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Good find, did not notice the speed difference between the P1 and the WD Blue! What do you think about waiting for Zen 3? Will there be an entry level equivalent to the 3100/3300x available in the near future? Or will they start at the top and work their way down.

Hello everyone, I am looking to assemble a cost efficient gaming build, should be around $600, the goal is to get best performance/price available. CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3100 $95 Motherboard MSI B550-A Pro $115 RAM 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-3600 CL16 $90 GPU GTX 1650 Super $130 Storage...

That is essentially what I did, I used the following single thread value list: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html#single-thread I got the G5420 for the price of a G5400 which pretty much makes it the best single thread value you can buy. The i3-9100F is probably the optimal...

I will certainly be giving it a try, especially now that it is getting more adoption from VPN providers. I figured if I build a box that can hit my speeds on OpenVPN, as inefficient as it may be, then I will be able to do it with wireguard easily. If the goal was wireguard only, I would...

The main reason I decided to build my own box is due to OpenVPN. I have a gigabit connection and I would like to try and achieve somewhere close to gigabit speeds over OpenVPN. This will require good single thread performance which I was unable to find in most of the single board computer...

When is Suricata or Snort needed? This is my first pfsense build so I am still learning this stuff. I dont plant on forwarding any ports to/from the outside (no SSH from outside), however I guess ports 80/443 will still need to be open for HTTP/S traffic? Would I need Suricata then?

I am planning a build that can theoretically handle 1Gbit/s VPN encryption/decryption. The goal was to get a CPU with AES-NI, iGPU, good single thread performance (OpenVPN is only single threaded), perhaps some extra cores for Wireguard use in the future. A Mobo with dual Intel NICs (for...

I just noticed on their tech spec page that it will be available "second half of 2020" Tech Specs Processor Up to AMD Ryzen™ 7 4800H mobile processor Graphics GTX1650, GTX1650Ti. GTX1660Ti and RTX2060 available in second half of 2020...

I have been holding out for the new Lenovo Legion 5 laptop however I am quite disappointment to see that only the Intel variant comes with an RTX 2060. See Lenovo: AMD: https://www.lenovo.com/de/de/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-5-series/Lenovo-Legion-5-15ARH05/p/88GMY501444 Intel...

Is it possible to buy a desktop version of the RX 5500? (non XT version) https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-5500 This seems like it would be the ideal entry level gaming card however I can only find the more expensive RX 5500 XT for sale.

I wanted to get the B550 in order to have PCIe 4.0 and support for Zen3, so I think I will stick with that. As for the SSD that is good advice, I will either get a ~50$ 500GB version or a $100 1TB version, the samsung ones seem overpriced. What would you suggest? I was looking for a RX 5500...

Hello everyone, I am looking to assemble a budget gaming build (~$500) and I am looking for your opinions on my part list. I will be building this end of June, so I am assuming for now that the B550 board will be available and that prices/availability will have returned to normal... CPU AMD...

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Interesting development here: I re-ran the good stick of ram, it put up 30 passes with no errors so I was about to conclude the mobo is fine... I decided to run the same stick of ram in DIMM2 (all previous testing in DIMM1) , it put up 10 errors in ~15 passes. I am leaning towards concluding...