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  1. 24 minutes ago, Tumstech said:

    Hi, 

     

    I am looking for a new pc / server for truenas. 

     

    Standard expectation from truenas

    1. Data storage in zfs

    2. Docker deployments in truenas scale

    3. (not high priority) deploy some vms. (I prefer a separate server with esxi, but just some times.)

     

     

    Current shortlisted items

     

    1. Msi Z590 gaming edge with 6 sata

    2. Intel i7 11700K

    3. 64 GB ram

    4. Ironwolf 4tb * 6 qty

    5. 250gb M.2 for OS

     

    Small size hdd with more qty helps in replacement cost and future expansion.

     

    6 qty of 4 tb vs 4 qty of 6tb

    Net storage is 1 disk goes for parity, meaning I get approx 5 disk capacity in first config compared to only 3 disk capacity in second config. 

     

    Need suggestion for alternative motherboard and processor, a little cheaper but better. 

    I wouldn't buy a gaming motherboard for this. nor a "K" processor, as you're not going to overclock it. 
    motherboards with two NICs are nice for a case like this, but features like LEDs and WiFi aren't really worth the money. 

  2. Just now, Nathanpete said:

    Intel is a habitual liar when it comes to TDP. The 11900K has a TDP of 125W but running cinebench on it puts out over 300W. Check any 11900K review when they do power draw testing. And you will see it is never 125W

    power draw and heat dissipation are linked, but I would not say 1W of power consumption means 1W of heat to dissipate. that would mean you have an insanely inefficient circuit.  

  3. 15 minutes ago, Nathanpete said:

    Who recommended that CPU cooler, that has sketch written all over it IMO. That air cooler is supposedly capable of 200W with three fans, 180W with 2 fans, or 160W with 1 fan. The 10850K can absolutely go above 200 watts,. especially under a stress test like cinebench. And a issue with copper heat pipes is that the physics and thermodynamics inside the copper pipe break down around 100C and at that point it is up to the CPU to clock down to bring it below 95C.

     

    I can't confirm that part about copper heat pipe physics but I think Steve from GN mentioned that offhand in a recent aircooler review.

    the TDP of the 10850K is only 125W. 
    https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/205904/intel-core-i910850k-processor-20m-cache-up-to-5-20-ghz.html

    even if it's putting out more than 125W at full load that cooler should be fine.

     

    @PicTonyif you want a better cooler look for those with vapor chambers. 
    honestly, i think you're fine. don't waste your time and money just because you've seen some warm temps, especially in a benchmark made to stress your CPU. see how it performs under casual load and make a decision based on that. 

     

    also, take all my advice on heating with a grain of salt. my rig is 75C-85C at idle. 
    I've got my core crammed in an SFF rig with only the tiny stock AMD cooler. 

  4. CineBench is a CPU benchmark that is made to stress test your CPU's performance. your CPU will get hot at 100% usage. 

    run a game for a few hours and record your temps, see if you have the same issue. 

    if your idle is below 40C i wouldn't worry about temps in a synthetic benchmark.

  5. Just now, tdkid said:

    the main issue is i have 1 cable that is pissing me off because you can not cable manage it. its a play and charge cable for my console. i will make sure that i step over this cable to make sure i dont pull it but somehow when i put my foot down that cable has grabbed my leg and pulls the console off from where i got it, pulling every cable that was attached to my console at the same time. people say that inanimate objects dont have a mind of their own have never seen some of the ones i deal with.

    what? 

    why not use a wireless controller and charge it when your game session is done? 

  6. 9 minutes ago, OneOfYas said:

    I recently picked up a Robot White XBOX One S/X revision controller with the Wireless dongle and play / charge kit totaling 153 Euro which to me is a bit high in cost. But I do truly think it is an upgrade over the official XBOX 360 controller.

     

    I use a DS4 (PlayStation 4 controller) it's Bluetooth, so it's easy to connect. the only downside I have is the need for an mapping program like DS4Windows. 
    it's center pad acts as a mouse, which is nice. i just charge it via a USB cable at my desk, so no need for an expensive controller dock.

    Sure, I don't get the sweet rear paddles, but it's still worthwhile to me, and I don't think it's worth buying a new controller just for my PC. 

  7. 1 minute ago, GigabyteGeForce said:

     

    built computer couple years ago, was showing 16gb ram usable in task manager, started up after months and now only 8gb usable.

     

    if ram stick was dead windows wouldnt show that 16gb was installed physically on mobo, right?

    depends on how dead it is, but normally no. normally you wouldn't get past POST

  8. 2 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

    The lightweight stuff is usually light on everything.  They’re generally designed for older hardware.  XUbuntu is listing 8gb minimum, 20gb preferred. Only hard numbers I seem to be able to easily find.  It’s apparently more processor intensive than some. Uses xfce interface.  There are BSDs made to run on Pis though. It seems you don’t want a lightweight OS so much as a small footprint OS.

    i suppose that's a better way to phrase it, but I also just need the file hosting features, not much else. 

