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As you all know, I am in the process up getting parts together for a new home server build. Slowly, things are coming together. I sure with there were consumer coolers for Intel's new socket, LGA 3647. I'm putting off getting the motherboard and CPUs until I get a cooling solution I can live with (in the same room). So, today, I received three more parts.

This is what $1,400 looks like. These are 32GB modules of DDR4-2666 low profile ECC ram. Of course, memory prices just had to spike right as I making the buy. I wanted to get 256GB of ram for this machine, but I'll be happy to start off with 128GB. I wanted at least four modules due to the quad channel controller.

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Here's 512GB of NVMe goodness. Meet the Samsung 960 Pro. It's my first drive of this form factor. I could have gone this route when I built the rig in my sig in January 2015. I just didn't feel that they were there yet. There's no question that Samsung has taken consumer SSDs to the next level.

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And lastly, I upgraded my crappy GTX 970 to the behemoth GTX 1080 Ti. Haven't run any benchmarks yet. Probably later tonight.

I have never owned a halo video card before. I waited patiently to give AMD a chance to see what they could do. They just aren't in the place I wanted in my quest to move to 4K.

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This thing is YUGE! It's the size of a license plate.
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It takes two 8-pin power connectors to power the sucker.
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Here are the GTX 970 and GTX 1080 Ti side by side.
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Finally, here is the GTX 1080 Ti installed into my main rig.
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Nice! I'm kinda due for a new video card myself in my gaming machine. Unreal Tournament stutters at times. Though it's still in alpha so it could easily be game related glitchyness.

I ended up pulling the add on card from my main linux machine, for some reason that particular machine does not like add on video cards and it causes the POST to go all weird. I originally put it in there for triple monitor but went back to single until I can figure out a better work environment so that windows, dialogs, menus etc don't open all over the place, super annoying.
 
That's kinda what I'm debating myself, stick with single monitor, but go 4k. I'm probably going to look at like a 32" one around Christmas time when stuff goes on sale. I was sorta eyeing it last Christmas then decided to just wait.

I still need to decide about my gaming computer though, if I go 4k it means I need to buy a 4k KVM switch that supports USB. Good freaking luck with that, it's hard to find a KVM that supports USB, period, 90% of them are PS/2. So I might just move the gaming computer to the TV so I don't even have to worry about a KVM switch anymore.
 
Red Squirrel said:
That's kinda what I'm debating myself, stick with single monitor, but go 4k. I'm probably going to look at like a 32" one around Christmas time when stuff goes on sale. I was sorta eyeing it last Christmas then decided to just wait.

I still need to decide about my gaming computer though, if I go 4k it means I need to buy a 4k KVM switch that supports USB. Good freaking luck with that, it's hard to find a KVM that supports USB, period, 90% of them are PS/2. So I might just move the gaming computer to the TV so I don't even have to worry about a KVM switch anymore.
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Oh, there are 4K KVMs. They're just freakin' expensive. Most KVMs are USB today.
 
bigboxes said:
Oh, there are 4K KVMs. They're just freakin' expensive. Most KVMs are USB today.
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Yeah I'm sure they're out there just hard to find, and yeah expensive. When I search for KVMs on sites like NCIX etc all I see is PS/2 ones with the oddball USB/DVI. It's actually quite annoying that PS/2 still dominates for KVMs. Most KVMs are also flaky as hell, including the one I have. If you switch too fast between the machines or look at it funny then it glitches.

When I learn more about electronics I want to design a KVM that emulates a mouse and keyboard and monitor so that the computers think they always have peripherals hooked up. It would just generate/display the signal to whichever one is chosen. In theory it would mean instant switching.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Yeah I'm sure they're out there just hard to find, and yeah expensive. When I search for KVMs on sites like NCIX etc all I see is PS/2 ones with the oddball USB/DVI. It's actually quite annoying that PS/2 still dominates for KVMs. Most KVMs are also flaky as hell, including the one I have. If you switch too fast between the machines or look at it funny then it glitches.

When I learn more about electronics I want to design a KVM that emulates a mouse and keyboard and monitor so that the computers think they always have peripherals hooked up. It would just generate/display the signal to whichever one is chosen. In theory it would mean instant switching.
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They make such a device. In my sig, the ConnectPro. Incredible build. Unfortunately, they do not offer a 4k model. It's frustrating that they don't have one. I wrote them a couple of years ago and they swore they had one coming out any day. WRONG.
 
Just ordered the Dell U3818DW. It's not "4K", but at 37.5" and 3840 x 1600 it will do just fine. 😀 It's supposed to be able to act as a KVM. I will see how it works before deciding if I need a dedicated KVM.
 
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