Ferny

Thank you very much for the advice. I started trying to change it through the Pop_OS! display settings and I've just tried turning off HiDPI mode, but still the same. But, I guess its something to do with NVidia Optimus, I cannot change any settings at all in the XORG Nvidia settings.

I'm trying to switch to POP_OS! on my laptop which has an RTX 3070 and Intel UHD graphics for 10th gen which I think they call GT2 graphics(?). However, I've got the NVidia proprietary drivers installed as I chose the NVidia ISO and my laptop seems to be stuck at a 40hz refresh rate. The displays configuration lets me choose 165hz but it doesn't seem to change anything, I've tried changing it in xrandr too but it hasn't done anything. In case it's of not, I can change the resolution, rotation and scaling just fine. I've tried booting live USBs for Ubuntu and Manjaro too, and it's having the same issues. Any help getting this to work would be massively appreciated!

Thanks for the reply. That setup you proposed does sound much more simple than what I thought of so I will probably go with it or something similar. Most of the drives I have in my current file server are 3TB or 4TB drives which I believe, would not be be able to be used with the x3650 M1 as it does not have a UEFi and so supports drives 2TB or less. I may be wrong with that so please correct me if i am. Maybe it's just a limitation with the on-board RAID card. But that server would be convenient for an external SAS disk shelf as there's already an SFF8088 port on he back of it. Also that server is super loud even though it's not in the same room as my desktop I can still hear it, so I don't like running it 24/7. It's also much more effective than the M2 or the 4790k at heating the room. So if i can't get 3TB+ disks to work I'd have to use the 4790k build which will have to wait for a few months until I get the 8700k system.

So, this question is kind of long and technically 2 seperate questions but they relate so I'll keep them together. At the minute I've got 4 systems on my wired network: My desktop which has an i7 4790k in it An IBM x3650 M1 (2x Xeon e5450 36GB Ram) which runs virtual desktops and virtual apps An IBM x3650 M2 (2x Xeon X5650 64GB Ram) which is my main lab server as well as running VMware vCenter And, my main server which runs a router as well as Windows Server 2016 that serves as my NAS and Plex server. This machine is really underpowered with only an AMD a4-6300 dual core and 8GB of ram. I really cheaped out on it but it runs fine. The three servers are all running VMware ESXi 6.5 and are connected to the vCenter Server on the x3650 M2. The main server only has a dual port gigabit card in it which has one port for WAN and the other goes to a 24-Port gigabit switch which has everything else connected to it. So everything is running on a standard 1 gigabit connection to the rest of the network. There is an exception to this. I've got single port 10 gigabit SFP+ cards in both my desktop and my x3650 M2 which have a DAC cable running between them. What I want to do is buy another single port card for my x3650 M1 and 2 dual port cards to put into my main server. I can't do this with the current server as its only got one PCIe slot (it's ITX) which has the dual gigabit card in it. I intend to upgrade my desktop to an i7 8700k in the coming months so the 4790k system will become the main server and the POS a4-6300 will be retired. So i'll be able to do dual 10G cards then. For now what i will do is get the dual 10G cards for the x3650 M2 instead. I intend to run fibre from the two dual port cards, to each of the other systems with a 10G card, so there'll be one central system with 4 SFP+ ports that connect to everything else. With this, what I hope to do is setup a VM on the server that will act as a 10G switch. To the switch VM, I will use PCIe passthrough to give the VM direct access to the NICs and I'll give it a 10G port on the vSwitch as well so the other VMs can communicate with the rest of the network. I want to know if it is possible to setup a VM to act purely as a switch between essentially 5 different network ports. If this is possible with PfSense it'd make life easier cos i can just do it with the one VM instead of having a seperate router and switch. The other part of my question is. When I build my 8700k system, I want to only have 2 NVMe SSDs in it, and no SATA drives at all. My plan is to setup a 3TB iSCSI drive on my NAS and have my desktop connect to that for all my games and user files. I also want to move the drives form the IBM servers to the NAS to run all the VMs from network storage (I might have to buy a SAN disk shelf for this and use a SAS expander but that's not a problem) I know it's technically possible but, is iSCSI and a 10G network actually stable enough to support this? And, how much CPU horsepower will it use (if any). I'm sorry if I've confused you people but I like overly complicated things Thanks for any help.

My rig has no name CPU: Intel Core i7 4790k at stock GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 Gaming G1 at stock RAM: 24GB (2x8GB & 2x4GB) Score: 6.7 Well, I'm ready but now the only problem is the price

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