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    Motherboard ODROID-H2 - Intel Gemini Lake J4105 SBC

    Ahh, yeah, missed that the first skimthrough, even thought I did a search for "mm". For the lazy: "The size of the board is about 110x110x43mm and weighs about 320 grams including heatsink, two DRAM modules, and M.2 NVMe SSD." The Up Squared seems pretty decent, although the Chinese NUCs seem...
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    Motherboard ODROID-H2 - Intel Gemini Lake J4105 SBC

    SBCs aren't a focus for SFFn, but this one has some cross-over appeal I think (especially w/ the big interesting in mini-STX and smaller x64 boards like the embedded Ryzen ones). First shipments in late November: - 2.3Ghz Quad-core processor J4105 (14nm) with 4MiB Cache - Dual-channel...
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    GPU Geforce 20 series (RTX) discussion thread (E: 2070 Review unbargo!)

    Straight from Nvidia earnings - they were expecting $100M in crypto-mining chip sales last quarter and ended up selling $18M (and expect $0 cryptomining revenue moving forward) - you can bet they’re sitting on a metric ton of unsold 10-series inventory. It’s all fine for Nvidia as w/o...
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    GPU Geforce 20 series (RTX) discussion thread (E: 2070 Review unbargo!)

    I'd look at it from the perspective that they really want to get RTX into the high-end viz space - the market for render farms, cloud based rendering etc is probably is a pretty huge chunk of new market that is primarily occupied by CPU rendering (until now Octane, Vray, Redshift were the only...
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    GPU Geforce 20 series (RTX) discussion thread (E: 2070 Review unbargo!)

    Asus has a regular length dual fan and a blower that looks a lot like a the reference Vega LEs: https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-strix-dual-and-turbo-series-pictured
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    Motherboard Sapphire 5x5 Ryzen embedded APU

    BTW, for those just looking for extra outputs, it looks like the Gigabyte B450 I will have 1 x DP 1.2 and 2 x HDMI 2.0 (w/ HDCP) outputs onboard. 3 x 4KP60 isn't too shabby.
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    Motherboard Sapphire 5x5 Ryzen embedded APU

    I think some of the performance difference will depend on how strict the BOLT's throttling actually is (I'd also be very surprised if they didn't let you tweak you memory timings), but GPU-wise, I'd expect performance to pretty much mirror 2200G vs 2400G performance. As far as CPU goes, on the...
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    Motherboard Sapphire 5x5 Ryzen embedded APU

    You'd think so, but I keep seeing people in various forums posting about how amazing it'd be if they could get their hands on one for some reason.
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    Motherboard Sapphire 5x5 Ryzen embedded APU

    Uh guys, you realize this is a 147.3mm x 139.7mm board, so not significantly smaller than a mini-ITX (170mm x 170mm) board for most purposes. Due to the I/O headers, you're also not going to get this below 35mm or so height w/o surgery (and you'll need VLP SODIMMs if you want to go below 30mm) -...
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    CPU Threadripper 2- Where's the bottlenecking?

    I think the big thing we're seeing is how terrible Windows' scheduler does w/ NUMA. TR2 presents as 4 NUMA nodes and Linux does what it should (working NUMA is actually great b/c you can have independent processes w/ less line contention/resource sharing). I think AMD does a little bit of...
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    Slim prebuilt dGPU (at least 1060)?

    Hades Canyon will probably be your smallest COTS system. The Kaby Lake G in the higher end model is probably closer to 1050Ti than 1060 performance but you're in the ballpark and it's 39mm thick (about 1.2L volume). It's loud and personally, I don't think the cooling is particularly better than...
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    On DIY Battery Powered DC UPS, for Portable SFF and Off Grid

    You may want to start a project log once you get started but I'm sure anything you find will be useful for people in the future so post away (no need to @ me though. :) Looks like a neat little board although you'll still want a BMS since that won't handle keeping your cells balanced.
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    Motherboard Sapphire 5x5 Ryzen embedded APU

    Funny enough, my eval boards just came in today. For those interested, here’s what the 1807 looks like w the default cooling attached. Once I get some calipers I might swap it for something lower profile (I have some of these 21mm units lying around): Actually busy rerolling BSPs for older...
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    On DIY Battery Powered DC UPS, for Portable SFF and Off Grid

    Do search for "upside" on this thread @jØrd :P
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    On DIY Battery Powered DC UPS, for Portable SFF and Off Grid

    If you are looking for an all-in-one internal board that does everything (balancing, voltage regulation on both sides, charge control, reporting, and Windows (and NUT) support) the $120 OpenUPS board looks like it'd do the job. I'm not seeing the, errr, upside of Upside in light of something...