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Just ran another render whilst monitoring temps and utilization and all the temps are in check but I did notice something interesting. My GPU utilization is getting lower and lower perfectly coinciding with the lowering of fps during the render (see below). The temps are no where even remotely close to thermal throttling (43°C peak) so that can't be it. I'm lost here. I've never seen something like this before. EDIT: Also, my CPU is maintaining peak boost speeds at anywhere from 4212 MHz to 4266 MHz during the enter render and the temps aren't exceeding 60°C at an absolute max. EDIT2: Even more lost now... The video that I've been talking about this entire time just rendered in half the time of my previous renders... My previous runs were about 46 minutes each whereas this one finished in 20 minutes. I have changed nothing at all between runs, not even rebooting my computer.

Just tried that and now I'm even more confused. To start, it started out at a slower max framerate (about 100) but is continuing to decrease at the same rate as it was when writing to the HDD. That said, it looks like it might be rendering a bit faster so I'll edit this comment when it finishes with the final render time. EDIT: The render to the SSD took the same exact amount of time as the HDD... EDIT2: I also tested with multiple codecs one of which was the DNxHD codec producing a 12.2 GB file for a 10 minute clip of my hour long video. It decreased in fps at the same exact rate as the regular H.264 export that took 46 minutes to export an entire hour long video at a 1 GB file size. With that in mind, I don't believe that the HDD cache is to blame here.

I'm in the middle of a render now and my CPU is bouncing between 51°C and 56°C and, assuming I'm reading the right values, my VRMs are between 22°C and 38°C.

Been using DaVinci Resolve for a while now and I've never had any issues with the rendering of a finished video. That is, until I upgraded my entire computer recently. At the bottom of the post, you'll find hardware specs for both my old and my new computer. When I first started using Resolve on my new computer, I had no issues whatsoever. In fact, it was (rather predictably) better in every way; scrubbing was smoother, playback was smoother, rendering was faster, etc. Then, literally out of nowhere, my renders got painfully slow. I hadn't changed anything at all in the settings and in fact I use the same project for all my videos since all I do is replace the audio track and export. What's especially weird is the render starts out at upwards of 180 fps and gradually slows down to about 4 fps towards the end of the render. I hadn't updated Windows, Resolve, drivers, BIOS, or anything else. Since then, I've updated literally everything in hopes of fixing the issue to no avail. For reference, I'm rendering a video with a static image, a static title, and a single audio track. I have 5 second fade in and out transitions at the beginning and end of the image and the title. I'm rendering at 1080p/24fps @ 2000 Kb/s using the H.264 encoder and the QuickTime format (.MOV). I'm also writing the final file to my mechanical hard drive that has a max sustained write speed of 250 MB/s (not hitting anywhere close to that). Any and all help would be very much appreciated! Old Computer: CPU: i5-4690k @ 4.0GHz GPU: MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8G RAM: 16GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz SSD: 250GB Samsung 850 Evo HDD: 4x 1TB WD Blue New Computer: CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor (Purchased For $499.99) CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i PRO 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (Purchased For $124.99) Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard (Purchased For $379.99) Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (Purchased For $249.99) Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (Purchased For $229.99) Storage: Seagate IronWolf Pro 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $256.99) Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB Video Card (Purchased For $446.98) Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400 ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For $48.98) Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS Plus Gold 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $138.03) Monitor: Asus VG245H 24.0" 1920x1080 75 Hz Monitor (Purchased For $189.99) Monitor: Asus VG245H 24.0" 1920x1080 75 Hz Monitor (Purchased For $189.99) Total: $2755.91 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-26 09:53 EDT-0400

First of all, I want to thank everyone for their responses! It’s given me a lot to think about! Next, I wanted to address that I never thought of RAID as a backup solution. Having watched Linus practically have an emotional breakdown when his RAID array was failing, I know very well that there’s no replacement for offsite backups. Furthermore, I suppose I should’ve mentioned that the other reason I was even looking into RAID 10 in the first place was because I wanted to have higher speed access to my mechanical hard drives (RAID 0) while not having to worry as much about losing all the data should one drive give up the ghost (RAID 1). General redundancy of the data was the primary goal but speed is a close second. Having read all your replies, I think instead of the RAID 10 array, I’ll just use the drives separately and save the RAID mess for when I’m able to build a dedicated home NAS. Again, thank you all for your advice and input; I greatly appreciate it!

