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Are you looking to stream just the desktop or play games? Steam Link works quite well for iOS. Once you launch it and connect you can just exit Big Picture mode and you're at the desktop.

The decision should be between 4070 and 4070 Super as those are completely different cards. The brand/model of each is much less important. For example, if its a 4070, no matter if Asus, Gigabyte or Zotac make it they're all going to perform within margin of error of eachother. Warranties these days are all essentially the same so generally the only difference is going to be noise and cooling. A somewhat (but not foolproof) method is get the one with the largest cooler.

Sure, and its going to keep growing, but normal people who follow artists and care about real music don't care.. and I don't see them ever caring. For now its just for tech kids and bros.

Funny tech to mess around with, but unless its a human person with talent and creativity singing or making the music, I simply do and and will not ever care. Waste of time.

Assuming you want to maintain PBO for Curve Optimizer undervolting, B650/E is the way to go (X670/E is a joke in ITX). Given that, there are realistically only 5 options. https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#s=41&f=8&c=160,161&sort=price&page=1 If the $200 B650I Lightning Wifi does everything you need as far as I/O, I can't suggest spending any more money. The only one I would NOT suggest is the Asrock B650E PG-ITX Wifi as its, at least has been, the only B650/X670 board produced without BIOS flashback.

No. Save for a true generational upgrade.

You’re using “GPU” encoding now, just the iGPU on your Intel CPU. QuickSync is very good and very fast, I’d suggest leaving it as it is.

Likely due to using hardware encoding. If you use x265 without QuickSync it'll use your whole CPU, however it'll be slower. Potentially much slower. You want to keep it how it is.

I answered this in detail in your last topic.

1080p? 1440p? 4K?

Stop thinking about it as "fake vs. real", but hardware accelerated vs. software. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-hardware-and-software-accelerated-ray-tracing/ If you use the RT cores Nvidia has been packing into their cards as an example:

The N3 has 8 bays.

Over twice as fast is pretty different.

I see this a lot in channels that cover this from a pixel peeping perspective but I have to say, this just isn't my experience in person. I played through all of Jedi Survivor using FSR Quality prior to them adding DLSS and frankly, once they did and I switched, I really could tell the difference let alone have it affect my enjoyment of the video game. 4090/4K LG C2. Personally at this point just having one of the available technologies available (at least if you're on Nvidia) should be sufficient. Anyway..

You may want to include your location and what currency you're talking about.