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I thought you were contemplating on building a pfsense box (or similar)? I've learned it REALLY depends on your networking needs. Personally, my network has my ISP coming in, into an OPNsense box, into a 48 port switch, into 2 seperate wifi AP's (old routers / one skipping the switch). In my personal network uses, I'd attack my 48 port switch first, since its the biggest bottleneck in my network being its 10/100/1000. My OPNsense box is fine with 10/100 NIC's since my ISP is only 100 anyway. My wireless AP's are fine on AC1750 speeds. But throughput to my NAS (connected to the switch) is definitely a slowdown at 1000Mbps when I have more than one device trying to use it. If you're going for 10GBe speeds at your base, I'd start there. If you have any sort of NAS attached, I'd address that + what its plugged into. You can always add AP's in anytime, don't even have to use a consumer router to do it either. And depending on your ISP, the "router" doesn't need to have 10GBe unless your ISP is that fast. I'd save the speed for the local LAN.

As someone who had a lowered car previously (and probably will again one day), I understand and sympathize with your frustrations. Let me explain. My light bar is for "off road use only". However, I do have a LOT of country roads here, and yes....I DO use it every once in a while when its needed. In town driving, its off 100% of the time. Busy roads, off. Empty country roads with just me driving on it.......who cares? Just the other day, I avoided hitting a coyote because the light bar was on and I saw it. My headlights only, I would not have seen it at all and I'd have smooshed it because it came from the side of the road and crossed right in front of me right as I was getting close to it going "50mph". The fog lights probably would bother you, and yes those ARE used daily. I can understand that complaint since those are actually used. Honestly, not my problem when I see lowered Hondas with retina burning blue HID's in their reflector housings everyday. They're pointed below my low beams, they're just extra wide so I can see the sides of the road. That'd be the worst offense you'd see coming at me head on would be my fog lights. However adding LED's so I can have amber color for the weather was all I did to those. (Find me a pair of good halogen amber PSW24X bulbs and we'll talk about swapping). My headlights are stock halogens. Other than bulbs, the fogs are stock (stock color and pointing though). The lightbar as far as any other drivers are concerned is off road only. I know, it LOOKS very offensive on your eyes with everything on. But I promise, its not THAT blinding coming at me head on. There's a Jeep rolling around here with 6000k HID's in his 8" round reflector housings, he's got 6000k colored lights all over the front, and he drives regularly with all of that nonsense on WITH his lightbar. I promise you, I'm not THAT guy. I do try to take other drivers into consideration.

Rotated the tires today, and installed the new fog light bulbs. WOW what a difference a good bulb makes, holy wow. These new fog lights are no joke, they're just as good or better than my low beams! Just the amber fogs: Amber fogs + low beams: Amber fogs + low beams + my lightbar: And just for giggles, let's see how blinding I am for oncoming traffic.......

I just don't see mining being eradicated anytime soon personally. There's too many bigger firms / warehouses / etc that are mining. So what if ETH goes POS and you can't mine it anymore? There's thousands of other coins that the GPU's can mine for. I just have a hard time imagining ALL the cash people have spent on GPU's and it being for absolutely nothing. I mean Ravencoin is even still profitable. Heck even ETC is profitable. Just not AS profitable as ETH is at the current time. I think once ETH goes POS, we'll see the GPU farms switch to a different coin. My own personal speculation on that subject anyway. Still debating on buying cards again to do it myself actually lol.

Never heard of Adata? Man, I had some Adata XPG (I think they were) DDR400 sticks back in the day that did like DDR600 speeds. Adata's fine as a brand and they've been around forever, what matters is the IC's on the sticks. I don't know DDR5 at all, so can't really comment, but the brand itself is fine. Those speeds seem okay for early DDR5. I'd rock those sticks for a while no problem.

Don't say that, SHIB has treated me pretty well the last few months. -_- Gonna keep HODL'ing it, I only put a little in and it was already crypto anyway. Was hoping it'd hit a penny, if it did I could retire off it entirely at 35 lol. Big dreams.

This is absolutely a company I could get behind as well. Glad to have the forum sponsoring these guys and their endeavor. I'd say welcome, but I have a feeling these guys aren't strangers......

So I did a thing today to my Jeepish thing. Wired up my light bar! No, I'm not "that" jerk.....I don't drive on the streets with it on. Lots of rural areas around here though where its safe to use it. Did try it out on a road tonight (no traffic), and WOW what a difference it makes. Yes, I have replacement fog bulbs coming. Those were cheap Alla "amber" LED's that didn't last a year. Trying switchback bulbs this time, hoping for $50 they last a little longer. Really needing more of an amber color. Kinda need that more out of the light bar too, but whatever. I'll address that with the bumper later.

