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Summary It looks like Apple might have been caught yet again nerfing the performance of one of their products with a software update, this time around reducing the effectiveness of noise cancelling on the AirPods Max. Quotes My thoughts While this may just be apple doing apple things, I find this instance especially egregious, if the alleged is true. If you go into a shop to try out different headphones and buy a pair based on the ANC you experience, and then the performance gets nerfed after a couple of weeks I would consider it misleading at best. Making things worse, this update gets pushed without user interaction, so there's not even a way of opting out. There's no statement out from Apple yet, so there may be a technical reason for this, but if there isn't and this is just their typical shenanigans, this looks really bad. Sources https://www.xda-developers.com/apple-nerfed-anc-airpods-max/ https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/apple/airpods-max-wireless#test_348

Thanks, I'll give it a try and report back when it's finished! I think I'll try running the Alphacool pump at a low constant rpm, it really only gets annoyingly noisy at high rpm.

Good Morning everyone! I am currently planning to rework my PC a little bit, and would like to go down the custom loop route this time around. Question regarding AIOs and Custom Loops: Is there a problem with running several pumps in series? I currently have an Alphacool Eiswolf GPX Pro AIO with a 240mm Rad for my Vega64. The block has an integrated pump. The rad is full copper so I was planning on replacing the ugly af tubing and reusing both the block and the rad in a new custom loop (all the threadings are G1/4“ so that shouldn't be too complicated). Now, I am wondering about the integrated pump in the GPU block - would it be better to leave it disconnected and just run "passively" in the loop (it sounds rather annoying) or would that be too much resistance? On the other hand, having two active pumps, would there be any issues? For reference, I am planning on getting a D5 pump/res combo, an additional 360mm rad and some accessories to make a single loop. (D5-240mm rad-GPU-CPU-360mm rad-D5)

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Hi guys! I just got my hands on a decomissioned Dell Poweredge R410 with 2 Xeon L5660s and 24GB of RAM (non EEC to my knowledge, but will check once it arrives). Since I'm broke af, I will start off with an el cheapo 120GB SSD for the OS and a 2TB HDD I have lying around, but the plan is to throw in 3 WD reds for a Raid5 down the road, My idea is to make it a home server with the following main functions: - NAS - Virtualisation host for some VMs to fiddle around with - Host for a number of virtualised services for my home network (LXC or Docker or similar) like DNS server for my home network (unbound) Media Server BitTorrent etc I have been testing FreeNAS, OMV and unRaid to provide the NAS functionality - I will probably go for OMV, with it being Debian based it is just much easier for me to maintain as my FreeBSD knowledge is close to zero and even though I liked unRaid I don't see the added value that would justify the pricetag. In order to virtualise all my services and manage VMs with little hassle I was planning to use proxmox as a base system. My main question for you guys is: What is your experience with running OMV in a virtualised environment with the hard drives being passed through? Been running it with some virtual disks without major hickups but read in some forums that Raid-Z does not work well with passed through hard drives since the virtio driver does not really play well with the controller level access ZFS requires. I was thinking of just using a software raid with Ext4 instead since I prefer a stable environment for my files over the last bit of performance. However I'm wondering if this is still an issue since most forum posts I can find are from around 5 years ago!

They both do pretty much the same, but freesync is a whole lot cheaper on the monitor side. If you already have a NVIDIA GPU freesync won't work for you, if you have an AMD GPU gsync won't work for you. So unless you want to buy a new GPU that pretty much determines your choice.

Would appreciate other options as well. Paypal does not allow subscriptions in certain countries for legal reasons (Germany and China), so I'm all out of luck

Hey guys, I am looking to build an affordable linux-based system mainly for Office/Multimedia use, but for some lightweight gaming (1080p max) I would like to run a virtual machine (xen/kvm) with PCI passthrough for the GPU. The system would then be hooked up to a dual-input monitor. My reasoning is that I am really getting tired of my current dual-boot setup and the only reason I still have the Windows Installation is gaming. Would you reckon it is better (in terms of bang per buck) to go for a system with an integrated graphics chip for the host and a dedicated GPU for the client or a dual GPU setup? I'm currently considering two options: a) 1151 based system (maybe i5-7500) with the HD630 for the host and one dedicated GPU for the VM) b) AM-4 based system (maybe R7-1700) with two dedicated GPUs (a cheap one for the host and something more fancy for the gaming client) I have been struggling to find documentation for IOMMU support for the AM4-Platform but I would be surprised if it wouldn't - do you have any information on the B350 chipset supporting IOMMU? I am wondering what the bottleneck for both setups would be - Am I correct in assuming In the first it would be the CPU and in the second the GPU? Also, I am currently just in the brainstorming phase, so feel free to tell me my idea is flawed and I should go for something completely different