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Hey @saintlouisbagels thanks for replying! That's my fallback plan, since from what I can tell it's still gonna be 1000x better than what I've got. The sneaky reason I'm interested in surround sound specifically is because wifey and I are playing Baldur's Gate 3 on our PS5, and I keep finding strange audio issues that sound very much to me like issues going from surround sound down to stereo... I feel like maybe surround sound would make it work really nicely! That's pretty speculative though

Hi there, I am a peasant who has only ever used the TV built-in speakers (TV = LG b6 oled, with terrible burn-in that I gave it). I would like to have nice audio; I have money, but probably it won't take much to impress me given that I have only ever used the TV speaker. I am pretty noob at audio though, so one of those "it plays tones and auto-detects room geometry" might be nice? But might be overkill. The main issue is that the TV cabinet is on roller wheels, so I can move it and create a large VR space. For watching TV and gaming my wife actually prefers the TV in the "tucked away" VR-friendly position, but I prefer it in the "I can actually see it"-position. Diagram attached. Is there such a thing as surround sound with two different profiles I can somehow switch between? Does anyone have any suggestions for this? My google-fu fails me. Otherwise, I'll just follow a basic guide and optimise it around "I can actually see it"-position (although any suggestions still welcome!).

Thanks for replying Shimejii! It's an el-cheapo unraid build, so I wanted a higher-end previous-gen mobo so I can get more built-in SATA ports for a lower cost. If I went for a cheap current-gen mobo I'd be stuck with only 2 or 4 sata ports. I did get it working! I found an ancient 4GB USB2 drive, which wasn't enough by itself. I also had to use an SD card formatting tool and do a full-format (not quick), and then _this_ was eventually able to flash in a way that worked.

Hi there I have a MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk Wifi LGA 1700 DDR5 ATX Intel Core i3 13100 Corsair 32GB (2x16GB) CMK32GX5M2B5600C36 These should all be compatible, but the mobo requires a bios update to support 13th gen. I don't have a 12th-gen CPU lying around so I need to use bios flashback. Flashback appears to have been successful, in that the red light flashed for 6 minutes before the system power cycled (is 6 minutes long enough for a 32MB bios image?). However whenever I turn on the sytem the CPU light is on, meaning no CPU detected. I've tried: Reseating the CPU Reseating RAM (but RAM light isn't on so this shouldn't help but it's worth a try...) Reflashing the bios a bunch with different USBs Taking out the cmos battery for 30s and trying again Double checking all the power cables are plugged into the mobo (including both CPU 8-pins, for a mere 13100 ) Any thoughts on what I can do next? Should I keep trying different USB drives for the flashback?

Hi folks, I've got a crappy unraid setup with an Intel NUC and a USB 4-drive hard disk dock, like this: Only 2 bays are filled. The disks are over-temp pretty much 100% of the time, and when I do big operations like parity checks then they get really hot (like 57C). There's not much airflow in the closet they're in, but the ambient temp there is the same as outside. Are these docks known for being useless/hot? My theory is that a drive being screwed into a metal case is like having a giant heat sink, and sitting in a pastic dock (even an open one!) gives the heat nowhere to go. But then how come external hard drive enclosures never seem to have this issue? Does anyone have any suggestions for continuing to use my NUC as an unraid server, so I don't need to buy a normal PC case? Inside the NUC is two SSDs being used as a cache, so there aren't any spare SATA ports either... Cheers!

@xAcid9 3dMark gave me this award, but I think it belongs to you

I got the OK from my physiotherapist to play Beat Saber again, so I tried it out today. Fricken LOOK at the before and after frame timing info! "Legacy Game Mode" my arse, it seems like every game I own is "legacy"! I even get an extra 30 FPS (70 -> 100) in Witcher 3 Ultra.

Didn't even know about that software ? I'd been limited to messing in the BIOS all this time! And HOLY CRAP this made a huge increase to my 3dmark score, from 7170 to 11295?! Somehow even the CPU test improved?!? How is this possible? I just wish it didn't take a reboot to enable the 'Legacy Mode' that seems to be the thing that helps. I really want to check if it improves Beat Saber, but I broke my ankle last week sooooo..... The internet agrees with you, but I hoped... Nah, it never gets above 80, so I think things are fine. And the 'Ryzen Master' software has really nice charts - I find them useful to see if the temp increases have levelled off and reached steady-state, then I know that testing has been sufficient. I guess that just leaves me with whether overclocking is any use. Does anyone know the difference between 'Precision Boost Overdrive' (and good settings) vs the 'Performance Enhancer' my BIOS has? (are they the same?) and whether my power supply is enough.

Hi folks, I think I built a really dumb/unbalanced PC and I'd love any advice on what I can do to nudge it towards sanity without rebuilding it entirely. Main specs: CPU: Threadripper 2990WX GPU: 2080Ti ("ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080 Ti Advanced Edition") RAM: 2x 16GB DDR4-3200 ("G Skill F4-3200C16-16GVK") Disk: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB Disk: Random assortment of old SSDs and rust Mobo: ASUS ROG STRIX X399-E GAMING Power: Some ancient Antec 900W Software: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, build 1903 Bios: Latest version, 1002 Cooling: A Noctua heatsink with 2x 140mm fans (sorry Linus, I like the brown) Is it a gaming PC? Is it a workstation? What dumb-ass thing is this? I just kinda want it all! My issues with the build are related to gaming. It looks like I'm CPU bottlenecked in VR which is causing reprojected frames. And my PCMark scores are kinda low compared to "similar systems". (See attached images) My hypothesis is that the low single-core performance of my CPU is bottlenecking me. I have several ideas on how to fix this without a rebuild: Add 2 more sticks of ram, to go from dual-channel to quad-channel (it has 8 slots?! Is there such a thing as oct-channel?) Overclock the CPU. I was able to run Cinebench at Level 2 "Performance Enhancer" but gaming was unstable. I followed this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD66CSR8mnU - I possibly need: More power/bigger power supply Better cooling. Temps didn't look too bad, but cinebench ran too quick to get a good test and prime95 always made windows too slow to use so I couldn't check temps. Things I already tried: Latest version of windows, to ensure that the numa-node assignment issue is fixed Latest BIOS So my questions for you fine folks are: Do you think I'm right about the CPU bottlenecking, or could there be something else causing the slowness in VR? Will more memory channels help? Will overclocking help? For OC do I need a larger power supply? For OC should I get more cooling? Do you have any suggestions I've not thought of? PS I'd love your recommendations on monitoring temps for OC. I did some digging, and ThreadRipper has some funny business with reporting temps (it reports die temp, and then some estimated "real temp" that is Tdie + 30 or something), and the only tool that gets the info correctly is HWInfo, which I can't get to produce nice graphs.