Mobby Dick

Hey guys,

so for a few weeks my brothers Monitor has this issue where it flickers like crazy when turning on the power strip that powers it. It goes on for usually a few minutes, where the display turns black and back on once or twice a second. Cables and hdmi ports on the gpu have been swapped inbetween monitors, without any results. So it seems to be the monitor itself... The monitor is an LG M45HQ-B.

If you have any recommendations on how to fix this, please let me know  

Thank you in advance!

Hey guys,

I recently wanted to upgrade my primary Monitor, a BENQ Gl2450. I decided a 27" 144hz 1440p panel was the sweet spot for what I needed (photo- and videoediting and gaming (mostly csgo and rainbow6)). I can't go for an ultrawide, since my desk is too small.

Unfortunately the monitor I decided on is out of stock here (germany) pretty much everywhere: https://eu.aoc.com/en/gaming-monitors/cq27g2u-bk

Do you have any recommendations for alternatives? I cannot find any decent models, that are at a somewhat similar price point... I've been looking at the LG 27GL850, but costs a good 80€ more and bears the risk of hoorible ips glow.

Thanks in advance!

11 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Anything ranging from PC you already have, to WD mycloud/synology, custom servers built from PC hardware, and servers pulled from businesses/datacentres.... there is a big range.

To start with I would recommend you to use your own PC, just install plex server on it, you can set your router to universal PNP mode (which allows for some trickery that the server will use to allow the server to be contactable through your router from anywhere). This way you're not having to pay any out of pocket expenses to try it out and see how you get on.

If you like that, but need more connections to be available at the same time, then maybe plex isn't the answer... plex CAN be complicated if you have a number of users and they have different needs with media resolutions/codecs, you can offset this by making plex recode the videos so that there are versions for all the users. But persoanlly if this is a problem I find that it might be better to use something like kodi instead that will serve you the original file, and your device might be able to handle it anyway. It's a complicated subject let's say.

Assuming you can navigate around the resolution/codec problems or that your devices can play anything that's thrown at it, then you're good, no need for complicated setups, and can use either plex/kodi at your whims.

Thanks for your answer.

Plex sounds really nice, but you have to constantly have your PC running if you want to access the data. Is there another cheap method which is always accessible? I have an old PC that is not used anymore, so I could just install Plex on it and have it running 24/7 right?

Hi,

so my father is looking for a Nas/home server for his data such as photos, movies, etc. SInce i have no idea about servers and all that kind of stuff, I thought I might ask you for help  

What kind of Server connection would you recommend? After reading myself through some posts I think it would be convenient to have a VPN, so you can access the data from everywhere.

Is it cheaper to build the Server yourself or to just go ahead and purchase a NAS (any recommendations are welcome)?

Thanks in advance

3 minutes ago, spartanvi said:

Personally I'd use Photoshop CC. First I'd clone the layer, then apply a blur filter: Filter / Blur / Smart Blur, adjust the sliders to keep edges intact while cleaning up the jpg noise/artifacts. Make sure this blurred layer is on top. If extra retouching is needed, then I would use the eraser tool to gradually bring back the details that were lost in the blur (i.e. the unedited original layer is below) with extra care and attention near the worst of the jpg artifacting. 

Personally, i would love to have money

My budget is more made for MS Paint ^^

Thanks for the advice tho  

5 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Maybe try redrawing it in Inkscape

1 minute ago, BucklingSpring said:

This. Upscaling and sharpening JPEGs will degrade the quality of your image, regardless of the software you use. Inkscape is a free vector editing program that's fairly simple to use. I personally prefer Adobe Illustrator, so if you have access to that program, (definitely not free, lol) use that instead.

Unfortunately I don't have the time to do that... And I mostly want to get rid of the blurr around the edges that appear when printing such a small .jpeg in A4...

Hey guys,

I have a .jpeg that is fairly low quality (309x401px) that is mostly lines and so on (no photo of anything). Is there any program to make it bigger while keeping a decent quality? It would also be fine for me if it just makes the picture bigger so I can then later correct the edges in paint (which is highly professional software btw).

Thanks in advance  

12 hours ago, Flyentology said:

Hi everyone,
I'm completely new when it comes to audio systems(only read threads at the top). I want to upgrade my audio system and get new headphones. My motherboard is an old Asus P8z68-v lx board. My budget is around 200€. So what I should go for? Invest all of the money only in headphones or buy headphones + dac/amp?. I will mostly use it to listen to music(sometimes for games aswell but not on pro level so it's not something that important).

I would suggest to go for a soundcard and n nice pair of headphones. I personally use the Asus Xonar DX and can recommend it. As for headphones you should check out the Audio guide of this threat.

