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Really surprised no one mentioned Immich that is a literal drop-in replacement to Google Photos, with all bells and whistles (except OCR for now) of AI, object, scene, person recognition, and they have their own FREE app that works great by syncing up new photos/videos instantly.
Hopefully the next cheap NAS video it can be at the spotlight.

With the 7900 XTs, as long as it's not a reference card it's good. I would be perfectly happy with a Merc if it's at a good price. 
 
There was a bit of variance with the 6900 XTs and 6950 XTs because the reference design had a design flaw with it (very little input filtering), and most AMD AIBs just copy-paste the reference design so all but a handful of cards had very weak input filters. Plus there was the issue where there were two different 6900 XTs, the XTX core and the XTXH where the XTXH was 5% faster and significantly better binned. The reason I say the Gigabyte card is arguably the worst 6900 XT is because it has the weakest input filter and the cooler on it is very similar to the reference card, so it'll run rather hot compared to something like a Red Devil and therefore won't have a ton of OC headroom (6900 XTs do have quite a bit of headroom available to them). It's not faulty or anything like that, it's just very bare bones for a 6900 XT. The 7900 series of cards doesn't have any of those issues, with the only thing that can kinda matter is the power limits (higher power limits are better, though that's not really as big a deal for the 7900 XT as it is for the 7900 XTX) as it's not as easy to bypass the power limits on 7900 XTXs as it was on 6900 XTs. 
 
I would probably be going for one of the lower bins if it would save you any money. Again, it's very consistent with how fast it can go, so no need to spend a ton of money on a higher binned kit if you're going to be manually setting timings. But yeah, A die is pretty good for tuning, I've gotten it up to 8400 CL34 for benchmarking purposes, and could probably get that fully stable if I had a better motherboard/CPU. 

The video is talking about USB over ethernet, not USB over IP which is incredibly niche to where I can't think of any scenario a normal user would want that.   VNC-like software probably dominates most every place it could be contemplated.

There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team) and could have asked me for context that may have proven to be valuable (like the fact that we didn't 'sell' the monoblock, but rather auctioned it for charity due to a miscommunication... AND the fact that while we haven't sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype). There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

To my team (and my CEO's team, but realistically I was at the helm for all of these errors, so I need to own it), I stressed the importance of diligence in our work because there are so many eyes on us. We are going through some growing pains - we've been very public about them in the interest of transparency - and it's clear we have some work to do on internal processes and communication. We have already been doing a lot of work internally to clean up our processes, but these things take time. Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's no excuse for sloppiness.

Now, for my community, all I can say is the same things I always say. We know that we're not perfect. We wear our imperfection on our sleeves in the interest of ensuring that we stay accountable to you. But it's sad and unfortunate when this transparency gets warped into a bad thing. The Labs team is hard at work hard creating processes and tools to generate data that will benefit all consumers - a work in progress that is very much not done and that we've communicated needs to be treated as such. Do we have notes under some videos? Yes. Is it because we are striving for transparency/improvement? Yeah... What we're doing hasn't been in many years, if ever.. and we would make a much larger correction if the circumstances merited it. Listing the wrong amount of cache on a table for a CPU review is sloppy, but given that our conclusions are drawn based on our testing, not the spec sheet, it doesn't materially change the recommendation. That doesn't mean these things don't matter. We've set KPIs for our writing/labs team around accuracy, and we are continually installing new checks and balances to ensure that things continue to get better. If you haven't seen the improvement, frankly I wonder if you're really looking for it... The thoroughness that we managed on our last handful of GPU videos is getting really incredible given the limited time we have for these embargoes. I'm REALLY excited about what the future will hold.
 
With all of that said, I still disagree that the Billet Labs video (not the situation with the return, which I've already addressed above) is an 'accuracy' issue. It's more like I just read the room wrong. We COULD have re-tested it with perfect accuracy, but to do so PROPERLY - accounting for which cases it could be installed in (none) and which radiators it would be plumbed with (again... mystery) would have been impossible... and also didn't affect the conclusion of the video... OR SO I THOUGHT...
 
I wanted to evaluate it as a product, and as a product, IF it could manage to compete with the temperatures of the highest end blocks on the planet, it still wouldn't make sense to buy... so from my point of view, re-testing it and finding out that yes, it did in fact run cooler made no difference to the conclusion, so it didn't really make a difference.
 
Adam and I were talking about this today. He advocated for re-testing it regardless of how non-viable it was as a product at the time and I think he expressed really well today why it mattered. It was like making a video about a supercar. It doesn't mater if no one watching will buy it. They just wanna see it rip.  I missed that, but it wasn't because I didn't care about the consumer.. it was because I was so focused on how this product impacted a potential buyer. Either way, clearly my bad, but my intention was never to harm Billet Labs. I specifically called out their incredible machining skills because I wanted to see them create something with a viable market for it and was hoping others would appreciate the fineness of the craftsmanship even if the product was impractical. I still hope they move forward building something else because they obviously have talent and I've watched countless niche water cooling vendors come and go. It's an astonishingly unforgiving market.
 
