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    ASrock X570/TB3 Issues

    in Peripherals

    Posted

    Hey LTT forums, it's been a long while since I posted on here... But hello again!

     

    A little bit of backstory, I'm a Mac and Linux guy, and have been for a number of years. so I'm used to either things just "working" or being able to "sudo" things if it's being dumb, haha. I daily drove macOS for years up until I built my new machine the other week. A big part of me agreeing with myself that I could switch to daily driving Windows was that Thunderbolt was available on Windows more or less stably now. As being a mac guy thunderbolt had become part of my life and I own countless thunderbolt accessories as well as my setup has become based around a UAD Apollo DUO thunderbolt.

     

    I opted for the ASrock X50/TB3 with a Ryzen 7 3800X and 32gb of ram, and a Titan X. As I wanted an ITX build and wanted decent CPU headroom for virtualization for development reasons. and of course thunderbolt support. I got it all together and I'm very happy with the overall performance of the build. However I seem to have entered a never ending fight with thunderbolt...

     

    First day of having the machine up, thunderbolt wasn't working and I figured "that's fine I'll update some drivers when I have time and it'll start working"... fast-forward a week and after troubleshooting and reading almost every ASrock related Thunderbolt post I'm stumped. All drivers have been updated to the latest, Motherboard BIOS has been updated, thunderbolt firmware (NVM) has been updated to v50.0. and still no thunderbolt devices work. If I plug in a thunderbolt device windows seems to decide it's a USB device and gives me "A request for the USB device descriptor failed"... Which I guess makes sense that it throughs and error given its a TB device. But how then do I tell windows that this is a thunderbolt device and it is to treat it as such? Does anyone have any experience with ASrock's thunderbolt on AMD implementation? Is there something obvious I'm missing?

     

    TL;DR windows throughs error "A request for the USB device descriptor failed" when a thunderbolt device is plugged into a thunderbolt port. On ASrock X570/TB3

     

    Cheers, all! and thanks in advance for the help!

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    VMWare ESXI 6.0.0U2 NVIDIA GPU Passthru

    in Linux, macOS and Everything Not-Windows

    Posted

    Thanks for that guide!

     

    I've actually been following this to get a GTX560ti working on an old Apple Xserve. So far the furthest i've gotten is for windows to recognize the card and GPU Z to see as if its acting normal. my issue being that when I try to connect a display or trick windows into a dummy display, I get a blue screen on the VM with a "nvlddmkm.sys" error. I'd love someones suggestions on what to try? currently working on rolling the driver back to 388.13 if that doesn't work though, i'm out of ideas.

     

    working on windows 7 Pro SP1 

     

    Xserve specs:

    2x Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHZ

    12GB of ECC RAM

    GTX 560ti attached externally via a PCI-E Extender.

    Touring Mac Pro QLab Rig

    in New Builds and Planning

    Posted

     

    5 minutes ago, Alaradia said:

    i'm confused how  you got the trash can macs into a rack did you take t the mother boards out and hang it flat?? though just use metal ties(stainless-steel-cable-ties) and a bunch of m3 double sided tape and some foam if it needs back support can't really suggest anything more specific since im not sure how its mounted in it

    it was just zip tied to the shelf no disassembly. The idea of M3 tape, foam and stainless steel ties is one i've had and thought about.

    Touring Mac Pro QLab Rig

    in New Builds and Planning

    Posted

    Hey guys. 

    It's been a while since I posted here but I'm a little stumped with this build for work i'm doing. The build is a set of 3 5U racks built to tour and run a program called QLab which is a speciality program to run theatre shows. The problem i'm having is two of the racks have trashcan Macs in them, they were mounted to a rack shelf via heavy duty zip ties. But the zip ties broke on the tour it was just on. So what I need you guys's help for, is I need Ideas on how to mount the Macs on a shelf without breaking on tour. I would like to avoid one of those rack mac systems, for two reasons. 1. weight, this needs to be able to fly. 2. I don't have a huge budget for this and more just have to make do with what I have. I know this is a PC based forum so id like to put it out there that I can't build a rack mountable PC for this, because 1. budget 2. I need it to be super reliable. 

    FreeNAS Build

    in New Builds and Planning

    Posted

    Your budget is going to the wrong places, also that WD green drive is going to die man

    this has the top end CPU, and a motherboard with 4 sata ports

    PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xZXYMp

    Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xZXYMp/by_merchant/

    CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor ($45.99 @ SuperBiiz)

    Motherboard: ASRock AM1H-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard ($44.99 @ SuperBiiz)

    Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($30.99 @ Amazon)

    Case: Apex SK-393-C ATX Mid Tower Case ($25.97 @ NCIX US)

    Power Supply: SeaSonic 300W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($35.99 @ SuperBiiz)

    Total: $183.93

    Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

    Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-13 17:27 EST-0500

    also this guy did an AM1 NAS build

    http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/am1-athlon-5350-freenas-file-server.201676/

    as for plex stuff it can probably handle one device for like 720p streaming, maybe 2, but single 1080p streaming seems to be it's limit

    Thanks! I was wondering about that wd green drive ill buy another seagate NAS drive then

    FreeNAS Build

    in New Builds and Planning

    Posted

    If there's any chance you'll run a Plex server and stream straight from the server, then I would probably consider going with a more powerful CPU. I don't know how well that cpu will handle transcoding (it's probably good enough for a single 1080p stream, but not much more than that).

