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  2. All you need is a mini PC for HTPC, lol. Make it passive so be it...
  3. Howdy! I built a Custom liquid-cooled Gaming PC and when I first powered it on, it wouldn't post. I checked the motherboard Debug Leds and it had a solid red CPU Light and a blinking red Dram (Which I have read is normal during memory training on am5). After trying all the troubleshooting steps (and referring to the steps on the README: How to respond to a no POST or no power up situation) I could think of I was led to believe that either the CPU or Motherboard was not functioning correctly. Using AMD's excellent RMA service I was able to relatively swiftly get my potentially faulty 7700x replaced with a brand new one, but I was still receiving the same no post and solid CPU light, after trying my troubleshooting steps once again I decided to try and get the motherboard Rma'd through Asrock (I probably should have tried to get it replaced or returned it and gotten a refund via Newegg, but I did not choose to do that at the time and I am now outside of my window to do so). I received my replacement Motherboard from Asrock about a week about and while it was not in retail packaging and it did have one of the SSD thermal pads pealed (which was the same one I peeled for my SSD on my original board), the Serial number is a different from my original board so I assumed they just sent me a working open box or repaired replacement board. Unfortunately, even with my replacement motherboard and cpu, I am still getting the same issue. I have listed the troubleshooting steps I have taken Below. I feel I have Isolated the things that could theoretically be wrong with it down to the Motherboard CPU and RAM or perhaps somehow the previous motherboard had something so wrong with it that it broke my original and replacement Cpu (which feels unlikely), Given that I have RMA'd both the Cpu and Motherboard it would lead me to wonder if something is wrong with the ram, however, I am still getting the Red CPU debug light when I try powering on without ram. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Problem: The Computer gets power but does not post, Debug Led's display solid red Light I have tried: Turning it off and on again Reseating Powercables Reseating the CPU Reseating Ram Both Ram sticks individually No Ram sticks (the blinking dram light does not turn on in this case) No graphics card (using igpu) Removing the SSD Testing the Graphics Card in another system showed it was still working although I'm not sure to what extent as I was not able to stress test it. Tried with nothing but the motherboard power cables plugged in (2x8 pin CPU, 24pin mobo) Tried Different monitor's and Different cables A different Power supply (Evga 700 Br) 6 Different wall outlets on 3 different Breakers and 2 different power cables (both of which were tested working) both with and without a UPS on all of them Clearing CMOS (both through the header and through taking out and putting back in the cr2032 battery) Updating Motherboard Bios Using Bios Flashback Feature Specs: Cpu: Ryzen 7 7700x Mobo: Asrock B650 Livemixer Ram: 32gb Gskill flare x6 6000mhz cl 36 GPU: GeForce RTX™ 3080 GAMING OC WATERFORCE WB 10G Ssd: Solidigm P41 Plus 2tb Psu: Maingear ignition 1200w Platinum Case: Lian Li Lancool 2 Mesh Thank you for Reading.
  4. The claim that was made - intentional or not - was that hard drives are faster when full versus when empty.
  5. Do you try to maximize the taxes you pay, or pay more than you need to? The problem isn't with the companies, they are following the law. You should take issue with the tax code that has so many loopholes and ways to be exploited. The tax code is needlessly complex, and all that complexity creates opportunities to save, for those who are willing to put in the work. No politician wants to touch this problem, as it will be very hard to fix, and likely very unpopular with a lot of very powerful people. Steve Forbes ran for US president around 2000, and the cornerstone of his platform was to try and tackle this. His tax code fit on a 3x5 index card. Obviously he didn't win and nothing has changed.
  6. Would the product you linked really be better than this Wifi extender? 41k ratings nearly 4 and a half stars vs 4/5 stars 802 ratings. Though, maybe Amazon ratings mean nothing. https://www.amazon.ca/TP-Link-AC1900-Range-Extender-RE550/dp/B08TLT65WM/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1E5QHA6SZR8ED&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FmYnZZENPNoiAsi6FUVWVqIDVhiUR_RDYJocwAfxPCk_D89JrJsGFvAIw7OzLAncnmp7vGhs8vul5OgEvX6rH7saFUxM0O7h9B_FPkxpGUaoxHC4bcWhCCJQMLMeF5weFj7BhcXahWH8Q05IahXzF4UGt1k0xVckrRAD5WnPjx7lODM9Zc6b7Ezwm8gKkRLZNpwebkuMWRaX3cgYD2r5yqx8_rM9nWgr8uuDgbCanK1T6RRx_qM400SDRFFWWt7y26a_7HRrXcGb1J3e8ASbPA73eRZ_GAahk7nb7Fs_fp4.y4c1-BkZR8VKlomPxYnfEKaXnVYyvFXsr1teiQBIuOw&dib_tag=se&keywords=wifi%2Bextender&qid=1711687798&sprefix=wifi%2Bextender%2Caps%2C137&sr=8-5&th=1
  7. Idea:

