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If this is accurate they're actually cheap too.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/prices-of-intel-skylake-processors-for-desktops-revealed/

In other news, my new case, cooler, and mobo arrived while I was out at lunch. Sigh.

After reading an Article on Anandtech about how many modern mobos have a feature called "Multicore Enhancement", which works on non-K processors and is tantamount to shutting off turbo boost and having all cores of your CPU run at maximum turbo speed ( in my 1240 v2's case, all would run at 3.8 Ghz instead of 3.4 ), I thought "hey, why not" and as I migrated my CPU and RAM to a new motherboard that claims to support it, I chose a water cooler ( for a few other reasons too, to become familiar with them, to make my build look a bit sexier - transparent case, and to support the excess heat from enabling all 8 threads at 3.8 Ghz ).

But, now that it's all set up and working, I cannot find a feature called that anywhere in the BIOS. There are a ton of OC settings, none of which are obviously it. There are options to turn off Speed Step and Turbo, and it almost seems like turning off those two would be the same if the proc then ran at the higher speed, but I'd guess those'd make it run at the normal speed and never upscale.

Has anyone used multicore enhancement before? It is just not compatible w/ Xeons even though it's compatible w/ non-K i5 and i7s? Or is it just really hard to find?

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157304

Setting the fan levels to 2 instead of the default of 10 has completely remedied the noise without any observable impact on CPU or motherboard temps. I'll keep monitoring throughout the day. Problem solved. Thanks all.

My table-top AM06 is now louder than the 8t Xeon powering 3 1440ps across the desk from it. We'll see if that changes when the GTX 970 gets here in the next few hours.

The Xeon re-emerges victorious.

@nadnerB said:

OOOOH! Very interested to hear what you think of it
 
Nice to see you were clothed when taking the photo
That's a very large phone. What is that? A 6 Plus?

So far so good. Being able to run 3x 1440p screens, two in portrait, without a stutter and to connect them all to individual slots ( this card has 3 full sized display port jacks, and HDMI, and a dual-link DVI ) is magical and helps Windows hold onto my config. W/ the daisy chaining method I'd find it'd forget them and cost me configuration time a lot.

Currently looking for some cutting edge visual games to test out its gaming prowess.

Took that picture w/ an iPad actually haha. My iPhone 6 Plus's camera is broken.

@nadnerB

I will say, first impression is that it was noticeably quieter than the AMD it replaced, even completely silent under load while gaming, streaming a video from DishAnywhere, running a bunch of serverware in the background, an IDE, a text editor, Slack, IM, Spotify, and about 20 browser tabs.

I'm pretty impressed w/ the Xeon + GTX 970 setup so far.

@MattSpeller said:

@creayt http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-HX1000i-Performance-Supply-CP-9020074-NA/dp/B00M2UINT6/ref=sr_1_8?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1439931193&sr=1-8&keywords=corsair+power+supply

Dat platinum efficiency drool

She's heeeeeeeere.

@dafyre said:

Once you pass the $800 mark for a small gaming rig with no screen... Why not spend the extra couple or three hundred dollars to actually get a decent gaming laptop?

I've seen 2 ads today fro the ASUS ROG Gaming laptops (I have no experience with that model laptop, but I generally like the ASUS stuff)

The ROGs ( at least my 17" 2015 model ) are absolutely sick and amazing in most respects. But the keyboard and trackpad are pretty terrible.

If the majority of your use will be gaming, it's probably a great fit, but if you want to type type type you may end up taking your own life.

I don't know how hardcore of a GPU you need, but if a GTX 950 ( 4GB ded ) works, HP has some epic 17" machines that are <$1,000 w/ Win 10 and that come w/ that that have amazing touchpads and keyboards, in the process of trading my ROG in for one, because typing is important to me.

Hopefully you didn't click on this post because it's the gratuitous championing of Hewlett Packard hardware prices.

They sold me a computer for about $1800 ( and even that's only because I opted for 32 GB of DDR4, would've been a few hundo cheaper ) that out scores 99% of all other fools. This makes me feel warm and cozy inside. The end.

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes, no one is saying that it isn't motivating until you can afford the basics.

They pretty much are saying that, which is the point. $50,000, in all but the toughest neighborhoods ( like NYC ), can get you "the basics" provided you manage your money appropriately. It feels to me like some people here are arguing that "people will work harder for a little praise and artistic liberty at work than they will for an A5", which until someone proves me wrong, flies in the face of research, common sense, and the attitudes and opinions of most people I've talked to, in my industry at least. People work hard for money, which lets them do things they otherwise couldn't, and enjoy a level of security and comfort they otherwise couldn't. Whether their boss, coworkers, and peers tell them they're great at what they do and how wonderful their work is makes a lot of difference, and is great sure, but it's not as great as being able to have a beautiful 59 story home overlooking the beach and a helicopter in your backyard to take you to a far-off breakfast, or even better, to be able to retire at 40 ( a lot of programmers ) and have literally decades of extra free time to pursue your actual life passions.

