spacedogprincess

So the main reason is nothing technical, just how I prefer to organise my drives on my computer. I tend to have a main data drive, a workhorse group of drives, and an OS. So the OS goes on the NVME, 2 2TBs that are the slower 2.5 drives will basically hold smaller files, and are much less read write operations. Then the 3.5 inch faster pair is set up to be workhorse drives, with a lot of read write for video editing etc. It's just how I structure drives down to keep it so that if my array for video editing fails, I don't have to clench for my more mundane files. It may be a bit idiosyncratic, but that's just how my mind likes data to be organised for stuff like this. My current computer has a similar setup, with 3 mounted 'drives, that are spread across 5 actual internal hard drives.

Might be my bad google-fu but I couldn't find Seagate 7200RPM 2TB hard disks in a 2.5 in form factor? All I can find are 5400 or SSDs

Honestly, from my point of view, they're decent enough for the cost, and they're running lightly accessed media such as documents, website code, etc. Nothing that requires super speed for fast editing, etc, and I don't mind waiting an extra couple seconds to open a photo or word file.

The case is something I'm somewhat locked into since it was a christmas present for a new build, so I'm trying to build within it's limitations. I will however look at coolers and get a beefier one; that definitely is something I put admittedly, as a bit of an afterthought and got something similar to my current cooler.

Hey all, I just need a sanity check on the components I picked out for a new build I'm working. PartPicker List I've already got peripherals all set and ready to go (I'm just going to take the ones off my current daily driver and hook them up.) My main plan is to use this for 4k video editing, graphics design, and 3d Rendering in Lightwave/ After Effects. My current daily driver works just fine for personal tasks, but I've been getting more client jobs to run so I'm thinking of getting something as a seperate machine to both run client jobs without putting strain on my personal machine (so I can export, render, etc while still having a machine free to do my day to day) and I am hoping to get something powerful enough to handle complex scene files in Lightwave, which is primary a CPU rendering application instead of GPU (the way I have it set up, at least). Plan is to have just the OS and software on the NVME, and then run the HDDs in 2 Raid1 arrays, and they'll be hosting the project files for all my active projects(One for video projects, one for photography), which will upon completion be archived onto my NAS. Are there any optimizations I've missed or any redistributing of budget that might make this better, or does this seem like a solid, mid-range build for what I'm doing?

Fair enough. If you are open to other software, i'd reccomend OBS or one of its distributions. You can take your original game feed and scale it so that all that you record are the portions you want. You could also, if you want, record the full 21:9 window and later choose to crop if you wish. OBS is free if you want to play around eith it and see if you like it. But the downside would be recording an entire session and then sifting footage

2 questions. One, what software are you using to record your gameplay. And 2, when you say black bars, are you getting like top and bottom in a 16:9 container, or some other behaviour? (Screenshots would help if you have any?)

Does indeed run fine. And after an hour of normal use including throwing some video editing and 3d Rendering at it, no noticeable issues. I'm ashamed to say I didn't check pre-install but post install, 2133 Ram is running at 2197 so I'm getting at least the minimum clock speed as advertised. Looks like this may just be me realising unusual behaviour and getting worried (I usually get nervous whenever I start messing around with installing or removing components) without cause. Thanks for indulging my nervous nature!

Hey guys, here's a weird (and probably newbie) question for you. So I finally after a long time decided to fill up the two RAM slots of my MB. I made sure to get the same speed, voltage, etc, as my old RAM (would have bought the same exact RAM but I couldn't find it anywhere, it is three year old RAM.) and upon booting it started, stopped, and then started up like it normally would. Only did it once. Went into the UEFI, new RAM detected, and booted into my OS where it also recognises the new RAM. Was this just a one time, computer recognising new RAM thing (It hasn't done this when I install PCIE cards), or should I be worried at all?