10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Part II
Before continuing, first a few notes on the previous iteration. Firmware. FreeNAS’s driver for the Chelsio card complained about the firmware version. The...
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10 gigabit (10Gb) home network – Part I
Right now my home network is entirely Gigabit — minus any wireless devices or laptops that are using “Fast Ethernet” (i.e. 100 Mbps). And the ...
Another glass of absinthe — II
In the interim, the R9 290X was put back into the system and the GTX 1080 pulled and sent back to NewEgg on RMA. Unfortunately NewEgg didn’t send out the ...
Another build project – White Lightning
Another project is now in progress, sort of. Just as Desert Sapphire was a build for one of my wife’s friends, this build will be for another of her frien...
Revisiting the colony
Stability for some reason had been an ongoing concern with this setup. What was confusing is that stability wasn’t a concern before I built the rack and g...
Another glass of absinthe
Time to revisit Absinthe. Current specs for immediate reference: CPU: Intel i7-5820k GPU: XFX R9 290X “Double-D” 4GB Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512 GB...
Mira – Finished
I’m writing this on Mira, which means the system is up and running. But it wasn’t without hiccups. As much as I’d hoped the upgrade would go s...
Mira
The time has come for another build log. Seven months ago for Valentine’s Day, I posted a revisit to Absinthe in which my wife’s AMD FX-8350 system ...
Corsair AX860: A retraction
Last year I wrote a negative review of the Corsair AX860 power supply in which I said that I had two units on me fail in a short period of time: When an 800W po...
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