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Data issues aside; @LinusTech Regarding the Billet Labs situation, could you please publicly state and justify the monetary compensation paid out to Billet Labs for the “loss” of their prototype? What steps are you taking to prevent such issues in the future?

Here's the thing even a hypothetical PCIE-6.0 32x slot is a fraction of the transfer speed of the memory so the stuff the GPU needs to do any given work allready has to have been put in the VRAM before it goes looking for it. if it isn;t it's going to bottleneck terribly. And the amount of data your going to need for a given piece of work is going to increase based on how often and how complex it is, (both of which scale with processing power), so your vram capacity is going to have to go up. And you have to transfer this new larger data sets around in the same or less time than the old data sets so you need higher transfer speeds. in fact for work that heavily leverages the tensor cores i suspect the A100 might be bandwidth or VRAM capacity bottlenecked, (or both).
 
@leadeater I know int8 means 8 bit integer and fp16 means floating point 16 bit but what is ttf 32. Obviously a 32 bit operation but no clue what TF stands for.

In total she will have 2TB of flash in her PC and 4tb of HDD. Finished projects will go to the server. I think its enough.

Thanks for the replies!
 
The Cooler is there because I have one already at home. Since the case is closed there should be no issues with the NH-D15. 2x16 is a good idea. totally forgot that this is an option. pcie4 nvme is a nice bonus - but not nessesary yet. thats why I went with samsung because so far they've been reliable.
good to know. I think than 2070s it is. more would be wasted. fortunatly we can upgrade the graphics card pretty easy and therefore I think 2070s is enough for the next 2-4 years. she currently has two 1080p dell 60hz monitors and a 2070s should drive them pretty easy for 3 years.
Thanks, will give her the choice of brands regarding PSU. Corsair is kinda burned for me because of their support.

Made some changes.
Same cooler but more compatible so it doesn't clash with ram.
Cheaper motherboard
2x16gb ram instead of 4x8 (leaves room to upgrade, also cheaper)
Pcie 4 storage for cheaper than the samsung drive.
Better psu (even if it's gold v platinum, it's actually better quality with more reliable protection)
With the savings, upgraded to a 2080 super. You can dial that back to a 2070 s if you think it's too much. Unfortunately, no good gpu's are without "gaming" in their names.
 
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor €497.99 @ Amazon Deutschland CPU Cooler Noctua NH-D15S 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler €79.90 @ Amazon Deutschland Motherboard Asus PRIME X570-P ATX AM4 Motherboard €189.90 @ Alternate Memory G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory €195.89 @ Mindfactory Storage Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive €199.94 @ Amazon Deutschland Video Card MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card €787.99 @ Mindfactory Case Fractal Design Define R6 USB-C ATX Mid Tower Case €146.89 @ Alternate Power Supply BitFenix Whisper M 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply €94.90 @ Amazon Deutschland   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total €2193.40   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-15 11:10 CET+0100    
 

hardware canucks have already up a video for navi
 

this is BS.
 
The website still doesn't work for me. on ultrawide, it's just ugly - mainly due to the fact that there is no dark-mode. I get a big white-ish boarder around videos.
 
The thumbnail-cancer is also real and due to a lack of consistent colors, it makes the overview kinda messy. it works for youtube because they use the text below the videos and not on the thumbnail with just a black-ish background. also, those thumbnails are way smaller.
 
for me it is a dealbreaker. I really want to support LMG and also FPC, but the lack of UI customization (show videos as a list, dark mode etc.) makes me really not want to use it.
 
another thing which is annoying is that pages take ages to load, I stare for at least 2 seconds on a blank screen with no information (to reproduce: click on a video, then go back via browser...). you know - prerender is a thing and it's a possibility for a reason.
 
if i'm lost somewhere and i click the logo on the top i get refered to the homepage (which probably lists videos of all subscribed creators) but I only see 5 Items, so I have to do 1 more click to get to the lmg channel (before staring at whitespace for about 2 seconds....).
 
edit:
while talking about design I just started up a video. 
open 2 browsers: left one you have a fpc-video playing, the other one you load a youtube video.
do you notice the navigation above the video? this creates some space so you don't have the feeling that your video isn't cut on the top. on floatplane the video is directly under the bookmark bar - this makes the video seem to cut of in the top. add some padding here on the top - or even better use the space.
 
all in all it still feels like an alpha version. Let me tell you this: no one will care about how good the service is - when the UX is bad no one will appreciate your work

this is BS.
 
The website still doesn't work for me. on ultrawide, it's just ugly - mainly due to the fact that there is no dark-mode. I get a big white-ish boarder around videos.
 
The thumbnail-cancer is also real and due to a lack of consistent colors, it makes the overview kinda messy. it works for youtube because they use the text below the videos and not on the thumbnail with just a black-ish background. also, those thumbnails are way smaller.
 
for me it is a dealbreaker. I really want to support LMG and also FPC, but the lack of UI customization (show videos as a list, dark mode etc.) makes me really not want to use it.
 
another thing which is annoying is that pages take ages to load, I stare for at least 2 seconds on a blank screen with no information (to reproduce: click on a video, then go back via browser...). you know - prerender is a thing and it's a possibility for a reason.
 
if i'm lost somewhere and i click the logo on the top i get refered to the homepage (which probably lists videos of all subscribed creators) but I only see 5 Items, so I have to do 1 more click to get to the lmg channel (before staring at whitespace for about 2 seconds....).
 
edit:
while talking about design I just started up a video. 
open 2 browsers: left one you have a fpc-video playing, the other one you load a youtube video.
do you notice the navigation above the video? this creates some space so you don't have the feeling that your video isn't cut on the top. on floatplane the video is directly under the bookmark bar - this makes the video seem to cut of in the top. add some padding here on the top - or even better use the space.
 
all in all it still feels like an alpha version. Let me tell you this: no one will care about how good the service is - when the UX is bad no one will appreciate your work

As people stated already: Just do it.
Way back in the 90's it was much easier to really break something or have something not working (master/slave devices...).
Today everything is kinda easy. Just make sure you don't rush. if you encounter an issue. google it.
 
Just one thing I have to tell myself every damn time:
If you have to apply thermal paste to your CPU just trust yourself that you've done it right. Don't put the cooler on and then remove it to check. Just believe in that you've done it right. Chances are pretty low that you've done it wrong.

I recomend using this one: https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15/
 
According to BQ Website your tower has an available cooler height of 185cm, the cooler will use 165cm.

My corsair h115i AIO broke after like 3 years (more precisely the pump stopped working). so I went back to a Noctua nh-d15. acoustics is almost the same (had 4x noctua 14" in push/pull, with a custom-silent curve). 
 
so the hassle is not worth it. get a decent air cooler and you'll be fine and have more money to spend on performance gains.

No worries, there are a good few amount of cases that can do this with an open top!
 
Phanteks Enthoo Pro M TG (though, this requires purchase of seperate brackets to get up tp 6)
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/2mQRsY/phanteks-enthoo-pro-m-tempered-glass-atx-mid-tower-case-ph-es515ptg_bk
 
Phantkes Enthoo Luxe TG (bigger than the R5)
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/78zZxr/phanteks-enthoo-luxe-tempered-glass-black-atx-full-tower-case-ph-es614ltg_bk
 
Corsair 750D (No TG)
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Rwhj4D/corsair-case-cc9011078ww
 
Dark Base Pro 900 (Expensive AF)
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/D4M323/be-quiet-dark-base-pro-900-black-atx-full-tower-case-bgw11 
 
NZXT H440 (not the best airflow)
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/gwzZxr/nzxt-case-cah442wm1
 

EDIT: This is heavily outdated and half the stuff in here doesn't work anymore due to some repos no longer being maintained. I probably won't be updating it though since A - time, B - my current setup is pretty different, C - I think other people can do this better.
 
Steps:
What is unraid and how does it work Components installing unraid setting up the shares configuring your router plugins and docker OpenVPN Plex Apache MineOS backups crontab further reading 1-Preamble
 
When it comes down to it unraid is a linux distribution, under the hood it uses a standard linux kernel and kvm, so in theory you can do everything unraid can with open-source freeware. Note however, that the UI and a few of the plugins definitely are worth the 50 bucks you pay for it.
The NAS side works the following way:
You have shares, which can be exported via SMB or NFS, so you can access them over the network like any other drive. The files are then distributed on the actual drives, but not striped, so even if you lose 2 drives at the same time, you wouldn't lose all the data. Each share has its own privacy rules. but non are encrypted by default.
The parity is something rather interesting, each part of the parity drive holds the value of all other drives x-ored, so you can rebuild any one drive. Note that this only works, when you replace that drive on its own, not, when you replace 1 failed drive with 2. Adding a second parity allows any 2 drives to fail but that math is orders of magnitude harder.
 
2-Components
 
Here is what you need for a server:
CPU (should go with at least a modern dualcore) Motherboard Power Supply Case A USB drive (should go with at least 8GB) 2 or more Harddrives (see below) With the harddrives there are a few things to consider, first, a failing harddrive is a real danger to your data, no matter what you do, so you shouldn't go with the sketchiest drives you can find, but you also don't need anything fancy. Also: you should get a drive that is at least as large, as the largest drive you want to add in the future.
If you want to have a proper backup, you need all the components twice of course.
 
 
3-installing unraid
 
First start downloading the unraid server zip from this page, then insert your USB drive, rightclick in the explorer, hit format, select FAT32 and name it 'UNRAID'.
After that, put all files from the zip onto the flashdrive and execute "makebootable.bat" as administrator. Now insert it into the newly built computer.
Go into the BIOS and set USB as the top boot priority.
Now you can unplug keyboard and screen from the server, you won't need them anymore.
Go to your normal PC, open a browser and type in "http://tower" and hit enter. On the page you will land on you can either get a trial key or copy-paste your key.
 
First things first: you want to set a password for your "root" (admin) account:
Go to the "users" tab, click on the "root" account and add a password. Hit "done".
After you got that sorted out, go to the "Main" tab. Now select your largest drive as parity and put the others in as disks.
Now just hit the format button and, when finished, start the array.
 
 
4-shares
 
Now this depends heavily on usecase, I decided that the best option for me is giving each server 2 shares, one being the "main" share of that server, the other one holding backups of the other one's main share.
To create shares, go to the "Shares" tab, click add share, type in the name and optionally select "use cache drive", I would advise to keep the rest unchanged. Hit "add share".
Now, you can select the export settings, if your household is only using windows (apart from the unraid server(s)) you can just hit "done". If you have linux machines that are supposed to be able to access the data, you need to enable NFS. 
If you want to make it only accessible to certain people, hit "done" for the moment, go to the "users" tab, create a new user, go back to the "shares" tab, click the name of the share, and select "private" or "secure" for all exports. "secure" means only the selected users have write access, but everyone has read access, "private" gives no permission to other users.
Usually you should make it "secure" with read/write for root.
 
 
5-The router
 
First, you should think about what parts of the server you want to make public. I would recommend only making a potential website, a VPN and potentially your Plex public.
Here are some common ports:
HTTP (Websites) Port 80
Plex Port 32400
OpenVPN Port 1194 (changeable) 
Minecraft Port 25565
CoD 4 Ports 28960 20800 20810
 
Now go to your router page (most commonly 192.168.0.1) and add a port forward from port 80 to port 80 on the IP of your server.  Use a page like this one to check whether it is open or not and immediately delete this port forward!
If the port did not show up as open, give your ISP a call and ask whether you are on IPv4 and whether your IP is capsuled. Try to sound annoyed and ask them to give you your own IPv4, while you are at it, you could also ask, whether you have a DNS running, and what the domain for it is and, if not, whether your IP is static. After they worked their magic, try again.
Now just forward all the ports to your server. If you want to host a website (public port needs to be 80), do not forward to the internal port 80, use 8080 internally instead, otherwise anyone can access the settings of you unraid server and thus your private network.
 
 
6-plugins and docker
 
Time to add stuff to listen to these ports.
First, lets add the unofficial, "app store". Go to the plugins tab, install plugins and copy paste this url:
After this is done, go to the new "Apps" tab and search for "openvpn". Install the "OpenVPN Server" and, if you want to back up the server to another one in a different network, install the "OpenVPN Client" on the other one. While you are at it, go to the "docker" tab, click add container, select the "plex" template and hit "done". 
 
 
7-OpenVPN
 
Now go to "settings", openVPN Server, "OpenVPN Server Cert/Misc" and configure to your desire, 2048bit RSA is still considered safe, but the only trade off for using 4096bit is a bit of time during signing and connecting. I'd also change the path to store server and client certificates to "/boot/config/plugins/openvpnserver/" for convince sake. Hit "save configuration" and go to the next tab. Here you could leave anything at default as well, but if you already have a DNS it doesn't hurt to specify your domain.
Hit "save" and go to the first tab.
Install EasyRSA with the button and generate the server certificate. Go to the clients, keep the default selected and type in the certificate name (doesn't really matter). Go to the first tab again and start the openvpn server.
 
Now navigate to the path you specified for the client certificates to be stored in ("boot" is exported as "flash") and go into the folder with the name of your client certificate. Copy the ".ovpn" file.
On the client side (could be another unraid server, or your PC, install the client software and navigate to the openVPN folder.
Windows: C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config , unraid with plugin: \\[ServerIP]\flash\config\plugins\openvpnclient and store the certificate there.
 
At this point you really want a either a static IP or a DNS. I decided to buy a domain from No-IP, but this service also offers free (ugly) domains.After you registered your domain and account, go to the "apps" tab and search for "noip" and install. Now navigate to \\[ServerIP]\appdata\No-Ip\ and edit the .config file (I'd recommend Notepad++) and fill in your information. Save, go to the "Docker" tab and start No-IP (might also want it to auto-start), if your information in the .config file is correct it will start, otherwise it won't. 
 
Now you can navigate back to the .ovpn file on your client, edit it with Notepad++ and change the first line to "remote [yourdomain].[tld]".
 
Congratulations, after saving you should now be able to remote into the network where your server is at any time like
 
 
8-Plex
 
Plex is way easier to set up, after you added a container using the plex preset, you are almost good to go. Click the plex-icon under "Docker", click "edit", "Add another path/port/variable" name it however you please, under container path just type /plex or /movies etc. under host path type /mnt/user/[your share]/[folder] give it read/write access and hit "apply". Now start the plex server, click the icon again to open the "web-ui". Login or register, press "add library" and select the folder you specified as /plex or /movies in the last step. Press "next" and "done".
 
Now you can access your movies from everywhere by either getting a plex app or just typing "[yourdomain].[tld]:32400" into your browser.
 
[If you want something similar for mine-os (minecraft server) and or apache (a website), please comment. I think these are pretty niche things]
 
9-Apache
 
So, you want a website and already have your website as a .html file(s), but are wondering how to get it out there? My answer: get a professional web-hosting service. 
But if you really want to host it yourself Apache is a good solution. 
First step: go to your router again and add a forward from port 80 to port 8080 on your server, I can only say it again, do not forward anything to port 80 on your server!
Now go to the "Apps" tab, search for "Apache" and "Apache" by "linuxserver". 
You will be send to a Docker configuration page. Here you need to change "Host Port 1" from 80 to 8080.
Hit "apply", then "done".
Go to the "Docker" tab, click on the Apache icon and press restart. Now wait for the page to reload.
Open explorer and navigate to apache on the "appdata" share. 
Place your .html file(s) directly in the folder "www" and make sure the page people are supposed to land on is named "index.html"
Hit the apache logo in the "Docker" tab again, restart and wait for the page to refresh.
Now you should have a nicely working website!
 
 
10-MineOS
 
To get a (or in fact multiple) Minecraft servers running, you should install MineOS. To to "apps" search for MineOS and install. 
On the docker configuration page change the variable in "key1" to change your password, then hit apply and done.
Go to the "Docker" tab, click the MineOS icon and open the WebUI. If you have a decent browser installed you will now get a warning, pass that warning and login with account name "minecraft" and your password.
Click on "manage profiles" now it depends a bit on what you want to do:
 
If you just want a vanilla server click on "create stock profile" and select your version. Now wait for the page to refresh and press the green "update" button next to the new profile. Wait for the page to refresh again and check that there is a check mark in the "ok" column.
Now click "create server" name it and continue to the next page. Configure to your liking (I'd leave the port at 25565). Hit next again and select "vanilla[game version]" as the profile and hit submit.
You'll be redirected to the "Dashboard", click the name of your server and hit start.
The server will shut down after a few moments, refresh the page and navigate to the server again. Where there used to be the "start server" button, there should now be a "accept EULA" one. Accept the EULA and start your server.
 
If you something more sophisticated, like a forge server click "create custom profile" and use a variation on the following settings
profile name: "forge-installer" type: standalone, runnable jar Download URL: http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.11.2-13.20.0.2228/forge-1.11.2-13.20.0.2228-installer.jar save download as: forge-installer-1-11-2 jarfile to run: forge-installer-1-11-2 jarfile arguments: --installServer Hit the update button and wait for the refresh and check that the check-mark is there under "ok".
Now click "create server" name it and continue to the next page. Configure to your liking (I'd leave the port at 25565). Hit next again and select "forge-installer" as the profile and hit submit.
You'll be redirected to the "Dashboard", click the name of your server and hit start.
After a few moments the server will shut down again.
Create another profile with a variation of the following settings:
profile name: forge-1-11-2 type: unmanaged jarfile to run: forge-1.11.2-13.20.0.2228-universal.jar jarfile arguments: Now click the name of your server on the Dashboard again, go to "server.config" and change the first variable to "forge-1-11-2".
Now start your server.
You might need to refresh the page and accept the EULA before the server starts.
 
 
11-backups
 
Now we come to the nice parts: For this you need 2 servers that can see each other (eg over the vpn you set up). The IP of the main server will be 1.2.3.4 the IP of the backup server will be 1.2.3.5 from now on. The folder you want to backup is in the share "share" and is called "important" and the backup shall be stored in the share "backup". 
I will now assume you are working on windows. Open the old control panel, programs, programs and feature. On the left hand side, select "active windows features" and select the "Telnet client".
Hit windows and r, to open the "execute" window, type in "telnet 1.2.3.4" and hit enter. Use "root" as your login. 
Type in:
rsync -avz -e ssh /mnt/user/share/important root@1.2.3.5:/mnt/user/backup you might need to confirm and enter your credentials now, so this isn't good for regular backups, but a great way to test, whether it works at all.
Assuming that it works, you now want a certificate, so you can back up without prompts whenever you want. So execute the following command:
"ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -f /root/.ssh/rsync-key" when promted for a password just hit enter.
scp /root/.ssh/rsync-key.pub root@1.2.3.5:/root/ now switch to the other server with
telnet 1.2.3.5 here you need to make the newly generated key an authorised key (hit enter after each like):
then mkdir .ssh chmod 700 .ssh fi mv rsync-key.pub .ssh/ cd .ssh/ if [ ! -f authorized_keys ]; then touch authorized_keys ; chmod 600 authorized_keys ; fi cat rsync-key.pub >> authorized_keys chmod 700 .ssh/ chmod 600 .ssh/rsync-key.pub chmod 644 .ssh/authorized_keys Now go back top the other server:
telnet 1.2.3.4 And check out if it works or not:
rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /root/.ssh/rsync-key" /mnt/user/share/important root@1.2.3.5:/mnt/user/backup Now you just need to make it sick for the next reboot:
cp /root/.ssh/* /boot/config/sshroot/ cd /root/.ssh cp /boot/config/sshroot/* /root/.ssh/ chmod 600 * [Big thanks to tr0910 who wrote this post on the unraid forum, this ssh based solution is way more elegant than my previous one]
Also note, that rsync works both ways: by switching the order of the folders, you copy data the other way
 
