Yeah I expected the Alexas and ring doorbell to go down. Shame the Xoami vacuum doesn't appear to have a local key or at least not one i could find but I'm currently in the process of moving the plugs & broadlinks over to a different network & then ill block that network from everything but my home assistant IP
I've weighed up the pros and cons of doing this:
Pros:
Offline access
No longer vulnerable to overseas company decisions
still works with home assistant & Alexa
local only means no remote hacking.
Cons:
Updates require temporary deactivation of firewall If I choose to make them local only
Nabucasa integration costs a few dollars a month for home assistant cloud integration if wanting to control outside of my network (There are workarounds)
Devices require home assistant to be up and running to function. workaround: enable NoT network to access the internet if this occurs.
This is my first build I made from 2016, it's held up quite well but with the 30 series on its way, I'm seriously considering an upgrade so I thought I'd put it out there to people with far more knowledge than me. At the time I tried to find a comfortable position between performance and price, I cared somewhat about looks but not as much as I did performance.
What do you think? What would you change?
Here's my thoughts on the parts so far:
CPU: I7 6700K - This has held up quite well. It's handled everything I've thrown at it with the exception of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 which is known to have CPU bottleneck issues. I believe some of this is game related as most of the player base is having problems with the larger airliners but I do believe upgrading would help. This week I've overclocked this to 4.5ghz at 1.325 volts. I'm slowly trying to bring this down upon testing but I've got a few days to go until I find the mark.
Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S - This has been a beast. Before the overclock I was getting between 19 on idle and 59C under load. With the overclock I'm between 26C at idle and 68C under load which from what I've seen online should be fine? I'm still worried I'd spill water on my components so I haven't gone with watercooling yet.
Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 - This I've been a little disappointed with. It doesn't give much room to play with, no RGB fan headers for the cooler master fan I purchased and the bios presets for OC don't work and the lack of a bluetooth connection is something I've regretted.
Mushkin Blackline 16 GB - Ram is ram, it works well as does the Crucial Ballistix Sport
EVGA SuperNOVA G2 750 W 80+ Gold - The only complaint I have is the size of the cables. Some are bigger than my thumb wide which has made cable management hard.
Case: I'd switch this case out on a new build. I need more room at the back and I've gone off the design.
With the noctua covers for the heatsink, they don't fit properly because of the fan connectors.
There's a few other parts which you can find here: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/K4YH99
I know I need to improve the cable management, probably upgrade the CPU and the GPU soon.
What do you think?
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