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Well that shits on mine haha! I considered an m2 drive but after reading that am glad I didn't, as I didn't know half of it!
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No GPU?
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That's a beast of a machine... I missed it, but what are you going to do with this thing?
My desktop machine is actually starting to feel out of date. This is the HP z800 I purchased back in 2010. 6 years old and it is still doing fine, I've upgraded the GPU but that's about it.
Still has dual 2.8Ghz Xeon x5560 and I downgraded the RAM from 192GB to 24GB (to get back some of the cash I'd invested now I no longer needed to run 100 virtual machines concurrently).
The thing I still love about mine is the system board. The thing is insane, something about workstation class motherboards and the ridiculous bandwidth on the bus, combined with dual Xeons and the ECC RAM is just nuts when it comes to high bandwidth, high CPU intensive operations... such as encoding a Blu-Ray in about 3 minutes.
It's just a shame it sits there mostly idle and running Plex for 99.99% of the time. What a waste, oh the humanity.
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Pulled the trigger. Excite!
Had to spend an hour figuring out what was going on with all the different varieties of M.2 drives, confusing as fuck. Originally had a Samsung 850 in the basket but discovered that was sata rather than pci-e so wouldn't be any quicker than a regular SSD. Then there's the 951 series which have weird throttling issues but aren't supported by Samsung because they were only intended to be OEM parts (so why are retailers selling them?) Finally settled on a 950 PRO which was almost double the price of the 951 but should (hopefully) work without issues, once I've fiddled with the BIOS to make it bootable.
Figured spending £3.58 on the standard intel heatsink and cooler made a lot of sense so I can make sure it's working ok before plumbing in all the ridiculous water cooling.
Weekend should be all sorts of fun :)