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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from Why_Me in What is the oldest generation CPU/GPU that you would consider for a "new" build?
Really depends on the exact budget and what your options are. For me, I'd make sure the CPU is supported by windows 11(typicaly 8th gen or newer on intel), and the GPU has software support. Probably wouldn't go older than pascall(10xx) or amd polairs(4xx)
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from MiszS in What is the oldest generation CPU/GPU that you would consider for a "new" build?
Really depends on the exact budget and what your options are. For me, I'd make sure the CPU is supported by windows 11(typicaly 8th gen or newer on intel), and the GPU has software support. Probably wouldn't go older than pascall(10xx) or amd polairs(4xx)
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from LIGISTX in New Unraid Server Build
Ecc lowers the chances of data corruption. Probably not needed for home media storage, but nice to have.
Consumer platforms typically idle at lower power and will have higher single threaded performance compared to these older server CPUs. You also often get a hardware encoder on the iGPU, so that would remove the need for the a380. Server platforms will let you have much more ram if you need that, but I don't see that being super important here.
As far as cases, I like these supermicro 36 bay cases. Pretty cheap used. Here is a example on ebay, should be lots if you look up supermicro 36 bay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/144716914920. Generally pretty easy to work with, and I'd say pretty good build quality.
With a 10g nic and that many drives, I'd be tempted to get a different solution for faster disk io than a single HDD, but depends on your needs.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from porina in What is the oldest generation CPU/GPU that you would consider for a "new" build?
Really depends on the exact budget and what your options are. For me, I'd make sure the CPU is supported by windows 11(typicaly 8th gen or newer on intel), and the GPU has software support. Probably wouldn't go older than pascall(10xx) or amd polairs(4xx)
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from RONOTHAN## in Relative IPC testing of select Intel CPUs - seeking software suggestions
How about video encoding using something like ffmpeg and svt-av1 for encoding.
I'd also look at encryption performance. There is often acceleration for that on cpus so take that into account.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from porina in Relative IPC testing of select Intel CPUs - seeking software suggestions
How about video encoding using something like ffmpeg and svt-av1 for encoding.
I'd also look at encryption performance. There is often acceleration for that on cpus so take that into account.
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Electronics Wizardy reacted to Tetras in SSD slot question
It is alright, I wouldn't worry about it.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from goatedpenguin in HDD backup options for 8 TB computer
I'd just get a large external HDD here. Size don't really matter probably go for something like 16TB+ here.
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Electronics Wizardy reacted to DrMacintosh in Synology NAS RAID 10 question
If you're mixing and matching drives. SHR is the only way. SHR2 allows for 2 drives to fail and offers the same storage as RAID 10 in a 4 bay NAS. In a 6 bay NAS, SHR2 gives you another drive of capacity, but you can still only loose 2 drives.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/RAID_calculator?raid=SHR_2|RAID_10
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Electronics Wizardy reacted to manikyath in Synology NAS RAID 10 question
it's generally not recommended to mix different drive models in one RAID array, because even if the specs on paper are the same, they may have very different write behavior.
besides that, any reason why you dont use RAID6? that would let any two drives in the array conk out rather than just 'singles out of a pair'.
commentary aside, i found this bit on synology's website:
so they'd make a RAID1 out of bay 1+2, and another RAID1 out of 3+4, and then stripe 12 + 34.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from aisle9 in Could desktop PSUs handle screen power ?
Its possble apple has done it in the past with ADC, but there are a lot of problms so no one uses it.
As far as making monitors cheaper by removing the PSU, this probably won't happen unless every device has the power adaptr built in. And a lot of device that can connect to displays like phones and laptops aren't really ready to provide extra power. You could only have it for lower power displays but there its annoying which display needs power and which has it included.
I doubt this would be a win. Extra large PSUs only really make sense if the monitor is using it. And how much extra power? A basic office monitor is like 20-40w, but a few HDR displays could be 1000w+, so this makes it much more complex.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from Aaron Harrelson in Dirt Cheap LAN for college?
Do they all have Wifi? I'd setup a wifi hotspot on on lapop and then everything can connct to that wifi
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from Andrewtst in Filmy 720p czy 1080p dla rozdzielczości 1366 x 768
Typically downscaling videos will look better, so go for the highest resolution you can, in this case 1080p.
I is interlaced. Basically half the fame changes, then the other half. This is basically a relic of NTSC and other anologue video standards, and almost never used with digital video these days.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Moving countries, changing power cable
Yea that cable will work fine. SInce you got 240v, your moving 4-5amps max, so you basically any cable will be fine here.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from RONOTHAN## in Moving countries, changing power cable
Higher voltage = less current for the same power
Current is what makes cables warm and drop voltage, which is the main limit for current. So higher voltage lets you use thinner cables for the same amount voltage drop and thermal issues.
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Electronics Wizardy reacted to Alex Atkin UK in Moving countries, changing power cable
Well, any none Chinese copper coated aluminium junk. 😉
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from RONOTHAN## in Moving countries, changing power cable
Yea that cable will work fine. SInce you got 240v, your moving 4-5amps max, so you basically any cable will be fine here.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from PDifolco in Help me find a GPU to replace a dead 3090
Thats a good idea. I'm kinda tempted to do this as I want my 4k120 when at the desktop.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from leclod in Help me find a GPU to replace a dead 3090
I was working on the computer and it just stopped. Didn't work when I turned it back on. Tried a different GPU in the system and it worked fine, the GPU also didn't work in a different rig.
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Electronics Wizardy reacted to nbstackpie in Second Hand Dell Precision T3620 MT For NAS Project
Thanks for you answer. From what I found on internet, there is only two 3.5" slots in the case. However there is two 5.25" bays that could be converted into three 3.5" bays. I just need to check the number of sata ports on the MB.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from nbstackpie in Second Hand Dell Precision T3620 MT For NAS Project
Does it have more drive bays if you want to add more drivers later on?
I'd probably get bigger drives as I find 4TB fills up fast, but really depends on your use.
Otherwise seems fine here.
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Electronics Wizardy reacted to PDifolco in Help me find a GPU to replace a dead 3090
4090 is not worth its current price imo, and 5000 series may come out before end of year
In the meantime if your old card doesn't cut it I'd get a "cheap" high VRAM card like the 6800XT, 6900GRE or 6900XT
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from Doobeedoo in Is the Samsung 980 Pro any good?
Yea its a pretty good SSD overall, and near the top of the performance charts. Make sure you do the firmware update and you should be good.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from RONOTHAN## in Is the Samsung 980 Pro any good?
Yea its a pretty good SSD overall, and near the top of the performance charts. Make sure you do the firmware update and you should be good.
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Electronics Wizardy got a reaction from Crunchy Dragon in PowerEdge T630 - Unraid server
What are you using it for?
Make sure it has a HBA, not a raid card.
I'd probably keep the current CPUs for now if it was me.