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All GameStop (RIP EBGames) Setup GameStop Canada now carries some NVMe SSDs. Took one apart already and it looks like a DRAMless model with a Maxio controller and Longsys NAND They also have lots of RGB lighting, some blacklight strips, standard Logitech keyboards and mice, “Biogenik” (home-brand) headsets and controllers. Desktop speakers, mouse pads. Floating RGB glass shelves, even a Biogenik rebrand of the Ender 5 Pro and its filaments. I can only imagine the headphones and controllers are horrible, but the SSDs might be decent and the lighting seems alright. Also they’re getting RCA and Component to HDMI adapters later in March for the retro systems I guess.

It's a play on the Alien tagline, which is what PineyCreek was referencing when they thought of Whale Lan-Yutani (Wayland Yutani is the megacorp in the Alien franchise)

If that's the case, then you should definitely mount everything properly, you do not want the PSU, pump, or rad to jump around in the case during takeoff, landing, or turbulence. I personally would also take the GPU out, and put it into an ESD bag. The water cooling is definitely safer though for transport, as long as you drain it before leaving lmao. It would suck to come out here and realize that your PC is absolutely screwed and broken.

There's still a couple days before the LAN, you're going to screw everything in right? .....right?

Thanks for the update/reminder, looking forward to the LAN!

@Chase Douglas If, hypothetically, someone didn't have a copy of a game that was to be played for a tournament like UT GOTY or WarCraft, someone had an offline installer from GOG, would that be cool to share around at the event so everyone could play?

The LSI is 8x, but still works, at least its not 2x lmao. It may be a bottleneck if all 8 would be spinning up and accessing data all at once, but that most likely wouldn't happen as its just for my household for file access, and only for friends and family for the Plex

It would work for my needs, the HBA can go into the 8x slot and the GPU and NIC and go in the 4x slots as thats all they need. Also the reason the HBA needs 8x and not 4x is that the LSI ones that I'm looking at (used) are PCIe 2.0 edit: spelling (that to at)

I'm not going to be using the M.2 as a boot drive it will be my cache drive for UnRaid, also hold my docker containers for game servers and plex and such so performance would be kind important

I found what is nearly my perfect mobo, the Gigabyte X570 UD. The only thing that it doesn't have is a second M.2 slot for redundancy. If i didn't care about that (which I am on the fence about but know I should have it) then it's perfect. Cheap, ample lanes, good enough VRMs as im not going to be OCing

The CPU is going to be a Ryzen 7 3700x that I upgraded from, GPU for Plex transcoding is a GTX 1060 6GB, 10G NIC is the Asus XG-C100C, and I'm planning to roll out 6 Drives to max out the SATA ports, and then later expand that with an HBA card to 11 drives as thats as much as my case can handle, the Fractal Define R6 (i got it second hand for $50 so not too expensive)

While it is a really nice board, I got a really good deal on 2 Asus XG-C100Cs and can't return them anymore unfortunately (already installed one in my main rig), and I can't quite justify spending nearly 1.5x on the motherboard than I originally spent on my 3700x back in 2019 That is a really nice board, but it seems like it has been discontinued and replaced by the X570S version, which has the same issues I was describing earlier. Also doesn't help it's not available anywhere in Canada, for any reasonable price. Thank you though

I'm in the process of trying to build a budget Ryzen UnRaid NAS (have been for quite a while now) and am stumped at my choices for motherboards. It seems like im having the issue of New Whonnock where they have all the slots, but when you fill them the speeds of the lanes gets way reduced, or ports just get turned off) Here's what I'm looking for: AM4 3x PCIe 3.0 16x slots - 1 at 8x (HBA card) - 1 at 4x (10g NIC) - 1 at whatever (1060 for Plex Transcoding, apparently even 1x is fine) 2x M.2 NVMe slots (Raid 1 for redundant cache drives) As described earlier, i have been unable to find any good mobos that fit this criteria as the lanes have been allocated to things I don't need (yea Gigabyte, I need both a 2.5Gbe ethernet port AND Wi-Fi, cause I'm both an enthusiast with high end networking, but don't own a single ethernet cable). Or if you actually have all the SATA ports filled on a Mobo, usually one or two of the slots will be turned off as they share bandwidth, and same with the M.2 slots. Any help or recommendations would be great and much appreciated.

You guys should totally do a video on the Kaleidescape and how awful that pricing is vs. a homemade Plex box. Tagline: Kaleide-scalped or Kaleid-escape these prices That is a complete ripoff for only 24TBs of storage for $20K CAD. And its only usable with their service. My dream server is like $4K CAD with 72TB (4x18TB Usable, 2x 18TB Parity) using unraid, which lets you do anything you like in addition to being a plex server.

Saw the CRTs in some of the recent vids and thought I'd chime in. I personally have a Sony PVM-14L5 and PVM 20-L5 that can both do up to 1080i, I'd love to lend one or both out as a CRT vs LCD vs OLED comparison video or some scaling old games vid like OSSC/RT5x vs CRT vs TV's built in scaler. I live in the Metro Van area so no shipping would be required, drop it off for X amount of time, and then pick 'em up when the vid's done. Also have adapters like VGA to RGBS, game consoles with RGB mods and cables, RetroTink 5x, etc. Love ya guys' work and am looking forward to LTX 2023 (hopefully)