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Nicolai Mortensen

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  1. Thank you for the reply, I really appreciate the feedback. Is there any special setup concerns I need to have in mind? Ie giving my own network a different ip range or such?
  2. Hello everyone, First of, let me apologise fornthe bad formatting. I'm using a phone due to lack of proper networking. I've just signed for a new apartment, where the Internet is a shared gigabit between the landlord, the other apartment and myself. Everything is connected through wifi, but I'm not keen on the idea of putting my devices on a shared network like that. The landlord has agreed to pull a cable through to my unit, which I'm planning to use for a network of my own. That raise the question of how. I've been told I can use a router and create a new local metwork, but I haven't been told more than that. My questions is What kind of router would I need to buy? How should it be set up? Would it isolate my devices from the rest of the network? Would I be able to use a different dns than the rest of the network? Again, i do apologise for the bad format, and in advance thank you for any help.
  3. The scale is just a workstation/game pc (in that order), to be housed somewhere else than where I have to listen to it. Thanks a ton, that's given me something to work from
  4. Should have explain this, I live in Denmark and IT is about 15-25% more expensive here than anywhere else I've ever seen. I can't even find an i7-10700K. (we've got a website that puts almost all IT shops on the same site). The i7-9700K is currently 2.903 DKK (about 355 USD).
  5. About 1.200-1.500 USD I guess, in total for a board, cpu, psu, ram, gpu. It's raw photos with multiple layers, tend to pin my laptop pretty good. Especially when I'm contracted to do timelapses, but that's more the compiling of the video.
  6. I'll be honest, I'd prefer a motherboard with a displayport in and a thunderbolt3 port, which can do that funny business the titan ridge can, but I don't know if that even is a thing.
  7. Was thinking in the worst case scenario, I could get an add in card like the titan ridge
  8. I don't have a board yet, I'm planning a completely new build. The budget is best bang for the buck really. I'm too busy with studies to play often and I don't have a ton of money as a student. Only thing that's a must, is the thunderbolt3 business, as I really cannot stand the hum of a pc.
  9. Hi guys I'm having some problems deciding which CPU to go with, as in I have no clue at all. I want to play some video games, edit some photos and run my PC through a thunderbolt cable, because I really don't want to listen to it. So would AMD or Intel be best suited and which lineup? Best regards
  10. Hello everyone. I'm hoping to get a little help understanding the capabilities of a couple of Gigabyte motherboards I've found, the W480 Vision D and the Z490 Vision D. I have a small photography and video business, and I've reached the point, where I can't keep buying external hard drives or I will end up like some of the youtubers Linus have helped out making a server, with boxes and boxes of external hard drives, so I'm currently trying to find hardware and an approximation of a price for a NAS server. As I'm currently editing photos on a somewhat tired laptop, I'd like to make it capable of editing photografies and 4K timelapse videos and use it as a workstation at the same time. As I'm doing all of this from my home, while taking a degree, I'd like it to be able to play games on aswell, so it's greated a list of needs, that's both dictated by my business, my love of movies, my living arrangements and the desire to play games. The server I'd like to run must Run an unraid NAS server. I've found a SilverStone Technologies 4U server I like the aesthetics of, this will allow me to slot in first one Hot-Swap cage, then down the line an HBA and another Hot-Swap cage. It must run quiet, as because of my living arrangements, I cannot fit even a small server rack in a closed of room, so it's going to end up in my TV furniture, where it's form fits perfectly instead of a drawer. Also why the aesthetics matter. Run Plex Media Server with a supported CPU with integrated graphics for hardware acceleration when needed. Run my business website. I would like the server to be capable of Running a Windows 10 Pro VM, that I can use for my job and playing games. This will of course have it's own dedicated graphics card passed through to it. I would then also like the VM to have it's display output passed through a Thunderbolt3 to a terminal, like Linus Sebastian have done in his video I may never upgrade again!, since I have a little office where I sit down with costumers. That's why I can't keep the server in that room. In the video, Linus Sebastian use a Titan Ridge card for passing his video output to Thunderbolt3, but I've found a couple of motherboards that fits my needs, at least on paper and if the functionality is there. Both the Gigabyte W480 Vision D and the Gigabyte Z490 Vision D have 2 Thunderbolt3 ports in the back and a DisplayPort in, but can I use those to pass the video through Thunderbolt like I would with a Titan Ridge? And would I be able to do that on a VM? I don't know if it makes a difference which chipset is used for it, but I'd like to use the W480, as I'd be happier with a Xeon W APU, due to it's support of ECC memory. Data integrety is fairly important for the movies and pictures I create for costumers. I hope someone knows this and can help me find out if I've finally found the hardware I should focus on getting, as I've already spent close to 2 months trying to learn about servers. Thank you all in advance and for your time.
  11. Okay, so what affect the the performance of software encoding the most, cores or clock speeds? I'll be replacing the stock fan no matter what, I've gone to great lengths looking at silent and efficient options of creating sufficient airflow to cool the hard drives, and I want to utilise the airflow for the apu as well, because I only have space in my living room. With a few modifications to the case and to my furniture, it'll fit instead of one of the drawers.
