all of it. However, they might be more limiting for internal network speeds and multiple connections.

The cooler on this card looks kind of bland, but the PCB and VRM section on these cards is a sight to behold. Also, they're usually better binned than your average non-reference cards.

BitWrangler wrote on 2023-11-04, 20:47:

2016 tho, what did we have then a PI 2+ ??? The network capabilities got a bit improved on 3 and more again on the 4, now we've got the 5. If your external WAN speeds are limited to 50Mbit then even the old 2 was probably adequate at piholing, the 3 coped with an actual 100mbit the 4 got most of the gigabit, hope the 5 does all of it. However, they might be more limiting for internal network speeds and multiple connections.

Yeah I mean...
I have no problem with the networking portion of it but I guess it depends on what you are expecting it to do for you.

A few weeks Ive sold 7 Pihole servers based on a Pi Zero in the last few weeks and nobody who bought them have told me anything went wrong with their home network.

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-03, 00:49:

Added the original GTX Titan to the stable. The 7 series of Titan class cards is now complete.

This GTX Titan can run Tomb Raider 2013 on an i9-9900 with almost everything turned up to 11 on a CRT running 1024x768@100Hz. Only AA has to be kept at FXAA. If I bump it up to SSAAx2, the framerate drops to 75-80ish.

EDIT: System was running at PCIe 1.1 specs - tests thrown out.

GPU-Z displays the current PCIe mode. If you have PCIe 1.1, you're in power saving mode. Check the Nvidia settings and windows's advanced power management. When you play games or run benchmarks, the PCIe should jump to 2.0 or 3.0 mode.

Second, the 7 series is weak on pixel bandwidth of between For both titan and titan black of 40-42 and Titan Z is 2x 33.8.

I suggest benchmark the eVGA 980Ti Classified with same PC and resolution. Remember this is non-XP supported video card, it is best supported with windows 7 and 10. I know some people hack the driver and modify settings in the windows's to make XP work with it.

Cheers,

pentiumspeed wrote on 2023-11-06, 19:35:

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-03, 00:49:

Added the original GTX Titan to the stable. The 7 series of Titan class cards is now complete.

This GTX Titan can run Tomb Raider 2013 on an i9-9900 with almost everything turned up to 11 on a CRT running 1024x768@100Hz. Only AA has to be kept at FXAA. If I bump it up to SSAAx2, the framerate drops to 75-80ish.

EDIT: System was running at PCIe 1.1 specs - tests thrown out.

GPU-Z displays the current PCIe mode. If you have PCIe 1.1, you're in power saving mode. Check the Nvidia settings and windows's advanced power management. When you play games or run benchmarks, the PCIe should jump to 2.0 or 3.0 mode.

Cheers,

I know, but thanks for helping just in case. GPU-Z has a render test to get the card out of PCIe 1.1, too.

The setting was from when I had a busted X1950XTX running only in PCIe 1.1 (it had some missing SMDs). During testing, I forced the board into various PCIe generations to make sure it wasn't a board issue, but I didn't change it back.

As an aside, my FPS jumped 50fps when I set PCIe back to default "auto" settings (Gen3 active) in Tomb Raider 2013 and 25fs on Arkham Knight.

Meatball wrote on 2023-11-03, 00:49:

Added the original GTX Titan to the stable. The 7 series of Titan class cards is now complete.

This GTX Titan can run Tomb Raider 2013 on an i9-9900 with almost everything turned up to 11 on a CRT running 1024x768@100Hz. Only AA has to be kept at FXAA. If I bump it up to SSAAx2, the framerate drops to 75-80ish.

EDIT: System was running at PCIe 1.1 specs - tests thrown out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYFrRQn_GiY