Either way, I'm sorry I got the community's priorities mixed-up on this one, and that we didn't show the Billet in the best light. Our intention wasn't to hurt anyone. We wanted no one to buy it (because it's an egregious waste of money no matter what temps it runs at) and we wanted Billet to make something marketable (so they can, y'know, eat).
 
With all of this in mind, it saddens me how quickly the pitchforks were raised over this. It also comes across a touch hypocritical when some basic due diligence could have helped clarify much of it. I have a LONG history of meeting issues head on and I've never been afraid to answer questions, which lands me in hot water regularly, but helps keep me in tune with my peers and with the community. The only reason I can think of not to ask me is because my honest response might be inconvenient. 
 
We can test that... with this post. Will the "It was a mistake (a bad one, but a mistake) and they're taking care of it" reality manage to have the same reach? Let's see if anyone actually wants to know what happened. I hope so, but it's been disheartening seeing how many people were willing to jump on us here. Believe it or not, I'm a real person and so is the rest of my team. We are trying our best, and if what we were doing was easy, everyone would do it. Today sucks.
 
Thanks for reading this.

You mean to tell me you watched a 44 minute video in less than 10 minutes?
 

Data issues aside; @LinusTech Regarding the Billet Labs situation, could you please publicly state and justify the monetary compensation paid out to Billet Labs for the “loss” of their prototype? What steps are you taking to prevent such issues in the future?

The Trident kit is solid, though personally I'd probably get the Asgard kit. There are only a few RAM PCB vendors and 4 total RAM IC vendors (Hynix, Micron, Samsung, SpecTek), only one of which could be in those memory bins (Hynix A die), so in practice this will more than likely be identical to a TeamGroup kit in the same speed bin. No idea how their warranty would work though, so I wouldn't blame you for sticking to the G.Skill kit. 
 
As for A die, it pretty consistently does 6000 CL30-38-38-28 1.35V, as well as 8000 CL38-48-48-38 1.5V, so if you just manually enter the memory settings it should just work at 6000 CL30. It'll probably even do 6200 CL30 if you want to dial in the SOC voltage and FCLK a little bit. 
 
That's a bit of a tough one. On one hand, the Gigabyte 6900 XTs are arguably the worst outside the reference cards, though the Nitro+ isn't worth $100 more and the Gigabyte card should still be fine if you aren't trying to unlock power limits and overclock the hell out of it. The 7900 XT at $1000 is also a bit of a tough sell compared to the 6900 XTs, it's only 25% faster for 45% more cost, but in the context of the price of a full system the math would seem it would be worth it (25% faster for 20% more system cost). Whether or not you'll use the extra performance is a different story. 
 
Yeah, at those prices they aren't really worth considering unless you are doing AI or CUDA accelerated work that really benefits from Nvidia cards. For what you say your doing I wouldn't bother. 

I do know the B650 LiveMixer is another 8 layer board, and that board is definitely capable of 6400 on current BIOS revisions. Knowing how a lot of board vendors work, they usually copy-paste memory topologies around depending on what they have already designed and would fit in that layer count, so I'd assume those boards have the same topology and therefore memory support. The BIOS revision for the HUB review was probably a bad BIOS, but that said, they have a completely different QVL, and usually if the topology is the same the QVL will be the same, so that assumption could be wrong. 
 
I have used the Aorus Elite, it is a pretty good board, though whether I'd spend extra over the Pro RS is a different story. 

I wouldn't really spend the money unless you have a good reason to. The only real reason to go for X670 instead of B650 is if either you need a feature that's only on an X670 board (x8/x8 support, for instance) or more SATA ports. If you don't need either, B650 is almost certainly going to be enough and you might as well save $50. 
 
I could've sworn they were both 8 layer boards, but I just checked and yeah, you're right. Some of the 6 layer boards are still OK with memory support, can do 6000+ with a good CPU and none I've can't do 5600, but for both future memory support I would spend the extra on an 8 layer board like the Pro RS or a B650 Aorus Elite. 

The 7950X is already borderline uncoolable, I'd have a hard time believing a lower end VRM like that having issues even with newer CPUs. The B650-P is a decent option, though I do personally prefer Gigabyte's BIOS and would probably spend the extra $6 for it personally. 
 
The only board you listed that doesn't have it is the Z690 TUF, everything else does. 

All of those boards will be within margin of error of each other for all tasks, you're really better off just getting whichever is cheapest (in this case the Gaming X). 
 
Also all of their VRMs are pretty overkill, and with AM5 memory support is across the board equivalent between boards with the exception of the 6 layer boards. 
For what you said your workload is, the 7800X3D is almost certainly the better option for you. If you really want to have more cores for something, go 7900X as you really don't need 16 cores for what you say you're going to be doing and the hybrid X3D CPUs are really weird for performance and scheduling. 
 
