heyyyyyy.

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

it also lets you unlock these specific MSRs that are completely undocumented and have no search hits besides some hackintosh person poking at them. no idea what they do or why there's a toggle

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

if you want this motherboard, it is unbelievably easy. it's on sale for 30€, including the Xeon CPU it needs: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008826220177.html

note that it is made to a price point and it is barebones: it has no USB3, for example. but on the flipside, you can split its PCIe x16 graphics port four ways and connect six PCIe Gen3 NVMe drives to it (plus some SATA)

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@jyn do you have 30 euro? it could be yours https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark/116143280563821829

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@kbm0 @azonenberg been for a while yeah! 3DXpoint is great

[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@whitequark I should start a conspiracy theory that spread spectrum clocking and memory scrambling are evil attempts to decrease your performance by intel, and use this board to "prove" it

[implr@social.hackerspace.pl]

@kbm0 @whitequark @azonenberg is it really still cheap? I've been a refurb enterprise flash enjoyer but all the usual places got the same price rise as the new market

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@whitequark Isn't the RAM worth more than the price of the bundle these days?

[leah@blahaj.social]

@david_chisnall @whitequark the (sold out) ram version adds 65€

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@david_chisnall a 2x8GB bundle cost me like 3 times the motherboard lol

[kbm0@mastodon.social]

@implr @whitequark @azonenberg Maybe not for much longer, given the way storage prices are going... I get the impression that there is a lot of it left over from back when Intel were pushing it for the desktop market.

[zwol@masto.hackers.town]

@whitequark @azonenberg ... you can still buy optane ??!?

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@niconiconi beautiful

[jameswidman@mastodon.social]

@whitequark i like the fact that when i google that, the search results contain a bunch of references, some manual entries, but apparently no explanations anywhere.

oxide was right to remove the bios root and branch

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

i found an explanation (or what passes for an explanation) for the PCIe Stop & Scream option

what the fuck does this mean? ask someone smarter than I am

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

please also enjoy this beautiful enumeration

• Smart Auto
• Auto
• Enabled
• Disabled
• Manual

i don't know where to begin. would "Enabled" or "Disabled" not imply "Manual"? what the fuck is the difference between "Auto" and "Smart Auto"??

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@whitequark fuck yeah american megatrends

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

why do they call it PCIe Stop & Scream when you enabled DS packet on DMI in with the EP bit set of out in their UT bit set

[jn@boopsnoot.de]

@whitequark i was going to ask "how" regarding the splitting, but the AliExpress search results for "pcie riser x4x4x4x4" speak for themselves

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@jn hell yeah baybee

[kc@mastodon.dragoncave.dev]

@whitequark this motherboard is a piece of modern art