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jameyscott

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  1. Definitely in. Have been thinking about streaming for awhile.
  2. I ended up going with this switch because it was a great price and included all 16 transceivers. I also bought two of these. I hope they work together.... If not, then I'll have to hunt down what will work with the unit. Still haven't purchased the fiber cables, because I'm not sure which transceivers are in that unit, so I emailed the seller. Once I know that, I can find the cables I need.
  3. Not without swapping your motherboard. You might be able to lessen the effect with a ferrite choke, but those rarely work.
  4. The WRT54G is the hackacble router. I'd suggest looking up DD-WRT and going from there. You'll be able to configure it after loading a better firmware (DD-WRT) onto that unit.
  5. I personally use SpaceSniffer. It's always helped me eliminate unnecessary files. You may also want to run a program like KingSoftPC Doctor or CCleaner to clean up old installation files, old restore points, etc etc.
  6. This is your issue. I have the same problem with my system. It's just EMI by poor grounding contacts on the motherboard.
  7. With that in mind, I assume this would be a functional set up.. This switch with these SFP transceivers and which NICs? I'm sorry for all the questions. When it comes to server grade stuff, there doesn't seem to be that much information for a consumer. I just want to make sure I get this right. EDIT: Looking at that switch again, the one I linked is actually 2Gb and not 4Gb. Finding information on these units is proving to be fairly difficult.
  8. I've been reading up a bit, and it seems that certain sfp modules are not compatible with just any switch. Will those SFP modules that you linked work with the switch you linked? I can't seem to find a compatibility matrix for the switch.
  9. Wow... That would be perfect... Ill look into that more. Thank you so much for the suggestion.
  10. The switch I currently have is capable of Link Aggregation and so is the one I plan on switching to. I think we are having a bad time communicating due to my lack of knowledge when it comes to networking. I've been trying to learn as much as I can, though. I've emailed TP-Link about the SG1024DE to see if it can do what I want, if not I also asked for what switch they would recommend for what I need. As far as the card I'm going to use, I figured I would just go with the one I linked above since I have actually seen above the 125ish MB write speed that I would be bound to if I was running a single gigabit connection, although I can't truly test it unless I threw in an SSD to see if my current configuration is doing what I think it is. I'll try that and see if my current gear is actually capable of what I think it is. Do you have suggestions on switches/NICs that I should use? I'm really open in both learning about what I need and actually getting what I need, because I need/want this set up. If you need more details about what I currently have, or what I"m trying to do, please let me know. I really just want to get this done right.
  11. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as the device(s) support Level 4 Load Balancing, I'll be able to achieve what I want, which is as follows. With as many devices as I have connected to my NAS, I want to increase the overall throughput it can put out. I have multiple Plex streams going at the same time, and I have all of my game library on my NAS as well. I want to be able to access all of that without a hitch. Yes, I do want to increase overall transfer rates (better loading times in games), but I'm not expecting to be able to get a full 6Gb out of LACP.
  12. No, I completely understand that. As I stated in my OP, "I understand the true design of LACP was to increase throughput for multiple devices, which is the main reason I am upgrading. " I have many things going on in my home office, and I'm not expecting 6Gbps transfer rated between all of my systems. I know that just isn't going to happen unless I go with 10Gb NICs and a switch.
  13. Yes, that does help me. The switch below is the one I am looking at getting. http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=TL-SG1024DE#spec This is the quad Ethernet card that I will be getting as well. Intel PRO/1000PT Quad Port Gigabit Ethernet Network Adapter EXPI9404PTBLK I currently have the two port version in my NAS and using the dual intel NICs on my X79 Dark for connectivity. I have tried teaming my two port version with the onboard intel NIC in my NAS and it works just fine, but the onboard didn't support Receive Side Scaling, so I left it at the current connection, so it is possible to team two different, but similar cards. If not, 4Gb should work well enough. For my new network, it would be that quad ethernet NIC in all three of my systems connected to that switch I linked above. If I am able to run the dual NIC card I currently have teamed with the quad NIC I plan on getting, that's great, if not. Oh well. I have been doing some research, but network connectivity is a bit above my head. I'm trying to keep my solution as simple as possible, but there is a bit of a learning curve as far as this goes.
  14. So, I've currently got my three computers connected via a TP-Link SG2008. It's a great switch, especially for the price I paid, but at this point I was thinking of upgrading to add addition gigabit connections between all systems. Now, I know that it technically won't give me 6Gbps if I have 6 gigabit Ethernet cables going from all devices, but how much could I feasibly get assuming that I am not bottlenecked by drive speed? This is just a lower cost alternative to going to 10Gb, which is just not "consumer" ready yet. I would definitely prefer it, but 3 NICs + a switch would take a pretty penny that I don't want/have to spend. I understand the true design of LACP was to increase throughput for multiple devices, which is the main reason I am upgrading. (Multiple Plex streams, plus back ups from my two main desktops to the NAS (third computer), and all of my media is located on the NAS.) However, I would like to see increased speeds as well since I will be adding a 8TB Raid 0 array to it as well. Which feasibly could put me at over 300MBps, but I was just wondering if that's something that is something that is feasibly attainable via 4Gb/6GB interconnection. If I need to explain further what I'm trying to do, please let me know.
