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Paul Murana
Personal blog · tachytelic.nethardwaresystems
Paul Murana writes Tachytelic.net, a personal blog at tachytelic.net about hardware and systems. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on upgrading older PC hardware, such as NVMe boot support on Dell Optiplex and Sandy Bridge-era motherboards. The comments cite its posts as references without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is the personal blog of Paul Murana. An independent consultant specialising in Microsoft Power Platform and Business Applications MVP.
What Hacker News says?
There is a Github project [1] which has detailed instructions. The ancient i5-3570 only allowed 2GB ReBAR, BTW. GPU-Z says ReBAR / 4G is activated and working, Intel Arc Driver does not see it but seems to use it. Some part of the BIOS had to be manually fixed, AFAIR. The PC was given for free, the CPU €11 yet overall I wouldn't recommend the process just for the result. It's only little benefit, if at all, though f…
Comment linking /2021/12/dell-optiplex-7010-pcie-nvme/
on “M4 Mac mini's efficiency”Submitted Customizing the BIOS to boot from an NVMe on a Dell OptiPlex 9020, 7020 or 3020 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe Dell Optiplex community did this a few years ago and they were even able support older generations of Optiplex. The actual NVMe boot module is pretty generic and I’d suspect it would work with other machines. https://tachytelic.net/2021/12/dell-optiplex-7010-pcie-nvme/ https://tachytelic.net/2022/02/dell-optiplex-790-990-nvme/?a...
Comment linking /2022/02/dell-optiplex-790-990-nvme/?amp
on “Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch”