ShadowTech01

That is what I am currently doing, and while it does work for most situations, my experience is not the best because of driver and other issues. For example my Thinkpad has a stylus and I do drawing for part of my projects and the pen doesn't work well being passed through a VM so features like the extra buttons and touch sensitivity are not working. And there is no Linux version of my program (Clip Studio, Adobe Suite) and my attempts to run it in wine didn't install properly and I don't know if it would be fully functional if so. So that is one reason why I want a Windows boot partition. As for Kali, I was having some driver issues as well like the wifi adapter to do extra things, so I want to have a dedicated partition for that too. The Hackintosh is just a extra thing I want to try to do. I already got Big Sur running on a VM on this machine and while it does run "ok", it is still a little slow because I can't dedicate my whole CPU to the OS. I want to learn to use MacOS and while I cannot afford a actual Apple device, I still want to try the Hackintosh route for the experiance and I might use it for more production stuff later in future computer builds if I think it is suitable. So the Windows and the two Linux options are musts and the MacOS is a nice-to-have. If anything I would be happy if I get the first three done and made some attempt at MacOS.

Ah, ok that is good to know! Thank you! I will try that solution first and see if that works. I can always reformat if it doesn't. Thanks again!

Sadly my laptop only has the one m.2 slot, otherwise I would have added a second. Thanks though!

Hi everyone, I have a Thinkpad that I have been using for light work and some fun experimentation. I installed a 2TB Sabrent NVMe into it and I decided to jump into Linux(Pop_OS! with the encryption, thank you Anthony for that tutorial!!!) with this machine and I do not regret it one bit. I have been semi daily driving Pop_OS! for over a year now and I love it aside that some of my programs still need to run on Windows for some of my projects. Sure I can use Wine and possibly even Lutris and I have tried when I was barely starting out(didn't have great success but my try again later for kicks), but now I am becoming a bit more ambitious and I want to see if I can refresh and do even more. So I want to set up dual boot with Windows as one of my options but I want to include other OS in the dual boot as well as I would be using them for other work and experiments. I want to have Pop_OS!, Windows 10, Kali Linux, and if possible I want to be able to boot into Big Sur or newer MacOS on my laptop to boot from bare metal. I already have these OS as virtual machines on my laptop already and while they are cool, I am still kinda limited with them not having access to raw hardware. I think this could be a fun challenge for me and it will give me some experience. One thing I do want to try though is I want to partition my 2TB drive so that one half is storing the multiple OS, and the other can have one large shared partition so that at least Pop_OS and my Windows installs can use that as a shared folder or as a general storage for documents and files. If this is a possibility then awesome, bonus points if the other OS can use it too and access them. My laptop is basically my secondary machine so I can afford to mess around with it. I already have my backups done and I have everything I need stored off in a external NVMe drive so I am totally fine with wiping my system to see it through. I have never done this before, so I don't know where to start. I know I need to wipe and repartition my drive but I am not sure where to go from there and what OS I need to install first if that is a thing I need to know. If it helps, my laptop is a Thinkpad L380 Yoga with the i5 4c/8t processor, 32GB of ram, and 2TB of NVMe storage. Any advice is helpful, and I know there is a lot of tutorials out there but I don't know which one is the best one for what I want to do. Thank you guys so much and have a awesome day.

I kinda figured that. That was my original plan, I already have a MSI X470 Gaming Plus with a Ryzen 2200G(my testing cpu) in a 2U chassis that was originally going to be my main VM machine, but my ideas and ambitions got bigger than that case could handle haha, a 16 core in that would probably be way too hot as only a low profile cooler could fit there or some custom AIO I haven't found. What I might do is put a better cpu with more cores and threads in that one and that would handle my smaller VM box that would handle my Nextcloud and smaller services. Thanks anyway!

That is a option I haven't thought of, thanks! I'll definitely take a look at those options! I have not delidded a cpu before and since I do not need the system immedietly, I can afford the time to see if I can properly perform a successful delid. Maybe I can get one of those copper heat shields like the one LTT just released in their video a few days ago.