    I've got a terminal 1080 (picked it up for $20), would it be cool to frame the board as a wall decoration? Like teardown style?

  8. Its clearly not working how you want as you've run into a snag where what you are doing is completely contrary to how the Windows shares permissions system works. Also you mentioned iSCSI in the post, seems its not really relevant to your problem but it does add an additional bottleneck to what you are doing if its going to be copying to the iSCSI drive and the SMB backup server over the same network. You have a LAN cache, so why do you need ALL those games accessible on all machines at all times? It just seems an overcomplicated setup to have games always available with slower loading speeds than using local storage. By your own admission, the deduplication is the reason you ran into this snag in the first place. There's a lot more knowledgable networking folk on this forum than me, the fact they haven't responded speaks volumes to me about if this convoluted setup you have makes any sense. I mean you have the LAN cache, so why do you need to backup the games on the iSCSI drives?
  9. Recently the witcher 3 crashed now it won't load. On top of that every other game that does start, performs like I spawned too many assets in game that the system is overloaded. The cpu and gpu usage alternates one high one low each hitting %100 then dropping to about %40 only when in game. When at idle nothing seems amiss. I'll add pictures as needed Ryzen 5600x Radeon 6700xt 16gb 3000MHz ram M.2 game drive SSD boot drive
  10. Backbone so how do I do download emulators to iphone?
  11. Hello! I am not sure what is wrong, but when I set voltages in my bios there are some that do not get even close to what I set and others that have no issue. Is this a motherboard issue, psu issue or something else entirely? Picture attached. The cpu core voltage override worked fine on a different motherboard I had previously. Same with the dram voltage. Did I just get a faulty psu or motherboard? Or is this somehow normal? Dankeschon, Talon
  12. They will say inactive if no media is playing. For a 1080p monitor you'll only see VSR go active if playing 720p or lower content in your browser. HDR works the same way but ensure Chrome is up to date.
  13. The main purpose I have games on the NAS and ISCSI is deduplication. Also snapshots & compression & redundancy. All on hard drive storage. So multiple presently 6TB of games, compressed to about 4.5TB of actual space needed. So if I wanted to just use NMVE, then 3 x 8TB nvme drives. You can pay for them and send to me if you want. Where is your logic? One the 'gaming' machines, have much cheaper 1/2TB NVME cache drives and this very useful software https://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/ Games I play often load from nvme cache automatically and do no really worry about it Oh and the lancache server means game updates are up to local network speed, 2.5Gb - https://lancache.net/ This is container on the main server. Also I have cheap 100Mb. internet and game updates exceptionally fast due to the lancache. An ongoing savour of cash. I am looking into 10GB local networking as it has become much much cheaper recently. So games typically update fairly fast. typically they are on the NAS already, so little actual writes to the slower hard drives - thanks to deduplication. As for the multiple shares of backups of games to another server. I DESPISE windows networking. I only use cifs shares to backup the games. I ask again. How exactly do you use the same share when I want to use deduplication for some of the files on there, but not others? The purpose is to save money on drives. I have it working the way I want and are curious why you even care.
  14. It was a lot more common on Xbox than Playstation during the generational shift. This is partly down to Microsoft pushing the idea of buying the Xbox One version of a game and getting the Series upgrade for free. The physical media contained the Xbox One version, but when put into a Series console it downloads the Series version of the game. My guess would be this is less common now given many games being Series only, although size of games has also increased so some are so large they don't bother to put them on the physical media to save money. Also due to how backwards compatibility works, when you put an Xbox 360 version into Xbox One or Series consoles, they also need to download the whole game (effectively a VM image) modified to run on the newer consoles. So I wouldn't like to say "generally most games will be just fine from disc", as it rather depends how big those games are and is largely moot given how many games need day one patches to even barely work at launch. Still, I'm not interested in a download only console, simply because that means any of my physical Xbox 360/One games then are unplayable. Although half of them aren't backwards compatible anyway, annoyingly some Xbox titles ARE compatible on Xbox 360, but not on One/Series.
  15. WhitetailAni

    im 18 now

    i can weigh as much as an average american!!
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    Oh no.

