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I see. Well, it sounds like I just need to pick the one I like most and full-send it. Proton Pass hasn't been hacked and just announced support for pass keys last week so I guess why not?

Hey Guys, I've just built my first PC and I have to re-sign into all my apps and programs to get it up and running. As I am downloading my software and signing into my relevant apps, I've realized that I have fallen into the bad habit of reusing passwords and not creating super strong or secure ones to begin with. I've been deep-diving a bit into password managers cause ideally I'd like to use those auto-generated passwords that try to fill themselves in. However, I'm pretty terrified of locking myself out of my accounts cause I didn't choose a password I can remember, but rather a password I didn't even read as I clicked okay as it auto-populated a random 24-character string from Google or something. For those who use password managers regularly, is locking yourself out of your account with a password you never memorized not really a concern? I'm nervous about it but I also realize if it was that big of an issue people wouldn't be using them. Also, of the available password managers, which would you recommend? I was doing some brief reading and I like the developing ecosystem that Proton Pass seems to be trying to create. 'Was also looking at NordPass, 1Password, and BitWarden. Any password managers I should avoid? Thanks

I mean, sure! Again I can't speak for the animation workload side of things but from my experience loading and scrubbing through footage in Adobe Premiere, The faster the connection with the media, the better workflow I get to experience. In any task where your computer components are in constant need of communication with files located on your storage device, you could potentially see a benefit in using PCI-E 4.0. Definitely not a must-have at all though. Again, things to consider might be: do I see myself upgrading to editing higher resolution video content? (more data needs to be communicated to the CPU and other components). You probably won't see much if any improved performance with just 1080p footage alone. Do my 3D-Modeling and animation project files benefit from the bump in speed? The general line of questioning way that I would approach that decision is I would be asking myself, what is stopping me from using PCI-E 4.0 for my SSDs? I have a really hard time trying to predict what I will and will not be storing and accessing on my computer down the road so I try to simplify future Me's life as much as possible and just get the PCIE 4.0 so its a non-issue and save myself the endless misery and sorrow of buyer's remorse. That's me though. Also I wouldn't get PCIE 4.0 for the 1TB gaming SSD. There's pretty much zero noticeable benefit in doing so.

Yes, HDD are extremely slow. I wouldn't recommend a HDD that has an RPM below 7200. Modern 3.5" HDD 7200RPM have higher density plates that can read/write at around 200MBps ( and something to do with the larger 128MB and 256MB cache sizes etc.) This HDD in particular has had reviews saying it's been tested to hit close to that 200MBps benchmark for reference. In the case of my one hour of 4k footage example, the 318GB of data would take approximately 26.5 minutes to load. The strategy with the HDD is to keep active projects in your 2tb storage SSD for speed and accessibility. Then, keep completed projects that you don't use often filed away in a large capacity HDD in case you need to reference it in the future. If you don't use 4K video much and you don't see yourself using 4K video in the future, Then maybe you can get away with a smaller capacity HDD... though I don't recommend anything smaller than 4TB for all the different kinds of projects you work on video-related or otherwise. You can estimate video file sizes on a file size calculator like this one and see what you find to be an appropriate storage device to store everything away on. Also don't forget to factor in all other use cases for your 3D-Modeling/Animation/Graphic Design files when you're done estimating the video footage part. Things to consider if I were you would be, how long will this last me before I have to expand my storage capacity again? Does my computer chassis support more storage expansion? (More 3.5" slots to insert more HDDs or 2.5" slots SSDs) If so, how much more? Do I want to store my completed projects internally or externally? You get the idea. Hope this helps ^^

Ah, got you. I've never bought from MSI so I was unaware. Good to know!

The ASUS TUF motherboard would be my go-to over MSI. Not exactly sure what @dizmo may be referring to but for me it's just personal preference. Also it seems like it has all the features the MSI one is giving you and its a little cheaper. Your storage was a little confusing at first but I see what you're trying to do after your explanation. Seeing in your workload list you have things like Adobe Creative Cloud, C4D, and Maya, I'd assume you might be a videographer/content creator + Game Dev? I don't know much about the game dev side of things with blender etc. but if you do content creation and handle video with high resolutions regularly, I do support @SorryClaire in getting a 1x8TB or larger HDD in addition to what you have because you could easily fill a 2TB SSD. To put it in perspective. A single hour of 4k footage would take up approximately 318GB of space. Everything else checks out to me. Looks like a sweet build!

