Green_man_5

It looks like they are not updating the scoreboard anymore. My system is similar to yours but with 340TB raw drives.
 
We both should be near the top.

For everybody else who reflexively clicked the YouTube play button in that screenshot:
 
It's amazing how much of a difference modern lighting and textures make to aging games. I saw an RTX remix of a Need for Speed: Underground title, and it looked almost new. Black Mesa RTX when?

Ooooooh no. How will us Europeans EVER recover from this travesty! Aaaaanyway...

You mean COVID-19.

I leave for a couple months and a template gets added to the forums, wonder where they got that from. 👀
Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated

Summary:
Despite what Intel may have said, the Intel NUC does not require an extra enclosure but can easily be added to any existing PC with just a few pieces of tape. 
 
Media:
 
Quotes:
 
My Thoughts:
While still potentially a bit more expensive than a regular PC, it's neat to see that a NUC can easily be added just like you would add an additional GPU. I might consider this as you don't even need a case that can support two systems, any regular ATX case will do.
 
Sources:
(see media)

too many diagonal stripes.
 
Those are not USB-c. they screwed up on their own marketing slides?

Could be particularly bad for hit & run type situations. Speaking for myself, a string of emojis is a lot harder to remember than text.

LG is, of course, set to release new monitors at CES this year. This one was revealed a little early, and it looks like it's going to be the new God of the ultra wide monitor market.
Enter the 38GL950G.
I really wish LG would come up with some nicer nomenclatures.
 

 
The monitor boasts some impressive specs:
38" curved display with a 21:9 aspect ratio 3820 x 1600 144hz GSync IPS panel 2ms response time 89% of the DCI-P3 color space 450 nit brightness Price TBD (but really, if you have to ask, you can't afford it) The impressive points here are the brightness, and the pixel response time of 2ms on an IPS panel. I hope they make a FreeSync version too, but I think it's rather unlikely as this is more of an upper market monitor.
 
Personally, this is the perfect monitor IMO. It hits all the right targets for me, and will likely be what I pick up this summer/fall. I also love how it's not overly gamer, with just a red accent.
It'd better have VESA mounts though, as that stand is pretty intrusive to desk real estate.
 
I cannot wait for CES this year!
 
What do you think? Would something like this sway you to give up a multi monitor set up?
 
 
Sauce: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/lg-38-inch-144hz-g-sync-gaming-display/
 
 

floatplane.

1. clickbait holy shit
2. formatting is worse than the average off topic post

If this carries on we can expect a BR mode being added into Goat Simulator any week now.
 
 
 
That'd actually be pretty sick tho.

lol, no thx

 
The stream in the link works but this Chinese lady keeps talking so I cant hear a thing

This isn't quite the right section to create this thread. Just a quick FYI, the forums are rarely used to communicate with LTT staff. I would suggest you use Twitter instead.

Dr. Deez Nutz

Hardware
CASE: Norcotek RPC4224
PSU: Corsair RM-550
MB: Asus X99-A
CPU: Intel Xeon E5 2620 v4
HS: Noctua NH-U9DX i4
RAM: 32GB DDR4 2400
RAID CARD 1: Adaptec RAID 81605ZQ
RAID CARD 2: HPT Rocket Raid 2720SGL
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
HDD: 12x 4TB WD Red
 
Software and Configuration:
My server is running Windows Server 2016 (thanks to Microsoft Imagine).
I have 2 arrays running, the primary consists of 8x 4TB drives in RAID 6 totaling 21.8TB usable. The secondary array is for my old 4x 4TB drives that have some minor errors stopping them being used in the primary array.
Usage:
My server has 3 main functions:
nightly backups for all the PC's in my home Plex server for all my movies and TV series Minecraft server for a few of my friends Backup:
The data is backed up to a few 4TB and 5TB external drives that are only connected during the backup.
Photo's:

Original Articles
 - http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/amazon-australia-finally-launches-after-months-of-anticipation/news-story/d6092b8bcdb60b7b9daf9145023a4a23
 - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-05/amazon-launches-australian-service-threatens-local-retailers/9225160
 
Currently prime shipping does not exist, but Amazon is expecting to introduce it at some point but has not said exactly when. It will have an introductory cost of $2.99USD and then $5.99USD/month after 6 months. It will include Prime Video and Twitch Prime.
 
I hope it will succeed, as it will drive prices down, but at the same time it will, unfortunately, close some of the smaller shops like what happened to NCIX.

And once again, the Whore of the year award goes to Star Wars. Thank You Disney. 

-Thread moved to New Builds and Planning. Also cleaned.

10 fps improvement over the 1070 for $450. Pass. Nvidia gets no more money from me until Volta comes out.
 
This is just a money grab.

I can't wait for the 107x10 bow tie. 

But I want my poop brown back

So, um.. is no one going to touch that?

No Headphone jack? HYPOCRITES
When Apple removed it, they used the headphone jack as a selling point for the Pixel and now they are going to remove it? Let Apple take all the flak and remove it next year, I guess.
 
Removing the headphone jack makes no sense

The rumor is that their is no Headphone jack so I doubt the SD card slot is coming back

Hello,
 
I'm looking into building a server in my bedroom. I'll answer the questions below and suggest a build:
 
1. Budget & Location
Approximately $1300ish. In US-West.
 
2. Aim
Will be a on 24/7 running a few web servers, a few databases, running an always on DVR (w/ transcoding on the fly + transcoding recordings and running post scripts such as commercial skipping), running a NAS, running pfSense, running a couple of minecraft servers, and sometimes number crunching if work clusters are all tied up (imagine F@H, AVX-512 would be super nice). Under a Proxmox LXC container and KVM VM (for pfSense and Windows, unfortunately Matlab/Simulink only runs on windows). Generally server stuff, no GPU.
 
3. Monitors
0, output via VNC/console only
 
4. Peripherals
Aforementioned PCIe TV tuner for the DVR.
 
5. Why are you upgrading?
I have a 9 year old Dell R710, it's loud and hot and power hungry.
 
Suggested build: (sorry no PCPartPicker, the parts don't show up on there)
CPU: Xeon Silver 4108 ($450)
Mobo: Supermicro X11DAi ($500), there's one that's cheaper for $400 but that only has 8 RAM slots instead of 16, is that worth the step down in cost?
RAM: Pulling a 16GB non-ECC stick from my gaming build (free)
PSU: B-Stock EVGA 850 BQ ($70), there's 2 EPS connectors just for future proofing
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ($100)
Drives: Cheap $20-30 SSD off eBay for the hypervisor (Proxmox), pulling my current array from the R710 (free)
Total: $1150 + tax
 
The reason I went with the newest architecture instead of Sandy Bridge (also the DP Mobo instead of a UP Mobo) is because this would allow me to drop in upgrade alot of things (RAM/CPU) I have alot of funding now, but maybe not a couple years from now when the upgrade would be more expensive, and I'd be essentially tossing the $500 Sandy Bridge gear (and i wont utilize 32 threads for now anyways). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...