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Yeah, if there is another price drop I'll probably end up with a Ryzen 3900x. Right now I'm teetering on the board for a 3700x as it would just about halve the time it takes to transcode video and would provide a good bump in most games.
For the Plex server side, I really, REALLY want 10gig in that, absolute requirement. I also want 4 PCIe X16 slots for 4x cards. And those boards are in the $300-$400 range just for the motherboard. The Plex server will also need around 32GB of ram minimum. So upgrading that will cost me around $1000.
For the gaming PC about the only thing holding me back is the lack of the Mini-ITX boards offering some of the things I want like 2.5/5/10gig networking, at least 2 M.2 NVMe slots. Since its mITX, I only have 1 PCIe x16 slot, so everything else needs to be on-board. I'd want 2 M.2 NVMe slots. One for Boot, the other for game. So I'd probably do a single 256GB OS, and a 1 or 2TB drive for games.
That said, if I could get 10Gig networking in house, I'd just mount a network volume and make that the steam drive instead. Thats 1.25GB/s. My SSD Array in the Plex server is fast enough and large enough to hold a steam library.
Ive toyed with the idea of getting either a 3700X or 3900X for my main/gaming PC. X470 shouldnt have any problem with it. However, part of me wants to hold out and wait and just do a whole new build. I sometimes wish I jumped on one of those $299 2920X threadripper chips at Microcenter. Ohh the unRaid/Plex PC would not need to be touched again for a long while. LOL.
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My LG 27" 4k monitor started having a seizure the other day, so last night I picked up an alienware 34" curved ultra wide. This is my first high refresh gsync monitor, and it's glorious
I know that 4k has more pixels and such. But the ultra wides are actually more usable because we don't really work vertically, we work horizontally.
I suppose if you got like a 40-50" 4K display it would work, but you'd have to sit pretty close. And the the HUD and stuff would mostly be out of your normal view at the extreme upper and lower edges.
I have a 34" LG ultra-wide at home, and honestly I wish I'd gone for the 38" at the time. Though, now I'd probably get the 49".
Question. I’ve toyed with wanting an ultra wide. Does a game take up the entire screen? If you put the game into windowed mode is there enough real estate to have a browser or something next to it?
Ultra wide makes a lot of sense but I dabble with the streaming life sometimes and I like having OBS on the second screen.
Ultra wide makes a lot of sense but I dabble with the streaming life sometimes and I like having OBS on the second screen.
Depends on the game. Some very old games might have issues with the resolution and have to be run boxed with black bars on the left/right.
Newer games should all support 21:9 aspect ratio's and will fill the entire screen.
I don't have many screenshots uploaded, but I do have some Subnautica ones taken when I was gaming on the ultra-wide.
I looked into ultrawides, 3 monitor set ups, and ultrawide with a second smaller monitor. Didn't want to spend the big bucks and those two which were pretty much brand new, cost me $100. Maybe on my next upgrade.
Most (if not all) older games either stretch horizontally (making everything oval shaped), vertically subtract to fit horizontally (cut off top and bottom without actually adding width), or as Bill said, outright blackbars in a 4:3/16:9 view.
This website has been my savior for a few of the old games I have (Morrowind with MGE, AvP2, etc): https://www.wsgf.org/mgl
This website has been my savior for a few of the old games I have (Morrowind with MGE, AvP2, etc): https://www.wsgf.org/mgl
I don't even know if we are coming close to using the bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 right now. Graphics cards usually don't even come close to using a full 16x PCIe 3.1 lane.
Servers have been 12v only for a while.
My server is idle around 20% of the Power supply wattage though, it a has 750w PSU.
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Status of UPS: Online - Green Mode
Last Transfer: Detection of low utility voltage
Input Status: Acceptable
Next Battery Replacement Date: 09/02/2023
Runtime Remaining: 1 hr 41 min 0 sec
Battery State Of Charge: 100.0 %
Output Voltage: 126.0 VAC
Output Frequency: 60.0 Hz
Output Watts Percent: 12.3 %
Output VA Percent: 11.0 %
Output Current: 1.31 A
Output Efficiency: 92.0 %
Output Energy: 4211.733 kWh
Input Voltage: 126.0 VAC
Input Frequency: 60.0 Hz
Battery Voltage: 27.0 VDC
Battery Temperature: 32.4 C, 90.3 F
Self-Test Result: Passed via internal operation
Self-Test Date: 08/02/2020
Calibration Result: Passed via internal operation
Calibration Date: 07/30/2020Yeah but next generation is going to add something new, or something faster, or something cheaper/better. You will never upgrade when thinking like this. I mean, imagine waiting for Intel to get to 7NM, and waiting how many generations, only to be told its being delayed again so next year will be 14NM++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.
Well unlike Intel’s 7nm, all 3 of those new things are guaranteed to happen.
I mean like I said before. My 4790k was the end of DDR3, end of LGA1150/Z97, etc. So going Zen3 will just be a repeat with end of AM4/DDR4 and could only hope to get another 5-6 years out of that setup. My 2070Super will tide me over for a while as well.
I mean like I said before. My 4790k was the end of DDR3, end of LGA1150/Z97, etc. So going Zen3 will just be a repeat with end of AM4/DDR4 and could only hope to get another 5-6 years out of that setup. My 2070Super will tide me over for a while as well.
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