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    amardilo reacted to comicsansms in Best Power Supply 400w or under   
    He's saying that lower wattage PSUs are often not great, because they need to reduce cost significantly, so use cheaper platforms.
     
    He's saying you should be asking for a PSU suggestion, not a PSU suggestion within a range of watts.
     
    A lot of PSUs use a lesser platform for PSUs lower than 400W (assuming they have PSUs that low). Though that's not a rule, just a trend. The Seasonic S12II 430W uses a different platform the the S12II 520/620W (Not recommending the S12II/M12II of any wattage), and there'll be cases the other way around too.
     
    Also, keep in mind OEMs like HP, Dell, ACER... live in their own little bubble where they aren't marketing the PSUs wattage, so only get what they need, so will save the 10's of cents to get what they need. So just because they have a 350W PSU, doesn't make them bad.
     
    Don't get a 650W supply. They almost never make any sense. Should you get a 550W supply over a 450W? It really depends on what's available in your market.
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    amardilo reacted to LukeSavenije in Best Power Supply 400w or under   
    boy oh boy do i have something for you

    PSU tier list, if your main concern is safity, get a tier b or higher, whatever is availible
     
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    amardilo reacted to Stefan Payne in Best Power Supply 400w or under   
    No, you want a GOOD QUALITY PSU and we don't live in the Stone Age where most PSU purchasable by consumers were shit or garbage. And a couple of somewhat OKIsh FSP and CWT units. But the good stuff was OEM Only.
     
    That shit comes from 20 Years ago or so. 
    Todays PSU are far better, especially the besser quality ones. They are designed for 100% Load at increased ambient temperatures, usually 40°C, sometimes even 50°C.
    So no, its bogus.
    I've seen that shit mentioned in a Hardware Unboxed Video recently.
    But no, thats also wrong.
    ANd its a dumb argument for higher wattage, especially if you don't look into PSU more and read real reviews. And think about it.
     
    If you look into real reviews, the Difference between usually 30-60% is negligable, often even 70%. Negligable = 0,5% or less.
     
    And generally its not at half load. Its at 30-40%. That is far from Half Load. I don't give you +/- 10% Tolerance on that statement, 5 at most!
     
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    amardilo reacted to seon123 in Best Power Supply 400w or under   
    You do realise there is more to a PSU than the efficiency? Have you also actually looked at the difference in efficiency in terms of numbers? It is absolutely not worth it to get a higher wattage PSU for higher efficiency. If you want a more efficient PSU, get a more efficient PSU.
    Here's a database, feel free to have a look.
    https://www.cybenetics.com/index.php?option=power-supplies
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    amardilo reacted to fluxdeity in Best Power Supply 400w or under   
    If your max load is 300-400W you'll want a 650-800watt PSU. Half load is generally where PSU's supply best efficiency.
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    amardilo reacted to GoldenLag in Best Power Supply 400w or under   
    Pure Power 10 400 watt from bequiet.
     
    And only 400 watt or above. The 350 watt models a shut and you should avoid those by any means. 
     
    You can also grab a cx450 (2017) from Corsair. 
     
    One of those will be wellpriced in most regions. Leaning if one is badly priced the other one is wellpriced. 
     
    Dont go with PSUs with less wattage they are usually so bad you should avoid them.
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    amardilo reacted to BobVonBob in SATA Extension cables for shucked Hard Drives with Power Disable Feature   
    Probably, since those SATA cables are basically glorified Molex adapters anyway.
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    amardilo reacted to dizmo in Gaming PC at 1080p60 with AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 580 8GB?   
    If you save money by going with 8GB (which, honestly, if it's just for gaming is more than fine) don't get a single stick. Single channel affects Ryzen performance just as much as slow RAM. Make sure it's a dual channel kit of a high speed. Also, don't leave a 5400rpm drive in there unless it's large capacity; it's going to be painfully slow.
     
    The RX580 should be more than capable. That's what I plan to run for the next little while.
    He's trying to save money, and he's not in the US. So US pricing is irrelevant.
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    amardilo reacted to TH3R34P3R in Gaming PC at 1080p60 with AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 580 8GB?   
    just don't do that. get a nice kit of 3000mhz 16gb (2x8 array) some kits are as low as 90 dollars for that speed and amount of ram. 
     
    also, yes, you should have no problem running at 1080p with that card and the 2600. 
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    amardilo reacted to Danioki in Gaming PC at 1080p60 with AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 580 8GB?   
    with that VGA only some games will run in high at that fps, and since ryzen benefits greatly from Ram speed you'll need at least 16 GB 3000mhz ram. 
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    amardilo got a reaction from alex75871 in Cheapest Way To Run 100+VM's   
    Wow that's some use case! If .NET 4.6 is a requirement could you not run this program as a Docker container on a Windows environment?
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    amardilo reacted to Alex Atkin UK in Boot from 2nd GPU   
    The problem doing it that was it is will only affect the GUI, the console will go onto whichever GPU it detects first I believe.  Also if you are going to be using a GPU exclusively in VMs, its better to use IOMMU passthrough anyway as its the absolute lowest overhead thus maximum performance, assuming the VM you use supports it.

    They have also migrated Linux towards plug and play so it likes to auto-detect everything, which I suspect would switch the default GPU once you plug the second one in as again its probably going to use them in the order they are detected.  Trying to get it to "stick" to the layout you want can be a royal PITA.
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    amardilo reacted to Mick Naughty in Boot from 2nd GPU   
    If you have two monitors, just assign that monitor connected to that card as primary. Or install the 1030 first and boot so any card after that won’t be primary. 
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    amardilo reacted to Alex Atkin UK in Boot from 2nd GPU   
    I know when you have an iGPU you can choose between that or PCIe, not sure about choosing a specific PCIe GPU if you have several though.

    You could try setting the AMD card for PCI passthrough, it might still boot from it but it would hopefully switch over during boot.  I'm not sure the specifics of doing this on Unraid but there are instructions for Fedora here that should give you an idea. https://level1techs.com/article/ryzen-gpu-passthrough-setup-guide-fedora-26-windows-gaming-linux
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    amardilo reacted to Electronics Wizardy in Upgrading RAID 0 Drives   
    If you have all the copied files, then just remote the drives, disable raid on the motherboard, and setup storage spaces.
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    amardilo reacted to Electronics Wizardy in Upgrading RAID 0 Drives   
    Do you have a backup? You should have a backup, then just swap the drives and restore the backups. You want a file backup here.
     
    Or just copy the files to a external hdd.
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    amardilo reacted to Electronics Wizardy in Upgrading RAID 0 Drives   
    Motherboard raid is pretty bad at this.
     
    Id probalby suggest switching to storage spaces in the os, it works much better. Id put the 1tb drives in a storage spaces array and then copy the files to the new array. Then you can remove the array in the bios, and add those drives to the storage spaces array.
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    amardilo reacted to Pixel5 in Upgrading RAID 0 Drives   
    the easiest way is probably to put in the new drives and configure them as raid 0 then copy all the data, remove the old drives and assign the same drive letter to the new ones to make all shortcuts work again.
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    amardilo reacted to tikker in Need psu advice   
    Not necessarily, but I would look for a safer one perhaps.
    As is any list or recommendation on this forum. Of course, nothing beats a full review and the flaw you mention is an important one, but overall that list is pretty good for an overview of good to bad.
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    amardilo reacted to doffy99 in Need psu advice   
    see jonnyguru reviews youll know i could be getting a extra ram if i didnt chose tier 2 psu on the other hand when i asked local shops they using tier 4 and 5 psu for saving money lol 
     
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    amardilo reacted to Rexper in Need psu advice   
    Could we stop relying on that tier list so much... Remember, that list is subjective.
     
    Do you understand why those power supplies are "unsafe" or good?
    If you read professional reviews, you would.
     
    EVGA 450 B3 review at Tomshardware. The biggest flaw of the power supply is the non-functioning protections. Overloading the EVGA b3 will not only kill it, but can harm your system components and can be dangerous.
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    amardilo reacted to tikker in Need psu advice   
    If they weren't safe they'd not be on the list I think  They're not bad nor the best, just middle ground.
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    amardilo reacted to FlappyBoobs in Visual Studio Hangman Help   
    Use a label for the line. Change the value of the label to your guess/answer after validation. Look into using an object array for the labels, also look into how to search your array. 
     
    If you look into those things you should be able to build what you want. The basic flow is: create answer array, use array to generate line, receive user answer, search array for user answer, if user answer found mark as correct, output answer array. You need to add a win/lose state but that's basically it. 
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    amardilo reacted to kingknightrider in Mixing RAM Memory Sizes   
    As long as you run dual Ram slots of the same speed, frequency and size you should get the benefit of dual channel performance.
    Dual channel doubles the bandwidth of the ram and lessens the risk of bottle neck performance.
    https://www.ramcity.com.au/view/what-is-dual-channel-mode/what-is-dual-channel-mode
     
    As example in my last computer build in 2015 I used:
    2x Kingston HyperX Savage 8GB 1600MHz DDR3
    2x Kingston HyperX Savage 4GB 1600MHz DDR3
    Computer reads it as 24GB of RAM.
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    amardilo reacted to DocSwag in Mixing RAM Memory Sizes   
    It should still work but applying XMP might have issues. You'd be recommended to buy similar stuff.
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