I'm planning a huge upgrade to my PC around the Ryzen 3000 launch and am currently debating storage options. At the bottom is the parts list I've selected. Currently, I've selected 4 2TB Seagate hard drives. I was considering putting them into a RAID 10 array so that I have high speed access to them whilst also having some redundancy in case of a hard drive failure. I do have some questions before I pull the trigger on this however: What is the best way to actually build the array? Windows 10 Storage Spaces? Third party RAID software? BIOS level RAID? Hardware RAID with a RAID card? If the dedicated RAID card is the best option, which cards should I look into? How does the array affect booting? I plan on running Windows 10 from the NVMe drive and store all my data on the RAID array. After booting the computer, will the array be immediately available? Is there any initialization that needs to take place? Does this initialization take place during boot or after boot? If during boot, will it slow down the boot operation? Out of the RAID creation methods I can use, which will offer the fastest boot experience and fastest access to the array? In case of a hard drive failure, how easy is it to rebuild the array? Is hard drive failure in a RAID array like tires on a car? I.e. if one goes down, does that mean it's probably time to replace all of them? I've selected Seagate drives because of their good price to capacity ratio. Are there any other drives I should look into? As I'm moving on into more professional workloads, I'm trying to make my system much more resilient to break downs. Historically, I've only ever run a couple of drives completely separate from one another and have never really looked into redundancy and the like so this is all quite new to me. I appreciate any and all help I can get on this! Thank you! PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor ($292.89 @ OutletPC) CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i PRO 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($109.99 @ Newegg) Motherboard: Asus - ROG Crosshair VII Hero (Wi-Fi) ATX AM4 Motherboard ($289.00 @ B&H) Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($95.98 @ Newegg) Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($95.98 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($149.89 @ OutletPC) Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.89 @ OutletPC) Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.89 @ OutletPC) Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.89 @ OutletPC) Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.89 @ OutletPC) Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.00 @ Amazon) Other: Phanteks PH-HDDKT_02 Modular HDD Bracket Specific for Evolv ATX, Pro M ($7.99 @ Amazon) Other: Phanteks PH-HDDKT_02 Modular HDD Bracket Specific for Evolv ATX, Pro M ($7.99 @ Amazon) Other: Phanteks PH-HDDKT_02 Modular HDD Bracket Specific for Evolv ATX, Pro M ($7.99 @ Amazon) Other: Phanteks PH-HDDKT_02 Modular HDD Bracket Specific for Evolv ATX, Pro M ($7.99 @ Amazon) Total: $1404.25 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-26 09:40 EDT-0400

MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G for sure, if for no other reason than that long ass name lol. But in all seriousness, the LEDs on the MSI card would go great with your overall setup and from what I hear, you also have full RGB control of the MSI logo on the top of the card. As far as pricing goes, it looks like MSI won't be charging too much of a premium over retail price for it, so that's a plus.

There is nothing keeping you from installing a case fan in the CPU fan header. The fan headers cross compatible. The only thing is that you'll need a PWM fan in order to control the speed of it. You can tell if it's a PWM fan by looking at the connector; if it has 3 slots, it's not a PWM fan, and if it has 4 slots, it is a PWN fan.

Well I was able to only marginally improve the network speed but all in all, I'm happy with the results!

Oh yeah, no worries. But either way, this isn't going to be something that I'm constantly accessing or constantly pushing to its limits. Like I'll mainly use it as a place to dump old school files and various other documents that I may need in the future but more than likely won't. Nothing mission critical, you know? Also, since I am planning on going into IT after college, this is a good opportunity for a learning experience!

Yeah, I figured as much. Oh well, the adapter comes in tomorrow so I'll experiment with it and see what speeds I can pull out of it in read and write operations. And thank you!

I wish it would cap out at 480 MB/s jk The reason is because the only gigabit Ethernet to USB adapters I was able to find were USB 3.0 and the USB 2.0 ones were all 10/100 Ethernet adapters. So even if I used a USB 2.0 to Ethernet adapter, I'd just be bottlenecking my self again with the 10/100 Ethernet. I'm well aware I won't be getting gigabit speeds over the Pi's max theoretical 480 Mbps (60 MB/s) USB 2.0 bus but I'm counting on at least around 30-40 MB/s. It would certainly be an improvement over the 10 MB/s I'm getting now lol It has definitely crossed my mind especially because of the SATA connectors but to make things easier for myself in terms of wait time, I just went wit the Pi cause I already had it. And if I'm being honest with myself, I probably wouldn't go with the Banana Pi or the Orange Pi due to a little bit of fanboyism I have with the Raspberry Pi lol

Yeah I'm considering using a few 1 TB PiDrives but I'm holding off on it for now until I can figure out just how much power it draws and how many I can stick onto the Pi before I need a powered USB hub. If the flash drives are any indication, I can only plug in two before I get low power warnings. If I do go the PiDrive route (which I most likely will) I'll probably ending up designing my own case for the NAS as well. So we'll see!

The overclock settings people use seem to vary when it comes to the overvolting. Some will tell you to set the overvolt to 2 and others to 6. I personally have always set the it to 6 and have never had any issues with it when it came to heat or stability but if your Pi is stable at an overvolt of 2, then by all means, stick with it! More energy savings for you!

Well if you're gonna use an RPi 2, I'd recommend first overclocking it like so: force_turbo=1 temo_limit=70 arm_freq=1000 core_freq=500 sdram_frew=500 overvolt=6 That's what I used to be able to get four concurrent clients with no issues. Past that, it becomes an issues with the CPU and at that point, I'd recommend an upgrade to the RPi 3. And thank you!