On 4/25/2017 at 11:53 PM, pasternt said:

For Hardware I could recomemend HP ProLiant Servers, speficially the HP DL360p Gen8. Got one with 2x Intel Xeon E5 2687W v2, 192GB RAM, 8x 480GB Micron Datacenter SSD for ~3.200€. Take 5 of them and you get a enormous Virtualization-Cluster. And a fitting datacenter would be the Equinix, Telecity or Telehouse (all located in Frankfurt am Main). For more Datacenters take datacentermap.com as an example.

 

Kind regards,

 

Tim

 

Thanks for your help but do you really think we would need 5 of them? Wouldn't 1 or 2 be enough at first since for the beginning we expect ~100 people use the system per hour. I am not an expert but that doesn't sound like too much stress for 2 of these server. Also even if it would take a few seconds for the order to be checked and processed, it would still be fine. We will have the money to upgrade further after 2-3 years (if it works :D)

On 4/25/2017 at 9:19 PM, Pixel5 said:

 look at the news, there is a company that just tried to open a pharmacy that would handle the prescriptions via a video chat with an actual pharma dude and the patient could then pick up the medicine at some kind of vending machine.

 

And a court just ordered them to shut down the service after just a few days due to some old laws from before computers even existed.

This stuff is not as easy as it seems, especially you have no experience with servers and even need someone to do the actual programming work this is never going to be a thing.

In what country was that? Because the laws differ from country to country.

Also we already talked to a programmer and he said it would cost ~30.000€ to programm the apps and the server's programm.

7 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

I would look at blade servers like Cisco UCS B200s, they run about $15k per blade on the higher end but they make excellent ESXI hosts.

 

Sorry for the short answers, on mobile right now.

Thanks! We have to watch our budget (50k € total, and that includes someone to program the App and so on), but we will definetly consider it  

5 minutes ago, mariushm said:

And don't get me wrong but when the clerk / pharmacist fulfills a prescription, doesn't he/she have to read the prescription and enter the medicine order in their software and generate an invoice or something for the person paying? You wouldn't need to scan the prescription (and waste time scanning).. your system could slow down transactions for the pharmacy.

Also, some doctor may prescribe something like  "medicine xyz  2 50mg pills 3 times a day OR alternative generic medicine abc 1 x 120mg pill 3 times a day (up to pharmacy and what they have in stock, or whatever patient is not allergic to), so while the prescription has a lot of text, you wouldn't know what exactly the pharmacist gave the patient... you'd actually need the data of what was entered in the order form , to see what they took out from the pharmacy stock , see what user was invoiced for etc

 

In Germany it is already possible for a patient to go to a pharmacy and show them your prescribtion and if the pharmacy doesn't have the required medicine in stock, they order it and deliver it to your house around 4h later (via a transport system by each own pharmacy).

Our idea is to make that first step via an App, so that you wouldn't have to go to the pharmacy to order it. You would scan your prescribtion with your smartphone and the App checks if it is in stock at your local pharmacy (If not it orders the meds). Ether way you will have it delivered in 1-4 hours. The courier of the pharmacy could then bring the invoice with the medicine.

I hope that answered you questions on the idea?

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

For your project it would be easier and more impressive to calculate cloud options like AWS and then compare with hardware costs. You might find cloud has a point in scale where it is more cost effective and least cost effective taking into account the depreciating value of the server and all other costs associated with it

We thought of that, too, but unfortunately we might run into a problem with privacy when it comes to clouds... We will have to figure that out first. But if it is possible, that might be the best solution.

4 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

Get a few big servers and virtualize them with ESXI. Create smaller VMs for each pharmacy, for easier management and cheaper overhead costs. Find a data center in Germany that is PCI compliant to colocate in for better uptime and security.

Thanks for your help  do you have any idea what that would cost? I am pretty new to servers and stuff ^^

Hey guys,

so my friends and I take part in a competition in which we have to work out a start-up company. For our idea (an App that improves the dialogue between a pharmacy and its customers) we need a server to house information on the customers and their former orders (which have to be saved as a photo of the prescription for ~48h and can be deleted afterwards). Pharmacies from all over Germany would have to reach these data (or every pharmacy gets its own server, we don't really know what's best).

Long story short: We need a server!

So would you recommend one big server for all pharmacies together or one for each pharmacy? We are leaning towards multiple servers so that the pharmacies would have to rent them and pay extra money ^^ (yes we are evil)

And how much would these different servers cost? They don't need to be extremely fast.

