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Very good point. To narrow it down to the important main devices would be Google Pixel 6 pro, Apple iPhone XR, Kindle tablet. I don't need to necessarily charge them at the same time, so if there's a single port option I'm all for it. During my search I found these three, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09KRZFGM8?psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09G6B97M9?psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08T5QN2TR?psc=1 I just don't fully understand some of the functionality such as GaN ports, PD, PPS, AFC compatibility. Then there's the price differences. I imagine Anker your simply paying more for the brand recognition?

Hey all, sorry if this is all a bit convoluted. I've been stuck in the rabbit hole of buying a new charger for quite sometime now. Everything I read from articles is either conflicting with one another or using terminology and explanations that are simply beyond my knowledge threshold. Does more watts/volts/amps mean more charging speed? To my understanding, a phone, for example, plugged into a 40w charger will only draw the amount of wattage that the phone can accept. Plus, a lot of phones use proprietary methods of "fast charging". So, in this case, a 40w and a 12w would perform the same charging speed? Then there are different types of ports from what I've read. Needless to say, I'm beyond confused. So, with those questions, could someone recommend a charger that will charge different brands of phones and tablets at the highest possible speed? Every time I think I've found a good brand or charger, I make the mistake of going through the rabbit hole of Amazon reviews and my brain breaks.

Thank you so much, you're awesome!

Thank you so much. Super helpful information. Do you have any brand recommendations by chance for thermal pads and heatsinks assuming there is room?

Good point sorry, it's the Gigabyte windforce version.

Quick question. I recently picked up a used 2080 ti Gigabyte windforce version, coming from hybrid cards for the past few I'm a bit outdated on normal temperatures for air cooled cards. It seems high but is 90-97c a bit high to say the least? (This is at 100% fan speed from boot.) Hotspot reaches 106c but from what I've read that reading is a bit misleading. GPU itself seems to peak at 80-85 max so that seems in line, just worried about the vram temps. Wanted some advice before I took it apart to reapply thermal paste. Fans are all running fine, not visibly dusty but I sprayed it with air anyways. Stock, no overclocks. Still reads about 90c with 85% power limit. After playing a game earlier for 15 minutes or so. Normal 100% power limit. HWMonitor

Yeah sorry, the one important thing and I missed it in the thread. Went with a Asus RT-AX56U on sale and loaded it with merlin firmware.

Looking to get away from renting router from ISP with stone age firmware, can anyone recommend a good router for the 50-100$ range. Features / uses, mostly would just like a solid router with plenty of user control for setting up Pi-hole. Main dekstop is going to be wired. Wireless range doesn't need to be crazy as I won't be too far from the router on the same floor, 150-200ft using about 6-8 devices. Just would like to hear peoples preferences to the brand, model, they prefer that doesn't have a GUI capable of only changing a few settings. Thanks

Perfect, thank you so much for all your help, you didn't need to spend your time helping me look. Much appreciated, will order than cord now.

Thank you so much. I'm completely lost on reputable hdmi cable brands. I've always heard good things about monoprice, would be great if they had it on amazon as I have gift cards for it there, but seems like 20$ more for the same cable on Amazon for some reason. Any chance you know any other brands? Again, thank you

Is there another length between 25ft and 50ft? Would a 40ft cable solve the problem of the 50ft cables starting to cause issues. Or is 40ft not standard size for a cable, I notice there aren't very many of them. Thank you guys so much, i've been stuck on this forever.

So with a 50ft cable it'd work fine as well? Wouldn't mind having the extra leeway with length if it wouldn't effect performance.

Much appreciated for the input, thank you both.

Can't seem to find the answer, all reviews are mixed down the middle. Some say 4k at 60 works fine or even 4k at 30, some say it only works on cables below 15ft. Does anyone have personal experience on a 25ft cable being able to carry that workload? I just need it to watch videos, sports, to an oled lg from a computer far away, won't be gaming or anything that intense. I am probably overthinking it all but went down the rabbit hole of reading amazon reviews.

Thank you for all of your help as well. Was very insightful.

Wow, thank you so much. That is incredibly helpful! That makes a lot of sense, so "servers" are simply just meant to be stacked. Dual CPU vs Single CPU latency makes a lot of sense as well. Looks like I will definitely go the Ryzen route, much more practicality for my use.

How would a ryzen 5 1600 32gb ram build hold up compared to the dell server for multi threaded work?

Will definitely check AWS now. Mostly just see xeon powered ones,

I was considering that but for the price RDP services are asking for ryzen spec machines are quite high, can practically buy the used cpu for the same price as a month to use their rdp. I've always rented xeon rdps that seemed to easily run multiple instances of programs/debugging which is why I was leaning towards that route.

Seems like I don't. I was more basing it off of the RDP specs I usually run all my programs on, which handles it quite well, and assumed buying a user server with similar specs would be more beneficial then spending monthly for a rental machine. If a cheap ryzen build can handle it all, I'm all for it.

Used is more than fine. I will definitely look into that. I have an old Nvidia 710 laying around here somewhere so integrated graphics isn't a necessity for the CPU.

Oh okay, good to know. Does ryzen have any prebuilt ones similar to the poweredge setup? Or would you simply just build as you would a normal PC.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Xeon-X5660-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2660-v2/m17750vsm13068 here's the link, couldn't find it comparing to non v2 version. Just seems off to me.

Hey everyone, could use some help. Looking to buy a cheap ($250-375) pre-built server for home use, mostly running multi threaded programs (Python & C#) I've been looking at the prebuilt Dell power edges, just stuck on which dual processor would preform the tasks better. Dual 2660 (v1) vs dual x5660 for simply a single person workstation running multi threaded programs, so don't really need anything too crazy or overkill. Most benchmarks that I'm seeing are showing the x5660 out preforming the 2660 while being much cheaper. I'm out of my element so could use some advice. More specifically Poweredge R710 vs Poweredge R620 Thanks all.

Thank you friend.