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in my expirience(am3 to am4) it will be fine, just transfer the ssds and make sure you remember which one has windows on it tho, and theres like a 97% chance microsoft disables your lisence, unless its tied to your microsoft account

I am have a sporadic hard computer reboot (similar if you lost power for a split second and it turns it's self back on, my server is on the same breaker switch and I haven't had any problems with that, so I don't think its dirty power but I am planning on buying a UPS for my computer) and when it does reboot it can't find the boot drive. If I wait a few minutes and manually restart it again it will boot normally and work just fine, if I try to reboot it right away most of the time it still can't find the boot drive I have a wait a few minutes before it comes back. I have check the event logs after it happens and nothing is showing up in there besides the message of Windows wasn't shut down properly. This is happening what appears to me to be random, it can happen once every few days, to I have seen it not happen for a few weeks then it does it. It does seem so be happening more frequently lately but, its really hard to tell. I have put all those parts in new over the past few months and haven't been able to track down what is causing this issue. I am now leaning towards the NVME drive itself is causing the issue because I can't think of anything else that could be causing it. One of the things I haven't tried yet is putting a 1TB Samsung 980 drive from my server into my computer to see if it still runs into this problem and put the drive that is currently in my main system in another spare motherboard processer I have and let it run on that for a while to see it it still does it. I am not sure what else I can try before just replacing it with my server drive and installing Windows 10 back on it and waiting a month or two to see if the issue happens again, but I am unsure how long I should wait before I say yup it's the NVME drive. Any help or recommendations would be much apricated. My NVME drive stays around 49C haven't seen it go over 75C and that was when I was putting a repeated full load on it. CPU is staying around 45C to 55C while in slight use. BIOS is up to date My computer has the following specs. plus a Blue ray drive and 4TB Iron wolf drive. GIGABYTE B550 UD AC (AM4/ AMD/ B550/ ATX/Dual M.2/ SATA 6Gb/s/USB 3.2 Gen 2/ Intel 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/Realtek GbE LAN/PCIe 4.0/ Motherboard) AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core, 16-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor 990 PRO SSD 4TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Hard Drive, Seq. Read Speeds Up to 7,450 MB/s for High End Computing, Gaming, and Heavy Duty Workstations, MZ-V9P4T0B/AM, Black Pure Power 12 M 1000W, ATX 3.0, 80 Plus® Gold, Modular Power Supply, for PCIe 5.0 GPUs and GPUs with 6+2 pin connectors, 12VHPWR Cable Included, Silent 120mm be quiet! Fan - BN506 XFX Speedster QICK319 RX 7800 XT CORE Gaming Graphics Card 16GB GDDR6 HDMI 3xDP, AMD RDNA 3 RX-78TQICKF9 Corsair VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz CL16 Intel XMP 2.0 Computer Memory - Black (CMK32GX4M2E3200C16)

6400 cl32 is gonna be rough. 6000 is what AMD recommends as best performance. You may be able to do 6000 cl32 and have it boot. The 400 mhz difference isn't gonna make a difference unless you are running cloud servers, processing HUGE datasets, or doing high frequency stock trading. At best you'd see a few fps difference, and it would be the difference of say 278 vs 265 at most.

If you have ever changed the playback speed on a computer and used a slower speed, you've heard the timestretch pitch matching effect. It works incredibly well when increasing speed, like for a podcast (not something I do, but some people save hundreds of hours doing it), but slowing down is like a robot, a very distorted sound with gaps, pauses and other issues in the output. Hearing this garbage, it's no wonder people never try a slower speed ever again, it sounds awful or annoying. Well, VLC is basically the only cross-platform (desktops and smartphones on all major operating systems) that actually offers the option to just allow the pitch to go down with speed. Aggravatingly, it's hidden away from the world inside the rarely visited advanced settings. I only recently re-learned this option and I had trouble finding it, but learned about it only a few years ago and forgot. I'm back at it though, and I just think it needs to be shouted from the rooftops, such an incredible feature extremely rare to find in a music program. Vlc settings advanced. Remove the checkmark for timestretch to be turned off. Also save playback speed, by going to the audio submenu, and checking the box. Start off slow, with minimal adjustments and test that a while, then as you adjust to the slower pace, keep trying slower settings. At some point it is just way too slow, so once you find where that is for you, that's your range. Find the speeds you enjoy for a particular song, and keep at it. You will find songs you enjoy maybe even more or as much, at slightly slower speeds and it can bring a new experience you haven't gotten from the music you have probably heard for many years. Would anyone be interested in a thread, similar to "what song are you listening to" but instead What speed are you listening to, with what song? You'll be quite surprised what you find once you give this a try for a while, and I'd like to not only spread the idea but also help learn what speeds others like for songs, to know if it is near the speed I choose.

