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Cloud Gaming: Overwatch: Your rendering device has been lost!

Posted on December 4, 2023December 5, 2023

The problem isn’t with VMware Horizon; it’s actually with the Overwatch game and Nvidia GPU drivers. I solved the issue by disabling the Image Sharpening setting in the Nvidia Control Panel.

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Cloud Gaming: MSI Afterburner causes FPS to drop 5 and GPU usages to around 30%

Posted on December 4, 2023December 4, 2023

I decided to try MSI Afterburner and played around with it. I didn’t see any improvement and think using MSI Afterburner is pointless. I noticed that while playing Horizon Zero Dawn, the FPS and GPU usage dropped. At first, I didn’t know why, but after many tests, it was clear that MSI Afterburner was causing…

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Cloud Gaming: Cooling Nvidia Tesla K80

Posted on December 4, 2023July 22, 2024

They finally arrived. I tested them in every way possible. But honestly, they don’t work well with quiet fans and are mostly a waste of money. The best cooling method was removing the cover from the Nvidia K80 and attaching fans directly to it. Cloud Gaming: What’s it like playing the most graphically demanding games…

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Tinkering with Nvidia Tesla K80 + VMware Horizon

Posted on December 4, 2023July 22, 2024

I always wanted to give a try on Data Center GPU and now is the time to get the experience. Luckily, I found a very low price and I negotiated even little bit more down the price. I was very skeptical maybe the GPU could be broken or something wrong, because comparing with other seller…

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macOS Horizon Client is stuck on PCoIP and you cannot change back to BLAST.

Posted on December 4, 2023July 22, 2024

I was trying out a PCoIP connection, but it didn’t work out well. I ended up with a black screen. What’s strange is that after switching from PCoIP, I can’t switch back to Blast. Also, there’s a noticeable difference between the Apple and Windows Horizon clients. With Windows, you can easily change it by right-clicking…

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When was the last time you cleared the dust from your Home Lab?

Posted on December 4, 2023December 4, 2023

When was the last time you cleared the dust from your Home Lab? I’ve been eagerly anticipating the arrival of my DDR4 RAM, and at the same time, I decided it was a perfect opportunity to give my servers a good cleaning. My cases, the Be Quiet Pure Base 500 and Lian Li LANCOOL II…

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Home Lab 2023: A Snapshot of its Current State

Posted on December 3, 2023April 14, 2026

Servers: TOTAL:CPU 84 Core/ 168 + 16 CoreRAM 1.5 TB + 128 GBNVMe 89.44 TBSSD 4.4 TBHDD 4.5 TBNetwork 100 GbE + 10 GbE ESX-1 CPU   Intel Xeon Platinum 8176 28C 56T LGA3647 Skylake 165W CPU Cooler   Noctua NH-D9 DX-3647 4UMotherboard   SuperMicro X11SPi-TFNetwork NIC 2x RJ45 10GBase-T portsNetwork NIC 1x RJ45 1GBase-T ports RAM…

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Another Significant Achievement: My Home Lab Just Got 1.5 TB RAM! 832GB Just Arrived!

Posted on December 3, 2023December 3, 2023

NB: It arrived in July, and I wrote about it then, but I only made the post publicly available now. I’ve been looking forward to this since I started my Home Lab. I wanted to put as much RAM as possible in each ESXi server. RAM used to be really expensive, about $900, but now…

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Resolving the 503 Service Unavailable Error in vSAN After ESXi Host Restart: A Simple, Patience-Based Solution

Posted on December 3, 2023

vSAN Error: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x00000089b916ed00] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _po Error: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x000000a63051bb30] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _port = 8309) You have vSAN and have restarted your ESXi host. Everything boots up and appears normal, but when you…

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My Experience with the Sonos Era 300 as Computer Speakers

Posted on November 18, 2023April 14, 2026

I’ve been on the lookout for good computer speakers. I started with an old Philips music center and then moved on to the Sony HT-A7000 soundbar. The Sony was great but way too big for my desk and took up a lot of space. I like a clean desk, but I needed better speakers for…

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