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Yeah, if you don't know that you need the expansion options you probably don't need them. Honestly most people can get away with a pretty entry level board as long as it's compatible with the CPU you are looking at. I personally would go a tiny bit above bargain basement just to get an extra 2 RAM slots and a second x16 PCIe slot (even if it's wired for x8) purely for a bit of expansion piece of mind. 

Yeah, if you don't know that you need the expansion options you probably don't need them. Honestly most people can get away with a pretty entry level board as long as it's compatible with the CPU you are looking at. I personally would go a tiny bit above bargain basement just to get an extra 2 RAM slots and a second x16 PCIe slot (even if it's wired for x8) purely for a bit of expansion piece of mind. 

I wouldn't hold my breath for newer optical media standards as we more-or-less just got a new one a few years ago with UHD BluRay. And with UHD BluRay we're at the point now where we have a format that exceeds the quality that movies are usually captured at and more or less exceeds the spec of any TV you can buy. 

In terms of relevance to PCs? I think it's only something that matters if you have a large collection of BluRays already and want to copy them to some network attached storage. That's the only reason I can think of why you'd want an optical drive on a PC in 2019. And for that any BluRay drive will do unless you're specifically wanting to get into UHD discs. If you're just wanting to causally watch a couple of movies? Use a streaming service or buy a BluRay player....

True, but on all sides not just on PC. And even within a platform people will mindlessly defend one option over another because of time/money/emotion invested. Quite litterally what being a mindless fanboy is. When people have locked themselves into something they will naturally defend and justify that decision after the fact.
 
The Wii U litterally has a Wii built in for full backwards compatibility. But it's somewhat limited in what it can do and, officially, can't play Gamecube games. I assume because it lacks the memory card slots and Gamecube controller ports. They also stripped GC compatibility from all of the later versions of the Wii for the same reason. But it's definitely something that people have enabled via homebrew. Not sure if it's reading the discs themselves or off a HDD but.....

Technically the cable categories are just a measure of bandwidth over distance so it's a bit more complicated than that. The numbers you are quoting here are for 100m which is quite a bit longer than what you'd expect in a typical run for a house. Yes Cat5e for 1Gbps speeds because it easily meets the spec and is basically the cheapest cable you can get. But for "future proofing" to 10Gbps in a typical house you can probably get away with Cat6 rather than Cat6e because in a typical house you runs will be well under 50m. And Cat7 is complete a waste of time, don't bother with it. 

With that said @Rhaemond is only talking about connecting to the internet so all of this discussion is completely useless anyways. Even if they had a super fantastic internet connection I highly doubt they're going to anywhere near saturating 1Gbps. Hell, even if they have a file server and are asking about transferring files, even then the value of 10Gbps at this stage is pretty slim. Put simply, anyone who is unsure about what cable they should get? Very unlikely they'll know enough to actually be able to take advantage of 10Gbps so probably best to just go with Cat5e.

It's easy to get lost in the "this brand performs better" talk. The reality is that at specific price points there isn't really much of a gap between any of them. Whether that's AMD vs Intel or AMD vs Nvidia. Even when AMD's CPUs were super bellow par, they were super bellow par at significantly lower price points. With consoles there's also the fact that they can probably get a better deal if they go with AMD for both CPU & GPU than they would if they were AMD/NVidia, Intel/NVidia or Intel/AMD. So it kinda makes sense that in the generations since AMD acquired Radeon (2006, post R&D phase for the Wii/360/PS3 gen) it's been pretty much entirely AMD/AMD with the exception of the Switch with its Nvidia SoC.
 
The Wii U was PPC based. Easy to laugh at it now with 20:20 hindsight but when you take your head back to ~2010 when they made that choice you can see why. By going PPC they maintained full backwards compatibility with Wii. They also made it easier for companies to port from 360/PS3 at a time when the PS3/XBOne were still a few years away. One of the many things that bit them in the end but... still worth remembering

It's easy to get lost in the "this brand performs better" talk. The reality is that at specific price points there isn't really much of a gap between any of them. Whether that's AMD vs Intel or AMD vs Nvidia. Even when AMD's CPUs were super bellow par, they were super bellow par at significantly lower price points. With consoles there's also the fact that they can probably get a better deal if they go with AMD for both CPU & GPU than they would if they were AMD/NVidia, Intel/NVidia or Intel/AMD. So it kinda makes sense that in the generations since AMD acquired Radeon (2006, post R&D phase for the Wii/360/PS3 gen) it's been pretty much entirely AMD/AMD with the exception of the Switch with its Nvidia SoC.
 
