Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-13 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:49:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 12 April 2024 16:39:12 BST Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 12 April 2024 16:05:46 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Friday, 12 April 2024 14:35:02 BST Michael wrote: > > > > There are GUI front-ends for the above to suit

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 13/04/2024 14:23, Dale wrote: >> I see lots of mobos with those little hard drives on a stick.  I think >> they called NVME or something, may have spelling wrong.  For most >> people, that is likely awesome.  For me, I think I'd be happy with a >> regular SSD.  Given that,

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Wols Lists
On 13/04/2024 14:23, Dale wrote: I see lots of mobos with those little hard drives on a stick.  I think they called NVME or something, may have spelling wrong.  For most people, that is likely awesome.  For me, I think I'd be happy with a regular SSD.  Given that, I'd like them to make a mobo

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 12 April 2024 16:39:12 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 12 April 2024 16:05:46 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 12 April 2024 14:35:02 BST Michael wrote: > > > There are GUI front-ends for the above to suit various desktop and user > > > preferences, some more polished than

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:20 AM Dale wrote: >> Right now, I have a three drive setup in a removable cage for the NAS >> box. > If you only need three drives I'm sure you can find cheap used > hardware that will handle that. Odds are it will use way less power > and perform

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:11 AM Dale wrote: >> My biggest thing right now, finding a mobo with plenty of PCIe slots. >> They put all this new stuff, wifi and such, but remove things I do need, >> PCIe slots. > PCIe and memory capacity seem to have become the way the >

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:20 AM Dale wrote: > > Right now, I have a three drive setup in a removable cage for the NAS > box. If you only need three drives I'm sure you can find cheap used hardware that will handle that. Odds are it will use way less power and perform better than whatever you're

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:11 AM Dale wrote: > > My biggest thing right now, finding a mobo with plenty of PCIe slots. > They put all this new stuff, wifi and such, but remove things I do need, > PCIe slots. PCIe and memory capacity seem to have become the way the server/workstation and consumer

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 3:58 AM Dale wrote: >> Given the FX-6300 has a higher clocks speed, 3.8GHz versus 3.2GHz for >> the Phenom, I'd think the FX would be a upgrade, quite a good one at >> that. More L2 cache too. Both are 6 cores according to what I found. >> Anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 13 April 2024 12:12:04 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:58:50 BST Dale wrote: Howdy, As most likely know, I have a older box I use for backups. The hard drives are encrypted which likes the CPU to have AES

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 3:58 AM Dale wrote: > > Given the FX-6300 has a higher clocks speed, 3.8GHz versus 3.2GHz for > the Phenom, I'd think the FX would be a upgrade, quite a good one at > that. More L2 cache too. Both are 6 cores according to what I found. > Anyone know something I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 13 April 2024 12:12:04 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:58:50 BST Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> As most likely know, I have a older box I use for backups. The hard > >> drives are encrypted which likes the CPU to have AES support. The > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:58:50 BST Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> As most likely know, I have a older box I use for backups. The hard >> drives are encrypted which likes the CPU to have AES support. The >> Phenom CPUs don't seam to support AES from what I've seen. The specs

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 13 April 2024 08:58:50 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As most likely know, I have a older box I use for backups. The hard > drives are encrypted which likes the CPU to have AES support. The > Phenom CPUs don't seam to support AES from what I've seen. The specs > for the mobo says

[gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-13 Thread Dale
Howdy, As most likely know, I have a older box I use for backups.  The hard drives are encrypted which likes the CPU to have AES support.  The Phenom CPUs don't seam to support AES from what I've seen.  The specs for the mobo says the mobo does support the FX-6300 CPU tho which has AES support.