One of my two workstations died.
Good news is that it was the old Broadwell-E 6950X machine rather than my new Ryzen 9 5950X machine and the worn out NVMe SSD is still going strong so I haven't lost time needing to set everything up again.
Still not a good situation right now.
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I'm going to need to prioritize building a replacement machine because it's important for both productivity and redundancy. I mirror the data from the one I'm using as the primary one to the other one to make sure I have another machine ready to go without restoring from backups.
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I'd appreciate additional donations via github.com/sponsors/thest to help cover this unexpected expense.
Planned on making a substantial investment in a Zen 3 Threadripper machine but that's still vaporware so I need to build something temporary that I can use in the meantime...
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PSU seems fine and is fairly new since I intended to use it in the next workstation.
I have an unused set of 4x 32GB DDR4 3600 thanks to Newegg screwing up a label resulting in Canada Post somehow losing it for 4 months. They found it and delivered it several months later...
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TRs are overpriced for what they offer. Wait for Zen 4 7950X it’s rummored to have 24c/48t with a huge IPC increase. Also I believe DDR5 will be a decent performance increase to your workloads. Expected in Q3.
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I need a replacement 2nd workstation ASAP to avoid a massive hit to my productivity. I can't be waiting for more potentially vaporware hardware. If AMD had released Zen 3 Threadripper on schedule, I'd already have had one of those a year ago and wouldn't be in this situation now.
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