    What a funky guy. For those who wanted a PlayStation 2 TV without buying a new TV...
  17. Evga as a whole doesn't suck, but they do have good products and bad products. Both of those fall into the bad product category.
  18. Alright. I am back. No matter what I did even after all the fixes I somehow ran into the problem again. Due to this I said fuck it. I started rebuilding. I no have a new motherboard, gpu, cpu, and psu along with that new ram. With all that I seem to have removed the initial random issue I was having. Though now I am running into another issue. Random frame rate dips. I was curious if this could relate to the fact that for some reason the motherboard voltages I set are not the ones reported by the motherboard. Is this the case of a bad motherboard or psu issue do you think? Its not like its a cheap one so I am not sure if I should return it for another. At this point I am losing my mind. Am I just really unlucky? New specs 1000w Platinum be quiet straight power psu 4080super FE gpu 13700k cpu ASUS ROG Strix Z790-A Gaming WiFi II (WiFi 7) LGA 1700 mobo G.SKILL Trident Z Neo Series 32GB CL14 samsung bdie ram @RONOTHAN##
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      da na

      What a funky guy.

      For those who wanted a PlayStation 2 TV without buying a new TV...

  20. da na

    TIL most consumer color laser printers add tiny…

    Or use a chadly old inkjet that doesn't do the yellow dots; my Pixma Pro9000 MkII does not. It'll also let you print on eight empty cartridges. It also requires constant maintenance and expensive consumables but at least I won't get printerdoxxed by the inkcels
  21. Its "faster" at defragmenting when full, because its not able to perform a proper defragmentation due to lack of space to move the data. This is one reason why performance of HDDs is worse when they are full.
  22. Hi all For context. A sata ssd failed in my proxmox server about 6 months ago - boot drive. It was just out of warranty. No great problem as I bought another cheap one to do the same & replaced with a cheap 256GB for about AU$20. It failed recently. It iwas not worth the trouble of replacing/seeking refund/replacement as I would need to take it back, then maybe go for the replacement if available. Modern Sata SSDs just suck. Typically the have 4 bits/cell and no RAM on them as cache. This destroys performance and longevity. Also when the SLC cache is full, write speeds tank to worse than hard drives. I am sick of them & wish to use them as little as practical. Presently in my main server have 3 x sata 512GB in RAIDZ1 for redundancy at least. It seems their price has increased substantially recently, so have more reason to avoid them. I just ordered a few pcie nvme adapers. They are very cheap. I am about to order some 16GB optane drives. They are also very cheap. I am presently using 2 of them in my server as special deduplication devices in truenas for a games storage. With 1MB block sizes, does really well. They are mirrored and are both about 6GB used. There are about 6TB multiple game ISCSI shares to different machines. The point here is I find them cheap and useful. Other uses I can think of, meta data devices or zlog devices in truenas scale. That probably will not be much use to me. Boot drives as a mirror for a home server, such as proxmox or truenas - definitely. I am definitely buying more. I am unsure how many I need. So a mirrored boot drive in main server proxmox. Also an old machine with truenas on there, periodically turned on and backs up my data. 1 for boot drive and maybe 2 for deduplication devices, which saves a lot of cash on hard drives if configured well (1MB block/record sizes). 1 or 2 spare possibly. Which other uses so they have , that is in the context of a home server? So to reiterate - sata SSDS - just awful and increasing in price & wish to use as little as possible. Intel optane 16GB - very cheap. Will maybe last 'forever', where the 16GB capacity eventually makes them useless - but do not fail. Which other uses so they have , that is in the context of a home server? I am trying to estimate how many to buy. Useful and informed information is appreciated. Thanks
  23. I ran my XS Max 256GB for nearly 5 years before I broke it by accident. I would still be using it. I moved into a 14 Pro 1TB and no regrats. Op and a few others are just hopping on an Apple hating bandwagon that gives them the warm and fuzzies. Love my phone btw, its awesome.
  24. Upgrade, or we'll force you to in a few months. update,_or_else.mp4
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