The Wii U was PPC based. Easy to laugh at it now with 20:20 hindsight but when you take your head back to ~2010 when they made that choice you can see why. By going PPC they maintained full backwards compatibility with Wii. They also made it easier for companies to port from 360/PS3 at a time when the PS3/XBOne were still a few years away. One of the many things that bit them in the end but... still worth remembering

Adding to what everyone else has said there are also scenarios where you might want the two cables to be two different things. Not just VLANs or more bandwidth necessarily. You may want one to be powering an access point or a camera via PoE. You may want a direct 10Gbps link between two devices but not want to have to buy multiple 10Gbps switches. You might even want to play around with one of those HDMI over Ethernet devices.
 
Speaking for myself? I did a single run to every point I wanted networking and it's certainly workable. But there are certainly some locations where more than one run would've been handy. Honestly, if you're doing this make a point of overdoing it a bit and you'll save yourself money/effort in the long run. I ran my cables about 5 years ago, 5 runs in total all 1 cable. At that point that was pretty overkill because I had basically one device per run with the exception of my TV room. I now have only 1 room with 1 device, everywhere else has 2-5 wired devices. So 5 & 8 port switches in every room. I also have two rooms which have access points which are powered via PoE and I have to use a PoE injector rather than a central PoE switch. Also even though I don't need it at all I've toyed with the idea of 10Gbps but to do that the cheapest option would be to do more cable runs.

First world problems for sure, having 1Gbps to every room alone is pretty amazing compared to the speeds I used to get across the house on WiFi. But if you're doing cable runs do at least two for every location. The cost/effort of running a second cable while you're doing it anyway is pretty trivial. If I had done two runs instead of 1 everywhere I would currently have:
- 3 more spare power points around the house
- my UPS backing up power to both access points instead of just 1 (and more flexibility in where I put my second AP)
- A couple of hundred $ cheaper upgrade path to 10Gbps between my NAS/PC if I wanted to

..... also if I was to do it again I would've done separate runs for my APs and mounted them on the roof instead of ghetto mounting them on the wall after the fact. Something which I am thinking of doing anyways

Those were VC releases not remasters. Also the emulation on Wii U VC was pretty average overall. Other than save states and lower latency on modern tvs with HDMI vs the original no reason to bother with them on Wii U. Go with the 3DS versions

And yet you included the PS2, Gamecube, OG XBox and Pro versions of PS4 & XBOne but not Wii U and 3DS. I mean I can forgive you for forgetting the Wii U even as someone who has one and always used to defend it. It isn't available for sale anymore and it sold worse than anything else on your list. I can also kinda understand including the PS2 in here even though it's discontinued and has been for years given that globally it's still the best selling console ever. But ignoring the 3DS is a bit rough given that it's still available on store shelves, unlike Wii U, and sold more units than half of the stuff on your list.

Especially when you're for some reason including different SKUs of the PS4 & XBOne. I don't count the PS4 Pro or XBOne X as "different consoles" to the originals. And if they are then the DSi and New 3DS should be included. And if you think it would have been stupid to have included them then.... you understand my point about the PS4 Pro and XBOne X
 
 
You don't have to say this in every thread and in any case this really isn't true anymore and hasn't been for a while. In the first half of 2017? Sure, this was arguably where the Switch was in comparison to the Wii U's library. But now you're just starting to sound a bit crazy when you say this. 

This would be my list worthwhile Wii U exclusives left without something equivalent either on Switch or upcoming:
- Pikmin 3
- Super Mario 3D World
- Zelda HD remasters

And this is the reverse of that, stuff that's on Switch that has no Wii U equivalent:
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Arms
- Mario + Rabbids 
- Pokemon Lets Go
- Pokemon Sword/Shield
- Link's Awakening
- Animal Crossing
- Astral Chain (I'm pretty hyped about this one TBH)
- Bayonetta 3
- Fire Emblem
- Actual third party support
- Pretty much all of the indie games

If you had a Wii U and loved it? You clearly like Nintendo's stuff enough to have got the Wii U. As such at this stage you're really going to start missing out on a LOT by not getting a Switch. If you are a fan of Nintendo there's no reason for you not to have or at least want a Switch. Anyone who says otherwise, anyone who says that the Wii U is enough, they're fooling nobody but themselves at this point.