  9. 19 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

    “Light weight” and “user friendly” tend to be both subjective and mutually exclusive.  With no cutoffs for “not user friendly enough or how light weight you want it’s pretty difficult.  There are more linuxes out than BSDs atm.  BSDs tend to have the most lightweight distros, but such distros also tend to be less user friendly so possibly not even an option.   Which distro though I don’t know.  Something KDE rather than GNOME most likely. KDE is a lighter weight GUI. Resembles ‘98 a bit.  Or used to. It has the advantage of a lot of development which other GUIs lighter weight than GNOME probably don’t have. It itself may be too far down the lack of user friendliness path though so it’s just hard to make a call.

    I prefer a GUI, but I'm not against a little command line, I just don't want to do EVERYTHING in CLI. I don't care if it resembles '98 as long as the interface is easy to get setup. i'm probably only going to look at it once every blue moon. 
     
    I should clarify I mean light on the disk size, not CPU usage or RAM, I have plenty of that. 

  10. 13 minutes ago, SteeveeK said:

    Any ideas on storing old/extra m.2 ssd? Or any other form factors of SSD? I'm planning on upgrading my laptop in a few months and there will be an extra m.2 ssd, how can I store the ssd away in a neat and tidy way?

    I had thoughts on using my school's 3d printer to make a rack but not sure on the way of storing.

    I just slap them in a desk drawer. if it works for RAM it will work for an m.2 
    I live in a high temp/humidity environment and I don't worry about it.

  11. i'm looking for a user friendly OS to turn into a VM on my ProxMox server.


    I would like a GUI 

    I would like to set up FTP and SMB on the same disk. (as it's a virtual disk, already in a raid)

    a little background:
    I currently have a trueNAS machine doing some FTP and SMB services for me, however, I cannot cluster with TrueNAS, and I would very much like to.

    I have two server chassis with hardware in them, and I plan to use the new one to set up ProxMox, migrate all of my TrueNAS data over, then wipe the old chassis and add it to the ProxMox cluster as a secondary node. 

     

    I plan to set up a new VM to replace TrueNAS's functions, but I don't know what to pick. 
    I know that pretty much any OS can run SMB and FTP services, but I also want to setup a plex service that pulls it's content from the NAS data. 


    TL:DR; 
    Need light GUI OS that can run SMB, FTP, and Plex services.  please suggest.

  12. 1 minute ago, maoh said:

    I'll try swapping the sticks and see if it really is the stick that is causing the problem. It's just weird that if its is dead, then w10 should not recognize that I have a 16gb total of memory right? 

     

    correct. it shouldn't detect the stick at all if it's dead. 

    i'd see if a slot change helps. be sure to stagger the slots, as that's how most of the dual channels are set up. 
    if this doesn't help i'd get the latest BIOS version 7B89vAD. are you sure that's the version you're running? 

    link for reference: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B450M-MORTAR-TITANIUM#down-bios

  13. 4 minutes ago, maoh said:

    Yes, on Speccy, it recognizes 2 sticks. My problem is I can't use the other stick. Only 8 gb is usable atm.

    -snip-

    under SLOT#1 and SLOT#2 what does it show? 

    you can swap the sticks to the other two slots and see if that fixes the issue. you may have a dead slot. 

    you can swap the sticks and see if the problem stick is an issue in the other slot. you may have a dead stick. 

    you can update the BIOS, you may have a BIOS issue. (this is rather unlikely.)

     

  14. 1 minute ago, maoh said:

    Hey guys, new here. And as the title says, one of my ram sticks is not being detected by the motherboard. In the bios, it only shows 8gb total memory. But the weird thing is whenever I check the task manager, it shows a total of 16GB of memory and the 8gb is reserved. I already tried all possible (afaik) ways to remove the hardware reserved memory.

     

    Specs:

    Ryzen 5 2600

    16 GB HyperX RGB

    RTX 2070S

    Mortar Titanium B450M (updated to latest bios version)

     

    Any ideas how to fix this? is my ram faulty? or is it my motherboard? BTW, this is the 3rd time this happened to me, I'm thinking my mobo is causing the problem.

    task manager shows slots used 2 of 4?  
    if OS tools detect all of your RAM your BIOS may just have an error reporting, in which case you can either ignore it, or update the BIOS. 

  15. 7 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

    No. Once installed it stays liquid on the CPU for years. A day isn't going to hurt it at all.

    i have pulled off some super crusty and crumbly paste before.

    A day isn't going to hurt the paste much, but you should be worried about open air contaminants like animal hair and similar dust balls getting in your paste and getting stuck.  
    I'd just wipe off the paste and reapply in the morning. 

    just wipe it with some alcohol and paper towels/ cotton balls and put new paste on the CPU. 

    (if you use cotton balls make sure you don't leave any cotton strands)

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