Might as well post this here, too - gave LightScribe a shot, pretty impressed with the results. I still install all of my OSes from DVDs, since every one of my laptops is old awesome enough to have an optical drive. I much prefer having a stack of DVDs and pulling out the one I want instead of writing an ISO to a flash drive every time I need to install one of the eight OSes I might need. Labeling these discs with a nice graphic will help me find them faster. These few I created with the LightScribe Template Labeler, which nicely curves the text around the radius of the spindle. These did not turn out quite as nicely as the scan of the Windows 7 disc, but they are certainly still more interesting than a typical DVD. Shows a nice progress indicator as you're printing - you'll be tapping your foot for a while, each disc takes 30-40mins on highest contrast setting. The difference between Normal and Enhanced contrast is quite visible on images with dark backgrounds. Neat seeing the data track which is read by the additional sensor in LightScribe drives. This is, in essence, a barcode wrapped around the spindle, and it communicates LightScribe-exclusive information to the drive. This track is on the top side of the disc, not the data side, so it is read when the media is placed face-down for laser inscription. This additional sensor LightScribe drives have seems to be very simple - I believe it is just an infrared emitter and receiver placed right next to each other. Seems quite logical - inexpensive to implement in the drive, but can still read a barcode just fine. I would think the reflective lines are "1s" and the non-reflective are "0s", and the pattern on the disc just stores a very simple piece of data - probably just an integer - that is read by the software to determine the disc type. It's slow, impractical, and the disks are expensive - but the results are quite cool.

There's a deep rabbit hole you can get into that all starts at DMS-59. Look into it a little more and you'll start finding cables like this: Some cards actually used two DMS-59 connectors and two graphics dies on the same board for four display outputs on the same card - EG. NVS 440. FireMV 2400 took a similar approach, but with a far superior connector. Four displays on a low profile card was unheard of at this time Nvidia finally one-upped them all with the NVS 420. Low profile, two graphics chips, and a single video connector that breaks out into FOUR DVI ports. This card is the source of the aforementioned wacky cable.

What the title says, I've got no clue when it comes to monitors, whats the best bang for my buck, under a thousand CAD would be appreciated.

@Los_Jackal just an FYI, if you do this and the link stops working in the future, it's likely because the IP address for your desktop had expired and DHCP from your router provided a different IP address instead of renewing the old one. One way to combat this is to set the IP for your desktop to a static IP, that way the address for the desktop will always remain the same even if the entire network gets rebooted due to a power outage or whatever. The same can be done to share a local printer and in effectively make it a network printer.

Yes you can, you can do as many sessions as you want on a Pro card and 5 on a Geforce. People have been doing this for ages, if you can't get it working either it's something you are doing or you are trying an unsupported scenario, which btw wouldn't change if you had 100 nvenc encoders on a card since most have 2 already. Also real-time encoding aka live streaming has it's own requirements, it has nothing to do with whether or not you can do multiple sessions. Your scenario is also only relevant to client side streaming, server side wouldn't care about any of that and would multi session just fine up to the real time limit due to performance. If you want to ingest a video file and encode it to 12 different output files of different settings then no problem, just let it run.

