William M

$750 for server is not lot money for new server. If you build new I would stay away from intel 12 th gen- 14th gen. You can get them to work but you have disable all e cores. I have only run ryzen for xcp-ng/Proxmox For $750 I would recommend that you look for used server. Generally if want run something 24/7 would recommend that you get server. Also don't run cheap on network gear for that network. Troubleshooting flaky network gear get old. Integrated Gpu are not official supported for gpu passthough . I don't recommend passthough passthough machine only gpu. In case the host does not respond correctly. Which brings to point buying used server is likely going to have ipmi interface. So you can manage it remotely(Web browser on the local network). Between XCP-ng/ proxmox. Proxmox is easier to use for first time user. At least in my opinion. For Zen orchestra the free verison you have to compile it to your self. Zen orchestra is the web interface. XCP-ng is used a bit more professional environment. H

I own Herman miller chair. On the heavier side. Been use chair for about 4 or 5 years. Have not had issue. Also Herman Miller based right in area I live

The only I really says that is concern for me is billet lab video card block. LTT should responded to that. That should be own video on main channel. Not just WAN show. Using 4090 when another card should be used. They could still ran 4090. Then in follow up video that should test it with correct card. Maybe have billet lab if still willing come on show how should it be mounted. This would serve as way for LTT show that have made thing correct with vendor. If they have actioned off the part that was not part of the original deal. They should get that back. See if there something else they can give person won. I would just make the video not necessarily call out community said we should to do it. As far the other review mistakes. LTT really just needs makes sure the mistakes are looked policy changed or corrected to lessen the risk of that happening

So the system in question runs Esxi 7.0. One the key system on my network. Run about 8 images all the time. One the image is Veeam so I can backup other servers for network. Then also run the image that runs tv on my network. For that system I have Evga 980 pass-though to image. That image also run plex. So it can use the video card for rendering. The machine also dual 10Gb intel nic. Then 96GB ram , plus all 3 Nvme location are use. For what worth all of the 8 of sata are in use as well. I saw that Threadripper 2970 is coming down in price. Was wonder if would actually see any mean extension in machine use life if did that. Is the 2970wx that much better then 1950. In vitrual work load? Other things that Play in role in this that memory controller on that 1950x would be overclocked running system with 8 stick ram at 2666Mhz. Then also running the cpu 3.9 Ghz(Stock is 3.2 GHz). You ran the system on full for couple hours it is stable enough to that. Prefer not run workload that is that tough. Cpu temp get bit warm. Also the machine has been operation for 37,140 hours(Track drive smart data). That comes out to 4.2 years 24/7 operation. I have checked that board does support the cpu. Reason I add in time machine been running is because sometime mainboard get weird about switching the cpu when that lot use on them. So the question do upgrade to 2970wx?

I tired the nimez drivers for my AMD 7850 using to hook more display's on the computer. Had no issue loading the drivers. For reference was running windows 11 drivers for it before. Computer is running 8080k intel cpu(OC 5Ghz all core). 48Gb ram, 1070ti gpu and amd 7850, The card used to have issue render youtube video though firefox at 4k. Handle it much better. Note running youtube at 4k is tough for 1gb vram. System is reporting 94% vram usage on that card. Might have to look up video how to reapply thermal paste on card. Card has never been pulled apart. I have 6 screens attached to machine.

Find out what hardware config give the best performance on topaz video enhance. Best value hardware. I understand if you buy ultra highend it will be the best

So I use this program. Would not mind tech channel maybe what Hardware is good value to run this. I am currently running this on old game rig at winter. If their was better comb of hardware other then just buing ultra high-end hardware. Running on 5820k and Gigabyte 1080 extreme(Extreme = water cooling and high base gpu clocks).

I am kind of newish to true Nas any pointers are welcome. I have not had any issues. For part the device is share data though iscsi(attached to esxi hosts), NFS(iso installer), and samba for to put iso on NFS share. I really don't have issues with box. I have had running 18 Gb data for hour. I have not had issue with crashing. My main question is 16 Gb ram enough?

