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I just basically wanted to know the benefits owning a NAS server for a home user. Any help is appreciated.

So I plan on buying a second Gen Ryzen when I upgrade my computer over the next year. My questions is, is the newly rebranded A series a better option than the Ryzen chips themselves. I know in simple terms, the difference is the A series does have an on chip APU. Are there any performance advantages/disadvantages between the two. I do plan on having a discreet graphics card, since I will mostly be gaming and using video streaming services on it. I haven't really seen any mention of the new A series chips in any LTT videos, unless I just missed it. Any input helps. Thanks,

Ryzen AMD. Tell me about it. Could you tell me all best offers, of amd being better for price and being more powerful. Tell me all benefits from amd Tell me all best offers of amd being better than intel.

Back again to the LTT community for input. Business is coming together slowly. Location - check, company name - check, renovations - half check, website - insert wompy trumpet noise here. So the website has me checking around in regards for pricing. So far its either 3K+ for 6-7 pages and cheap monthly hosting (hostgator.com) or 1200 dollars and 40 dollars a month hosting. Just recently I came across one designer who uses only squarespace.com (of course I'm thinking well I got that linus 10% off) Still waiting for an approximate price of what the build would cost. Wondering what some of the benefits and draw backs are (the monthly business cost is $18 and $20 for the domain name). At this point the business will be opening to the clients May 1st so I'm not in a major rush but still want to give the designer sometime and reserve the domain. Cheers

I have been wondering this for awhile but is there any real benefit to having a SSD, SSDHybridDrive, and/or a CACHE DRIVE in the same computer?

Hi, Just upgraded to a new phone. I'm just new to rooting my samsung s7 so that I can use my Dualshock 3 controller with "sixaxis controller" app. My questions are: What are the positives/negatives from rooting your android phone? What is the correct way to root your phone? Cheers.

The question is in the title. Any additional related info is also appreciated, like what specifically it would do to my system for example.

I am looking to build a PC for gaming but I am unsure whether or not o should use water cooling for my build. I have heard other youtubers say that water cooling can increase the life of your PC so I thought that maybe water cooling would be better for mine... If I am using an Intel i7-4790k quad-core processor, is it worth using a water cooling system to improve the life of my PC? Just looking for suggestions and general opinions on water cooling in general. Also, I don't plan to overclock my CPU, if that changes anybody's opinion. Thanks in advance!

While i was researching for my current build i needed to know the difference between LGA2011 and LGA1150 heres what I found. LGA2011 socket benefits, 1, quad channel memory, 2,better performance for SLI/CFX, 3 slightly better OC. LGA2011 socket disadvantages, 1, slightly worse gaming performance, 2, sightly less wallet friendly, 3,based off a older chipset (ivy bridge). LGA1150 socket benefits/advantages, 1, strong memory controller allows for its dual channel memory to be almost 3/4 as fast as quad channel, 2, slightly better gaming performance, 3, a bit more budget friendly. 4, based off a newer chipset (haswell). LGA1150 socket disadvantages, 1, although the memory controller is strong it is still only dual channel which means its slower than quad channel memory, 2, better suited for single GPU configurations you can still CFX/SLI but its not quite gonna be as fast as the LGA2011 for that, 3, slightly worse OC ability because of the way haswell is it generates more heat than ivy bridge. As you can see each have their advantages and disadvantages but this list should help for those who cant be bothered to look this up, or cant tell the differences between the two.

Hello all! So I was waiting for some downloads, and pondering a few different things... But something that stuck on my head was this, "What programs benefit from hyper threading?" Like, I know "editing" benefits, but like what programs, and in what way? Is it just like video rendering? Orrr? All help appreciated

Hi there, Lately it was very confusing for me which benefits nVIDIA cards have over AMD cards and the other way round, due to the all those news and also due to CES which came with a few news I think... So, my question is, which benefits are there on either side? (Especially the R9 290(X) and the GTX 780 Ti)

does the r9 290 and gtx 970 trade blows? i am now thinking of getting a 4690k with a 290, or a 4460 with a 970. Or should I go with something like a xeon 1231 v3 and a 290. Note that im only using a Be Quiet! Pure Rock CPU cooler, which is equivalent to a cryorig h5

