Tell me about it. The most expensive chip I have ever purchased is almost two years old. (Yes, I know xt is only one year old but that was badge engineering not really a performance change).
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New computer first world problems
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GreenPlane
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Congrats on the new CPU! Yeah, it's not the newest and greatest but now your system is completed! I'm pretty happy with my 3900X (and it is limited to ~95W on boost), so your system should perform nicely!
Enjoy it! Buy some newest games to test the system! : )
It's a work computer. No games. Moving a 1050 ti into it as that is enough to speed up the required visualizations. My personal computer will remain the better machine for games for the foreseeable future (1700+1070ti). I don't really have the time or caring to play most current games. If I want to play something, I most often retreat to the basement to play PS3. Working my way through Reddead again after not playing it for a decade or so.
CC came through with the chip so that's good.
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Currently about 18600 in cinebench at 80C with no thermal throttling. Haven't tried manual overclock. Beats 1400 from the old computer. Not loud at full load, haven't measured it but much quieter than old computer.
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I just bought this thing and am pretty happy with it: USB Switch Selector 4 Port, AIMOS USB KVM Switcher 4 Computers Sharing 4 USB Devices One-Button Swapping, for Share Mouse, Keyboard, Printer, Scanner, with 4 USB Cables: Amazon.ca: Electronics
Metal housing, useful but optional remote, PCB isn't using the most expensive components on the planet but seems pretty well-designed. Trying to measure any latency it might introduce but haven't found anything sensitive enough yet. Don't normally use USB for audio myself but just tried out a Jabra headset from work and it seems to work without any issues.
I guess two things to watch out for is that the x4 type B cables it comes with feel pretty cheap (but I had a couple better ones lying around to use, and the cheap ones do work) and I see at least one review that says they broke off the port for the remote switch (it uses a micro USB connector but it is not a USB device), so I would try to be a little gentle with it.
Bought a Western Digital hard drive for backup.
https://www.costco.ca/wd-8-tb-my-book-external-hard-drive.product.100541901.html
Had a load of trouble registering it, and the "included" Western Digital software wouldn't download.
They sent me to a site, that gives a "free" five year license to a customized third party backup software.
Found out yesterday why games are now unplayable, as the software is running all the time, and takes a large chunk of CPU to do delta backups on the fly. Ended up doing a full backup and then unplugging the external drive, which allows other software to utilize the CPU. I would have thought that they'd have this down by now.
https://www.costco.ca/wd-8-tb-my-book-external-hard-drive.product.100541901.html
Had a load of trouble registering it, and the "included" Western Digital software wouldn't download.
They sent me to a site, that gives a "free" five year license to a customized third party backup software.
Found out yesterday why games are now unplayable, as the software is running all the time, and takes a large chunk of CPU to do delta backups on the fly. Ended up doing a full backup and then unplugging the external drive, which allows other software to utilize the CPU. I would have thought that they'd have this down by now.
Bought a new Router. They're faster, smarter, easier to setup and use, so they said.
I'm too old for this sh..stuff. Same brand as the one it's replacing, but the new one won't connect to the internet, unless it's through the WAN port.
Basic resolution is to pull another Cat6 cable across the house. At least I think that will work. Expecting double firewall issues when complete.
I was still planning on pulling a cable down to the basement, around, up to the attic through the linen closet, and then to a switch in one of the bedroom closets. That switch will feed switches in the other bedrooms. Should be an interesting time.
I'm too old for this sh..stuff. Same brand as the one it's replacing, but the new one won't connect to the internet, unless it's through the WAN port.
Basic resolution is to pull another Cat6 cable across the house. At least I think that will work. Expecting double firewall issues when complete.
I was still planning on pulling a cable down to the basement, around, up to the attic through the linen closet, and then to a switch in one of the bedroom closets. That switch will feed switches in the other bedrooms. Should be an interesting time.
Chris-CJ
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Echo your experience with delta backups to a plug-in drive, CPU cycles are eaten up by the incremental "writes".