  15. Even with a massive phone battery like 3100 mAh one in my OnePlus One, I always find myself wishing it just had a few more on a long trip, when I’m too lazy to go plug it up, or if I’m not near a wall with plugs like in my 1960s house. So, that’s where this little beauty comes in. 3000 mAh (or so it says, we’ll get to this later in the review) of power at my disposal basically gives me another battery in my phone. Before going further into this review, I would like to make it known that I was given this unit from Hisgadget for review. I will always be open and honest about my reviews, and do not think that me receiving this unit in any way has affected my judgement of it. I am always willing to review someone’s product, but I will always be honest about whatever I’m reviewing. This has and always will be my philosophy. If I don’t like a product, I will make it known. If I do like a product, I will make it known. I've had this thing for a few weeks, and I can’t say that I don’t love it. I absolutely do. Whenever my wife drags me out to do errands or I forgot to charge my phone when I went to bed, it’s been an absolute lifesaver. Just take the battery bank and a USB cable and I'm on my way. Build Quality and Features: This little battery bank is all metal around which helps with both heat dissipation of the battery and is nice in case of drops. For this price, I am really surprised to see such great quality construction. It definitely can take a beating. It also has 3 indicator lights on the unit itself. These are used to notify when the unit is charging up and discharging. When all of the lights are lit up, the unit is at full charge. When the unit is discharging, it lets you know when it is between 0%-33%, 34%-66%, and 67%-100%. There are some units available from hisgadget that have a digital read out if you would rather have more exact measurements. I almost forgot to mention, it also is a flash light! It has a surprisingly bright LED on the front of the device, that I have found very useful when searching for something in the under the seat of my car. It’s much easier to hold compared to using the LED flash on my phone as a flashlight. It’s small and actually feels like a flashlight. One con to this device is that it is a 1.0A charger, so if you have a high end phone, do not expect it to charge like it does on the stock charger. It is noticeably slower than the 2.1A stock charger of my OnePlus One. However, it is not so slow that I am eating the battery away while using it. I always maintained my charge and even saw increases while using the device. So even though this is a con, it’s not huge as my device continues to charge even under heavy use Testing: My first big test with the phone was a Thanksgiving trip to my wife’s family that lives about an hour and thirty minutes away. Throughout this whole trip, I never took the unit off of my phone. We left around noon and I streamed my favorite show all the way there. While there, I was constantly using my phone playing games, web browsing, and watching the occasional YouTube video to pass the time. Fast forward 7 hours later and we were leaving around 8. Same story as the car ride there, I streamed my favorite show all the way back home. It’s now 9:30 and the battery still isn’t dead and my phone is at 100%. I let the battery drain down to below 5% and then put it on the battery bank because yet again I was being drug out for errands. The phone topped out at 17% before the battery bank stopped charging it. Overall, I am very happy with this device thus far. I did some further testing where I wanted to see the actual mAh of the battery. Sadly, I don’t have proper equipment to test this, so my best test was letting my phone die and letting it charge my phone until the battery bank was empty. I expected it to be around 96% considering the size of the battery in my phone (3100 mAh) and the size of the battery bank. (3000 mAh) However, this was not the case. It only charged to 78%, well out of the margin of error. This could be for a couple of reasons, either the battery is not a full 3000 mAh, or my phone uses power even while the OS being off. It could be a combination of both, though. My last test was charging my phone while using it. The phone was off when I initially started the device because I let it die and then tested it. I was very satisfied to get above 50% while using the phone intensively. . Conclusion: Overall, this device is great. It may not be a complete 3000 mAh, but for the price you pay, I definitely can’t complain. Currently it is 16.99 on Amazon, but last week it was only 13.99. At either price it is a bargain, and I definitely plan on getting a bigger one with at least one additional USB port for charging another device.
  16. AMD sucks (a lot of power) Intel sucks (a lot of money out of your wallet) Nvidia sucks (a lot of money out of your wallet)
  17. We're talking about what a PR from Ubisoft said. Someone who is supposed to choose their words very carefully as not to step on toes. Oh, who am I kidding. We're talking about Ubifsoft's PR here!
  18. That was AMD's response when emailed by WCCFTech. What would you like me to change the title to. Clickyclickbait? Ubitsoft yet again full of crap? You can see it as clickbait if you want, and I can see where you are coming from. But saying "We are aware that the graphics performance of Assassin's Creed Unity on PC may be adversely affected by certain AMD CPU and GPU configurations." instead of "We are aware of the issues currently on the PC's version of Assassin's Creed Unity", to me they are blaming AMD. That's just the way I see it.
  19. While they aren't blaming them directly. They are saying it's only an issue on the AMD platform, which just plain isn't true. "We are aware that the graphics performance of Assassin's Creed Unity on PC may be adversely affected by certain AMD CPU and GPU configurations." The problem isn't AMD, its drivers, or CPUs. The problem is it's a bad port.
  20. Source- TweakTown Really Ubisoft? You have to dig your hole even deeper? I'm not even a fan of the Assassin's Creed series, but this just genuinely pisses me off. Blaming a hardware company for something that is clearly your own fault. It's honestly despicable. Don't even get me started on Uplay. I would write a long winded post, but AMD's response to this really sums it up. "The game (in its current state) is issuing approximately 50,000 draw calls on the DirectX 11 API. Problem is, DX11 is only equipped to handle ~10,000 peak draw calls. What happens after that is a severe bottleneck with most draw calls culled or incorrectly rendered, resulting in texture/NPCs popping all over the place. On the other hand, consoles have to-the-metal access and almost non-existent API Overhead but significantly underpowered hardware which is not able to cope with the stress of the multitude of polygons. Simply put, its a very very bad port for the PC Platform and an unoptimized (some would even go as far as saying, unfinished) title on the consoles".
  21. I personally like the extreme better, but the carbon fiber is a little off putting. I do enjoy triple slot coolers as long as you aren't planning on doing SLI or are doing it in a motherboard that supports quad so you can space them out properly!
  22. I found LTT a long time ago when I first researching parts for an upcoming build. I really favored your reviews over others because you seemed to not only cover the specifications of the products, but also added humor to it to keep the audience both informed and entertained.
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