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  1. theklax
    @GabenJr I would appreciate a list of sources used when you guys do this kind of content. I'm not implying you'd cite Toms', but what if you did? ?
  2. theklax
    I'd love a source for that. Whooooosh.
  3. theklax
    FYI you can answer this question yourself with a quick google "is my PSU enough" and this was the first link. https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator There is another made my Coolmaster; http://www.coolermaster.com/power-supply-calculator/ Just giving you the tools to solve this question for yourself in the future.
  4. theklax
    You don't know enough to know about the use case to know that there is this mystical "GPU bottleneck" whatever unless term that is. What if he's only playing at 1080p 60? What if he only isn't much of a gamer? What if the reason for a 8700 isn't gaming performance? What if he doesn't mind being GPU limited in games? This obsession with creating "balanced" rigs really annoys me as it does a disservice to the custom PC community as a whole. People should be assessing their individual requirements rather than striving for "balance" or "removing bottlenecks" I don't mean to be a dick, but I just really think it is something that an active member such as yourself should be made aware of. Food for thought, anyway
  5. theklax
    My advice would be to buy a prebuilt NAS from Synology or QNAP. They're quiet and come with software good for this purpose. I'd recommend buying fewer higher capacity drives to reduce the chance of a drive failures and being reliant on software RAID in the event the unit itself fails. Perhaps a 4 bay unit? 2 x 8TB NAS drives duplicated, which would facilitate future expansion too. The unit should be backed up offsite. Perhaps weekly with a couple of external drives or nightly with cloud storage. Both brands come with software to make this job quite painless. Depending on your access requirements I'd highly recommend the use of an ethernet cable at least between the NAS and the router.
  6. theklax
    That question is far to broad. Let me google that for you; https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-build-and-maintain-the-best-home-network-4097862 http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/build-home-network/ For what it is worth, I do think the LTT channel would benefit from more home networking tutorials...
  7. theklax
    All good mate. This is perhaps the first time in history (or at least, my history) that I've found a piece that isn't available in the US/UK that is in AUS..... Glad you found the right one though! Always nice to have a "work" and "play" display (screw ultrawides). Also, you're right about most people using worse monitors than you, I think for phones and TVs people are quite picky, but for monitors/lappies general consumers drop the ball hard. Cheers
  8. theklax
    How funny, I had this exact question a couple of weeks ago and found the commenters of little help (seriously check my post history it is the last thing I asked!) Anyway I got you. https://www.acer.com/ac/en/GB/content/professional-model/UM.HB1EE.005
  9. theklax
    Thanks for being the only person that answered my actual question. Much appreciated hahaha I've come up with a couple of other options to consider too. Will investigate.
  10. theklax
    To be honest I had forgotten about this. That said, now you've reminded me, I do remember reading a number of reports from people saying that G-Sync borderless caused horrible performance issues.... Perhaps that isn't the case anymore. I'm still apprehensive to the ultrawide train though; I'm fairly concerned that games such as Grand Strategies and cRPGs won't scale UI correctly. Plus many more concerns.... That said, thanks to a different forum I think I've found few monitors that would be appropriate anyway.
  11. theklax
    This wasn't what I was asking.....
  12. theklax
    And lose G-sync? ....
  13. theklax
    If I can't find something similar enough, I'll just buy a second one. Ultrawide isn't an option for a number of reasons(RDP sessions, fullscreen game + other, retro gaming to name a few)
  14. theklax
    The objective here was to save a few bucks by not unnecessarily buying a second monitor with an adaptive refresh technology and high frame rate, to that end this monitor doesn't serve that purpose very well(~150 cheaper isn't worth the sacrifice to my mind). All else fails, I'll just cough up the coin for a second one.
  15. theklax
    Not to be a dick or anything...but if you were just going to filter pcpartpicker, I could have done that. I was kind of after a specific recommendation....
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