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 Been a busy time around here the last few days. I have been tweaking and adjusting the 3700x I put in my desktop. As I updated in the blog before I managed to get my DDR4-3000 to run DDR-3200 I didn't have to adjust the timing at all...just set it to 3200 and boom on its way.  Easy enough... Ok, So next I started to play with the new tool "ClockTuner for Ryzen 1.0r by 1usmus" I really hadn't thought much about overclocking this CPU but in the end I just couldn't help myself. So after a bit of playing with that letting it first run the "diagnostics" portion it came back and I had a "gold" cpu.... sweet lets see what that can do! Well again after some more playing I easily got it to run at an All-Core overclock of 4.425GHZ..... oh hell yeah! That is 800 MHZ above the stock clock. So far it has been perfectly stable and honestly it doesn't even run hot. I tried it as high as 4.475 and it seemed ok. I also tried it at 5.0 GHZ and that crashed

 Hadn't had much to update lately, but today I got a new CPU, I updated the BIOS to the newest version a couple weeks ago hopeful that even though my board is an X370 that it would play nice with a new Ryzen 3000 series... Yes, I know the 4000s are not far off, but I figure I probably will not upgrade again until the 5000s or whatever are out and need DDR5. My current CPU is a Ryzen 7 1700 and it has a Corsair H100i AIO cooler. It has always run basically stable at 3.6 GHZ vs the 3.0 default and for the most part, has done very well. The only complaint I have really had was that my DDR4-3000 never would run above 2800, but I had heard this was a common problem with either the X370 or the Gen 1 Ryzen. Honestly I tried to get it to run faster a couple times occasionally it would run for a short time at 2933 but then usually would crash. I couldn't even really get it to boot normally at 2800 until the newest F50d BIOS for my board came out (Gigabyte AX370-Gaming). So, my brother i

Automated Cluster setup script I wrote. I found that there were already scripts out there that did pieces of it, but none I found that ran the test parsed it and then continue to building it. It could probably be better and there are probably more "status codes" it could throw, but it has worked well enough for us so far. I won't post the whole thing as there is some stuff I would have to rip out for proprietary reasons, but at least the portion that looks at the report and continues. Logwrite is a custom function we use to write a log file. We are setting up AOA clusters with no shared storage so that is why we use the -nostorage during the cluster build. ###################################################################### #    Configure Cluster ###################################################################### LogWrite "Testing cluster configuration this will take a few minutes on $arrcomputers" -color white Test-Cluster -node $ArrComputers -Rep

I don't quite want to cough up the cash for a 10Gb switch yet, though I have been looking. What I did want to do though was keep an eye on 10Gb cards to do direct connects between my 2 ESX Hosts and FreeNas box. So after a reasonable amount of looking I found some NICs which are supported on both ESX 6.5 and on FreeNAS (more on this later) Solarflare 10Gb NICs at only 17 dollars each ****BINGO*** https://www.ebay.com/itm/SFN5322F-SOLARFLARE-2-PORT-10GB-s-PCI-E-2-0-x8-ETHERNET-ENTERPRISE-NIC-ADAPTER/223666120333?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 So I also ordered a couple Finisar SFPs at 10 dollars each to fill them out. I only had 2 Cisco 10Gb SFPs in a drawer, but I have used both at work in the past and never had an issue. Both of these seem to work fine in these cards. Now the problem...one of the 3 I ordered was bad. I am sure they will fix it, but it did cause me some headaches because I put both good ones in my ESX boxes loaded the VIB fil