networking IOCREST M.2 PCIe Dual Port 2.5GBe NIC Review For those who that has too many M.2 slots but too few NICs? This M.2 2.5GbE NICcould be your savior.
minipc Asrock DeskMeet B660 Review: The Mac Mini Alternative? The Asrock DeskMeet B660 is a solid barebones system for the tinkerers.
server Intel N95 iGPU Transcoding Performance Review The N95 chip can perform admirably, particularly when it comes transcoding tasks.
server Ace Magician AD03 Review: A Solid Intel N95 CPU Mini PC I bought an Ace Magician AD03, but should you?
Intel Intel Arc A380 Review - Impressive, But Not In the Way You Think TL;DR: For media encoding/transcoding, this thing is a godsend, with some caveats. However, if you are just going after a smooth, seamless experience with your GPU, don’t buy this card, at least not yet.
My Test Bench for Intel Arc A380 Been kept busy tinkering with the Intel Arc A380. Reviews coming up soon.
gpu vGPU (SR-IOV) with Intel 12th Gen iGPU [Updated 2023] Virtualize Intel iGPU for multiple VMs for hardware accelerated graphics and media encode/decode.
amd [Update 10/11/2022] Afterthoughts on Zen 4 Reviews, and How to Make Sense of Them All The new Zen 4 CPUs don't make sense, here's why.
Nvidia Testing NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti, RTX 2060 12GB, and AMD RX 6600 for Cloud Gaming Build I tested the NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti, RTX 2060, and AMD RX 6600 for my cloud gaming setup, the real winner is actually surprising.
DIY AMD X670 Motherboard Line Up Preview With AMD Ryzen 7000 Series CPU launch right around the corner, I figured that I would look at the motherboard offerings. After flipping through different fancy product brochures, I failed to find a board that makes any sense. Yes, you heard that right - None of these new AMD motherboards
2.5gbe IOCREST Dual Port Realtek 8125B 2.5Gbe NIC Review Reviewing 2.5Gbe dual port NIC from IOCREST, and set it up in Proxmox for TrueNAS Scale and Unraid to get 2.5Gbe without driver support.
server “Upgrading” the HBA on My Energy-Efficient NAS with a M.2 PCIe HBA from IOCREST I bought an M.2 HBA, while it is awesome for me, it may not be for everyone. Click to find out more about this miraculous device that turns your unused M.2 slot into an 8-port SATA HBA.
networking Reviewing Plugable and Asustor 2.5Gbe Dongles on MacOS Monterey 12.5.1 Testing some USB-C 2.5Gbe Ethernet adpaters reveals a shocking truth.
networking Will PCIe 3.0 x4 10Gbe NIC Work in PCIe 3.0x1 Bandwidth? I tested PCIe 3.0 x4 10Gbe NIC in a PCIe 3.0 x1 slot, and here's my thoughts and results.
networking Featured How to Setup Brocade L3 Switch to Work with PfSense Router In this post, I detailed how to setup PfSense to work with Brocade ICX 6610 L3 switch that has routing capabilities far exceed normal consumer routers.
nas Featured [Updated 09/2022] My New Energy-Efficient NAS to Replace the Dell R730xd How I picked the hardware to assemble my new NAS to replace the power-hungry Dell R730xd server.
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