scruffy238

I have a PC that I built myself several years ago, for video editing, coding and gaming at 1440p 165fps. When I first built the PC I had an issue where it would randomly freeze and then reboot, but I remember fixing it by changing a setting in the BIOS. It then ran flawlessly with a stable 5GHz overclock on the CPU and XMP II enabled. A couple of months ago I updated my BIOS to the latest version (no further updates are available today), and unfortunately did not take a backup of my settings, nor did I leave myself a record of what I had changed to fix this issue originally. As a result, I have since been experiencing this issue again. The PC will randomly freeze, then reboot, without a bluescreen. It does not matter whether or not the PC is under load, nor how long it has been powered on for. I have reinstalled Windows, tested each of the two RAM sticks, tested both RAM slots and each RAM slot separately, disabled my overclock, disabled XMP, reset to stock BIOS settings, cleared CMOS, and tried changing a variety of BIOS settings, all to no avail. My parts are as below: Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor Corsair H100i v2 70.69 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Asus ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory WD Blue SN570 1TB High-Performance M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Samsung 970 Evo 250 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVMe SSD MSI GAMING GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB Video Card Fractal Design Define Nano S Mini ITX Desktop Case EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Any advice would be very gratefully received!

# Current setup I've been running Proxmox for the last year and a quarter, with the following VMs and containers: - Ubuntu Server (docker containers) - Pihole (DNS & DHCP) - Home Assistant - Motioneye - CheckMK - Windows 10 (for fiddling with random stuff, mostly switched off) The docker containers were: - Plex - various discord bots and other coding projects - Elasticsearch - Kibana - MakeMKV - Handbrake I have a USB blu-ray drive that I pass-through to the MakeMKV docker container. I have a GPU that I pass through to the Plex docker container for hardware transcoding. # The Problems I've had issues running pihole for DHCP so am going to move that to a separate machine. Essentially if the server went offline I couldn't access it to bring it back online over the Proxmox network interface. Local DNS will be sufficient for me so long as my router allows me to assign static IPs, which my current one does. Nesting my Docker containers within Ubuntu is unnecessarily complicating some of my processes, I'd rather be able to run them natively from within the hypervisor. Sharing storage and getting proper backups has been problematic. My server crashed recently and while my Proxmox backups to a raspberry pi meant I could bring my VMs and containers back up, a lot of additional reconfiguration was required, especially where my single drive zfs storage was concerned. This has been such a big problem that I've taken a copy of all my important files (including plex media) on my windows pc in case I lost access to the zfs drive in my server. # Moving Forward I've bought a second identical drive to my main 6TB storage drive, so that I can have a raid setup meaning if one drive dies the data is safe on the other. This means the server will have an SSD for booting and a pair of 6TB HDDs in raid for storing plex media etc and to act as a NAS. I'm looking at a variety of other OSs that I can replace Proxmox with and so far TrueNas Scale seems promising as it works with Plex, supports docker containers natively and allows virtual machines too. It's still in beta though, so I'd have to have a really good backup system. Any advice you can provide for an alternative OS would be great. In terms of backups, I'm keen to still do nightly backups of my config, containers and VMs. I'd also like to get some kind of raid setup (maybe using zfs?) to ensure if a drive dies there's still another working one. On top of this, while I do use Dropbox for documents on my pc and laptop, I don't have a cloud backup setup just yet for my server. I've had a brief look at backblaze but for my 6TB drive it'd be hundreds of dollars per year, which is a tough pill to swallow. I'm also planning to set up a remote backup at a family member's house using a raspberry pi and an external USB HDD. Any advice or suggestions would be very gratefully received, if I'm rebuilding the whole setup I'd like to do it right if I can, and I'm really keen to avoid any potential data loss after the recent scare.

My HyperX Cloud Alpha headphones have finally died, in a painful and funny way, and I'm looking for a replacement set of over-ear headphones, ideally for under £200 but I'll consider anything up to £300. And yes, I did swear profusely in front of my colleagues when they shocked me right on the ears, but I was fine a few minutes later, just a bad headache. I think I damaged them when moving house so it was only a matter of time until they died. Here's some more detail on what I'm looking for in my next set of headphones. I don't need a microphone as I use a Shure SM7B plugged into a GoXLR Mini (I use this setup for work as well as for gaming, streaming and talking to friends, so I actually get full use out of this rather than having just copied all the streamers) but as long as it can be removed it's fine to have headphones that come with one. I need to be able to connect the headphones via aux to the GoXLR Mini. I'm aware that some wireless headphones have a base station with aux input, so these would work, but otherwise I'll be limited to wired headphones. For wired headphones, I need to have inline volume control either on the headphone cable or the headphones themselves. I swap between machines (USB-C hub with the GoXLR attached) frequently and their master volume level can vary so this is a must for on the fly adjustments without affecting my other audio levels and balance. For wired headphones I'd want the aux cable to be detachable in case I break it (which has happened before due to my electric sit-stand desk getting it trapped thanks to my idiocy). Ideally I'd like the headphones to be lighter than my old ones, which were about 300g with the microphone removed. I'd also like them to be comfortable to wear for long periods of time. I'll be using these for work as well as for gaming, so I'd like to avoid the 'gamer aesthetic' as much as possible. I play mostly FPS games and Rocket League so the sound stage is really important. For work, I listen to a lot of audio, especially voices against music, so having decent sound quality is a must. It doesn't have to be crazy sound quality, just decent. I'm not looking to get rid of the GoXLR Mini as it serves me really well for my use case and given I managed to buy it for less than a cloudlifter I've been delighted with its value for money, but I'm aware this restricts me to use only headphones with aux connectivity (no wireless dongles over USB) and presumably no amp/dacs for headphones either, although I don't really know much about these. Any recommendations you lovely people can make would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to you folks I have a home server that I'm incredibly happy with and I'm hoping you can help me again with this.