Using incompatible cables can also cause damage. Was your old PSU also a Corsair? https://www.corsair.com/us/en/s/psu-cable-compatibility

So I live on long island in new york, I decided I would like to get a garbage disposal installed in my kitchen. This is something that is pretty easy right? I called a plumbing service, sure no problem we do that all the time, but we can't give you any pricing information about what it might be because we don't know what the deal is at your house. You want an appointment? Ok we charge an $89 evaluation fee to come give you the quote, but don't worry if you go through us for the work we apply that to the cost! This was the same at four different plumbing services, with costs ranging from $70 at the cheapest up to a whopping $150, everyone I spoke to was a customer service representative and had no information or knowledge about what went into such an installation, couldn't give me any kind of general ballpark price on a "standard" installation, no clue how long it might take. Etc etc. Decided to try an electrician as I have wanted to change out some lights and was curious. Exact same thing. Always a $60+ "evaluation fee" applied to the cost of the job if you book with them, no refunds, and they refuse to give you any information regardless of how common of a procedure it clearly must be. Like if you wanted to get 3-4 potential bids for a project you'd be out nearly $300 before you've even gotten started, is this common other places?

thanks for your answer! Then i will try 1300 at first if not then I go lower. The CPU is put together again and has some liquid metal paste between the chip and the die so not direct die cooling and was made professionally.

Huh neat

Especially so if you use more of the popular VPN services. If you use a smaller but still reputable VPN service, you could have better luck. But it's a constant cat-and-mouse game of VPN's using new exit IPs and CDNs blocking them. Also if you use public DNS servers (OpenDNS, Cloudflare, etc) and not the VPN DNS, that can help a little bit too.

the GM panels are some of the worst ips panels around, the asus is the best one out of the list. check if the msi g274qpf-qd is available in ur region, that or the asus, get the one thats cheaper.

A few things: Make sure Unraid is up to date (i.e 6.12.10); there are SMB issues with 6.12.8-6.12.9. You mention an NVMe drive; make sure your Docker Plex AppData is on here; as this contains thumbnails, posters, intro detection, etc... Preferably since you have 16GB of Ram and this is *just* a Plex Server; in your Plex Docker settings in UnRAID map /dev/shm to /transcode; and in Plex set /transcode as your transcoding path. If you're a PlexPass subscriber; enable hardware transcoding and offload transcodes to the iGPU; the i5-8400 uses UHD-630 graphics and is an excellent Plex Server CPU choice. If you're still getting stuttering, gather the diagnostic logs from your UnRAID (Tools > Diagnostics) and your Plex (Manage > Troubleshooting)

I'm upgrading to am5 from am4, everything except the gpu and two m.2 ssd's will be new parts. Whats the best way to transfer over the two ssd's? Do I have to do a " clean windows install"? how do i properly backup everything and re install? Any links to a video would be great!

If you're trying to stick to a budget, it's hard to beat the value of AMD. The only reasons to go Nvidia is either you need/want the 4090 and all the powers, 3D modeling (already mentioned), CUDA-accelerated work (video editing with Adobe suite..After Effects, Premier or wanting to dive into running/training local AI), or if ray tracing is a BIG thing for you. Another factor is what resolution do you wanting to be playing games at, and what resolution, target framerate, and platform are you streaming to? IMO the biggest bottleneck to performance when it comes to streaming is your ISP and the streaming platform, not your GPU. Unless you are a bigger streamer, you can have a higher bitrate; but for the average hobby-ist streamer, you're pretty much capped at 6mbps (1080p60fps) on Twitch. In my experience, sending out 720p60fps to Twitch is actually better. If you stream to YouTube, you could go up to 40mbps (4k60fps).

here is a video i made for you on how to record higher rez videos without needing to root your phone

This is perfect for the absolute lowest end of boards. Or if you have an ITX mobo with an NVMe at the back. Other than that.. this thing is rediculous. To be fair I have not seen anyone else go to this extent in the last 20 years.. so maybe. I know my Stacker STC-T01 had an actual blower from CoolerMaster that spans the length of the mobo I think. I didint buy it.. but I did have some kickass fans.

Should not be doing Beta upgrades unless its a POC server; at which point this should be a bug to Ubuntu to investigate. There's a reason that dist-upgrade is locked into official releases (currently 23.10 LTS). With 24.04 in particular; it uses an experimental Linux Kernel; so there are most likely bugs to iron out still. Furthermore; keep in mind that many packages are still being created whenever theres a new release; so upgrading you may lose prerequisites that some of your applications/packages rely on to function. Before doing upgrades; also make sure you take a Snapshot of your existing VM's prior to the upgrade incase you need to revert back.

thanks