Those were VC releases not remasters. Also the emulation on Wii U VC was pretty average overall. Other than save states and lower latency on modern tvs with HDMI vs the original no reason to bother with them on Wii U. Go with the 3DS versions

My first phone was a motorola c201 "coke phone", I believe I got it the same year @LinusTech got his. It was part of a promo with Coke here in Australia where you could get a phone on a Telstra Pre-Paid Contract for I believe $50 if you brought in a certain number of labels from bottles of Coke to a post office. I believe it had Snake, don't remember what the other games were.
 

Yeah, it has kinda turned around again in the last couple of years. It used to be that buying an older model or a cheaper model meant you were missing out on a lot of features. These days even entry level phones have 720p 5" screens, wireless AC, 4G, 2GB RAM, ~8MP cameras. For what I use my phone for i.e. messenger, email, web browser, occasional photos, gps and music? That's enough for me.

Something worth adding here that was deleted when @SansVarnic cleaned the thread. It is worth pointing out that the XBOne S actively converts surround signals to Dolby Digital 5.1. This won't matter if you don't have a surround setup or if you have a "proper" surround setup but for some setups this is a pretty big deal. For example if you have something like a Sonos with two rears as I do you are limited to what can be pushed over HDMI ARC or optical. HDMI ARC only supports Stereo PCM or Dolby Digital 5.1, so DD 5.1 is the only option if you want surround.
 
My other non-4K BluRay player did this, the new UHD player (Panasonic DP-UB420) I got instead of an XBOne S as a way to save a bit of money does not. It will only downmix Dolby signals to DD 5.1 and DTS-HD to DTS but also anything to Stereo PCM. So I'm in this interesting position where most BluRays, which have a DTS-HD track, don't work in surround for me but all DVDs do and a lot of newer UHD disks with Dolby Atmos do also. I still have my old player so I can get around this but still, as far as I'm concerned an XBox One is not only a good option for a 4K BluRay player but it's one of the better options.

Yeah, the second port on anything but the super high end APs are purely for convenience and redundancy. There's not much of a reason for LAG on any of these APs anyways as they are not going to saturate 1Gbps. The Nano will get close if you have a whole bunch of Wave 2 AC devices hitting DL all at once but it won't quite get there and you're unlikely to do this in a home environment anyways. Always good to run two cables but only because the effort involved in running the cable is high and the cost of the cable itself is trivial
 
It's worth pointing out that most of these APs come with a PoE injector in the box. From memory I think the only ones that don't are the multi-packs.

In terms of the in-wall AP I don't think the range is quite as good because it has a smaller antennae array. The only reason I'd go with one of those is if you were installing it over an existing wallplate or if you wanted to piggyback a PoE device via the PoE passthrough like a camera or a VOIP phone. If you're doing new cable runs anyways I'd just run one for the AP and one two a couple of ports in a standard wallplate for a better and cheaper end result than the In-Wall HD.

I'm not sure why you'd be surprised that a five year old console which bundled with 3 games costs about as much as a 1050Ti can't run games at 4K. Seems pretty obvious to me. Anyways, I'm currently seriously considering getting one when I upgrade to a 4K TV because it's an insanely good value console for what it does. Quite literally my options for getting UHD/HDR content on this new TV would be:
 
- Upgrade my PC and drag it into the other room, ~$400AU to spend here and I don't get UHD BluRay playback
- Get a UHD BluRay player for ~$240 without Dolby Vision, $280AU for one with DV
- Get an XBOne S bundled with download codes for Forza, Rainbow Six, Fallout 76 and Gears of War 4 for ~$300AU

Really, the XBOne S seems like a pretty easy sell if you're just wanting to get UHD/HDR content on your new TV. Not bullshit at all.

It's an angry stick person with a feathered cap setting things on fire.....

Anyways, he didn't have the feathered cap in previous games either. I think this story is yet another case of people being outraged about someone supposedly being outraged by something. Who cares if he doesn't have a feathered cap. Did the feathered cap really matter to you that much? I don't think so. The game isn't even out yet and I bet none of us would have even noticed either way if there wasn't an article about this whining about "political correctness gone mad"

I like that I posted this list last week....
 
