[12:12] <cmaloney> morning
[14:35] <Scary_Guy> Hey
[14:59] <cmaloney> How's the day so far?
[15:34] <Scary_Guy> Slow and hot, but better than it has been.
[15:35] <cmaloney> nice
[15:36] <Scary_Guy> Getting parts for a system upgrade, finally.  Almost 1K for the cheapest Threadripper system with 32GB of ECC DDR4 I could piece together on pcpartpicker.com
[15:36] <jrwren> Good morning.
[15:36] <jrwren> sounds fast as hell.
[15:36] <cmaloney> Sounds like a nice machine and a good price
[15:36] <Scary_Guy> That's not including the storage, PSU, or GPU.
[15:36] <cmaloney> Still though
[15:37] <cmaloney> ECC isn't cheap
[15:38] <Scary_Guy> https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Scary_Guy/saved/#view=kzXFZL There's a parts list
[15:41] <cmaloney> That's nice that they allow you to share those lists
[15:41] <cmaloney> Surprised the mobo is the most expensive part.
[15:42] <cmaloney> https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/#sort=-price&page=1
[15:43] <Scary_Guy> Yeah, I'm not exactly thrilled over it.  But it wasd the cheaper of the two, the other being the microATX version, and the only two with prices listed on them out of the 10 or show it showed me.
[15:44] <Scary_Guy> ASRock used to have a bad reputation but I tried another board I pulled out of a half proprietary machine (case was custom but the board was open arch.)
[15:45] <Scary_Guy> Was using it for a while as a media center but I had a friend with a slow macine that he wanted help with.  I just upgraded him for free since I got it for free from a mutual friend anyway.
[15:46] <cmaloney> I'm surprised that the Sabretooth board that I have has a R2.0 and looks almost identical to the board that I bought in 2012
[15:46] <Scary_Guy> I helped her pick out a new Dell from MicroCenter, so everyone is happy.
[15:46] <cmaloney> https://pcpartpicker.com/product/xz4gXL/asus-motherboard-sabertooth990fxr20
[15:47] <Scary_Guy> That looks very similar to my current board, also ASUS.  Love their boards.
[15:47] <cmaloney> Same
[15:49] <Scary_Guy> https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-M5A99FX-PRO-R2-0-Motherboard/dp/B008B6ONXK My current board
[15:49] <cmaloney> I mean, I have a AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor in this thing
[15:50] <Scary_Guy> AMD FX-4100 (4) @ 3.6GHz here, so it's quite dated.
[15:51] <Scary_Guy> The board/chip came from a friend who upgraded.  The USB is starting to fail and every so often I get kind of a freeze/stutter of usually two or three in a row.
[15:51] <Scary_Guy> But it half supports my NVMe cards, which the old board does not.
[15:51] <cmaloney> Surprised this processor is still commanding some $$
[15:52] <Scary_Guy> Well inflation isn't helping any.
[15:52] <cmaloney> not major $$, but still...
[15:52] <cmaloney> https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16819113106?Description=8%20core%20processor&cm_re=8_core%20processor-_-19-113-106-_-Product&quicklink=true
[15:54] <Scary_Guy> Oh nice, the link got cut off because of length and it still figured out the product I wanted to see LIKE ANY SANE WEBSITE SHOULD!
[15:57] <Scary_Guy> I gottta say I do like the colors on your board better.  Tasteful like those Noctua fans.  Not gaming RGB crap like you see everywhere else.
[15:57] <Scary_Guy> I'm hoping that my new board I can shut that off in settings, but if not my case is an opaque rackmount anyway so I care very little.
[16:00] <Scary_Guy> https://www.motherboarddb.com/motherboards/1245/Sabertooth/ Websites I never knew I needed in my life.  Now if someone could just bring back chipgeek.com I'd be happy.
[16:01] <Scary_Guy> What is that small connector to the left of the ethernet port?
[16:20] <cmaloney> yeah, I wish that LEDs were useful on a board and not "I SHIT UNICORN RAINBOWS WHILE FRAGGING"
[16:21] <cmaloney> I think that's TOSLINK
[16:21] <cmaloney> I know I have my computer optically connected to my amplifier
[16:21] <cmaloney> No, wait. That's over by the keyboard connector
[16:22] <cmaloney> BIOS Reset switch?
[16:24] <cmaloney> BIOS_FLBK
[16:25] <cmaloney> It's for updating via USB. BIOS Flashback.
[16:31] <Scary_Guy> Interesting, so more of a button thing.  I have that but it's an external switch connected to a jumper.
[16:31] <Scary_Guy> Though it's not flashback, it's basically a hotkey to just boot directly into BIOS.
[16:31] <Scary_Guy> There may be another jumper for tha though, IDK.
[16:32] <Scary_Guy> At least most of the LEDs on my board actually do something, I see them blink on and off while booting pre-POST.
[16:38] <Scary_Guy> https://www.cpu-world.com looks kind of like chipgeek.com did, and the information is just as outdated!  But at least this site is still up.
[19:13] <jrwren> i'm starting to hate distros: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1980007