Thanks for your help  (and you won't help an evil company, since this is just an idea. So don't worry about that )

On 18.3.2017 at 5:07 AM, Tanner WIlliams said:

does anyone have i good idea on the best way to cut a window into a side panel 

this might help

3 minutes ago, TommyW2061 said:

does that mean that the faster GPU, the O8G, will get downclocked to match the A8G clockspeeds?

I think you can set a core clock for each card, so you can get the most out of both cards

Idea: You could maybe use two partially reflective mirrors, while the one on the inside is more reflective. Combined with tons of LEDs on the inside of you could (maybe) get an "infinite" mirror through which you can still slightly see your PC-parts.

I have no idea if this could work, but it might be cool. It came to my mind because of this video, because it also uses a pretty dark panel. But with enough light you can still look through it. Might be hard to find the sweet spot between lightning and infinite mirror though ^^

23 hours ago, aprofile said:

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 this might help you out  

6 minutes ago, W-L said:

That's an oscillating tool not ideal for cutting metal, you will want a rotary or dremel type tool with a reinforced abrasive cutting disc. You will want to afterwards take a metal file and straight out the cuts and clean up the edges. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dremel-3000-15-Multitool-130-Accessories/dp/B0078LENZC/ref=sr_1_1?s=diy&ie=UTF8&qid=1487448986&sr=1-1

OK thank you, I might look for someone who can borrow me a Dremel then  

Hey guys,

Since I am going to mod a window into my case I was wondering what tool is best. After some research I learned that a Dremel/Rotary tool is best, but I was wondering if a Bosch PMF 220 CE could get the job done? I would use a U-Channel and sand the edges down, but that tool still looks a bit rough. So if you have any ideas/experience just let me know  

3 minutes ago, W-L said:

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Thanks for your help. I read your Modding FAQ over and over (great job btw), but I still wasn't quite sure what would be best for a u channel.

Can you recommend any good RGB kits? My initial plan was to have an rgb strip of at least 2m lenght, so I could also make a rgb kit for my brother and father (2x30cm each). That would cost 10€ total, so ~3.5€ per kit, what is hard to beat. And the only problem I see with that is hiding the wires and potentiometers, and since I am planning to make a PSU cover in the future it shouldn't a problem. Also I want to gain some experience in soldering and stuff ^^ 

3 minutes ago, Megah3rtz said:

Off topic- Msi offers some SFF gtx 1050ti's which perform the same as a 960 if you dont want to sli.

Thanks, but I don't feel like buying a new GPU yet. Also I wouldn't buy another sff card for my case, since it looks ridiculously tiny  

Hey guys,

I am planning to do a side panel mod in april and I am currently looking for the right products to pick up (shipping to germany). First of all my specs:

Corsair 200r

Bequiet Dark Rock Pro 3

Gigabyte Windforce 2x OC GTX 960 (sff card)

1. U channel: 

I am not sure yet if I should go with 7x3mm or 6x4mm. The problem is that I am not sure if my side panel (~1mm thick) will fit in the 7x3mm channel. But I have to watch out with thicker channels since I have only ~7mm clearance from my side panel to my cpu cooler, so I want the products to be as thin as possible to aviod scraching the window with my cooler.

I was currently looking to buy one of these two (if you have other suggestions just let me know):

7x3mm

6x4mm (I might look for a shorter and cheaper one)

2. Acrylic:

I think I am just going to go the safe bet and buy it from a big online store in germany, which prices are not too bad. However, I am not quite sure if 3mm thickness is good?

https://www.caseking.de/acrylglas-gs-transparent-farblos-in-400x400mm-mowi-028.html#comments

3. LED's:

Since I am a poor student I am planning to buy every part for an RGB kit seperately and solder it together. But I am not quite sure wich one to buy, since one is 2m and the other one 5m, but they are both the same price (if you have better suggestions for an led strip let me know):

1. Option

2. Option

I will use potentiometers to control the RGB and hook them up to my PSU.

Thanks in advance  

Hey guys,

so I got my pc a few years ago and never had any major issues, but a few weeks ago it started doing some things that made me think that there could be something worng with it.

So I always had the problem that my PC returned from standby all by himself, sometimes after just one minute, sometimes after an hour. But now this got even further. When I wake my PC up, it sometimes has to load the BIOS and takes as long as if it was completely turned off. But it doesn't stop there: it happened lot recently, that my PC goes into standby by himself. Not like autostandby, but while listening to music (via Spotify if that matters) and after different periods of time.

Did anyone of you experience similar things or do you have a way to fix it? I already scanned for malware (with Avira), but it couldn't find anything.

Thanks for your help