With what you say you're trying to do, going AMD is the better option. It's slightly more expensive up front, yes, but you get a better upgrade path, significantly lower power consumption (very important for a server), and you don't have to deal with a heterogeneous architecture like you will on Intel. Plus then you could get by with an air cooler and not have to deal with running an AIO in a server. 

Some things first. Z690 doesn't work without a bios update and 600 series normally do not get a factory install of the new bios so the board has to have a bios flashback function.
 
Ddr5 you want 6000mhz cl16 minimum otherwise ddr4 3200 cl 16 is faster in most cases.
 
Skip the 13900k its borderline uncoolable unless you REALLY set up for it well. Since you didn't list the case I don't know what to recommend.
 
In the end as you said a 13600k is already overkill so I really would just get that. Don't even need a z series board either as these cpu's are basically not overclockable as they are running on the bleeding edge of stability already.
 
A fair few of the aio's get beaten by simpler cheaper air coolers along the lines of a ak620, thermalright assasin 120,... but again it REALLY depends on your case so please list that.
 
 

Thanks for the concern everyone. We are still in recovery mode over here and working with YouTube to get everything restored. Will hopefully have a video (or at least an update on WAN Show) to share with you all ASAP, but we want to make sure we get the details right since smaller channels may rely on our experience to help harden their own security.

not gonna lie, I thought Linus finally sold the channel to tesla when I first saw this earlier.
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mac is like the gucci of tech
 
you pay way too much of something thats basic quality

This wont work as well as you think it will. VM Gaming straight up doesnt work for the most part with how modern Anti cheat stuff is now. If you want a dedicated server, get a dedicated server box, if you want a gaming PC, Get a gaming PC box, trying to do hybrid crap almost always ends in a massive headache that is not worth the effort in doing, with all the other issues that will occur. 
 
Save your time and effort, just use two independent systems. You can get really cheap 3000 series Ryzen+mobo+ram combos, it should not be that hard to find.
 

Modern drm breaks on vms which basically means most AAA games flat out wont work and a good few indies too.
 
Vm gaming is hell btw you spend more time fixing things and keeping things running than using the device.

I’m confused. You said you plan to use the server as your desktop via KVM… 
 
What do you host on the server? Things like NVR won’t be of much use once your in college… so does your server have to stay home to provide this functionality to your family, or will it go with you anyways? If so, what are you actually trying to run on it?
 
I ask this because virtualizing your desktop may not be the best answer. If you just want to run a few docker containers, you can just do that under windows. 

Not only 13700K more cores, it is also faster on all counts.
AFAIK, with windows 11, p cores will handle the heaviest task at hand while e cores will handle background task. And since games hardly use more than 6 cores, I don't think pinning the e cores to something would impact performance all that much or if at all.
Can't beat them extra cores and threads, even though they are smaller cores.

I was running a 4770k on my Mc server before, a couple years back (when the 11th gen was relatively new) I picked up an 11600k (or some form of 11th gen i5 idr for sure) on a reasonable deal at a local store and it's been good.
 
Single core is strong (which if the Mc server is your main demand is what it needs), and it has enough cores (at least for me) to run another server or something on as well. 
 
And as others have said, any xeon you'd probably get would have no nearly as good single core performance as any recent i5. 
 
I'm unsure how an amd equivalent would stack up but if you're looking for a cheap upgrade I'd +1 the i5 path. 

I've been using 12100 and 12400s based Desktops for smaller server builds, and they destroy my Xeon Racks in terms of performance and power consumption. Both those chips have damn near double the per core performance of the Xeon. Pretty sad when a SQL server running on Virtualbox on a Desktop outruns a $4,000 Xeon server running VMware.
 
The only big advantage of a Xeon in my book anymore is ECC memory.
 
 
 
 

See my recent post about rebuilding my server to use more modern hardware. I would definitely recommend the 12400/B660 route over X99, especially at the same cost.
 
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1479046-home-server-power-savings-a-recap/

Nothing your doing is particularly CPU hungry and the 12400 with its great single thread will chomp thru Minecraft, whereas those old Xeons might even be slower than your existing CPU due to lower clocks! 
And ofcourse, if you need more CPU down the line, you can drop in a 12700/13700 etc etc 

I completely agree, the only reason why I use one is because it was my wifes, old computer that was later replaced. We've been using it for the better part of 7 years. I would never recommend someone to buy one now. There are so many better options today.

Oh I know. I just mean c612 and old server stuff in general. This day and age, it's an ill advised purchase for 99% of users out there, but you can't deny that having a completely silly amount of ram would not be fun to say. (And there are other boards that follow more standardized for factors, not just this proprietary intel board)

And sweet juicy affordable ram. 24 ram slots? Thank you very much. Completely overkill, but hey, why not.