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Nice ! Plus there is something satisfying to kitting out a room to your needs, though the lead up of actually doing it can sometimes be daunting but well worth it. Nice one dude ! Basements must be awesome for rigs, never has one myself as generally speaking UK housing do not have basements (A missed trick there methinks, but I am guessing there must be a reason as even the new builds do not have them).

Yeah I doubt they will make that mistake again and go all out by putting in another hardware subset in there like they did with the PS3 for PS2. Would be wicked if they managed to figure out a well performing emulation for PS3, but due to the PS3's complexity this may be difficult. I reckon this console is going to be at least £550-£650.

That's why shorts exist, so we can rock our rigs and just sweat it out ! I assume you are in then ?

It is that time again, listen to the guys hash out some of the latest tech topics on the web (With some OT chatter of course) from AMD Ryzen 4000 rumours to the Nvidia crypto shame & more !

It's all about that AC bro. But yeah it is warmer in the UK right now.

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Ok great, I just wanted to check what your recent results were running on whether it was PCIe 2.0 or 3.0, just so the table shows the correct inf, but upon closure inspection, you clearly indicated that lol. Great data by the way, great insight into the PCIe bandwidth factors.

Interesting, I have read about the EVBot but never actually hand one on hand to use. Really seems to be more of a benchers tool than your day to day tool though.

I forgot about those EVBots, do they even do those anymore since then ?

Nice thanks for the extra data. Will also amend my table, what was the PCIe version where you using for these number's ?

If its fully backwards compatible back to first gen then even I may be tempted to get it but not straight away, not a huge priority right now.

Banned for internshipping....P.S what you doing ?

In fact another source (Web source) for Windows/Office ISO's that I could not remember but @Steven reminded me is : https://tb.rg-adguard.net/public.php...i1yeua2UvfloLw

Indeed, money talks. Related to that I found it funny that leading on from Doom Eternal getting rid, Metro Exodus removed it as well (all be it a little late in the game, no pun intended)

Thanks for the additional info. Are you running over a wired network ? I only ask as I see people all the time with buffering issues when trying to play 4K over Wifi if there network is not up to the task. I use Plex Pass (Worthwhile one time purchase in my mind) but I cannot recall what additional configuration it gives over the free version as I never really sat down to compare at the time of purchase. Have you played around with the stream settings at 4k ? If you go to Settings>Quality what options do you have for 4k ? Furthermore what do you have set under Settings>Transcoder ? I will see if they match up with mine, failing that I will take a screen recording of my current settings. I looked at your CPU and the only difference I can see from looking at Intel Ark is that yours (as you identify) does not come with a built in GPU like mine, it is likely that Plex will leverage the Iris graphics for hardware acceleration on my i7-6770HQ. Additionally, and this could be a listing error on Intel Ark but I notice that your CPU seemingly does not list support for SSE 4.1 and 4.2 but I believe this to be an error and would not make any difference in this use case at any rate. I also notice that my CPU supports the AVX2 instruction set whereas yours only supports AVX which could be a big factor (alongside integrated graphics) as AVX plays heavily in video processing. Without having a processor with AVX2/With integrated graphics processing you will not be able to compare. Can your board support a newer CPU with AVX2 and possibly integrated graphics ? It is the only way I can think of testing any theories prior to slamming a GPU into the mix Personally I would get a Pascal GPU for the hardware acceleration as either way, it is best practice so it will not be a wasted purchase. If it makes no difference then I think your other avenue is to look at the CPU again and consider the above. Out of interest, could you try a 4K transcode and look at your RAM usage ? Just want to make sure that it is not being pegged and is paging over to the HDD/SSD.

Well that is certainly soon, even though I am not a console man, will definitely take a look !

I had heard this, though I am a little on the fence. Granted AMD are certainly leading the way when it comes to using new nodes with CPU's and GPU's and I am sure they already have some of the 5nm capacity booked in their name with TSMC but re-tooling and moving to a new node is expensive and well AMD have not been on 7nm long and lets face it there is still some optimization to be had out of it (I would have thought). So unless TSMC is really pushing 5nm/ it will be cheaper than 7nm then I am not sure whether this is true or not, seems leaping to 5nm already is jumping the gun. Not complaining but seems very soon and if that is the case then Intel is in some real trouble.

