geerlingguy

This particular fan is a high quality / high CFM fan meant for servers and industrial gear.

Usually these boxes are at remote sites or in already-loud test racks, so the noise isn't a concern.

The Noctua is rated for lower CFM, so if you are already at a slim margin for thermals, switching to a quieter fan is not necessarily a good idea.

I do wish more manufacturers would go to 60 or 80mm fans instead of the 40mm ones common in this gear. Power supplies especially!

Used, AFAICT. New is a bit more.

The best way is to measure temps before (ideally over at least 1-2 hours), then to measure temps the same amount of time after and compare.

In the case of this Rb oscillator, it is temperature sensitive, but also built for pretty extreme environments.

I'm not too worried about this particular application, because the clock will be in an air conditioned environment, and I'm monitoring the clock accuracy to +/- 2ns from another GPSDO / rubidium clock. The performance before and after the fan swap is within my measurement noise for 24H, though I haven't done 30+ day measurements and ADEV comparison. Still working on a consistent test setup.

I don't even think they're driving hype, they just have a problem common in the hardware world, they are far too optimistic in their shipping timeline.

Versus a company like Bambu who seems to ramp up production now, in advance of selling the product.

> Formlabs will happily upsell the "Form Wash" for this for another 699

(A separate aside, since the main ones were addressed: Formlabs also launched a new "Wash+Cure" station that does wash and cure for $199, instead of their standalone (but better, of course) units that cost something like $1000 together.)

You need to buy a tank anyway, which is $50 or so — that works with their new Alpha resins. The slightly more expensive tank is necessary only for their engineering-grade resins (only a couple are certified for the Studio 1 so far) and 'OMM' (Open Material Mode), which as mentioned above, comes out of the box on the Studio 1.

(Not replying to you directly, but generally to this thread)

Scrappy builds aren't "affordable" but are more so than running Nvidia + optimized builds. You could put together a machine for $5000 or less that competes with frontier models from less than a year ago, albeit a little slower.

And cards like the $1600 (sheesh) R9700 have actually gotten more capable through community efforts at optimization, since their launch.

I think if the bubble can ever deflate/pop, and GPUs and RAM back off a bit, we'll see the dam burst for local AI.

Right now it's only accessible to people who can justify the costs.

Once you do get measurement down to nanoseconds, you quickly realize how 'bad' so many clocks you thought were good actually are. Lots of GPS modules with massive sawtooth behavior. Over a day they may be within tens of ns. But over a minute, a lot worse!

Even some smaller vulnerabilities are spread through hosting companies pretty quickly within a day or two prior to public release, to give teams time to make sure staff will be ready to patch immediately.

The wider the pre-release news spreads, the more chance you get someone who will spill the beans (intentionally or not).

One pattern of AI-assisted writing I hate is that technical articles now read as Atlantic journalistic tech-noir stories, which require scrolling through 20+ pages of content to get to the meat of a post.