 
12-cron
 
So, now you have a simple 1 line solution to back up folders, but you don't want to do it manually, you want the machine to remember. A solution for this is cron.
First step is making sure cron is doing its thing, just execute:
crontab -l If you see a whole bunch of commented lines roll by, you are good.
 
Open up explorer and navigate to \\1.2.3.4\flash\config\plugins and make a folder called "cron", make a new text file and rename it to "backup.cron" (make sure you override the .txt ending)
I will now assume you want to back up at 3:30 every tuesday, here you can read more on the time format of cron.
30 3 * * 2 rsync -avu --numeric-ids --progress  -e "ssh -i /root/.ssh/rsync-key  -T  -o Compression=no -x "  /mnt/user/share/important  root@1.2.3.5:/mnt/user/backup/ save the file.
 
Now go back into the telnet window and execute:
cd /boot/config/plugins/cron crontab backup.cron crontab -l if it displays the line inside your cron file, you are good.
 
 
But note this will only move new files to the backup share. 
To get the IMO best possible result, jump over to the backup server
telnet 1.2.3.5 and repeat the process for a new cron file on that server called "movebackup.cron" containing the following code:
20 3 * * 2 shopt -s extglob 21 3 * * 2 cd /mnt/user/SyncedShare/ 22 3 * * 2 mkdir "Backup-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" 23 3 * * 2 mv ls !("Backup-"*) "Backup-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" This will create a folder with the date of the backup in the name and move the synced files there every week
If there are folders that only contain files that don't change and are too big to reasonable sustain this process (like movies or pictures) create folders for them in the "important" folder and replace the last line in movebackup.cron with:
23 3 * * 2 mv ls !("Backup-"*|movies|pictures) "Backup-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"  
Note that from my understanding the "ls" shoudn't be needed, but without it it did not work in my case.
 
 
13-Further reading:
 
Getting started with unraid
ssh rsync setup
cron
a random linux shell tutorial i just googled
 
[Screenshots will be added on request]

Whops. Saw 960 and was thinking of GPU.
In that case, it sounds like the bulk of the time is spent POST-ing, and not loading the OS.
Is the BIOS up to date? If not, you could try updating it.
Haven't messed around with Intel MSI boards in a while, but they should still have something like "fast boot" somewhere in the options. Enabling that might help (it did help me on a 970 Gaming,pretty much halving my POST time. Can't guarantee it'll do much for you, though)

same here. I think thats their business strategy. make content you watch with a hangover and fall asleep.
there can't be a different reason they air at 2am CEST.

same here. I think thats their business strategy. make content you watch with a hangover and fall asleep.
there can't be a different reason they air at 2am CEST.

same here. I think thats their business strategy. make content you watch with a hangover and fall asleep.
there can't be a different reason they air at 2am CEST.

same here. I think thats their business strategy. make content you watch with a hangover and fall asleep.
there can't be a different reason they air at 2am CEST.

looks neat. thank. i will go for it.

Germany. You can find the german pcpartpicker here : https://de.pcpartpicker.com/
 
Not yet. I have some spare parts in good conditions. Peripherals are something we can upgrade later. 
 
You're right. Switching the cooler later should give us more budget for horsepower.