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Every time I search for rackmount or 3D printed cases I'm floored by the prices, which seem completely out of proportion.
Any tips on cheep/custom computer cases are highly appreciated. Thanks
Once you get to this size and price, there’s no point in using a Pi…there are much more powerful options available.
I guess it makes sense as a development board: if you are building a product around a Pi Compute Module you can use this board for quick prototyping before building your own product-specific board. But any hobbyist looking at this should seriously consider the various Pi alternatives around the $200 mark first. Or just buy a used PC.
And miss out on doing my part in destroying the environment? I don't think so, bud!
I buy new everything. New phone, new computer, new car, new shoes every year. You think I reside in a developed country to live like some African? Bruh.
If you don't throw out your whole PC whenever it slows down due to dust accumulated on the heatsinks, you should go live in rural China.
I pay lip service to the "green" shit by buying electric cars and LEDs... Ford trucks and 50W lamps, that is.
I keep my windows open in winter because I have a damn efficient heat pump, too. My fridge has no doors.
Don't be a Midlands faggot, live like a king.
Please forgive my lack of familiarity with PCI express hardware, but I have a question: All those PCI express devices are all sharing the single v2 lane? Is the PCI express bus a network?
All I/O is a network these days. * USB is a network. * PCIe is a network. * SATA is a network. * Infinity Fabric / Hypertransport (AMD socket-to-socket communications) is a network. * UltraPath Interconnect (Intel socket-to-socket communications) is a network. ----------- People think their internet connection is Layer4 (TCP) -> Layer3 (IP) -> Layer2 (Ethernet) -> Layer1 (Wires), but that's wrong. Its really Layer4 (…
-- Alan Kay maybe
btw, slight sidestep HDMI CEC is also a bus/network, and even SCART was too.
I have no experience building PCs, but during the last decade or so I've been running RPis with 6-8 disks attached. It's great software and noise wise, but the cases were made by me with MDF (and I have no idea what I'm doing), so it's not as solid as I'd like them to be. Every time I search for rackmount or 3D printed cases I'm floored by the prices, which seem completely out of proportion. Any tips on cheep/custom…
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How many networking cards? I know we tend to think of internal buses as infinitely-fast, but a single PCIe 2.x lane is saturated at 500MB/s, which begins to look a little skinny once we're considering 10GE or even Wifi 6.
A single NVMe drive will saturate that.
We're like one or two hardware generations away from having a VME backplane like environment where we'll be able to do some truly nifty and nasty things, at home and hobby levels. The politics of getting a standard out that isn't owned by (and therefore twisted to favor) a couple of big companies is challenging, but it's happened before, right? (crickets)
VME?
We're like one or two hardware generations away from having a VME backplane like environment where we'll be able to do some truly nifty and nasty things, at home and hobby levels. The politics of getting a standard out that isn't owned by (and therefore twisted to favor) a couple of big companies is challenging, but it's happened before, right? (crickets)
VME?
Imagine something like ISA but 32 bits wide, with a GPIB-like arbitration scheme. On a backplane that you plug CPU cards and peripheral cards into.
Please forgive my lack of familiarity with PCI express hardware, but I have a question: All those PCI express devices are all sharing the single v2 lane? Is the PCI express bus a network?
Basically, it’s like USB (as @dragontamer said). Just as you can turn a single USB port into 7 more downstream ports through a USB switch, you can do the same with a PCIe switch.
I have no experience building PCs, but during the last decade or so I've been running RPis with 6-8 disks attached. It's great software and noise wise, but the cases were made by me with MDF (and I have no idea what I'm doing), so it's not as solid as I'd like them to be. Every time I search for rackmount or 3D printed cases I'm floored by the prices, which seem completely out of proportion. Any tips on cheep/custom…
Things that are on my wishlist: - Compute-Module should have a unified interface, that is not about to change for the next 3 generations of compute modules - Someone create a "notebook" case having a board with mount for exactly this interface - Case should have a decent keyboard and display without being to big - How about having GPIO pins hidden I would love to have an "upgradable" Notebook with arm architecture...
I'm afraid that RPi level of performance in a laptop is going to be underwhelming, though still interesting for many cases.
If there was a widely accepted standard for laptop main boards, like there is for desktop and server boards, that would be wonderful. I don't expect it to ever happen though.