@tonyshowoff said:

@creayt I don't disagree that it's faster to write, but from a syntax perspective the fact it doesn't stand out from HTML I don't consider an advantage. I also don't consider it an advantage that basically almost forces one into a position of not separating concerns. You can write more CF, but will it be better, faster, and more platform independent than my PHP? (Possibly faster than Ruby, depending on various things) Certainly not, and I'm also locked into Adobe's licensing schema as well, and I don't like that. In all though the syntax issue is a matter of preference, obviously, but I think my other concerns are founded.

Guessing you aren't familiar w/ cfScript, which is at the heart of ColdFusion. Though the tag language is appropriate and unparalleledly powerful for dynamic HTML generation and integration, the script equivalent is equally powerful and feature compatible.

So you can do

<loop query="q">
<!--- Dynamic html here --->
</loop>

to exploit the fluid, powerful integration with HTML.

But you can also do

function myUtil( arg1, arg2 ){
   return z;
}

It's not that dissimilar to Javascript, and can do everything PHP or Ruby does, with a syntax that lets people familiar w/ JS do powerful back end stuff with extraordinarily good performance out of the box. Not gonna lie, I love ColdFusion.

@PSX_Defector said:

SAS and SATA do things slightly differently. They are electrically compatible but in order to interact with each other on the same backplane they need to negotiate down to an equal speed. Sounds as though your controller only does it at SATAII on this.

From reading around the net it looks like all you need is an interposer to get the full speed. Did you mean Sata I? I thought Sata II was 3 Gb, I was 1.5, and III was 6?

If you gank out the SAS drives, does it go at the right speed then? If you mix, does the SAS drives report and get the right speed?

Unfortunately I don't have the option of experimenting with that now. The box has some RAID going on and runs 6 or 7 mission-critical VMs.

Best bet is to use another device if you want to have pure SATA SSDs. A small SAN would do the trick.
Not an option unfortunately.

Better question is, why didn't you get SAS SSDs?
For the 840 Pros in the R610 I just had them lying around and we ended up having two flexible drive slots. For the new R620 and the 6x 1TB 850 Pros... because I presumed that they would just work, and I'm guessing SAS SSDs to rival the 850 Pros @ 1TB would be a million dollars each. If not please flip me some links, I can still return the 850 Pros. From reading around the net it sounds like some of the issue may be the mixing and matching of SAS w/ SATA SSDs in the same controller, on the R620 I'll have the datacenter techs try pure SSD before we reincorporate 4 of the leftover SAS drives into the system in case that's the difference. Was hoping there was some way to find out pre-deployment of the drives short of investing 12 hours into phone calls w/ Dell in order to find someone that's miraculously both able to speak English intelligibly and who knows what they're talking about and could actually answer my question.

@tonyshowoff Also, as far as licensing, I'm guessing you haven't heard of Railo. It's the free, open-source ColdFusion.

http://www.getrailo.org/

@scottalanmiller said:

That's what convinced me to give one a try. It's not bad, but it's not good. Certainly not on par with Windows or Linux systems that I use for a fraction of the price. Last week I asked my office to replace mine with a $250 Chromebook as I'd be more productive. $5,000 isn't as useful as $250!!

It's so funny that you say that!!!!! I have an Acer Chromebook that was $160, and it blows the 15" Retina MacBook Pro away for web browsing. The scrolling and rendering performance is so much better that I almost made a video for YouTube. God it's such a relief to hear someone else say these things aloud.

@tonyshowoff said:

@scottalanmiller Me too, client side Java sucks. The first version of AOL AIM was coded in Java... Swing is so terrible.

Totally agree with you here. Any interface period w/ Java is just a nightmare . It's amazing as a serverware platform though, which is why 10,000 things all compile to Java now.

@dafyre said:

I doubt you are the only one. I find that the latest version of OS X (Yosemite?) and the one bfore it is basically unusable for me. Everything is just dirt slow (even on a 21" iMac from 2014). It adds extra characters to files when you access them over a windows share, and a host of other issues.

I have Said iMac sitting on my desk next to me... Running Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V, lol.

That's hilarious. I may not be the only one, but I'm the only developer out of 20 or so that I've talked to about it that notices it.

@tonyshowoff said:

Edit: WebStorm does node.js well, that's what we use it for.

Downloading it as we speak btw, I'm excited. Looks like I picked up my license back in 2012, I might need to re-up.

@scottalanmiller said:

I have you beat. My $150 Acer Chromebook that is years old is better than the just purchased MacBook Pro

This whole conversation is especially hilarious to me, because when I stumbled upon that SMB Journal site I was like "Sweet! Someone that's actually extremely good and passionate at their job and that has just schooled me on a handful of important RAID considerations" ( I read like 7 articles on it the first night ).

And then... when you had me join Mango, and I stumbled onto the "what's your desk like" thread... and saw that you worked off of just a MacBook Pro... my jaw hit the floor. And I was like "WTF?!?!, how is that possible?" Now I know the real story LOL.

@tonyshowoff said:

You can format code by doing five ~ before and after the text. Anyway, this isn't the worst thing I've ever seen, but again feels too XML-like for my taste, and in fact aside from return x, this whole thing is XML parse-able; though I imagine less strict XML engines would allow an argument without value.

That'll come in handy, thanks!