At the time only Animal Crossing and a 2D Mario were missing on the Switch either as a thing or on the horizon. Then today they go and announce both.
 
They've just gone down the list of their best selling franchises haven't they....

I'm basing this purely on sales on previous consoles. New SMB Wii outsold Galaxy about 3:1, New SMB 2 despite being the least interesting entry IMO matched the sales of 3D Land. Then on Wii U the incredibly unimpressive New SMB U outsold 3D World. There is quite a bit of precedent there.

Though with that said, if you were to rank all the "3D" mario games by sales it'd be:
1. Super Mario 64 (11.9mill)
2. Super Mario Galaxy (11.4mill)
3. Super Mario 3D Land (11.3mill)
4. Super Mario Odyssey (11.2mill)
5. Super Mario 64 DS (10.3mill)
6. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (7.6mill)
7. Super Mario Sunshine (6.3mill)
8. Super Mario 3D World (5mill)

It's going to be the best selling 3D Mario, easily. So you're probably right

It's a bit tricky to figure out which games are their biggest currently. In the previous generation there were some franchises only on 3DS or Wii U like Splatoon or Animal Crossing and other games like Metriod which were pretty much absent entirely. And with the Switch obviously it hasn't been around for long enough to have all the franchises. But Pokemon is definitely #1 and as a best guess I'd say the franchises rank something like this in terms of "sales potential":
 
1. Pokemon
2. Mario Kart
3. 2D Mario
4. 3D Mario
5. Animal Crossing
6. Smash Bros
7. Zelda
8. Splatoon
9. Donkey Kong Country
10. Metroid

So.... I'm not going to be able to compete with the OP. All of this gear is off the shelf and excluding cabling the network itself (i.e. routers, APs, switches etc) is only ~$500 worth of gear. Maybe a bit more, I don't exactly keep track. Anyways, here's mine. I'm pretty happy with it and I thought this thread needed something a bit simpler
 

 
A bit of a guide to reading it....
- Each box is a separate room
- Solid lines are Ethernet, fine dotted lines are powerline and dashed lines are wireless
- The thickest solid lines are 1Gbps links, the other lines are 100Mbps
- NAS is a consumer grade 2 bay NAS, the two Sonos speakers are Play 1s
- 8Mbps Internet..... because Australia

It's actually a pretty good game that really plays to one of the Switch's most unique features. We have had powerful portable consoles before, we've had home consoles with motion controls before. Touch screen gaming is also a thing and has been for a while. But there really hasn't been another gaming device before the Switch where you can sit a screen on a table and share a controller with a second player. Simple 2D fighting games in particular shine on this system.
 
For me I've found that games like "Keep talking and Nobody Explodes" and the Jackbox party Pack games have been the biggest surprise. They've basically replaced Cards Against Humanity as the games night staple for me. I'm also kinda interested in the idea of Mario Party for the first time in a long time for the same reason.

Except it does show it. Look at that screen again and you'll notice two things about this image you've captured. Firstly it shows two icons under each piece of software with a number next to them. Because both games aren't stored on internal storage on the image of the Switch it shows "---". Next to the SD Card icon on yours it shows that I am Setsuna taking up 1.3GB and BotW taking up 162MB. So it is showing you where that data is stored. That's your confirmation.
 
But your issue is with the bar on the side which effectively shows you the same information. Why is BotW not highlighted in the same way as I am Setsuna? Well because it's a smaller game. You see selecting a game on the list doesn't actually highlight where the game is stored. It highlights how much storage the game is taking up and where. With BotW taking up ~1/10th of the storage used up and 1/1000th of the SD Card? Of course it barely highlights anything! Download the demo of PuyoPuyo Tetris and look at the same page again, you'll see what's happening here.

Worst option: Buying a new router. It won't make things worse but if your issue is coverage it probably won't make it better either
Not Much Better: WiFi Range extenders. Will they extend range? Well sure. But they'll also halve your bandwidth or worse....
Possibly ok: Mesh WiFi system. Some of these are just glorified range extenders but some have a dedicated radio for backhaul. A bit pricey but
Not Bad: Powerline + WiFi combo units. These use powerline for backhaul which adds another variable. But potentially greater speeds is the result
Best: Run Ethernet to where you want good WiFi and add access points. The only limitation here is the WiFi spec itself

When these third parties release apps. NicoNico already has an app so the idea that Nintendo are blocking these is a bit illinformed....