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It's a bummer about the non existent mxgpu driver for homelabbers but very cool to see that these can used for F@H. How does it perform?

This was fun, glad I remembered to start up even if a bit late

I'm IN, sadly missed some time though. Please exclude me from any prize drawings

Features sell hardware but, I do agree with you. FSR 2+ on older hardware is of real value. Extending the useful life of older GPUs helps people stretch out that budget and likely prevents some electronics being tossed in the bin before they might need to be tossed. Quite awesome that you can comfortably run CP2077 on a GTX 970 @ 1440p.

Living that RTX 3060 life here

I think the GPU was an old 7xxx series card, I can't read it in the picture and of course the mousepad from the collectors edition WoW x-pac, ~2013. The other was the beginnings of my homelab journey, ~2015.

Wow, long time on a single rig! The 3770K was quite a CPU though. Not sure which video editor you use - I use HitFilm and recently Davinci Resolve. I have benchmarked HitFilm quite a bit, Ryzen 1000,2000,3000,5000, 12th gen i5 and my Ryzen 7700X. Your editing program can and will have as much of an impact on the system you build though, for example, I finsh Davinci Resolve to be quite a bit more efficient when it comes to resource utilization. There's definitely been a benefit in both scrubbing performance and total rendering time with newer CPUs and GPUs and newer PCie NVMe SSDs. Do you create videos for fun or for $? Between that and your budget will somewhat guide you in your build strategy. I'd definitely suggest starting by looking at the Ryzen 7000 series or 12th/13th gen platform if you wish to buy new. I personally edit videos on my Ryzen 3900XT and an RTX 3060 12gb with 32gb of 3600 CL16 memory. For my purposes, this system works quite well.

The main reason for hesitence for me is that I do use my computer to make money, I'm sensitive to a sense of stability. It seems quite possible for me to switch though, more research and some testing seems to be in order. I casually use Linux personally and professionaly but don't spend more than maybe 30 minutes per day (mostly Ubuntu).

Ordered mine as well! ..then my credit card got locked

I don't have experience beyond the various versions of Windows 10. That...sounds like an interesting feature (I guess). I will soon get to experience corporate versions of Windows 11 and O/M365. Should be interesting. As for my email, I still entrust Google and believe it or not, I cruise the internet in FF with NoScript and ublock origin. EDIT: Ah yea..this is an old thread. I suspect the topic will regain relveancy in the next year or two though!

I similarly very much do not wish for Microsoft to have any involvement in my PC outside of security updates. I'm currently trying to suss out wether or not now is the right time for me to switch to Linux or Windows 11 (away from currently being on Windows 10). The main application I use are HitFilm and OBS. HitFilm is not available in Linux but I have been slowly learning Davinci Resolve which is supported. I don't play many games on my main workstation but it looks like most of the games I play will work but, guessing I would have to Play any Forza releases on test machines.

Very true! Trying to remember how I found my way there, I think its was either unlocking pipelines on a GPU or maybe just coolbits They definitely should have kept the 2004 logo through the years though. Hopefully that kind of community driven success can be re-created here. I suspect there's enough interest and talent to make those things happen.

I missed the last 8 or 9... I will try to remember this time around

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It's wild to see how far the iGPUs have come. I remember the sheer excitment I had from my first Llano mobile chip, 3500M. Perhaps not as fast as a GTX 1060M but likely a very small fraction of the power consumption. Will be neat to see what people do with these once htey make thier way into SFF prebuilts such as Minisforum.