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780 is not quite a TI, though. I saw on a thread about SLI support on that game that someone with a 980 hat 35 FPS. So it seems to be a realistic range. And since they managed to get SLI to work, I think this would probably be a good stop-gap solution.

CPU is a i5 4670K I believe. I play on 1440p. And what do you mean by Volta isn't that far? Again, in half a year, I'll be through with Kingdom Come so it doesn't make much sense to wait for me to no longer need a GPU :D. Let me pose another question: What about getting a second 780 for SLI? Back then SLI was stil la thing and while I realise that it may or may not cause issues it should work in most cases, yes?

Uhhh... a used 980 TI costs me two thirds of a new 1070... I think I'll pass on that deal :D.

Thank you, I didn't even think of that! Now I'll have to check prices on those.

Hi everyone I have not had much use for powerful GPUs in quite some time. The only things I played in the last few years was Portal, Deadpool and lots of EUIV. Now Kingdom Come: Deliverance joined this small group and I get about 20 to 24 FPS with very moderate graphics settings. Now my problem is this: I would like to go AMD because I don't want to pay the premium on G-Sync on one side and I'd like to support AMD. Problem is depending on benchmarks, the RX580 and Vega 56 don't look to be that much more powerful than my current card considering the price tags. Waiting for Navi might also be useless since there are rumors that it won't be much better than Vega. Since my card is watercooled, I could see whether I can get a few more FPS out of it via overclocking but I'm not very optimistic. The alternative of going big green is also a bit problematic on account of them working on Volta right now. Is there any reasonable upgrade I could do right now and not regret or is waiting half a year really the best option? I welcome your opinions.

Ryzen set the tone and when Threadripper arrived, in my opinion, a somewhat new market was created: The enthusiast prosumer. See, I plan on running vms on TR, one of which will be a gaming vm. However, that very machine also manages the up to 24 SATA harddrives and the ZFS filesystem housing the vms and my storage. ZFS likes ECC memory and I would love to give it ECC memory. However, nobody seems to produce ECC above 2400 MHz. And Threadripper/Ryzen thrives on higher clocked memory as we've learned. For the gaming vm, that's going to be a factor. So where is the 3200 MHz ECC memory? Are there physical roadblocks that make it hard or even impossible to manufacture or do the RAM producing companies just see no market in that? Do you think that might change as soon as the retooling we keep hearing about is done? Opinions?

That would be 120$ a year as their offer for home users is dead. You need to go small business.

Forty bucks includes resealing and warranty though. Don't know... a few tools I saw that actually looked somewhat dependable cost between 30 and 40 bucks already.

This thread has me scratching my head. There is enough money for a new graphics card and a monitor on top, but G-Sync is too expensive? Also, my watercooled rig has been running for three years and I've invested as much time driving a Rolls Royce as I've invested maintaining it. Nada.

Soooo, basically you're just deluding yourself into thinking you were more productive by being messy? I made my server out of an old Overland Reo 9000 storage system. It's basically a normal dual socket Supermicro board in a 24 3.5" HDD chassis. I invested somewhere around 150 bucks in two Core2Quad processors and the full 32 Gigs of RAM this baby could take :D. But yeah, I was looking for alternative chassis and... well nada.

I'm wondering what the use case might be for a laptop with 64Gigs of RAM. I'm planning that much for my linux server that hosts vms and manages zfs storage...

Dude, thanks! That's exactly the case I had in mind and couldn't find anymore! Only problem is that seems to be impossible to get in Europe... darn it ^^

Overland REO 9000 https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tech.proact.co.uk%2Fi%2Foverland_reo_9000.jpg&f=1 It came with four server power supplies that were trying to be louder than Man'o'War. Or a jackhammer, although I reckon they don't differ much on the decibels

Dang, I remember the Lian-Li now and it does look interesting. At 400 € it actually seems rather affordable. Thanks, this is indeed a candidate.

Don't know yet. Only thing I know is that a Threadripper 1920X will be in it :). And that's why I'm saying it needs to be somewhat quiet. It's in the attic next to the washing machine. I already have such a large chassis. Was a storage appliance before I replaced the custom Linux. Problem is cooling is really meant to be handled by really loud fans. I replaced them with quieter ones but whenever I push the dual Core2Quads to 100%, the temp sensor starts beeping like it's on fire :D. It's possible I can mod this better but before I put in that work I just want to make sure that there isn't an affordable ready made solution. Also to clarify, at the moment it only has 7 drives in it. This is meant to be future proof, that's why I want beyond 12 slots.

