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  1. nsinnott
    So I've been trying to set up a couple of shares off my Debian machine to act as Time Machine volumes for a couple of MacBooks. It worked fine, using Netatalk and avahi-daemon (AFP implementation). My Macs saw the shares, and Time Machine was able to start backing up, but I noticed that it was only writing at ~800KB/s. I tested the drive performance on Debian using dd, and saw reads and writes in excess of 100MB/s, and my network can definitely sustain that, so I was just wondering if anyone knew of any potential causes, or a better implementation to use Debian (or any OS really) as a Time Machine server. Thanks in advance!
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    I had Windows 10 running on a Ryzen 5 1500X, perfectly fine and stable. I decided I wanted to install and use some flavor of Linux instead, for better compatibility with my other *nix machines. First, I installed Ubuntu 18.10, but found that the system would completely lock up and freeze every 15 minutes or so. I figured it might be something weird with the install, so I reinstalled. Same thing happened, and so I decided to try Debian 10 Stretch to see if it would be more stable. It is, but it still locks up every once in a while and I can't find anything that seems to fit, so I was hoping someone here could help. If you need any more info, please let me know. Thanks so much!
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    Have Comcast reset the modem, then change all the passwords and such. This thread might be a good read for you: http://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Your-Home-Network/DPC3941T-Modem-hacked-Utopia-net/td-p/2888703
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    I know... I was looking a couple weeks ago, and prices seemed at least reasonable... now they're just absurd! I'll probably end up waiting until Volta, because there's no way I can afford this.
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    It shows as in stock at OutletPC, but when you go to the website it's actually out of stock. Then Newegg shows it in stock, at almost $700 ?
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    Thank you! Although I will say that the 1060 you have is out of stock... ?
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    In complete honesty, I haven't heard of that case in a while, but if I were to get something like that, I would get the MasterBox Pro RGB, because I personally think it looks better.
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    I'm back. Ok, so now I'm curious. People have such vastly different ideas on how to spend the same amount of money, so I'm interested to see what all of you could build for $830 USD. More cores is better to a certain degree, but a quad core hyper threaded is minimum. And go! (Don't include storage or PSU in the $830)
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    Right, because you knocked $30 off the cooler, and $40 off the case... and gave me a really crappy looking one. Look, at this point, I have this, and I'm going to say thank you to everyone who contributed here, and go on my merry way. Who knows, by the time the money clears, I might have changed something, and in that case, if I'm still not 100% confident, chances are that I'll post again. For now though, I'm going to stick with what I have gotten from this thread (including info about overpriced GPUs as well as RAM speed and Ryzen.) Thank you to everyone who contributed, I really appreciate it, and I hope to be back in a couple weeks with a completed build
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    $30 more isn't going to get me 16GB of RAM, and I don't need the 1600 right now. AM4 gives me a great opportunity to upgrade in the future, and aesthetics are pretty important to me, hence my justification in spending $60 on a heatsink, and getting a case with TG, along with trying to stick with a color scheme. I totally understand where you are coming from, and other people might do that, but it's just not for me. Thank you for all of your suggestions, though
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    It's a Rosewill Photon... Not the greatest, but I received it as a gift, and it works fine for me, and am getting nowhere near the amount of issues I was getting with my previous PSU (10v on the 12v rail, crap like that) Like I said, picked that cooler for aesthetics, as well as the case.....
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    Ugh, ok, so I just placed a bid on 3 980Ti's for ~$380... See how that goes ?
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    Damn, I'm not seeing anything under like ~$400... What is your opinion about the 980 non-ti? I'm seeing them around $250-300
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    I'm not really interested in a Ryzen APU or RX 550... I need something with a little bit more oomph. If anyone has any suggestions for a GPU that isn't going to cost me an arm and a leg more than it should, I'd love to hear it. Like I said, I'm willing to buy used if anyone has any ideas.
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    It's a 750W one... Overkill for this, tbh
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    Ah, damn. I was looking at a 6GB one earlier, and was planning to get it when I realized it was out of stock as well. Grrrrrrr
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    The only reason I had that one was because of aesthetics. I could still fit it in, actually, with that list. I was also looking for either black or white RAM to match the rest of what I have going on, but thank you for the advice! I will go and take a look again now.
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    Yeah, I would use a bootable USB and follow the steps in that article you linked. Then just reverse the steps if you want/need to. It's worked many times for me in the past
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    Oh my gosh, I was just thinking the same thing. I was on PCPartPicker, trying to put together a build, and I figured I could fit a 1070 in, but then I saw that they're going for upwards of $750! I noped the hell out of that and went for a 1060 6GB, but seriously?!
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    So I recently sold a bunch of stuff on eBay for a grand total of ~$830. I put this build together, but I figured I would get some opinions before I ordered anything. Any and all suggestions are welcome. (Oh, forgot to mention that I already have a PSU, as well as storage!) Thanks everyone! EDIT: Ok, so thanks for all of your suggestions, and I took them into consideration when I made this list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dBjQCy I still need to figure out a GPU, and I'm debating buying a used 970 or 980 on eBay because everything new is either sky high inflated, or out of stock. Again, any help would be vastly appreciated
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    Well, not familiar with that program, but try a wildcard search for exe files within the folder.
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    Also, that model doesn't support NVMe drives anyway.
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    For starters, is this a 2015 MBP? Because those models don't have hard drives... And if it is, you can't buy a standard M.2 SSD because it is a proprietary connector, so you'd have to buy an Apple compatible one from OWC anyway.
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    Qualcomm Atheros is a line of Wireless adapters. Sure you're looking at the right adapter here? EDIT: whoops, I'm an idiot
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    Have you tried setting up a share rather than doing it through HomeGroup? How about trying a remote connection from the laptop to the HomeGroup desktop? Have you tried pinging the machines from each other?
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