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Thanks, I thought I went overboard with this setup. Would it be possible to make a portion of the network completely boxed off so it behaves like a seperate network? What I mean is for example I dont want to expose my cameras and security stuff to the internet. I heard and read about vlan but do I need special hardware to do that? Thanks, that should be more than enough!

Hello everyone, I have a few questions regarding on how I am planing to do the networking in my home. For that I have made this diagram on how I as a noob would do it: My home has two floors so I assume I need two switches to have lan everywhere. How long can Lan cables be until they loose the signal? What would you change, add or remove? Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone! I decided to make my house quite a bit smarter than it is now. The only smart thing I own is a coffee maker So I was looking around for lights, switches, smoke detectors, an intercom and things like that. But I got quickly overwhelmed by all the possibilites. Apparently nearly every smart device has its own HUB. So does that mean I need many different HUBs which are controlled by an x amount of different apps or can I have like one central HUB? My plan would be as such. I have a unused Raspberry Pi4. I would install Home Assistant to have like one place where I can control everything. The Rpi would connect to a cheap 8 port poe switch and from there to a router. After that every device would be connected via Wifi or POE to my WAN. So here I have another question. If I have cheap surveillance cameras connected to a NVR. Can I connect the NVR (it has a LAN port) via LAN to the router and over WAN to my Raspberry and Home Assistant? How do you choose devices for your Smart Home? Do you use Home Assistant or do you use a different kind of software? I just dont want to go on a shopping spree to just find out later that some of the devices do not work the way I intended. Thanks a lot!

Hello everyone. Today I thought I could overclock my graphics card a little bit to get a decent boost in performance. So I have run the OC Scanner from MSI Afterburner to get a curve and applied a offset on the memory clock (+800Mhz). It seems to be working just fine and I did not get any crashes until now. I have the fans of the graphics card set to be at max speed at 60°C. At 100% fan speed and full load the temps are rising to max. 67°C. And it stays at 67°C no matter how long I run a test. (I have run the Komustor test. After 7 min it reached max temps and even an hour later it was still at 67°C.) The issue I have is the constant max fan speed while gaming. The jet engine like sound aside I dont think that it is healthy for the fan to blow at 100% constantly while gaming, right? Any tips what I can do? It is a blow type cooler design with just one fan. Would it be possible to put another cooler on it? Or what would you do in my place? Or do I just have to live with it and put it back to stock speeds to not go deaf and possibly destroy the cooler? I have the Bequiet Pure Base 600 Case with 3 intake fans on the front and one exhaust fan at the back of the case. Thats how it looks like: Here I have the automatic generated Voltage/frequency curve from MSI Afterburner, my fan curve and the MSI Kombustor Stress test (please ignore the red lines I drew with my mouse):

Thanks for the explanation! When I put the graphics card together after all this I will cross my fingers that it will work better than before...hopefully at all. ;D

Ok then I will stick to the old thermal pads and I will only clean and change the old thermal paste and I will see if I can get the graphics card to work normaly again. or not to run as hot.

I see, sorry for the late reply. I never opened a graphics card before. I have seen in a lot of videos that you should also change the thermal pads when opening the card and when you change the thermal paste. I searched on the EVGA forums for thermal pads for my "EVGA GTX980 TI FTW Gaming ACX2.0" and I found differing results some say I need thermal pads with 1mm and others say 2mm. Does it make a huge difference?

Can you elaborate a little more about what you mean with mounts? The graphics card is just in the PCIE slot and screwed in by a screw to the tower in the back. (I dont know how you call that in english but there are these removable thingies in the back of almost every case But I never removed the graphics card in years, and the issue started like at the beginning of this year or so. Well if it is a heat issue which I can not fix I just have to hope for the best i suppose. Sadly I have no way to check, but if it is dying then I hope it will last a couple of months until I have money for a new card.

Hello everyone! A few month ago it started with random crashes. But now everytime I start a game (it does not have to be demanding whatsoever) I get a blackscreen after about 10 minutes of playtime and then it crashes to the desktop. What I have tried already: 1. reinstalled the latest drivers 2. DDUed and installed the latest one 3. Updated Windows (just to be sure) But nothing helped. When I start FurMark it freezes my PC almost instantly (it happens after 2 seconds max). After a few seconds my screen gets black (for a split second) then FurMark closes and I can work again as if nothing happend. Out of pure curiosity I fired up MSI Afterburner and lowered the Memory Clock and the Core Clock to the minimum I could set it to. Now i started FurMark again and it did not crash. I let it sit for a few minutes but nothing extraordinary weird happend. Well apart from the thing that it gets toasty 92°C hot. This may be a lot of "Heat Degree Units" but it at least pushed through and stayed at that level. I thought to myself that I should clean my graphics card a little bit, since it got so hot. To my supprise there was nearly no dust on it or on the fan and heatsink (I vacuumed it anyways but the temps didnt change much.) I have a big tower with 5 fans (3 intake and 2 exhaust) and it is almost empty (the graphics card should have enough room to breath). But temperature cant be the issue here because (well not an immidiate one at least) when I play Katana Zero (which is really not a demanding game) the game crashes after 10 Minutes or even sooner. When I underclock the graphics card I can play any game. But because of that I loose a few fps. Can I expect that my graphics card is slowly dying? With temps like these I would assume that this is the case. If so what can I do to keep it alive longer? What do you think is causing this behavior? I dont want to loose a graphics card at a time like this :S

