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CyberneticTitan

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  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. It's about 6ms: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Galaxy-S20-Smartphone-Review-High-Quality-Smartphone-with-Quirks.458910.0.html#toc-9
  7. 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/
  8. 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.
  9. imo don't bother upgrading for a gaming uplift. At 1440p, you will be GPU bottlenecked. 5800X3D is only ~8% faster than 5600X at 1440p: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d/17.html This difference will be lowered with the extra pixels of your ultrawide. Put that money towards a 4070 Ti Super or something. Spend some time investigating PBO to squeeze a little bit more out of your 5600X.
  10. I'm sure that AV1 was on Twitch's radar for a long time, and despite it they still decided to shutdown operations in SK. Must be pretty wild over there for telecoms.
  11. Does it have to be new? Plenty of miners picked up A2000s and on second hand market they seem to be fine. But if you need new, the best you can do for modern consumer GPUs is RTX 3050 (ex: MSI VENTUS 2X XS), which beats both Arc A380 and Radeon 6500 XT. Anything higher (i.e. RX 6600) and you'll need 1x 8-pin. For professional cards there is Radeon W6600 and W7600.
  12. Maybe these kinds of devices are of interest to you: https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/expansion-cards/ES03-WiFi/ https://www.amazon.com/Controlled-Computer-Starting-Software-Compatible/dp/B084WWC9NS/ If you can tinker, there are very simple and cheap ESP8366 relay modules (~$5 from Aliexpress). Just need to add a new lead from the power switch to the relays and a power source from your motherboard that can supply 5V when it's off.
  13. First your TP-Link router may be double NAT'ing you so you'd have to port forward twice, or set it in AP mode so that all devices in your home share the same subnet/LAN. Second if it is true that you cannot port-forward at all or you are behind CG-NAT, then you can try something like Tailscale or Cloudflare Tunnels.
  14. There are some docks that do USB-C video output (DP over USB-C). For example Dell WD22TB4. But these are hella expensive. Instead you might be interested in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/17ueouf/j5create_has_very_cheap_usb4_hubs_including_one/
  15. 7800X3D and 3060 seems wildly imbalanced, any reason for this?
  16. For SSDs, I would not place any trust in the brand name. These days an SSD is basically just three components (controller, DRAM, NAND) and usually the brand of the SSD does not make any of these components. So to do your research you have to look at what components is under the hood for these drives. In my experience drives you find on AliExpress have one of two controllers (MaxioTech MAP1602A or Innogrit IG5236) and couple types of DRAM (YMTC 232-layer TLC, Micron 176-layer TLC). The Innogrit controller supports DRAM, but has many reports of disk failures. The MaxioTech controller is newer, does not support DRAM, but does not have any of those reports. The Lexar NM790 is MaxioTech + YMTC and has great performance and efficiency for the price: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/lexar-nm790-4-tb/
  17. There used to be a hobbyist/EE making one but the site has since gone down. I'm not aware if this was actually real or vaporware: https://web.archive.org/web/20230519224208/https://ddramdisk.store/ The best affordable alternatives right now are Intel Optane or used enterprise SSDs for the endurance and speed.
  18. Word of warning you just missed the Black Friday sales and prices for components right now may be inflated to give the "cheapest price in past 30 days" kind of label for Christmas/Boxing Day sales so might not be the most wise to buy right now. Put in some time to go through the /r/buildapcsales subreddit to see what kind of prices were had during BF and compare to now to make sure you're not getting upcharged. PCP does have a price history feature but does not capture certain discounts like coupons etc. For example 10 days ago you would have gotten 7900 XTX for $900: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/183pq3j/gpu_sapphire_pulse_radeon_rx_7900_xtx_88999/ Newegg also had bundles for cheap: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/183ndfu/bundle_amd_ryzen_7_7800x3d_msi_mag_b650_tomahawk/
  19. WiFi 6 support on DD-WRT is basically non existent, so I wouldn't hold out for any 6E routers getting support. OpenWRT has slightly better support, but still the options are few. This Wi-Fi 6 router has is supported by OpenWRT by the manufacturer: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt6000/ If you need custom controls most people go the route of separating the router and the AP. I.e. host your own pfsense router and attach APs to it.
  20. Ignoring the 12600k + 6700XT build was a bit of a mistake, I wonder if it was a deliberate choice to make the video a bit more interesting.
  21. Credit where it's due: I'm glad they went with this thumbnail instead of gaping face Linus next to the CPU with big red arrow or something.
  22. It depends how RAID1 is implemented and what the benchmark is. See: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux55-ssd-raid/3 In the above test, they use BTRFS' own implementation of RAID1, and MD RAID for the others.
  23. There are apps like this already, but Sunbird simply does the hosting for you. i.e. https://bluebubbles.app/ and https://airmessage.org/ As an ignorant outsider I wonder why they did not wait for EU to take on opening up iMessage before announcing this as a feature.
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