  12. Quick Sync will be working overtime in my setup, here I'm allowed to save a copy of a video borrowed from the public library and ripping that and converting it to h.264 will be a perfect task for Intel Quick Sync. But how would I go about lowering the tdp? I was already planning on not enabling turbo boost and just run it at base clock speeds. I've been advice against undervolting due to some security issues with Intel processors and I don't want to use a blown fan, in fact I just saw a ltt video today about a thermal siphon cooler that looks interesting.
  13. I'm only planning on 1 stream, at the most 2, but I'd like to run unraid and in case of a parity rebuild, I'm thinking the extra umpf could help out on that process? I'm going with the T series mostly because of it's lower tdp, should allow me to run a passive cooler and use the airflow through the case, right? Planning on a 3u rack mount I've gotten for free.
  14. Hi everyone. I'm looking at APU's to use in a NAS server I'm planning on making, and I've found a couple of Intel APUs I like the initial look of. I'm going to use the NAS for archive for work and my own time, aswell as running a plex media server. ECC might not be entirely needed, but I might aswell look into it, since the work archive folder will be important. I'm open to not using ECC if it's not needed for this kind of application (I'm new to the entire server thing and I'm only just learning about it). The first one is an i3-9300T, because of it's ECC support, but I'm not entirely sure which chipset I need to pair it up with, to be able to take advantage of the ECC? The second one is an i3-10300T, no ECC, but it's 10th gen (not sure if there's any advantages there). The third is an i5-10600T, still no ECC, but a couple of more cores. I'm going to use Intel Quick Sync for hardware accelerated video transcoding for plex and the power consumption for the entire system is as important as everything else. My question is, which of the APUs would serve my needs best?
  15. First of, fantasticly detailed description, thank you very much for that! The reason all of this interest me very much, is I'd like to build my own low power consumption server for NAS and Plex purposes. I'm in the process of learning about both software and hardware, that'll give me the best efficiency, security and longevity. In your response from the linked post, you go in to details about the testing methods and mention Cybenetics as a good reference for tests. Do you know of a similar reference for the motherboards you're suspecting is the difference in the tests? I've never given them a second thought as a power consuming component, before you mentioned it. Now that you have, it is obvious that's it's an oversight on my part, of course that would consume power aswell.
  16. The cable loss will happen either way, doesn't matter if it runs from the motherboard or psu, right? How can I recognise a psu that does dc to dc in this way?
  17. PCIe 4.0 will be able to handle anything PCIe 3.0 could. PCIe 4.0 is not a new standard, it's just a new implementation. It's both forward and backwards compatible, so your current cards will work in a PCIe 4.0 port. Like PCIe 3.0, a manufacturer simply just have to provide a PCIe 4.0 standard on the IO card, question is if the IO card can take advantage of the increased bandwith.
  18. In that case I wouldn't worry about it until then. As zeusthemoose said, new parts are coming out later this year, so I'd wait until they're out and see how they perform, before deciding. A response to new parts is usually that the current gen drop in price, but will still be viable for a PC anyway.
  19. Hi everyone. In the video "This is NOT a normal power supply... - ATX 12VO" Linus and his team managed to get the idle power consumption halfed with the new ATX standard, but a few things in the video raised some questions for me. I'm hoping theres a few extremely bright men and women here, that'll be able to dumb it down to a level I can understand fully. In the video Linus said "Here's the thing. Converting from AC to DC power is extremely inefficient and conventional powersupplies do it multiple times for the multiple voltages that they need to supply. Now it's actually better to go from AC to 12 volt only, like we're doing here, and the derive the other required DC voltages from that [...] But Linus you might say, some highend powersupplies do that already anyway." Does this mean the old standard ATX12V powersupplies that function in this way, would be able to provide a similar efficiency as the new ATX12VO while Idling? The we have the 80 Plus Titanium certification, which have a 10% load standard, that must be at least 90%. Would this be a competitor to the new standard or would you see similar results as in the video aswell here? I hope someone will be able to explain it in debth and thank you in advance for your time
  20. My budget is at most 700 usd, but I can exclude a case, I've found a stripped out rack unit with 12 hot swap bays for free. I'm leaning towards using unraid, because of it's parity functions. I would love to go with larger drives, but with my current budget, it'll take me 5-8 months to save up for just one, as I'm down to my last few tb, I will need one I can afford
  21. Not all my movies are 4K, but I suppose I could set up something that'll reencode automatically to a supported format, I'll have to look into how to do that. I'm considering running unraid on it, and I've been adviced using a Dell PERC H200 or H310. I'm more than happy not running ECC memory, if it's not needed, but with my extremely limited knowledge of servers, I thought it was a must. I'd prefer having Intel quick sync available, for those few movies that might need it.
  22. I don't need a lot of drives, but even though it might be cheaper in the end to get 16 tb drives, the individual cost might be so high it'll take too long to save up to them as a student, I'll be expanding as I go. I'm not looking to run a specific os, although I have been looking in to unraid because of it's parity. I've read somewhere it's the best around. The most important thing from the apu is the Intel quick sync support, as it'll allow me to use hardware acceleration without also having to invest in a gpu.
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