Budget (including currency): $500-$1000 in just the 4U case, ATX or EATX motherboard, and CPU(s, I would not mind if this was a multi-processor machine), everything else would be upgraded slowly overtime on a separate budget. I want to make the case, CPU(s) and motherboard a one time purchase. Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Virtual Box(running multiple VMs at once including Windows 10, Linux, Nextcloud, and MacOS), Blender, Daz3D, GarageBand, Finalcut, and other content creation programs. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): This build would be for a secondary computer for my homemade studio. I already have a great machine running Windows 10 Pro on a 2920x Threadripper and a RTX Titan, however I would like to make a second computer that I would remote or VNC into to run and export my projects so that larger projects could run there in the background while not taking my main PC's resources if I needed or wanted to do something else. I am in no rush whatsoever, this project could wait a year and I would not complain a bit. If anything it's a "nice to have" thing. I was thinking of running Ubuntu or Pop_OS!(my current favorite Linux distro as of this post, thank you Anthony!!!) as the main host OS and run other things as well in VMs like my MacOS VM and Nextcloud for cloud storage I can share and host large files for friends and project teammates. This machine would be fitted into a 4U chassis(with rails please! I always forget those) of some sort cause I already have a server rack set up that houses my other projects and my NAS. I have a free 4U slot I can put the beast in but I can make it a 5U if the need comes. Trying to save as many Us as I could due to only having 4Us left that I plan on saving for a good UPS in the future. I will be making a separate post about that. The reason I wanted to make this a ATX build is for a few reasons. One, I can use off-the-shelf parts for upgrades and replacements that are easy to find. Two, it would be a lot quieter than a repurposed server, I have a few I got for free and they are loud, haha. Sadly those are too old and not designed for what I need, also compared to new stuff they are not power efficient at all. Three, I want to put in a few graphics cards that would be dedicated to the VMs, at least 1 Radeon card for the MacOS VM and a RTX card for the Win10 or whatever I plan to export my projects to. I would probably also install a smaller Quadro for the host OS as well so that it would help with basic visuals and maybe share some of that with other smaller VMs that don't need a full card. Don't worry, not everything will be run all at once and burn out whatever PSU I put in this thing. If the motherboard can support PCI-E 4.0, that would be cool BUT unnecessary. The reason I would want a Xeon and not a 16 core Ryzen or Epic CPU is mostly due to the MacOS VM. I can run that just fine on my Intel based hosts like my Thinkpad but not on my Threadripper. I tried other machines I had and all the Intel ones worked great while the AMD ones did not, so that alone is my reason. If I can figure out how to make my MacOS VirtualBox VM to run on AMD as well and be exported to any machine, then I can be a lot more flexible with my CPU(s) of choice. The more cores with a decent base clock speed the better for me. Other than that, all the other parts would probably be easy for me to find and choose once I know what my base is going to be. If possible I will be getting all Notuca coolers and fans for the CPU(s), RAM if the motherboard can go higher than 128gb-256gb, great but it would take a while for me to buy and install all of that. I can source my own hard drives and SSDs just fine, probably would get Sabrent or Crucial depending on budget. PSU I might get the best Seasonic PSU I can get for the case, can't go wrong with getting a OP PSU. I am totally fine with buying second hand as that is mostly everything I got for myself, haha. The more modern the motherboard and CPU(s) are the better, but I am not afraid of a little age if the system would be relevant for quite a few years and do everything I want to do. The more cores the better at a higher base clock so that 4 core VMs would not be slow, and I am willing to wait if something is going to hit the second hand market soon that is worth waiting for. My MacOS and my Windows VM would probably be using 8 cores each, so the more cores, the better all around. I can set them both to 6 if I need to run both at once. Thanks again guys, and hopefully this is not too big of a idea. Whether you respond or not, have a fantastic day.

