Dravinian

This forum isn't so much a community of people who are together to have a laugh, chew the fat, feel like a part of something...but more a place where you can ask and answer questions, and read some tech news. Everything else is apparently a Status Update, which I doubt many people actually read, I am sure I will be contradicted there before the Mods shut this post too, but I haven't read any updates in the months I have been here and I doubt I ever would...why would you read what one person has to say, on a forum that is designed to engage the whole community? That has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Why is this place becoming Stack Overflow rather than a place where people in a community can come together to talk about stuff and have a laugh? - as long as there is some connection to technology, the fundamental base of the community. If it isn't offensive, if it isn't divisive, then why isn't it allowed as long as it doesn't break the rules? That is the point of a forum, to foster a community. It isn't meant to be a question and answer place and a news site, there are places for that. If it isn't a community, then I for one, don't really see any point to it. It seems like a lot of effort spent on not creating something.

That is what I was saying, Quick Sync on that old a CPU can't do, for instance, 4k....at all, it isn't that it does it badly, it just can't do it. so yes depends on the media, just something to bear in mind that if you swap to a 4th Gen thinking the iGPU can pick up some of the slack, it may be the case that it just can't. Adding GPU's can also be problematic, FreeNAS has taken a beating, so let me beat that dead horse a little more...plex doesn't support GPU transcoding on FreeNAS. In fact, Plex supports very few GPU transcoding options, perhaps....again, Emby is better than Plex in this regard, but something worth thinking about and considering that depending on the choices you make, a GPU may not be an option.

No, I made a post about it existing in 2 different adverts on two different websites and asked whether others had seen the same where they are - those are both in the UK. And whatever, you be a downer about it, feel free, it is a free forum, comment what you like.

Pick on? lol seriously dude you need to lighten up.

I just wondered whether everyone else is seeing the same thing I am in advertisements with this board? What I am talking about is this: Notice anything odd about that picture? This is taken from Amazon UK, selling the board. However, the same image appears on a full page blurb on Scan UK (a PC parts website). Is it the same where you are? Has no one realised the difference between a 1 and 2.5 yet?

The 4770k isn't going to handle 4 transcodes at once very well, if at all, and there are issues with transcoding certain qualities on that old of a CPU as the Intel sync tech on that age CPU is probably good for 1080p to 720p transcodes at best. I say that, maybe emby is better at handling this than Plex, but my i7 4790k was using about 40% for a transcode so was limited to 2 at best.

Ahh there you, I think in my head it was B450....dunno why.

I think the Tomahawk is the same price as the Asus Tuf gaming x570 and comes with 2.5gb LAN. I am worried about Gen 4 though, who knows what is around the corner, and unless you are in a position to buy again, if something comes to light that is just a must have, then I think I would err towards an x570. At the moment, almost utterly irrelevant, but in 3 months, 6 months, 12 months? I dunno. Oh and just to add, this isn't some gimmick made up by a MB company to sell their product, this is PCIe lanes, they aren't going anywhere for awhile, so the opportunity for some company to provide some Gen 4 functionality that blows us all away, is definitely in existence.

Do you want the mouse on the second screen to behave differently or just repeat the movements from the game?

Bullet points are your friend, love them, cherish them, use them.

You don't get the option to enable G-Sync without G-sync being there. Your problem has nothing to do with your monitor. Your monitor has told the drivers correctly that it is Gsync, your GPU drivers have recognised it as a Gsync monitor. If you have the enable G-sync button, then tick that button, it should be on.

Grrrr, I lost the post I jsut wrote To OP: You can try testing it here: https://www.testufo.com/gsync If you can't see it working, then reinstall your drivers. You should have Gsync, there is no reason it shouldn't work that I can see.

You don't get the option to enable G-Sync without G-sync being there. Your problem has nothing to do with your monitor. Your monitor has told the drivers correctly that it is Gsync, your GPU drivers have recognised it as a Gsync monitor. If something else is going on, it isn't your monitor. I didn't read your post, it was too much trouble, but the image alone was enough to tell me the above.

"but i can still enable it but it wont work" How have you tested this? I doubt very much that GeForce told you to buy an AMD GPU when the GPU you have is FreeSync compatible on that monitor, as is the rest of their range after the 900 series. Can you copy and paste the email they sent you? Or are you talking about someone in a shop told you this?

