CyberneticTitan

8700G, but the value is not there. You can probably buy a used ROG Ally with the Z1 Extreme for $100 more than 8700G MSRP. You can also look into 7840H/HS/U or 8840H/HS/U, they're all based on similar silicon.

If you can wait, just wait. I hope 9000 series have improved memory support, I'd love to see AM5 being able to use higher speed memory.

You can buy 4070 brand new for $700 CAD + tax (see bestbuy), so buying used for $700 is not really a good idea. However if you must pick between these, the 3080 Ti is approx 4070 Super, so for $50 more it's worth the performance bump. I would see if you can find a used 3080 for $600 or less.

Is this USD? You can buy 4070 Pro Art for $600 USD on Amazon right now. Even in EU it's around 600 EUR.

Something like this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004543725000.html

For those interested in M.2 to SATA, you can do better than JMB585 with Asmedia ASM1166 which has 6 ports via Gen 3x2, so you can get up to 24 drives with this!

Not all speedtests are implemented the same way and how they are reported can vary between them as well. Fast.com is run on Netflix backbone so your ISP may just have good peering with them. If you want to read more how that figure is reported: https://ripe74.ripe.net/presentations/105-Ripe74-Fast.com-1.pdf

Really depends on what kind of disks you have, attitudes towards uptime, performance demands, and flexibility. Anything ZFS go TrueNAS, but all your disks need to be the same size. This will likely be the most performant setup. If you want to mix and match disks, you can use Unraid or OpenMediaVault mergerfs + SnapRAID. Note they are not equivalent, and there are performance implications. Or classic Linux install with standard CLI tools for creating an array, setting up VMs, etc. I would spend some time with each of the above three popular NAS OS, especially if you are going to be the one managing it.

It's for power saving purposes. Under the bus interface it first give you the physical link speed, and then the current operating speed. i.e. in your last screenshot your GPU is connected via Gen 4 x16 physical, but since you aren't using the GPU for much it dialed it down to Gen 1.1 x16 operating speed. Stress your GPU and you'll see the bus speed reach the physical limit.

AX is backward compatible with N (and operates on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz), so I wouldn't go out and buy a new N router. 2.4GHz is likely very congested and outside of perhaps setting the center channel to a less congested band, there is not much else you can do. Consider buying a used AC/AX USB WiFi adapter for <$10.

Didn't expect the inclusion of the MacBook but it's a welcomed change. Where's the power efficiency analysis? It's one of the biggest selling points of MTL. I'm guessing the software support for hardware AV1 encoding is not there because it is a big feature.

It's about 6ms: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Galaxy-S20-Smartphone-Review-High-Quality-Smartphone-with-Quirks.458910.0.html#toc-9

For the record it is absolutely possible from a LMG/developer side to disable these PWA popups. One possible solution is to just stop this manifest from being served: https://linustechtips.com/manifest.webmanifest/

No, PCI-E allocation occurs at boot time only.

Definitely ask your ISP to see what equipment is bundled with your 10G service. Telus here in Canada gives you a router/ONT combo that has 4x1G ports and 1x10G port, so I can cheaply get 10G networking simply by buying a 10G switch, which is much cheaper than a 10G router. It's also possible your ISP gives you 10G capable networking while only giving you say 2.5Gbps internet, in which case the QNAP QSW-2104-2T-A-US, which I use to get 10G between two devices and 2.5G to the Internet. Building a 10G NAS is probably a whole other topic you'd need to do more thinking about, but Intel X540 PCI-E with dual ports cards are quite cheap, but they can only do 1 or 10G (no 2.5 or 5G). This can also serve for your own custom 10G router. Consumer 10G cards based on Marvell AQC107 or AQC113C are also quite good.