So for a early Christmas, I gifted my friend his first real gaming pc. This was a upgrade from his Dell XPS 4K All-in-One he used to daily drive and now things are working much better for him. He was also getting into twitch streaming and Vtubing and his current setup didn't fair that well during Halo Infinite, so I made sure he got a much better upgrade. Now that he has two PCs, I recommended that he should use his new one for gaming and the other for screen capture, Vtubing, and streaming. I also gifted him a Elgato HD60 to link the two. We did the basics to connect the two and recording the screen capture and it was a success.... however we found a small problem. How do we set up his mic and headset properly. Now to anyone just reading, you would think that we are idiots stuck on a somewhst simple problem.. and you may be right. Lmao! My friend wants to hear and voice the gameplay from his gaming pc and I do not blame him, we want to connect his Yeti mic to the new pc for Discord and for games that require voice chat like Phasmophobia. However how on earth do we have his streaming pc record the input mic audio when it's connected to the gaming pc? Is there a option to pass through the audio through the HDMI so the Elgato can capture it without him hearing himself through his headset? Also how do we get his mic input to work with his Vtuber software? I honestly know a lot more about hardware and basic software and this is all new to me. Any help is appreciated, and hopefully the solution doesn't cost much or anything.. cause we are broke now for Christmas. Lmao. One option I though if is just hosting everything on his new pc, but I want to get this dual setup working to save pc resources for best gameplay and as a learning experience. His streaming pc is a Dell XPS All-in-One with i7 6700, 16gb, and a Radeon rx580 8gb. His new one is a handmade pc with a Ryzen 5 2600x, 32gb ddr4 3200, GTX 1080 8gb on a B450i MSI Gaming Plus ITX motherboard. Capture card is a Elgato HD60. ... and yes this a repost cause I accidentally posted this in Hobby Electronics. My bad!

One think I want to learn is how to make custom mechanical keyboards with a new pcb design rather than just use one that's premade. The reason for this is I want to be able to design my own peripherals that may not be avaliable. Say for example I have to make a small keyboard to fit in a custom All-in-one pc, or I want to swap out a old keyboard in a vintage computer with a more modern one. One project I want to do is I have a Commodore 128 shell I got in a lot with other vintage stuff. No motherboard or other electronics, just the plastic. I want to turn it into a cool Raspberry Pi project and make a new USB based keyboard for it, maybe even add a few things like a proper modern arrow key design. As far as I know there is no such kit or anything that would work with the original shell so I will have to make my own. I may also have to order custom keycaps too if that's a thing. This is why any normalized keyboard pcb will just not work, I need something I can totally design for this and any purpose. Any help is appreciated, first time learning this.

I work on 3D stuff as a hobby and going to monitize my content soon. One investment I want to make in a little bit is getting a RTX Quadro 8000 or 6000. I am using a RTX Titan right now and it's helping a lot but it could use another gpu paired with it and the Quadros have a blower cooler so that helps with heat. I want to get the 8000 because I can use the full 48gb of Vram for my larger scenes and RTX 3090, while may work, is pretty power hungry and does not have a good cooling option when paired with another gpu, unless there is a aftermarket blower for it. I see some on Ebay but I don't want to risk $3K on a used card when I know for sure a new one will work.... unless those cards are known to last, etc. ... also I have no clue if the new Quadro generation is out or even available.

I had a idea I wanted to try for my private Discord server with 5 friends. I want to find a way that a program or a bot can stream a mp4 or similar file on a video chat automatically, say like I set the video to play for a specific time and/or I can select what plays later at another specific time. The purpose of this would be to host a stream party where we can gather and watch something, then when that file is done the next file could automatically play or wait until the selected time. Perfect for intermission. Also I was thinking bot or program so I don't have to be logged in while the file is going, so I can interact with other things on Discord without disturbing the stream. Would I need a dedicated account for this, would a bot or a script do? I have never done this sort of thing at all and I would like your advice. For bonus points, could this feature/bot be hosted on a Raspberry pi so my other pc or whatever is used is not taxed with this request? I am very new to this stuff, so any help is useful. If a pi can do it, I could have it connect to my NAS Plex server(when I get it going) if that is possible, so the pi itself doesn't have to hold the video files.

Has anyone used this before here? How well does it work and is there anything I should know? Would it do what I want and boot off of a pre-installed SD card or usb?

