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Oh, but we do, I present to you, The Party! We hold it each april for a whole weekend with about ~1100 visitors! But having a LANparty in a hall or venue is quite different then on a grass field, sitting in your tent playing some fun games with your mates while it's raining outside is an awesome thing! *Click on the photo to watch a video about this event! This video also has a lot of our technical network layout and configurations inside! This event we had around 1250 Gigabit ports + 120 10Gbit ports with some 40Gbit ports making for a network with almost no limits! We also had a 6Gbps Internet connection!

Actually there used to be a similar event in Belgium but I can't remember what it's called. It was a lot of years back too. Our event has moved 3 times in it's 17 years. We where on a music festival camping ground at first, then a grass field we rented from a local government and now we're on a terrain that's also used for horse events. It all kind of depends on how well the grass field has been prepared and oddly enough, what type of grass you plant into it! All the other infrastructure we provide our selves (we basically start with an empty grass field and build everything from power lines, fresh water, toilets, showers, food courts, high speed network (10Gbit available for visitors), 2Gbit+ internet, etc.) But hey, we're pretty close by to Belgium, so you should maybe come visit? @Anjelllo we're located in the Netherlands! But as I mentioned, don't let that stop you!

Hi guys, I've been a long time watcher and also lurker (sometimes I post) here on the forum! Recently Linus posted a video about gaming outdoor and how insane it was. Well, I kind of had to laugh at that video because we've been doing something similar for quite some years! We call it CampZone and it has grown out to be an event of around 1500 to 2000 attendees who come to our camping/festival and strike down for 11 days to play games, BBQ, hang at the campfire and generally have fun! Some call it the ultimate gaming vacation, but maybe that's going a bit too far. We are doing it with a bit more luxury then Linus in the video though. We have almost limitless power available using 3 Diesel generators, have a Gigabit port for everything with more then 100Gbit of network bandwidth available, field covering WiFi and even a 2Gbit fiber internet connection with a public IPv4 for everyone to get the fullest out of their vacation and time with friends! We often get international visitors but recently we've started a special international visitor incentive. If you come over to enjoy your vacation and game with us and can present your plane ticket and boarding pass we'll give you a pretty big discount on the event costs because we love having you guys over! I recently made a video about CampZone! It's a technical overview of the event and the organisation behind it but should also give you a good idea about what CampZone is and what goes on there! *Click on the photo to see the video! Let me know what you think of the video and if anyone has any questions, I'll be here to answer them!

Lol, euhm, then in my opinion, you're dreaming.

I just pre-ordered the x1700 so you better bet that I'm getting one! It's going in my new Ryzen build. Hopefully it can cut my video render times in half, but that remains to be seen. Now to just get the AM4 mount for the Alphacool Eisbaer 360 in time!!

Well I know that, they'll probably be answered before that with the independent review videos, still, I'm wondering what we can speculate now as to what will be the big difference between these 2 versions of Ryzen.

I just pre-ordered the 1700x! I'm going to use it in my "Road to Ryzen" project build I'm currently doing. That build is going to replace my current i7-4770k, and since IPC between a Haswell core and the Ryzen core seem to be about the same I wonder if certain tasks (such as rendering videos?) will be completed in half the time they are now! Also, I've been wondering why the 1800x is 100$ more expensive then the 1700x since there is only a 200Mhz difference in clock, which wouldn't matter too much to a manual overclocker anyway? What do you guys think? Is the 1800x more for people who DON'T overclock and rely on what the chip does itself and the 1700x is the one to get for manual overclockers, or what's the deal? Exciting times!

I don't have the binary zip up on the website anymore (put it together yourself or maybe some other guides have it available for download?) but I think the write up still has some good information, take a look over here: http://blog.quindorian.org/2013/11/home-serverstoragelab-setup-part-12-x.html/

Cool topic, following! I've played with CEPH in the past, it would be interesting to see how well it performs using VMware, etc.

No, running two fans off a motherboard FAN header is just fine (especially Noctuas). Just don't go too much above that. If you want to string more or higher powered fans it's advisable to feed them using your PSU directly. They have nice PWM spillter cables for that (You will need all 4 pin fans). It gets the power from the PSU but then gets the RPM signal and PWM signal from the motherboard, ideal!

Looking good! Glad to hear you got it worked out.

No, the windows one's have always been there, just hidden in previous versions. The VMware adapters are fine, just disabled if not being used at that moment.

A little bit of research online would have given your the answers, try that first next time. The Realtek is your onboard network card of your PC The 2 VMware adapters are because you have VMware player of VMware workstation installed And all the other are default virtual network cards included with windows for connection various VPN's and other functions Nothing wrong with any of these and quite default. Whatever is affecting your PC aren't these virtual network adapters. Try and explain the problems you are having in more detail?

Sure, I agree there, burial fiber would be much better suited. From what I'm able to tell from the listing, this fiber does seem to be more reinforced then standard (yellow) indoor fiber (guiding steel wire for tensile strength, etc.) but yeah, it's definitely on a budget. Still, when buried with a bit of care I think it's the best and more cost effective solution. Putting the fiber inside of piping or maybe a cheap hose of some sort would definitely be preferred but I think it will work without issue for a home setup.

I would go the fiber route, it doesn't need to be so expensive as listed above! Using a PAIR of media converters you should be able to easily reach your needed distance, and with gigabit too! These go up to 20KM using single mode fiber and are only about 30$ for a pair! Reviews look great too, and have personally used similar equipment in the past with great results. These boxes uses DWM to send and receive on two different light wavelengths thus only requiring a single optical cable. Next you need some single mode fiber. I couldn't find of 700 feet (210 meters if I'm correct) but using a 200 meter and a 50 meter piece coupled using a couple block should work just as well for that distance (if you really want to up to 20KM couple blocks might cause too much signal loss). Alternatively you could just get a 400 meter cable which will always be long enough. These fibers have one fiber core and a steel wire to go with it to prevent it from stretching. Adding all that up you should be set for less then 200$ including shipping and have a stable Gigabit connection! Only downside is that you can't terminate the cable yourself which might make getting it through a wall a bit harder then again, the single SC connector can fit in a PVC pipe unless there are very tight bends so shouldn't be too much a problem in my opinion.