First thing I thought of for the colors... VLAN number. But of course, 1) you'd have to memorize vlan & color combinations; and 2) some people have color blindness. :)
I have a friend with the Fractal North. Her experience has been it's a bit loud with factory config (air cooled), but I believe it can be made quiet with the right tweaks & fans. And yes, a video card bracket is required. :)
Also, I believe a 360 rad is relatively close in surface area to a...
It's interesting to see that I've been doing what most people have been doing. My main rig is 2 x NVMe only. Gaming rig is SSD only.
I only use HDD for the NAS and for offline backups (HDD docks work great for this purpose), due to the price per TB.
Try to disable ALL overclocking... memory, CPU, etc. Boot to OS once with that setting, then cold shutdown. See if that fixes it... My guess would be RAM timings/instability. I've seen RAM age...i.e., must run at lower clocks vs when bought new.
I just played a 4K movie on my AMD 6800.... uses about 1% CPU and 7% GPU. No studder here. Monitor refresh rate is 120Hz however, which I've found to be helpful all around.
Hello? Have you guys seen the cost of video cards? How about cloud computing anyone?
* "its data center division... up 279% over the same quarter last year."
* "its gaming division... increasing 81% year over year."
No surprises here.
If your temps & noise are OK now, I'd leave it as is. If not, then try adding an intake fan at the bottom first. There are enough holes in the case that static pressure (i.e., heat buildup) shouldn't be an issue, especially if you can run the rear fans faster than the front ones....
Also, I...
Yeah, the OCP is faster than your eyes can perceive. As others have stated, always use provided cables or ones that have been vetted for the power supply. The PSU is probably fine now.
Do you have any add-on cards with BIOS (e.g., RAID controllers, etc.)? If so, are they EFI compatible?
Also, check for any BIOS updates from your motherboard manufacturer's website.
They literally moved everything on the new board except the power plug. Ugh. So, you'll need completely new POE hat, heatsinks, cases, etc. However, I do like the PCI Express x1 so, NVMe is now possible.
Anyone purchase one of these new cases? It's really hard to find 4 SATA drive cases anymore that are small for a closet NAS. Wondering if the N2 will solve the overheating issues that the N1 had.
https://www.jonsbo.com/en/products/N2Black.html
Honestly, my favorite video card is the one I have today. It's the 6800 Red Dragon. It was easy to install, worked great out of the box with Linux, and runs all my games at 4K in relative quiet.
And I believed that the whole point of separating the desktop environment of Linux (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) was to allow this consistent experience regardless of the underlying distro flavor.
If there is any risk of "theft" or "investigation", I would advice encrypting. As long as the CPU hosting the file share is sufficient and you don't mishandle the encryption key, then there's no downside.
Assuming BIOS flashing was disabled and BIOS is not compromised (appears to not be from the article), it appears you could recover the hardware by switching to legacy BIOS boot and deleting all secure boot keys. However, the entire contents of the disk/OS I would not trust. Write /dev/urandom...
Hmm... it's hard to say which "one" game made me a PC gamer.... The top ones for me are: King's Quest VI, Star Control 2, Lands of Lore -- Throne of Chaos, and Day of the Tentacle.
As an example, consider the AMD 6800 XT. I found one for $580 tonight at NewEgg (within your budget).
Has your required 16GB for 4k textures.
Performance:
80-90 FPS on the newest games... so you'll want FreeSync technology.
120-150 FPS on older games...
Should perform well for several years...
The most important criteria is your use case.
I.E., is this a video editing workstation, a gaming box, a general computing (Office apps), or something else?
Next most important criteria is your budget.
Third criteria is what you're kind of saying in point #3 -- What size screen resolution do you...
I saw something similar on some ARM chips a while back... I believe they called it "Little Big Architecture". https://www.arm.com/technologies/big-little
This makes sense on a mobile platform... I'm not sure about it on a desktop. The market will decide.
I was an NVIDIA fan boy too for a while. My monitor died which prompted me to upgrade to 4k. Then, my 960 card could barely display 4k (even desktop lagged). So, I went with AMD 6800. It's been a great card, and I paid way less than something similar with NVIDIA. I can play everything at 4k...
Getting close to the end of the year. Guess I should post something. LOL
I took this a few months ago on a trip to N Cali. I believe it's Mt. Shasta at sunset.
Those of you running NVIDIA driver version less than 526.98 should update your drivers this weekend. Some big vulnerabilities were patched today:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5415
The older 474 (Windows) and 470 (Linux) series drivers were also fixed too.
Take the CPU out (carefully) and check every single pin to make sure none are bent/missing.
Also, just in case, make sure you have a PC speaker hooked up for BIOS beep codes.
Bit late for this thread, but for anyone who cares, I upgraded my power supply and now the coil whine is much quieter. With vsync enabled (120Hz), it's almost silent.
Not sure if this was linked yet, but AMD has confirmed they will use 8-pin connectors for the 7000 series cards.
https://wccftech.com/amd-wont-use-gen5-16-pin-12vhpwr-power-connector-on-radeon-rx-7000-rdna-3-gpus/