Dravinian

You know, I actually have one of those, and it just never occurred to me to use that instead..... That is some proper out of the box thinking right there. Thanks for that, will give it a go tonight.

Yeah, I have a GPU on a riser card sitting nice showing off its RGB and fans, but it does obscure all of the other PCIe slots, even if I moved the riser itself down a slot, the card would make it impossible to fit anything. I could buy another riser cable and then loop it under and around...I could move the GPU to the front and have the network card behind it - hopefully wouldn't impact on thermals too much. Was just hoping that this could be avoided and I could fix this piece of garbage. Yeah there is nothing wrong with the cable, I did mention in my 'solutions' that I had bought a new cable just to test it, but I never thought it was the cable to be honest. I have another install of Win 10 on a separate disk (don't ask) I suppose I could try that, and see if it breaks. The problem is, it has been on all day, no problem. It randomly turned itself off this morning at 8am when I was asleep. It isn't like it breaks to a schedule, so it is hard to measure if it breaks on a different OS, as I would have to live on that OS for at least a couple of days just to see if it broke, and even then, it can go days on this OS without breaking. It would be tough to check I think. If I knew what broke it, and could replicate it every time, I know overloading it does on some occasions break it, so I could attempt to just copy/paste a couple of TB of information back and forth on the other install see if it ever breaks. I suppose I should try that at least. Though the idea of buying a new network card is actually more appealing as it takes less time and doesn't seem an expensive solution.

My Realtek Gaming GbE Family Controller is absolute garbage at the moment. Problem: Occasionally, and randomly, it will just stop working. I will have no internal network or external internet. Looking at the details it will say "Not assigned an IP address". I had it set to static. I thought this might be causing a problem, so I let DHCP handle the assigning. Didn't make a difference. Solutions tried: Diagnosing the issue with windows results in a reset of the adapter, which does not fix the issue. If you continue to try and get it to work through properties, disable / enable or any attempts to try things that might remedy the problem, it will simply not recognise that there is an ethernet cable plugged in - you will receive the message - ethernet cable is not correctly plugged into the port. Restarting will fix the issue - only if you leave it off for a bit and let it essentially 'cold reboot'. I have updated the drivers, I removed the drivers entirely and reinstalled the latest drivers. No effect. It continues to randomly stop working, and then only work again after a cold reboot. I have changed the ethernet cable itself, a new cable, same problem persists. I thought it might be heat related as it is so close to the VRM, but under a 100% load (right now doing a Handbrake) with the fan curve I have, the MB is 37c, CPU 68c this should not effect LAN connectivity and it randomly breaks in the middle of the night, when the system is doing work that takes up 1-2% CPU load. Anyone have any other ideas to try and fix this garbage?

Thanks, nice to know.

I run a VM with linux, you can only ssh into, as it has no GUI as it runs on FreeNAS as a base [which is mentioned in post 1 - context]....one of the things I mentioned was having no GUI. It has no trash bin so when you delete something, it is gone for good....something I also mentioned. I don't understand you, I mean you keep taking one thing out of context within a discussion and being incredulous about it...but it wouldn't be incredulous if you just took the whole context. Look I can do it too.. No!!!!! Linux is not a server, it is an operating system????? I don't understand, what's going on why would you say that?? See how stupid that is?

Yeah I kinda figured it wouldn't be in Corsair's (for example) best interest to design and build two different machines for sale in two different regions...it is easier to just make one machine usable in both. I would however generally avoid it because it would require me to check and if you get that wrong it would be bad.

Yeah I know, but then I am not getting the Plex integration that I was looking for...such as offsetting SRT files. It is slow and that is irritating, but the fact that it has having literally no impact on my machine, I can just queue them up and let them run. I was just hoping there was a clever way to increase the CPU usage so I could get it done faster, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

A lot of PC stuff will be running off PSUs which step down the power (though I wouldn't rely on a US one because of the 120v/240v 50hz/60hz difference - even though I suspect manufacturers make them so that they can be sold in either country. When it steps it down, it goes down to 12v/5v so really doesn't matter whether it is US or otherwise as 5v is 5v.

This entire thread is about the process of putting media into the correct format before watching it.

None of those are server operating systems, they are operating systems, but they are not specifically for a server. None of this is a problem on Windows either, but that isn't really the point is it? When you are running a server with server software, then you encounter the problems I mentioned which make it less of a plug and play experience.

By 2%. And the conclusion states this: If you have issue with the statement, then fine, but it isn't just weighted for no good reason, the conclusion set out the reasoning. That might be out of date, it may be incorrect. I don't know the answer. It is also notable that looking through the list of comparison, AMD surpasses the Intel on every metric, bar one, and intel wins by 2%. If you actually look through it all, when making a comparison, I doubt you would make the decision that the 9400f is a superior CPU for every workload but IF, and it is a big IF, the conclusion above is still true - for instance the prices may have changed - then a gamer may find the 9400f a better proposition. I am not here to defend UserBenchMark, as I don't use it and I don't care about it. Just saying, it isn't as clear cut as many on the internet wish it to be.