    There isn't a very big chance of useing plex,if i did it would be one or two streams thats it. I might end up doing some ftp stuff but i don't think that'll be too intensive

    FreeNAS Build

    in New Builds and Planning

    Posted

    What specifically are you going to be using it for, and what's the likelihood of that changing in the future? I built my NAS and have since changed my goals slightly and now kind of regret some of the decisions I've made. 

    at the moment it'll be for backup (BitTorrent sync seems to be the way I want to go). and for mass storage, pictures, movies, music, etc.

    Laptop for audio school

    in Phones and Tablets

    Posted

    I love it, but it is not a feature that you should necessarily include in a buying decision. It is mainly an add-on, the gestures are nice and responsive. If you do go to an Apple Store, remember to try out all of the trackpad's features. 

    Thanks for the help man!

    Laptop for audio school

    in Phones and Tablets

    Posted

    i have an early-2015 13 inch, with 16GB of RAM. I think both laptops are great choices, but I chose the Macbook Pro because of battery and OSX. I don't care about the graphics on the Razer Blade 14 because after an hour of gaming on high, you're out of battery. I really like the Macbook Pro, but both have pros and cons.

     

    Advantages of Macbook Pro: 

    CPU power

    Portability

    Battery

    RAM (if you upgrade)

    PCIe SSD

    OS X

    Touch Pad

    Durability

     

    Advantages of Razer Blade: 

    Graphics 

    Portability 

    Windows 10

    Ram (if upgraded)

    M.2 SSD

     

    I would suggest going to an Apple Store and just browse the web on a Macbook Pro

    thanks for the insight, ill probably go into an apple store someday soon. while im here what do you think of the force touch trackpad? (if yours has it)

    Laptop for audio school

    in Phones and Tablets

    Posted

    I have a Macbook Pro, it is great for school. Battery life is great and I can play games like Minecraft and CS:GO for a long time on decent settings (note that the higher the setting, the more it eats away at the battery). The fans also ramp up and are pretty loud when gaming. OSX is a very good operating system, smooth and efficient. In conclusion, my laptop is very portable, I don't need to carry a charger around, gaming is adequate, and OS X is what pulls me in. Any questions?

    what year macbook pro do you have? and do think its better for school and just general computing compared to something like a razer blade 14?

    Laptop for audio school

    in Phones and Tablets

    Posted

    Remember that with OS X and MacBook Pros, you can use Boot Camp Assistant (iSwitched to Mac from Linus on YouTube; search for it) to dual boot with Windows. If you want to go that route, then I would get a mid-2012 non-retina 13". It is the last one to be made with any upgradability in mind, and you can get a kit of Corsair Mac Memory 16GB 1600 MHz for $100 (it's a bit on the expensive side, but is Mac validated). It's better than forking over many hundreds of dollars for only 8 GB of RAM. And you could put an SSD like the Sandisk Extreme Pro, which helps you prevent hard drive oopsies. Apple charges $650 for that sucker. Pay like $150. Don't use the Apple SSD. It's inferior hardware, and it costs way more.

    thats not a bad idea but if i go with a 2012 im not gaining much over my current laptop in performance. im just trading in for a more portable one

     

     So is there any decided budget?

    not really, cheaper is better

     

    msi GS 60 or 70

    or customize your own maingear pulse 15/17 which is a custom build GS laptop with some additional stuff :)

    hmmm....

    Laptop for audio school

    in Phones and Tablets

    Posted

    Hello LTT Forums

    i'm going to be attending audio production school come July (its a ways away but Christmas and stuff) and would like to get a new laptop considering mine is a few years old. it runs great and all but it ways close to the same as a tank and I don't want to be lugging it around day after day.

    heres what im looking for:

    - Portability not ultrabook slim but still something that won't way me down everyday from carrying it around all day

    - Decent battery life

    - Power. I want to be able to do at least a little bit of casual gaming in my spare time and also for editing audio which I have a feeling I might need to do

    - Thunder bolt would be really nice to have

     

    ​i hope you guys can point me in the right direction, i was thinking macbook pro but the price and im not sure im ready to switch to OSX

    FX 6300 gaming

    in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory

    Posted

    the first 2 problems can be kinda eliminated with the 8320e. Not entirely however

    If you're looking to do a lot for streaming/video editing its worth the extra cash for an I5 or I7 but if you're just casually doing it then its better to stick with what you got till you need the upgrade

    FX 6300 gaming

    in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory

    Posted

    I see you have an 8320 how is it doing for you or what do you use your PC for (Gaming, rendering, livestreaming) and how does it perform in those tasks

    I personally really like my 8320, I use this computer for gaming and a little bit of creative work now and again (Photoshop, video editing) and a lot of multitasking the, downsides i see right now is 1. it puts out a fair bit of heat (I don't have/need a heater in my room) 2. it draws a lot of power. im starting to become more energy conscious recently (call me a tree huger, whatever) but idle my rig draws 100W-150W (probably also have my 270x to blame). 3. I do most of my creative stuff on my laptop with a I7 3632QM and that will beat my FX any day in video editing or anything more CPU intensive.

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