I can indeed confirm that first time plugging in both the Mac Mini and the XPS (and subsequently the OptiPlex), I did get the USB cables wrong initially. But I did try all combinations between scenes... and also ESXi should have had an HDMI output as it doesn't ever turn the screen off.

This is indeed the key take away from the video. Good work.

I like to carefully select the background of the scene so I know it will stay SFW! That's some randomer from the 'Just Chatting' stream category on Twitch. Not sure my Nest camera in the first scene is always guaranteed safe though.

Thank you for the comments. These recommendations will be useful. Worth noting now is that I've since swapped out the NVMe card for an RTX A4000, which has a TDP rating of 140W, and so the extra headroom, by pure luck, might have been worth having.

Thank you for the comment. I wasn't actually aware of that until you said. Now I've read up on it, I see what you mean; it's an absolute mess.

Heck yes. And one person's banal is another's bedazzlement.

My good pal Stephen and I are both British, but unlike him, I wasn't born in Hampstead. Also, it's surprising you watched this video and didn't mention how at 16:35 we see a mana beast.

We've gone past a year and a half without a reboot at this point, and not a single sign of a problem. Mine, at least, seems durable. But always remember that the Chinese X99 boards can be a bit of a reliability lottery at times.

Probably about 7 years that I have been using this now. No side effects to speak of, and blood sugar has mostly been okay throughout the years. I think I'm fully accustomed now to the hunger-suppressing element.

Well, consider yourself blessed. I used Bydureon and it completely changed me before I realized. Terrible skin issues, severe emotional issues and depression, lethargy, and weight GAIN. It also reactivated my Rheumatoid Arthritis that had been in remission for 7 years. A "hammer" hit my head and I investigated these drugs further. The active ingredient in Bydureon is Exenatide which is Gila monster VENOM. These injections contain "biological organisms" and nobody researches or asks what they are. It is a dangerous line to walk. I reversed both my diabetes and RA by going on a low carb diet and I feel alive again. No longer paralyzed 🐍⚕️ Big Pharma concoctions. They demonized metformin and rolled in all of these injectables for a reason....

I wrote out a reply and it was quickly removed. All I guess i can say is for people to research these concoctions. I was on Bydureon and it's main ingredient is extenatide which is Gila monster VENOM. These injectables contain "biological organisms" and nobody questions what they are. It is a thin line to walk. ☣️

@andrewsturmey I've written my response twice and it keeps disappearing. All I can say is that people need to research the ingredients in these concoctions.... YOURSELVES! They contain "biological organisms" what are they? Don't be destroyed by a lack of knowledge and "trusting" science.

My reply repeatedly being removed tells me all I need to know. 🐍⚕️🐍

A word of warning, though; dual-processor operation does bring high memory access latency cross-socket. While software that is aware of this can handle it cleverly, that does not generally include games. Games often run worse with a second processor.

Does the filth count as 'lived in' if that's the first time that corner of the room has been uncovered from the things piled up in front of it in 4 years?

@@andrewsturmey it looks like more than lived in, you could do well investing in a vacuum cleaner!

Indeed most people probably would have taken the time to run the vacuum around the area prior to putting it out there for a thousand people to watch. I'm sorry I failed to have regard for the unpleasantness of the visage, and the revulsion it might cause to others.

I'm pleased to say that despite the rain of the last couple of days, the Zigbee sensor is showing acceptable levels of humidity from inside the box. I think the small but warming wattage being consumed by the three items in there is helping.

Perhaps it's time we cloned Phyllis from the material.

I did probably have the volume a bit high for something that's supposed to be background. Especially given the percussiveness and repetitively of the track in question.

At current time of writing, the original bundle listing no longer exists. But the AliExpress store I bought from can at www.aliexpress.com/store/912059400 be found, and they do have standalone Machinist X99 D8 MAX listings.

Is the wood sustainably sourced?

You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

And, what orientation should one use when deploying in the Southern Hemisphere?

I could really eat a Kendal Mint Cake right now. It's been too long.

Whatever happened to Quenchers?

The original "Get It From Source" source relates to a small coppice on the map I had in the game Autonauts during my first playthrough. Sometimes you cannot wait for automata to do their job, and you have to get it from source yourself.

The era of Xeon E5v4 is not a good choice for low power use. Any of the 16+ core chips were ≥120W, and so that's already a bad starting point for a dual CPU machine running 100% load 24×7. Pair that with the fact these Chinese X99 boards generally implement poor power management, and you're going to see a better value return on your power very quickly with a more modern machine.

@@andrewsturmey Agreed and certainly not with a Milliband on the scene. He alone doubled the price of a kWh in a week. Great fun building and experimenting though.

Let's be honest, this isn't a sensible build. Going with an infinity mirror front panel instead of a mesh is definitely not a choice of practicality. The front fans pull in a small but adequate amount of air via the tiny side grille space on the front panel, but more importantly they give home to blue LEDs! I can confirm both onboard NVMe slots are full direct-to-CPU x4 PCIe lanes, which is nice. And I guess with a full four x16 slots of the same, you could in principle go with 18 total NVMe drives in a NAS. But yes, if you don't want an all-flash NAS, because you want higher capacities or lower cost-per-GB, front bay disks would work better. I can confirm indeed that virtualisation is an excellent use-case on this box. I cannot fault it, 20 months later; very reliable and pretty good performance.

Notable. Although I've been playing Civ games since the early nineties, I never really got into multiplayer much. I have occasionally had embarrassing moments where I've used Cheat Engine in small indie single-player games, only to discover later that they have scoreboards, which I'm now at the top of by orders of magnitude.

Lol ya i didn't think it was you. He was using a method to get more goodie huts and locate city states faster in the early game which gave him a big advantage. How was civ in the 90s? Fun?

I think the experience of Civ 1 can be summarised in one very familiar phrase... "Just one more turn"

I didn't have any CityFibre services prior to getting Yayzi; my other BT connection is VDSL based. Based on what I was offered, then I assume this postcode area is non-XGS and limited to ≤2Gb/s services. My assumption is that they wouldn't entrust your average person with swapping out something they screw to the wall and that has a dust-sensitive connector, but don't know for sure. I still haven't opened the parcel the router came in!

I have plugged in both EPS power connectors, but I can confirm it's not electrically necessary, if the PSU can deliver enough current on a single connector. I'd suggest both, if you have enough PSU connectors and cables.

You appear to have beaten both regulation and unlimited responses. Come to Zombieland immediately. As someone who operates a fuchsaw when doused with hard adult beverages these days, I would say it is worth a receive, but not an imbibe.

On the topic of stability, then all of my three builds; being the Jiahuayu, the Machinist, and the Huananzhi; have been extremely good. One runs ESXi with a mix of BSD, Linux, and Windows VMs, including one TrueNAS VM with PCIe-passthrough of 6 NVMe. One of the other two has been used for heavy FFmpeg transcode work, and the other a daily-use remote Windows desktop for software development. All very stable, and in line with the performance expectations of that era's Xeons. However... idle power draw is not as good a story. They all run a bit hungry, seemingly not implementing much by way of power state management. I think over the long term, ongoing electricity costs might make these Chinese boards less compelling.

Almost all was new. The motherboard bundle, although coming with a brand new board, did use refurbished processors and memory.

@@andrewsturmey Right, get that. Thanks for sharing.

The case is a GameMax Abyss. I think any EATX form-factor case would be fine, just depends if you care about aesthetics or cooling performance more. This one isn't exceptional for cooling, but plenty for me in the environment I have it, with plentiful case fans.