Thanks for that, when the time comes I will whitelist them. Because I would rather not be sending unknown data to Microsoft 500 times a day? Seems like a good reason.

Except one costs $1,700 and the other costs $170. The issues you raise are adequately and properly measured (so far as I know) in the sense that the 9980XE outscores the 9350 by a HUGE margin (295%) on anything multi-core and for workstation use. But it is an expensive high-grade part that for 'most' users will not be a good value purchase, due to price and slower clock speeds. I think saying that this is a comparison of purely CPU power, will lead you to say "well this is wrong" but that is not the sole factor and it is taking into consideration "value for money" where the 9350 is going to score WAY more than a 9980XE that outside of specific case uses isn't going to be value for money. And the people with those specific case uses, won't be on userbench to see the comparisons, and they won't be comparing it to an i3 9350.

Anyone got any idea why I shouldn't be blocking these? tile-service.weather.microsoft.com settings-win.data.microsoft.com service.weather.microsoft.com array501.prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com array502.prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com kv501.prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com disc501.prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com geover.prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com livetileedge.dsx.mp.microsoft.com tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com So far, everything still works. I suspect I might have an issue when I go to update windows, but honestly, these things are pinging out 500+ times a day and nothing has stopped working yet. Still have email, word, excel, and windows is working just fine. I am going to just keep blocking them all until something stops working, but it amazes me that I need to ping several different servers 500+ times a day.

Let's not go to dogging and Linus in the same sentence...oops.

I didn't mean Plex, I meant the whole running a media server. Things you take for granted in Windows just don't exist outside of Windows, like GPU hardware acceleration, iGPU acceleration support - even the trash bin to retrieve accidentally deleted files doesn't exist, little in the way of GUIs and a lot of shell/ssh to get things done. Sure if you work on servers, this will come as no shock and part and parcel of the system, but for those moving to creating one these, it is not exactly plug and play.

That's because English (United States) isn't a language but a generally acceptable way to misspell things... It's a joke don't freak out!

Yep, had to go turn it on....wow that was weird, but now I have spell check! Thanks!.

The thing is the browser does provide that functionality, but I was thinking that it can only provide that functionality when it has access to the text that you are typing. If the text editor box is set up in such a way that Chrome actually doesn't know what you are typing, then it can't tell you when you have made a mistake? It might be a setting that I have in place that I don't realise is in place, but I have no idea what it could be.

So I bought a stealth water bottle recently. Everytime I go to take a drink from the bottle, in my head I hear the words: "LTT store dot com" Every time. I think Linus Pavlov'd me.

I am using Chrome, and that is what I thought, that it works everywhere else. Here is a test this is worng ....nope nothing, not underlined, not highlighted, just there, completely wrong.

I find it quite difficult without spell check, I am so used to it, on every platform everywhere, that it is really difficult when you don't have it. My typing is sloppy because everywhere you go, spell check exists. Sure, it isn't going to check that I said "bare with me" when I meant "bear with me" but it will catch typing mistakes. Is there a way to activate it on the forum?

Thing is, I am not using the 3900x for the Plex Server, I am temporarily hosting the Server (which is on FreeNAS on an i7 4790k) on the 3900x machine just to do the opitmisation - because I thought it could get the job done faster. As mentioned in my original tweet, yeah I have handbrake, I know I can use a 3rd party tool, but as mentioned, i like the fact that plex does it for plex, separates out the SRT/Subtitle files, and then orders it in the collection so it knows which version to use. I am essentially doubling the collection, as I intend to keep the 4k versions for my personal viewing at home on a 4k TV, but for those watching on older laptops and mobile phones etc, the issue is they can't watcch the 4k version (the machines won't play them) so I was transcoding to them through the i7, and hw encoding doesn't work on 4k media files on that old of a CPU - also on FreeNAS there is no GPU passthrough so you can't transcode with GPU support. It is a real pain how problematic the whole system is to be honest, it is not exactly plug and play.

Hi All, I am optimising my plex server media files. This involves essentially encoding them prior to transmission to limit the transcode overhead. So, I started doing it on a 3900x, a 12 core 24 thread PC as my FreeNAS server was very slow with its 4c 8t i7 4790k, and I thought, well it is a lot of media, let me utilise that 3900x I have laying around. Nope.. Plex uses 5% of my CPU while optimising - by comparison it was using 60% - 80% of my i7. So, I thought I would ask here after google offered no answers....is there a way to up this? To actually utilise the power of the CPU to get this job done before Christmas? Sure, I suppose I could encode in a different program, but I like that Plex does this, arranges them, files them and knows where they are...it also encodes the subtitles out of the video so that they do not impact on any transcoding that is still required (some devices will still need transcoding). Anyone got any experience of this?

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