I can see why you may have had some difficulty getting responses before. What did GeForce say when you contacted them? This is a Gigabyte product, it is highly unlikely that they are falsely advertising their product. It is more likely a configuration issue that you need to address. Are you using a Display Port cable to the monitor?

Where did you buy it and when? When you spoke to GeForce what exactly did they say, because there is a difference between a G-Sync monitor and a G-Sync compatible monitor. Your GPU is FreeSync compatible in any event according to these people: https://blurbusters.com/gsync/supported-graphics-cards/ So no need to buy anything.

I think it is because most of us are man-babies and when we leave a job it is under a heavy cloud with lots of swearing and missing pens...

It is hard to be sure about anything in life...except this, this I am sure will not work.

No, what I meant was you could buy 2 for £200, which is the same as it would cost you to buy all those hard drives, and then copy the data to each of them. That is what raid is, it gives you redundancy, so that if 1 drive fails, you still have all the data. Here you would have two copies of the data, so if 1 drive fails, you would still have all the data....so it was a way of saying, create your own raid. These drives have sync abilities, so you just need to plug them in and they will sync to folders that you choose, so you don't have to manually back up your files every time, just plug one drive in, let it back itself up, then plug in the other one. Job done.

You could buy two of these in the UK for roughly £200. That would give you a total of 10tb of storage, or simply a back-up of your back-up with zero running costs... It is a 5tb USB external HDD on USB 3.0 make your own Raid https://www.ebuyer.com/882371-seagate-backup-plus-5tb-black-portable-hard-drive-sthp5000400

TrueNAS is just about to go live, so I thought I would let that release, give it a month or two to iron out any bugs, and then move over to that to see if there is any improvement - as I feel it will be a smoother experience. If that doesn't work, then I will look to see whether I can move the entire server to a new platform. I was also thinking about doing some research into ProxMox as I have heard good things about it, but my knowledge is a bit limited at the moment so would have to invest a bit of time to see whether it is suitable. Cheers for the info on Cockpit, I will do some research on that too.

If you access it once or twice a month, why are you bothering with a NAS at all? Why not just have a back-up system that you can access. A NAS is Network Attached Storage, the whole point of it is that it is always there for you to access on the Network, but for your use case, that doesn't really seem necessary. You can buy an 8tb USB external drive for £200 in the UK, works out to be about $250 dollars or so, plug it in once a month when you need it. Why spend all that money on building a NAS and running a NAS, when all you want is extra storage to dump some files you rarely use. Bear in mind in the UK, a 2tb HDD is £50 best price, so 4 of them is £200 anyway.

I am not sure the transcoding settings impact on the optimisation settings, but I will have a look later tonight - Plex is a real pain where if you cancel an optimisation part-way through, it has no memory that it has done any of it...so will just do everything again if you transcode the collection again. So you have to manually do the items in a collection if you don't let it finish the entire collection - given the size, I want to avoid that. Currently have it running on Windows because my server has no passthrough (FreeNAS). Considering options for changing that, Linux is definitely amongst those options. Having it on Windows means having access to the 2080ti, which has made things a lot easier in the short-term and I now have less complaining, but I would rather not have it running on this machine long-term, so pre-transcoding everything allows it to go back to the FreeNAS server in due course. Just that due course will be about 4 months at this rate.

Revit apparently has a cap of 16 threads. So 3900x and 3950x would be worse than the i9 10900k. Since they both can reach 16 threads, but the 10900k can hit 5.0ghz where you be lucky to hit 4.3ghz stable on a 3900x. Honestly, I am not sure whether the OP is seeking advice or just seeing whether AMD will be recommended no matter what you post.

That would depend and goes hand in hand with this comment: That depends on the value of the time. Sure you may pay $2k for a faster CPU that is only marginally faster, but if the time you gain saves you $10k or $20k in fees then that is a wise investment. It is why LMG always have ridiculously powerful editing machines, and as Linus explained in a video recently when talking about why he pays SO much for Adobe (I think $10k a year?) the time lost, across all the employees and what that would be in financial terms, actually outweighs the cost pretty quickly.