I took another route and am now using a NAS with RAID as a data store, no data on the PC/laptop and this frees up CPU plus I get a real-time backup of data. An added advantage is the flexibility of multi-point access to data i.e. no location or specific computer data access restrictions.
The only dependency is a robust network and a NAS with sufficient hp.
Raid is not backup. There are still multiple single points of failure in that system. Make sure you are backing up your nas to some other device/location.
Chris-CJ
Well-known member
Agreed, RAID is HA or "High Availability" and is not a backup per se.
I do have a scheduled daily backup of the NAS to an offline drive.
(Glad that you have noted the distinction between HA and DR. As an Admin I have to regularly run this difference before Enterprise level clients).
Thanks.
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Two more changes and I should be done the network . . . for now.
I've got the new wireless going, and it is the only one now.
All the wireless devices have been bumped from the old network, and I've spent a good hour typing the new password into devices. Yes, it's that long.
Currently the wired network is running off of the modem/router, so I'll have to move that to a switch, so that the modem/router is only connected to the new router, and then connect another switch to the new router to liven up the rest of the network. Then reboot everything, and pray.
After that I want to add a mesh range extender to make sure the whole house is covered. Wiring it, might be easy or difficult, depending on where it needs to be.
I've got the new wireless going, and it is the only one now.
All the wireless devices have been bumped from the old network, and I've spent a good hour typing the new password into devices. Yes, it's that long.
Currently the wired network is running off of the modem/router, so I'll have to move that to a switch, so that the modem/router is only connected to the new router, and then connect another switch to the new router to liven up the rest of the network. Then reboot everything, and pray.
After that I want to add a mesh range extender to make sure the whole house is covered. Wiring it, might be easy or difficult, depending on where it needs to be.
What hardware did you end up using?
Setting up the microtik router sucked donkey balls for someone that doesn't do IT for a living but it has been rock solid (as it should be, I am using 1% of CPU and 6% of RAM). Unifi hardware has been out of stock since early march so I haven't added the planned wireless access points to improve signal far from router (glad I bought the wifi router and not it's twin without wifi, I did not anticipate OOS to last months with no end in sight).
I've been working on a TP-Link AX6600.
Made a mistake and nailed the router to the wall. My wife hasn't seen it yet.
Made another mistake yesterday and bought the wrong extender, I think.
I got the RE650 instead of the RE550. 550 is less powerful, but does mesh, 650 does not.
Might not matter too much. Wireless signal seems huge through the whole house now.
We might be glowing from all the excess energy, come Christmas.
Right now all wireless is on the Router, and all wired is on the Modem/Router.
I might finally have enough switches now to isolate my wife's connection on the modem/router, and test the rest of the network on the router.
She screams when she can't get work done, although it's only a 10 minute drive to the office.
At some point I need to contact her IT security support group, and see if they'll allow us to install proper HP printer/scanner drivers, instead of using a workaround.
Probably not. It may even go slower depending on system and workload.
Negative
Looking to upgrade the video card soon…2060 should be good enough since I opted to stay with 1080p.
market isn’t terrible…about $500-600 and I can probably sell mine for half that.
Anywho, if anyone has a line on one let me know before I go deal with the morons of kijiji
market isn’t terrible…about $500-600 and I can probably sell mine for half that.
Anywho, if anyone has a line on one let me know before I go deal with the morons of kijiji
For some use cases no amount of RAM is enough RAM, but you would probably know if that applied to you. I have 32 and Windows doesn't even use all of it for disk cache
GreenPlane
Well-known member
I would say it depends on what you do. Did you check how much memory is used with your typical workload? Check also the"committed" amount to have an idea about how much memory your apps reserved.
I personally have 64GB in my work laptop and it is a big difference for me in comparison with 32GB. Again, this is just based on my workload (e.g. now I'm using about 45GB). At the same time, I have other devices even with 16GB and they are totally fine just because they are not used for heavy workloads.
One more thing: depends on how many ram slots you have, you might need to sacrifice performance if you don't want to pay premium just because higher capacity ram tends to have worse timings..
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