I know it sounds absolutely silly asking this on a tech forum......BUUTTT..... Have you checked Windows power settings? What about any drivers that might control power? I think I've seen some options in CCC regarding power on my Ryzen APU laptop. Since the button seems to work sometimes and not others, and it works after a CMOS reset but stops working, its sounding to me like a driver or software "bug" that's getting turned back on once it boots. And sometimes, the simplest answers can be overlooked.

Hey, somebody has to keep the $till Legendary traditions alive. I WILL prove that Crysis can be ran on a P2 dangit!!! Anyhooooooo.......... ------------------------------------------------ Huge thank you again goes out to @Diffident. Not only did he send that gorgeous Socket A motherboard my way, I found a Thermaltake Volcano 7 in the mail today! Who told you that's what I asked Santa for? Seriously, its a gorgeous cooler, and its EXACTLY what I wanted for the Socket A builds. So thank you very very much! I shall include your name in credits when they're completed too.

You're going to goad me into DICE or LN2 on the Socket A and 939's aren't you? Welcome bro. I'll happily run any of these rigs (once they're all functional) for any bench off you want to try later on.

Huge thank you and shoutout to @Diffident! Shipped me a Socket A motherboard and CPU, and even a stick of RAM! It arrived today, and I do believe this motherboard is going to make it into my T-Bird Athlon build. It's most definitely in need of recapping though, so I'll have to address that first. The case still needs repaired on that build too anyway, got the crack glued, but it still looks ugly. But this motherboard is like a million times nicer than the junk ECS board I bought just because it had flat caps on it. So stay tuned for that build too. Been recording a little bit here and there at night while kiddo is sleeping. I dunno why I decided to do this lol, this is a LOT of labor just to benchmark old rigs and see how they do. BUT.....figured some of you might wanna see, so I guess I'll keep trudging on. Once I get a rig fully benched and recorded, its going to be a HUGE post per rig. So stay tuned, might still be a few weeks till I get the first one done and videos edited. Just wow, didn't realize how much effort and labor was going to be involved with building 7 or 8 old rigs, jeez. -_-

Now install Plex media server on there, and you can share those recordings on every device in your house. You can also use your tuner card as a live TV tuner for any device in the house using Plex as well. If you're happy with the build, that's what matters anyway. Those DIYPC cheapie cases aren't actually all that bad, I've got a few of them. Really thin, but if you treat your rig like an adult does, it'll be fine. Great component choice, tad overkill on PSU but whatever. A 3200G should do solidly on the TV with light gaming. How are you liking the tuner card? Been thinking of getting one, but there's only like 3 or 4 local channels I'd pick up anyway.

So......the capture card I bought didn't work. I think I said this earlier, but I can't find the post. Was getting nothing but a blue screen out of the capture card on the older video cards. Didn't test anything newer, as I needed the old rigs to work. I bought a tripod for my phone instead. My phone records 1080p / 60 FPS, so it seems to do an okay job capturing game footage off my monitor. Working on optimal placements, and here in the next few days I'll start recording the FX footage. So....game footage is coming soon! Wanted to record the output somehow to share if its playable or not on these old rigs. Not decided yet how much I want on video and how much I want on "paper" here at EXHW. Kind of want both for those that want to read, and those that want to just watch a YT video. Basically, I'm attempting, in a way, to archive these rigs as best as I can. So if I'm a little slow on figuring this out, bear with me. I've never taken on a project of this magnitude before. Heck, I've never paid attention on how to benchmark in game footage before, so this entire experience is new to me. The FX rig, Thuban (Phenom II) and Phenom rig are all installed, games, benchmarks, and they're ready to go. FX rig is on my bench setup right now, ready to record. I can also easily install what's missing on the two Ryzen rigs for comparison too once I get going (FX is first to get benched).

Same. Love the idea of another GPU vendor on the market. Don't want it in my rig till the bugs are all ironed out though. I wonder how well it does on mining or F@H projects though too......