Just finished upgrade the storage in my NAS storage.Then pushing those drives to other two other computers. In the one computer I had meant to upgrade the storage when it was built that never happened till now. The item that I found scary is the good hard drive(faster). Had the word bad written on. Smart data on the drive was all messed up. The upgrade to NAS was meant so I have room to move things around virtual environment. If I need to upgrade something. After I put all the image back in the original place. The next step is move 10 tb worth of data to NAS. So I can upgrade storage in my main file server. Which is virtual image an the real issue I have the virtual disk taking up the entire disk. Which was done when I did not know what I do about virtual environments. Short version is I can not create snapshots on the images. For what it worth my True NAS storage run AMD 2700 with b550 motherboard(got one newegg shuffle wanted a video card), has 16 GB ram, 4.25 ssd storage and NVME storage, and 52TB hard drive with 250Gb nvme cache in front of it. Has dual port 10Gb Nic. The large is setup in single array party so one drive can fail and the entire thing does not fail.

My guess is when I cleaned the fans dust got hub and killed the fans

I have computer that is basically lab machine. When I built the machine I put in case that case $75. The case is actually pretty solid case. Because I record how long my computer run the computer about 2 year of service. If that was contentious service. Well the computer locked up one day. Turns the reason was that 4 of 6 fans had gone bad. One fan had completely locked in place. The other 3 the fans moved however much lower speed then it should have. The fans always spun full speed. The thing is the fans did not really make any extra noise. The case is cleaned every year. It was cleaned 1st week January and everything was fine. Well the computer just got 6 NZXT fans.Yes the old fans rgb. But being the machine is treated more as server then all thing else never had rgb on anyway. So the lesson of day is don't be cheap on the fans For what it worth the hardware is 3700x with asus b450 prime board with 64 GB ram.Seasonic 650w gold power supply, 5tb ssd and 16 TB Hard drives. Runs ESXI 7 as os. It might be odd choice for mainboard especially with that OS. However it the machine does run problem free for months at time/.

Got new video card AMD 6900xt /w 5820k. Right now I am testing in my old 5820k retuned the machine. Put new thermal paste. Redid the cpu OC. I have not tired OC the video card yet. This video card final home is going to be in AMD 5600x cpu. However I wanted to benchmark the card in the old rig to see what the difference would be. Good to see this 5820k can still handle it own. I built the machine back on 7/10/2015. Still running all the original parts. I have add Samsung 970 evo 1tb machine. For this run it was running off Samsung 950 evo 250gb. The My id bobjones003-2. I am current number 1 in that setup on timespy Search (3dmark.com)

I just finished watch Hardware unboxed video. I thought it was far to nvidia they did ray tracing video the next day. I actually liked that as they went into more detail. Kept both video around 15-20 minutes.

I am pretty sure I will no longer be recommending Dell computers to Friends and Family that don't buy things from website. I do IT work for local company and buy the computer from Dell, I have really not had a problem with them but I buy most of them website. When I need something built in certain way or I need something by short day we do have our rep. The point of me saying this is I have not had this problem with Dell. However that being side I would not what friends or family go though that experience. The one tidbit is back when intel cpu were hard to buy. They did sell AMD based Optiplex. It was 1 gen Ryzen. It was about that long ago, In order to buy the system you had to have Rep that knew of it existence. I am not sure if they sell current Ryzen Cpu in similar matter. As know I can buy 8th gen have them on site in 2 weeks. Intel 8th gen is cheaper then 10th gen and most of users of these system notice. As we basically going to websites on intranet and Office. Note that Dell has begin to stop selling 8th gen models.

I don't block telemetry but do have things block in the host file use spybot. never had alert and I am running windows 10 2003. HarrNyquist Ubuntu has telemetry in as while,. Also Mac os has telemetry as well. Just something to use to.