It is a ''Vote with your wallet'' type deal. That being said, even I am a sucker for this. I bought into the Turing for instance even though it was double the price I paid for my 1080Ti back in the day, all due to the cutting edge. Nvidia is a business at the end of the day, they know people will pay. Granted this time I am not going SLI any longer, I will still get a 3080Ti which I am already prepared for will be about the same price, maybe a little cheaper than Turing release. Guess it all comes down to consumer freedom, if you have worked for the money and have the money to have nice things...then I guess the majority of the time you will buy nice things lol.

This would unfortunately...not shock me one bit. The scary thing I see people all the time on social media who believe that 5G is evil, so I would imagine these people would buy those USB's and the future books you speak of. It really is the age of information with plenty of misinformation, I am sure it is getting worse.

Haha yeah, I will give it to them, they are certainly the king at repacking a product and reselling it as a new super awesome piece of hardware.

Yeah the online part has helped a huge amount to its success. I actually completely forgot about Dan Houser leaving which could be a serious blow, but if Take2 want to reduce the single player portion of the game, that would be a huge mistake. Sure the online will always outlast the single player element but every game needs an attractive single player story line to draw people in, plus it sets the foundation for a good online play experience. I guess we will just have to wait and see !

Well the only reason I think GPU prices from Nvidia will settle a little is only due to the unknowns regarding AMD's upcoming GPU's. I think they will price a little more competitively this round compared to the Turing release.

I very much enjoyed reading an article on this yesterday. It is disgusting how people prey on the uninformed, but on the same token reading this as a person with a tech background...it hurt me.

I run a Plex server and have for a few years now and I will tell you this. You do NOT need super fantastic hardware to get a Plex server running. I run my Plex Server on my Intel Skull trail NUC . The particular specs of my unit are as follows CPU: i7-6670HQ (4C 8T @3.5Ghz Max) RAM: 16GB (Ram is actually a very small factor for Plex) As for the storage, I actually have all my content stored on my NAS. My Plex server pulls all the info it needs from my NAS, transcodes and pushes it out to wherever it has to go. This is all done over your standard 1G network. My NAS does have 10G but obviously the NIC in the NUC will be limited to 1G (Plus it makes absolutely no difference if you are sending info outward over your broadband that is not even capable of attaining those speeds which is most peoples bottleneck). What I can say is the information is pulled from my NAS that is in a RAID 0 Configuration with 7200RPM Seagate IronWolf Drives which is then further cached using 2TB SSD's for all those frequently used files. I cannot comment on how much benefit you get from the SSD caching in terms of Plex overall performance but I would hazard I guess not an awful lot unless you have loads of people watching the same content frequently. What I will say is fast storage is a must whether it be RAID 0 HDD's or the use of SSD's. If you are going to serve multiple streams concurrently, then fast storage is a big must IMHO. For latency it makes sense for your solution to have internal storage. I only serve through my NAS as I prefer a singular data source and a SFF solution. You will notice my solution also has ZERO dedicated GPU's for transcoding assistance, all of it is done on the CPU and I am yet to have problems. Though that is not to say I do not recommend a GPU. If you can get a compatible GPU for transcoding then for sure get one as GPU's are obviously much better for that type of workload. Most of my streams go over at 1080P but last time I tested a 4K Stream I did not see any issue in the stream when watching content and buffering was not something I ran into. So I guess in answer to your questions, CPU's are still very relevant and capable of providing Plex transcodes, GPU's will clearly benefit the trascoding overall so there is no reason not to get one. If it were me I would get a a capable CPU in any case should you have to fall back on to it if the GPU is having issues or being swapped out. Remember that the CPU will has to be good enough not too hold the GPU back as the CPU still has to babysit the overall process, so yeah don't skimp on that CPU in favor of GPU. As for 4K/60 Transcoding I would recommend Pascal minimum for future proofing. Hopefully this helps a little, can only go on my experience

There is another one out there like it but cannot recall its name. This one has saved me a few times so thought I would mention it