I have two currently awaiting to be built after the 939 rig. One board was an ECS 200MHz FSB Socket A board, with a Via chipset. Forget the model, but it was BNIB (for old Socket A). The other I ended up with was a NF2 400MHz FSB board, looks very VERY similar to that one actually. A7N8x Deluxe I think was the model? It would make a good replacement for the ECS I didn't want but was BNIB lol. That Thermaltake Volcano 7 (right?) is actually on my list of things to buy lol. Shoot me your offer on it. Obviously with my Socket 939 woes, having extra motherboards on hand of good quality probably won't hurt. I would, but do I dare? o.0 I never was a DFI fan back then, too many options in the BIOS that needed manually set otherwise things wouldn't work lol. That does come with another x2 though, and its a much better board than the A8N-E I was looking at. Hmmmm, payday is in a week. I'll see what's still available on payday, and find the one with the flattest caps I think lol. I still have a good functioning A8N32-SLI Deluxe to play with, it just doesn't work with the HD5870.

Okay, so I've got to share this one, because its the one that got me started doing all this to begin with.....the want of having an "ultimate" 939 rig again. Rig doesn't work. I'm about 99% sure its bad caps on the motherboard, so searching frantically around on ebay for yet ANOTHER 939 board (this is #4 in my possession). It's just constant random BSOD's, doesn't matter what OS, doesn't matter what drive its on. CPU and RAM work fine in the other 939 board, but the GPU doesn't......so I can't use my other board. But this is what it looks like all put together at least. So yeah.......looking for another 939 board again. -_- Anyway, check it out! I'm extremely thrilled with how it turned out so far. So still need a functional 939 board that's NOT 32 laned SLI, my button to come in from China, and I think it'll be ready to go. There's front USB missing, I have them. They're just missing because no power / reset buttons so why bother putting them back in yet. Ignore the missing lighter / ashtray. It's there now, this picture was taken the day I cleaned it. Just tossed in to show how it looks with the side panel.

I personally won't use it, but I can see how ignoring certain sections of the site would help clean up the look a lot for some users. Seems like a neat feature to add on to the site. Trader ratings in the classified section though, yeah I can get behind that one for sure! Site's coming along very nicely so far.

Nahhh, I'll water cool when I have a nice rig. None of mine are nice enough.

My lowly Ryzen 3600 rig with a Gen2 NVME drive was night and day difference from my old i7 3770k @ 4.4GHz, with the same GPU installed. Yes, it's going to be a HUGE upgrade lol. Going to a fast NVME from a 2.5" SSD is almost as good as going HDD to SSD. So that alone is going to be a huge upgrade because probably Gen5 NVME by that time. The CPU is going to help smooth things out so much too, oh man. You got nearly a decade's use out of that rig. To me, that's a pretty wise use of $4,500 10 years ago. I just always have to have something to monkey with, so I'm always buying old used junk lol. If I were on a regular "new" upgrade cycle, that's how I'd want to be too. One "all out" build every like 10 years.

We can certainly hope so.

Not a bad looking build! Looks to me like a high end FX build? I've seen that board, just don't recall which one it is off the top of my head. Nothing at all wrong with it if it still does what you need it to. I'd still be on my 2600k daily had it not broken. That system looks beefy enough even for an older rig I wouldn't be surprised at all if it still played AAA titles fine. Enjoy it! By the way, if that's a 990FX board, it might be able to boot off NVME using some of those extra PCIe lanes, just as a possible upgrade path. If it is, check for BIOS updates. Pretty sure 2012 would've been 900 series / FX Bulldozer CPU's. EDIT: Derp, you had a sig rig. Yeah, check Asus for a BIOS update if you haven't already. The Crosshair V should support NVME, my Sabertooth does.

Subbed. I'll just get my water cooling fix from your posts.

Not interested, just yet another move to consolidate anything creative into one or two giant companies that run everything. Still haven't bought an EA title since 2007 or whenever it was BF3 / Origin came out, and still won't. MS.....you guys are no different, I'll stop buying your garbage too. I can live without video games if it means I'm going to rent everything and have subscription models that can get cancelled just because I said something wrong in an unrelated chat. I'll buy boxed copies of old games LONG before I pay a subscription to ALLOW me to play a game. MS Games Pass.......its a neat idea in theory, I see its uses, but nope....not for me. Give it to us as an OPTION, not a forced requirement. There's just too much regulation that the companies would have control over, and these are companies I just flat out do not trust anymore. Yes, I know, I know......Steam is the same thing. Even later boxed games were setup in their EULA's to basically say its not "yours". My point still stands. Bring back personal ownership of things I pay my hard earned money for! Stop consolidating all things creative under one or two companies. Idk, maybe I'm the odd man out here. *shrugs /rant

Apartment living, I don't get to pick the faucets. And no, it probably shouldn't be in the water.......... we'll see if it lived. (The machine its going into keeps BSOD'ing on me though, so there might be more wrong here than I was hoping for. I noticed a few bulging caps, I'm really hoping I don't have to recap a motherboard just to finish a rig here.......)