I feel Linus doesn't fully understand the gravity of how awesome this concept is. This will probably be the last phone you will ever need. These are the reasons why i backed phonebloks and why i back project ara: (reason one is its PRETTY. Customization decals on the phone would look awesome, and with the tile effect, any combo could look awesome. Straight white. Monocolour. Paterns. Anything broken up with aluminium will look sweet. Ok designer fantasies out of the way.) - COST - the $50 price is NOT a full phone cost. That is the cost of the metal backbone chassis with wifi antenna. You still have to pay for processor and camera and battery and actual phone antenna. the plan is for google to sell these backbones and have it an open marketplace with industry standards so other companies (nvidia, intel etc) can make their own processors to put in, at different costs. That if i want a last gen processor, i can pay $100 for it. If i want a bleeding edge processor. I can pay $400 for it. Exactly the same way the PC market works. - CUSTOMISABILITY - These ports are designed as 2 way data and power ports. Which means you can put a camera on a larger block if you want; it just means you can't put a battery block there and you have to deal with a smaller battery. If you wanted only processor and 15 batteries you could. If you wanted 500gb storage but no battery you could. And so with industry leaders providing different quality and cost blocks, you should be able to get almost whatever you want. Perhaps some overclocking too if they're open standards. Get a Canon camera on the large block for $500, and then fill up all the medium blocks with batteries Mount it to a quad copter, and put on a gps block, a camera block and an I/O block. Maybe have an entire gopro or quad copter chassis (see below) Each block can have quality and power and you can choose what to focus on like with a desktop. The small DAC might just have a 3.5mm jack, which sticks out a bit or something. The medium one might come out at an angle to fit, have volume rockers and a tinny speaker. The large one has an awesome speaker, volume rockers, and 2 jacks for friends to listen to. You can carry that around with you just in case, then take out your camera temporarily or something. Have 2 camera blocks that are synced HTC 1 m8 style. These are SOME ideas i had off the top of my head. Up to manufacturers to make, not google. they have said they're making the chassis and software. Nothing else. - SWAPABILITY - These blocks are supposed to be designed to be interchangeable between platforms. That when different sized chassis' come out for phablets and full tablets, I can just take my batteries and hard drive and camera from my phone and chuck them on my tablet which is only an extra $150 for the screen and chassis, and use each device when i need it. A tablet isn't always useful, neither is a phone, but having one set of hardware i can use in anything is awesome. What if i put it on a camera chassis with lens mount? What if i put it on a smartwatch mount which had 2 small slots, with built in processing? so i could choose whether i wanted gps tracking or heartrate monitoring, or battery. - UPGRADEABILITY - saying that there is only one cpu that would fit in it is a bit of a bad statement. This modular system is being approached in exactly the same way as the PC industry is. You can swap out your processor for another one. Except that due to size constraints its going to be a combined CPU/GPU/APU/Motherboard chip. (although with this other concept you might be able to customize within the processing block) If you look closely there is a locking mechanism on the edge of the slots, so it isn't going to fall out, and with open industry standards it will have as much tinkering potential as any desktop does. - COMPATIABILITY - With the size constraints there is a maximum constraint, but no minimum one. You could put a camera which was 1% larger than the medium slot, but way smaller than a large slot, and if it came with spacer material in the box, then it would fit. That could keep weight down for people who want a 30g phone. Yes you could make it thicker to put more in (see the camera in the background below) and again, that is a size and dimension compromise the consumer is willing to make. So yes i think it is aiming for the cheap market, but also the adventurer market, and the fitness nut market, and the tinkerer market, and every single market out there. That is the point of this That is the point of a desktop PC that you can CUSTOMIZE IT depending on whatever you feel like doing at the time. (if someone could link this to linus or luke that would be appreciated. It took a while to write) ((i don't really care if there are typos, but i am interested in discussion =) )) Thank you =)