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They have a 28/32 port 10G L3 switch for $900. It's SFP+ so it would require some adapters that the Netgear unit does not. It does have the benefit that it could be managed via the same interface as the Ubiquiti router and AP though. Having to learn one less UI is one less headache to have to...

Even used on eBay, that's double the price of the Ubiquiti switch. I'm also replacing my Synology RT6600ax with a UDM Pro Max as part of this upgrade. Synology's choice to cripple their router by giving it only a single port above 1Gbps is what inspired the full home network update.

Placed an order with Ubiquti to revamp my LAN and expand the 10G capacity. It turns out that Ubiquiti is yet another company that canceled all of their human-based support and has removed all routes that would have enabled customers to reach live support. So I'm already regretting this...

Is this news? There's a 6 month lead time on capacity that is typically purchased 18-36mos in advance? Is water still wet?

Do Macs no longer support Target Disk Mode?

Looking to buy a 3060 12GB or RTX 2000 Ada with strong preference for a card with a block on it. Any brand except for Gigabyte. Needs to be one of these two models specifically as I need it to hit an obscure and narrow performance target without messing with the clocks too badly. Willing to...

I think Nvidia's 12th biggest customer places single orders that are bigger than AMD's entire data center business. So no RDNA 4 this year. Got it. This is the situation AMD is in. The same supply constraints that are holding back MI300 sales are also the only reason the MI300 sells in the...

It costs Dell $2 and yet nobody is upset that Dell doesn't give RAM away for free. Go figure.

What you describe here is exactly why I still haven't gotten around to buying a PC laptop with a strong Nvidia GPU in it. That GPU would be great for my work, but it takes $5k to get the spec that I would use. The $5k pays for a really nice mobile GPU while the rest of the machine remains...

A single driver crash does not mean a system is unstable. It's a game being played on gamer-grade hardware. This practice was stopped a decade ago because of the rampant cheating that it encouraged. Tournament after tournament was being won by teams utilizing various hacks, cheats, and...

Games crash sometimes. News at 11.

This is true when people actually care about quality. I'm not sure that's the case any more. Giving literally zero support has become normalized. 10% DOA rates are also becoming normalized. Expecting a product to actually work when brand new AND for it to be replaced if it doesn't is very...

That's actually the same unit that I had fail on me, the AX1600i. The bootstrap circuit died, so it couldn't power on after it had been turned off. It's actually a pretty decent PSU. It is efficient and it is a full 20mm shorter length than the 1600W EVGA units. The difference means basically...

This is especially true when you consider that 90% of top tier PSUs are little more than whitelabeled selections from one of the two actual PSU manufacturers. It's not like EVGA and Corsair actually do any design work on their PSUs beyond the logo stickers and fancy boxes. This is actually a...

Ah, good to know about GPE. I have seen mixed reports about the registry key. Apparently Copilot will load right up as soon as the user, the OS, or an app loads up Edge even with the registry key set. This is the same thing that happens when you hide the task bar icon. A bunch of different...