Hi everyone Does anyone know whether there's a chassis for 12 to 24 3.5 inch drives that takes consumer hardware (meaning ATX board and consumer power supply)? I think I remember Linus having used something like that at one point but I am unsure. I know Supermicro makes chassis for so many disks and the ATX standard isn't a problem but I wnt this to remain somewhat quiet so server PSUs are a real no-go... Thanks for your input!

That's what I came to understand so far. It's also quite telling that just about everything ECC I could find was listed as server memory. Seems to me manufacturers see AMDs consumer ECC support as quite the gimmick.

It seems ECC isn't much of a topic around here :D. Too bad. Well, I still have some time until I'm gonna buy so perhaps something pops up :).

Hello everyone Well, Threadripper is close at hand and I'm wondering about which RAM I should choose. See, I will be using Threadripper for an Ubuntu server running ZFS storage so ECC would be really nice to have. On the other hand, I'm planning on gaming on that thing as well so getting the most out of the setup would also be appreciated. All the ECC RAM I can find seems to be purely 2133, however the Asrock X399 Taichi supports up to 3600. So my question is this: Can the RAM be overclocked even when it's more prosumer and less gamer centric? For example I have access to Crucial CT4K16G4RFD4213 or Kingston KVR21R15D4K4/64. Does this overclock at all? Is there a manufacturer that offers overclockable ECC memory (perhaps in light of AMDs new CPUs even)? Thanks for your input. Marco

Yes, it is for my GeForce and my ASUS monitor, unfortunately I have found little beyond 15 feet when it comes in DP connectivity. Do you know something I don't?

Hello everyone I'm trying to achieve a completely silent office and as such I want to move the PC out of the room. I already have sound and peripherals solved over a 45 feet usb cable with a hub at the end. Now for the monitor: Is there an affordable way of doing this? I already tried a heavily shielded HDMI cable but at that distance it wouldn't do more than FullHD. I have seen active cables, HDMI repeaters or even HDMI over CAT6/7 extenders but I can't find information on how well they'll perform beyond HullHD. Does anyone have any insight here? I would like to stay below or around 150$ for this thing (that's why the fiber thunderbolt isn't an option).

The most interesting things on this channel ever (for me) was the two gamers, one rig build (and subsequentially the 7 gamers, one rig build). That combined with your idea of "Who needs watercooling to make a PC quiet if it's in the next room?!" brought me to another idea: What if I had just one server hosting a bunch of VMs, one being a pf-sense machine, another my mediacenter, and two or more, depending on the graphics cards I put in, gaming PCs for myself and the family? Only problem: I can't afford connecting all of that throughout the house with fiber thunderbolt cables and hubs! SO is there a VDI solution for this? Perhaps with XEN Desktop or SPICE that would allow me to just place a GigE wired ThinClient somewhere and connect my TV or my gaming peripherals and so on? I've seen lots of people ask similar questions a few years back but I've never found anyone who'd done it who could comment on latency and cost. I would love to see you delve into this topic.

Hello everyone I am switching internet providers and unfortunately, the new line takes a week longer to be setup than the old takes to be shut down. Now my idea was to use mobile data (which is unlimited) as a backup. Problem is, I can't use WiFi hotspot as that configures the phone as an AP with a completely different IP subnet and two devices are connected with Gig ethernet. I have a Netgear router that acts as a wifi AP and has a WAN port. It is my main connectivity hub. Two mobile phones are connected through wifi and two PCs through ethernet. My idea was to configure android in such a way that I can switch the default gateway on the PCs to the IP my android receives from the Netgear router. Basically, I wan't to activate routing on the Nexus 6. Unfortunately, my Google Fu has become weak and frail and the only things it'll spit out is USB or wifi tethering which is not was this seems to be about... How would you go about this?

Just a short question: Does anybody else have the video lagging behind audio on Youtube lately? I notice it doesn't happen on Firefox or even Internet Explorer, but both my normal Chrome installation and the portable version without any addons seem to have about a 0.5 second discrepancy.

I went with the Nexus six as that costs me only 150 compared to the 250 the Style would cost. Seeing as I could buy the standard black model only, the whole customizability doesn't really factor in. In the end, the AMOLED display was the deciding factor next to the price and availability (style is on backorder and would take 3 weeks...). Thanks for your help!