Based on your suggestions I've been looking at second hand devices, and it seems an iPad Pro 2nd Gen 12.9" (2017) only goes for between £300-£400 on eBay, so that might be a good route to go down as it would meet all my criteria.

I'm in the UK and have been using a 13.3" Toshiba CR2 Chromebook since 2015 for watching YouTube and Netflix around the house. I can't watch YouTube at higher than 720p without stuttering and lagging, and even at that resolution Netflix stutters and lags a lot. I figure it's time to replace it and I'd like to replace it with a tablet, as it takes up a lot less space on a kitchen counter, is easier to use in bed or in a car when waiting to collect someone, and generally will be a more pleasant experience for media consumption than using a desktop OS. The big issue I'm having is that 12" is the smallest screen size I feel I could be happy with, although I'd prefer 13", but the only tablets I've found with that size are way too high end and expensive for my needs as I do not play games on this device, nor take photos, although I could conceivably make video calls occasionally. The two devices I've found so far are: Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ (£719, 12.4" screen, looks like a great screen but it's expensive) Apple iPad Air 2020 (£579, 10.9" screen, a bit too small but looks like a great screen, but again very expensive) Apple iPad Pro (£969, 12.9" screen, great screen size but incredibly expensive) I don't need the vast majority of features on these tablets so I'm hoping there's an alternative out there that meets my needs, but after several weeks of searching, watching YouTube videos rounding up tablets and reading reviews and blog posts, I have not managed to find any. My feature wish list is: 12"+ screen Can play 1080p60 video without any issues like stuttering, lagging or hitching Has a front-facing camera in case I want to make a video call Has stereo speakers (preferably front-firing if possible) Has decent battery life to be able to last for at least four hours watching video at a reasonable brightness and volume level Not incredibly expensive Is what I'm looking for unreasonable? Is this something that doesn't exist on the market? What would you suggest I get? Any help, ideas or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

@cr8tor I'll absolutely look into it anyway, thank you

@cr8tor I did have a quick look at it, but a lot of people seemed to be moving to proxmox from unraid. I'll take a look at it, it might be worth setting up unraid as a VM on proxmox, but I suspect not.

Budget (including currency): £300-£400, but priority is low ongoing costs, rather than low initial cost Country: UK (England) Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: See below I'm looking to replace my janky 2 raspberry pi setup with a custom built machine, on a budget, reusing some parts from an old desktop. Below I've broken down what software I'm planning to run on this machine, what hardware I already have and what I'm planning to get, and some general further information. Software I've been going back and forth about whether to just have a single Linux OS with all my services running natively, or to virtualise, and I've finally come down on virtualising due to all the benefits that come with it. The various services I want to run on this machine are: Plex NAS (for storing Plex media and CCTV camera footage (from cameras like https://amzn.to/3jcnlv7 and a raspberry pi zero with a camera module) DVD ripping and compressing/encoding automatically whenever a DVD is put into the drive, ejecting on completion for hands-off ripping VPN (so I can access my network from elsewhere, securely) I'm also considering running: Pi-hole Docker containers of various small apps I'm working on for friends to try out, some of which use small Postgres databases Hardware My old parts that I already have are: EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB SC GAMING ACX 2.0 Video Card Corsair Builder 600 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply Some internal SATA DVD drive from about 7 years ago that still works fine I'm currently thinking of getting: AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 3.8 GHz Quad-Core Processor or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor Gigabyte B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard Crucial 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL22 Memory Fractal Design Core 500 Mini ITX Desktop Case The saved parts list can be found at https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/jcreek/saved/msgH23 with the 3300x selected to keep the cost just under £300. General My plan is to use the 1050ti for hardware encoding Plex streams, and just use the CPU to encode the MKV files ripped from the DVDs, but this may be the wrong way round, especially given there will never be more than 2 or 3 concurrent streams being watched from Plex by my family, and I have a lot of DVDs to get through. The 3300x is probably sufficient for my needs, unless I run heavier apps I'm working on on this machine. It's cheaper than the 3600, but also seemingly impossible to buy, so the 3600 may well be the better option, especially as it has on-board graphics. This could then leave the GPU to be purely utilised by the dvd ripping and encoding system, meaning it doesn't have power draw unless that's running (if I've understood correctly). This machine will need to be power efficient to keep costs down, quiet and small so it can live in my bedroom out of the way. Am I going down the right path? Does any of this sound insane? Have I miraculously come up with a reasonable plan, both for the hardware and software? Any recommendations or comments you folks have would be great to hear!