Ok so, I'm taking a computer IT course and were going over IP configuration. They're talking about how most tech devices uses a DHCP server to automatically assign a IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway while also double checking that there are no duplicate addresses in the network. And, from my understanding, without it you'd have to manually assign that information. But like..... If I go to BestBuy and buy some HP laptop, take it home and turn it on. I can just search for my WiFi network and boom, I'm connected to the internet - no need to manually assign an IP address or configure a subnet mask. My question is - where was the DHCP server in that process? I don't own a server in my house. I just don't get it. Maybe I have this super backwards cause I'm just trying to understand it on paper. Doesn't my device need to connect to a DHCP server before it can be automatically assigned with the necessary information to connect to the rest of my devices in my LAN, and I can't connect to the internet without an IP address so it needs to connect to the DHCP server before going online..? TL:DR Where is this DHCP server that's needed to connect to the internet when I set up a new device like a laptop or phone in my house.

So I was looking at the ROG Crosshairs VIII Extreme mobo and saw that it supports the newest USB 3.2 Gen 2 2x2 data transfer protocol at 20Gbps. I have previously bought a Lian-Li 011 Dynamic computer chassis (because I’m basic and unoriginal) for this computer build and it has me thinking whether or not my case itself needs to support that, and that it’s not enough that my motherboard has that functionality. If I’m not mistaken, years ago I thought there were cases that support USB 2.0 but not 3.0 so I figured that the case can determine data transfer speeds even if the motherboard supports it but now I’m not sure if that’s a fact or just something I assumed…? Also is it the same for Thunderbolt 4 since this motherboard supports that as well?

Ok great. Good to know that there probably isn't something inherently wrong.

Thanks! There’s definitely a lot I need to consider.

Hmm okay. So were you ever able to troubleshoot the WiFi speeds or was it just a lost cause and you completely switched over to Ethernet for your devices?

I haven’t tested it with an Ethernet cable. I just have laptop doesn’t have an Ethernet port so I was mainly looking at it from a WiFi perspective until I can build my computer. I do have a different computer I could run a cable to and test the speed.

Hey guys, So I recently switched internet providers and upgraded my WiFi service plan to Frontier’s FibreOptic Gig Service which is supposed to deliver ~940Mbps download and ~880Mbps upload. However when I run speed tests on my phone I’m hitting maybe around a third to half of what I should be expecting. The tech who installed the fibre optics box inside my home told me not to use the provided ISP router because it’ll bottleneck the speeds I’m paying for so I bought a new one but I’m still not seeing the speeds I was hoping to achieve. My new router that I bought a few days ago is the ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 802.11ax Tri-band Gaming Router cause from what I’ve seen it should be more than sufficient for my needs. Besides the very basics I know pretty much nothing about WiFi or what could be bottlenecking my connection to where I’m not receiving the fastest speeds possible. Please help. Some information I don’t understand but may be useful/significant: - Location is Southern California and we have fibre pretty easily available for the most part in my area. - The tech who installed the frontier box said that my neighborhood has “GPON” and he wished we had “XPON” cause I assume it’s better in some way (idk what it does). - The frontier box that was installed (think it’s called an “ONT”) is connected like this: ONT>Ethernet>Coaxial>Ethernet>Router. Don’t know if this is significant in any way but the signal is going through a lot of different kinds of wires so I figured I’d include it. I did three different speed tests with mixed results on my iPhone 12, all taken back to back within 5 feet of my router. I’ve attached screenshots of the result. None of them is anywhere near where I had hoped they’d be. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!

I have a Corsair H115i AIO water cooler. It’s the original one with no RGB that came out a few years back (link here for reference). It’s an older model before this new 1200 socket type came out and therefore doesn’t specifically indicate compatibility with the 1200 socket type. Does anyone know if 1151 compatible CPU coolers will also work for 1200 sockets or does it require an upgrade?

Okay, I understand the basic principle that 3.1 gen 2 is faster than 3.0, which is faster than 2.0 and so forth, but I'm not really understanding it's real world implications. If I was looking to build a computer, what is the main reason I would have to make sure my mobo/case supports usb 3.1? What can someone plug into a 3.1 port that won't work in 3.0 or 2.0 (or be so slow it's not worth plugging into a slower standard)? Is there anything you could utilize a 3.1 usb port for that would have drastic improvements over slower standards similar to the difference between switching from a harddrive to an M.2 NVMe SSD?