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Dec 25 09:58:45 <brolin_empey> My home computer is unreliable, apparently due to flaky hardware, possibly due to bad connections.  A possible solution that does not directly cost me money but costs a significant amount of my time is to try using the spare LGA775 motherboard I already have with all solid capacitors and that officially supports up to 16 GiB of main memory.  However, I am curious about the current feasibility of using a stationary x86-64 computer with non-volatile main 
Dec 25 09:58:45 <brolin_empey> memory and running Windows NT or GNU+Linux.  How much money would I have to spend on a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM to have such a computer?  Is it reliable even if it runs continuously for months at a time?  If I want to use Windows NT instead of GNU+Linux, do I have to start over with a new Windows installation Yet Again instead of continuing to use my current Windows installation that has always run on a computer with volatile main memory?
Dec 25 09:59:25 <KotCzarny> just buy thinkpad and be done
Dec 25 09:59:41 <KotCzarny> instead of asking newbie questions like a bot
Dec 25 10:01:32 <KotCzarny> also, offtopic.
Dec 25 10:05:52 <brolin_empey> When I last researched NVDIMM technology maybe already at least a year ago by now, I recall that one of my conclusions was that NVSODIMMs apparently did not exist, at least not as a COTS product, which is a problem if you want to use a computer, such as a notebook computer, that uses a SODIMM instead of a full-size DIMM (a LODIMM?).  I am not aware of any model of ThinkPad nor, more generally, any brand of portable (x86) computer designed to use non-volatile
Dec 25 10:05:52 <brolin_empey>  main memory.
Dec 25 10:07:32 <brolin_empey> I already have five ThinkPads but they are all x86-32 IBM models, not x86-64 Lenovo models.
Dec 25 10:10:28 <brolin_empey> Yes, it is off-topic but is there a channel specifically focused on using a desktop computer with non-volatile main memory or at least where my question is on-topic?  I dislike the Windows channels on freenode and my question is about both hardware and software, not only software.
Dec 25 10:11:47 <KotCzarny> some forum most likely
Dec 25 10:14:54 <brolin_empey> If I ask about using Windows NT instead of *nix on an x86 computer with non-volatile main memory, will I be as small of a minority as convertible cars with a compression-ignition engine in North America or motorcycles with a compression-ignition engine anywhere?
Dec 25 10:24:11 <brolin_empey> Or as small of a minority as notebook computers in 2018 using an AMOLED display instead of an LCD.
Dec 25 10:25:54 <brolin_empey> Or as persons actually using desktop/server versions of Windows NT on non-x86 architectures.
Dec 25 10:31:57 <sixwheeledbeast^> I had a diesel Peugeot convertible once, cracking little car.
Dec 25 10:37:16 <brolin_empey> Wikipedia says that a turbodiesel Peugeot car holds the world record for lowest fuel consumption of a production model of car.
Dec 25 10:38:24 <brolin_empey> Yes, fuel consumption, not energy consumption, so a purely electric car that uses zero fuel does not count. :-P
Dec 25 10:49:33 <sixwheeledbeast^> A purely electric car would use a fair amount of fuel and energy before you drive it for the first time.
Dec 25 10:52:21 <sixwheeledbeast^> Peugeots Diesel efficiency has won them the Paris-Dakar many times over the years I recall
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