Budget (including currency): 900~1200 Euro Country: Austria Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Minecraft, Mail Server, Security (Surveillence Cameras) , Massive File Storage, Small Homepage, PiHole (it seems to be available via Docker) I want to make a multipurpose Server which can handle whatever lightweight task I throw at it. The primary purpose would be using it as a file storage device but I also want to have my own Mail server running. Furthermore I have three USB cameras which I would like to access via my smartphone through the server. Propably the least important application to have is a Minecraft server running on the system (if possible with mods). To achieve all of that I would use Docker, which seems to fulfill all my earthly needs Here is the configuration I came up with: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/hqZcqp CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor -> €189.90 CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 CHROMAX.BLACK 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler -> €99.90 Motherboard:ASRock A520M-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard -> €104.11 Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory -> €157.02 Storage Western Digital Green 240 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive -> €31.21 Storage Western Digital Red 2 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive -> €75.78 x4 Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case -> €86.79 Power Supply:be quiet! Straight Power 11 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply -> €110.99 Total:€1083.04 What do you think about this configuration? What would you change and why? Thanks for your help!

Thank you all for the informations. @minibois Thank you too for the explanation video

As I was browsing Youtube I came across a video where someone compared ASIC Qualities of a few recent graphics cards. Sadly there was no further explanation, what this is. I did some research on my own and I found out it is a measurement of how good of a quality the GPU on my graphics card is. Higher is obviously better but can someone tell me in plain text what the "Interpretation" area means for me? Also what kind of rating do you have if I may ask?

I was thinking...what brand do I trust the most in my PCs? Or what brand do you tend to use more often? I mean for power supplies I trust "Bequiet" the most. They never failed me. Or if I mention CPU coolers, the Noctuas Ive got worked always like magic. Even the color of the fans is managable if you close both eyes (Yeah I know there is a black edition, maybe I will buy it too haha) So what brand do you prefer and why? Here is my humble List: Power Supply: BeQuiet CPU Cooler: Noctua CPU: Intel and AMD (have both, and I like them both the same way) SSD: Samsung (had a OCZ once and it died after one year, then I switched to Samsung and I will probably never turn back) Graphics Card: Nvidia -> EVGA (because of the changeable cooler without loosing warranty), Radeon -> Sapphire Mainboard: ASUS (frankly I dont know why I always tend to buy ASUS Mainboards, they always had everything I needed for a price I could afford) RAM: For the RAM I have no particular brand, I tend to get what is the cheapest in the given category.

Hey folks, first of all I hope you all have a very beautiful and nice weekend. So here is my problem. At the moment I have a slightly worn GTX 980 Ti paired with an ASUS PG279Q 1440p IPS 165Hz monitor. Apart from needing to undervolt and underclock the Graphics Card or it will randomly crash...well apart from that its working completely fine, but thats not the point of this particular thread is it I want to have a 2nd or maybe a 3rd monitor hooked on my computer, so my first question is...will a RTX 3080 be able to run three 1440p monitors? But at most two should not be a problem right? Furthermore I was looking for a tripple wall mount for those monitors, but they are none. I was just finding tripple monitor mounts for installing directly to the desk itself. But I found this one and I am planing to buy 3 of those and installing them directly to my wall: ARCTIC W1-3D Here it is how it looks (it is in a spoiler because I am to inept to rescale the picture): So that would be the wall mount for the monitors. But I need to make a decision reagarding those 2 new monitors. My budget for those two monitors is 600 Euros each. I would prefer to have all three monitors to be the same brand and model but the PQ279Q is still priced at 650 Euros on Amazon, which is for two more monitors 100 Euro over my current budget. But I found this monitor ASUS ROG Swift PG278QE It looks very similar or even exactly like my current monitor. Specwise it is a LED panel with a reaction time of 1ms instead of the 4ms my IPS monitor has. Would you buy that monitor in my case or would you wait a little bit and buy my current display again if I have the cash for it?

I have this weird thing going on. It shows on startup that I need to press F2/DEL to go into BIOS/UEFI but when I do that my screen goes black and nothing happens. Ive tried all ports on my graphics card. (Palit RTX 2070 Super X) Neither the 3 Displayport or the one HDMI port works. (Obviously I switched between the sources on my monitor Asus PG279Q) But it boots into Windows just fine and I do not have any issues. Mainboard is -> Asrock Fatal1ty b450 gaming-itx/ac