I am looking for a Raspberry Pi emulator or some kind of virtual machine to run on my laptop. The reason is I want the ability to pop a micro sd card or usb into my laptop and be able to boot Raspbian or any other OS that was meant for the Raspberry Pi from that sd/usb card like it would on a real pi. To me at least this could have quite a few advantages. One, I don't have a dedicated pi to install software and new drives to test the OS or program, and if I did it would take up space I could use for something else. Plus it wouldn't be portable nor all in one package like a laptop would be. Keyboard, monitor, etc. Two, I am on the move a lot, and if I was working on a Pi project, most of the time I would not be able to work on it until I got home a few days later. Why not just take the SD card or usb drive the os is on and work on the software on my laptop. Do all my testing on it to make sure it works and when I am done I can just eject the card and put it in a real Pi all set to go! Less hassle in the long run and I could probably even just keep a SD card with RetroPie installed to keep around when I'm bored. Three, a tool like this would help a lot with diagnosis issues. Say I'm trying to get something to work but the Pi doesn't boot or something. I could just put the card in my pc and run the program and I can see if it's the software or hardware that's the issue. There is a lot someone could do with with this tool, and maybe features like creating a iso backup to store or duplicate boot drives for multiple Pis sould be a very useful feature. I know things like GPIO pins will be excluded, but stuff like that you should just test on a pi anyway. Also maybe the program could emulate specific Pis? Like Zero, OG, 1B, 3B+,4, etc. Does anything like this exist? My laptop is a Lenovo L380 Yoga i5 with Pop!_OS installed(btw thank you so much Anthony for that video! That is what got me into Linux and now I am a huge fan thanks to you.) Tl;dr, I want a program or emulator I can put a pre-installed SD card or usb to boot most if not all Raspberry Pi operating systems avaliable.

Thank you so much for the help and advice guys! I may have to hold back a bit and think about my options. Since nothing is broken right now, the best solution might be to hold off watercooling until I can find a good case for the new loop and 3090. Will have to find a use for my old case though. Also the new case has to have at least 2 front 5.25 bays for a optical drive and HDD hotswap bays. That's the reason why I got the 750D. And yes I do use them, lol. Also don't worry about my Threadripper. It's average temps under load is 39°C and only once have I seen it jump to 55° from a heavy task. I think I'm all good for now. Will definitely want to watercool my next one in a few years when I get a 24-32 core one when PCIe 4.0 is the norm. However this means that I won't be able to use a second GPU until the new case because the temps spike hard when there are two cards, I tried. So gonna have to live with just the Titan unless there is a good aftermarket blower cooler for either or both the Titan or the 1070ti. It's a Gigabyte 3 fanned one if that helps, no idea of exactly the model. In boxes right now.

I have a pc I built over a year ago that I love. It has a Threadripper 2920x, Asus Zenith Extreme Alpha motherboard, 64GB 3200 ram, a RTX Titan that was an upgraded from a 1080ti, a 1200w Corsair PSU, all in a Corsair Obsidian 750D Airflow Edition case. I built this pc for my hobby 3D modeling and rendering, explaining the Titan upgrade because I needed more Vram for my bigger projects. I also use the computer as my gaming system. For the most part everything works and runs fantastic, most games and renders have the graphics card running average around 45°C with a locked framerate at 150 fps on the Nvidia Control Panel. However, I'm getting to the point where I'm working on bigger and more projects and while the Titan is still a great card to use, it gets a little toasty at times. I have iCue make my ram LEDs glow red when it hits 65°C and that's when I pause the renders or gaming to let my system cool itself off. Now I know 65° is not a dangerous threshold but I still want my card to have a long life, so that's my own thermal limit. The Threadripper itself is cooled by a Corsair AIO, so any cooling modifications I do wouldn't effect the cpu temps, also the AIO makes it so CPU temps have nothing to do with GPU temps. What I want to do is watercool my Titan for three reasons. 1. Better cooling and thermals, making sure my card can function longer. 2. I can populate more of the pcie lanes underneath without restricting airflow. I want to add storage options and it would free up more space. 3. Eventually I will be getting another graphics card to pair with my Titan so I can have more render power for my 3D projects. I have a GTX 1070ti just sitting that I can use in the meantime, then when prices of new cards become sane again, I would want to invest in a EVGA RTX 3090 that I would also want to watercool. So I need to design and make a watercooling setup for my pc that can handle 2 gpus in the future. It will be completely independent from CPU cooling so no need to ad that to the mix, so just the GPUs will be cooled in this system. The problem is I don't know what to do nor how to get started. I kinda want to put the radiator(s, if 2x 280mm ones could work) on the front cause the AIO is using the top vents. I plan to just cool the one Titan card now and add to the cooling system when I get my second permanent card later. Soft tubing is totally fine and prefered for easy use and upgrades. This would be my first time doing anything watercooled other than my truck, lol, so any advice would be great. Parts list, friendly advice, suggestions welcome. Thank you all again.