Post your computer specs!~

[SilverEars]

Yeah, the issue I'm running into is most of my devices aren't powerful enough for direct play of 4k, and some aren't even powerful enough for 1080p. So much power on tap at the server end for transcoding should fix that.

You should try Nvidia shield or Firestick 4k, they both should support direct play. It's not the server that's a bottle neck for direct play, it's the bandwidth or client's processing. If you need transcoding, that's another story I guess, but if you got the bandwidth, direct play should work well theoretically. Direct play generally work well from my PC to Firestick 4k, but there are some cases Plex would tell me there are bandwidth issues, and I'm not entirely certain if it is the bandwidth issue. My router sucks however. lol

He's very knowledgeable about PC stuff but he's trying to bang out alot of content without any substance these days just for views. He cares more about views than anything else these days and his content is being pushed out for volume with little thought or testing put into it. He's lost all credibility with me.

He's been on a "debunking" audiophile myths thing lately. Because its an easy target and the popular thing to do apparently.

For a person who doesn't care about audio, he has alot of things to say about it. He should stay in his lane, no one is looking to linus for audio advice, nor car advice, nor diet advice, nor excercise advice, well you get my point.

Never know ifi could be next...

I don't watch much of his video anymore. I do notice he has changed since how much growth there has been with his channel over the years. I do find his video entertaining from time to time. I don't think I've seen much of his videos regarding audio besides the old ones when he was into making headphones videos or the Abyss rig stuff. I don't think I actually get tech tips, but get entertainment from time to time. He does certain things I've curious about which draws me to certain videos of his. I don't care for the podcasts.

Just like politics, people have their beliefs. Either lean left or right. lol I don't like anything with extremes. I hate US poltics or just how much of mess it is in this country. I don't care for the media, etc.. Nothing is really fair in how things work. Is the media fair? I know people with deep beliefs that can't get outside the box. I always hope I'm not like that. It's always good to be able step back and look at thing from the outside.

 

[BrokeAudiophileMan]

I can't stand LInus Tech Tips. The guy comes across as a complete false-face, as in he is not genuine, and his artificial tone while talking comes across as patronizing and dishonest. Further, before I stopped watching his stuff 4 years ago, I spent 6 months wondering why I kept watching. He was completely WRONG about a lot of "tech tips", and would not admit to being wrong when he was called out for misleading his viewers.
Then, the best is when he started selling his backpacks and refused to state that he'd cover warranty on the product. He starts making fun of fans that were addressing their concerns about Linus' unwillingness to fulfill the promised warranty, makes a T-shirt mocking those fans, and then BRAGS about how more T-shirts got sold than the thousands of people that complained about his warranty issues.
To have a person like that be the face of "tech tips" for casual viewers really boggles my mind.

GamersNexus did a good job breaking it down on this video (go to 1:35), it's only a few minutes long:



- Just LOOK at Linus' snide and disrespectful Tweets. Wow.

In this video, watch from 3:48 and it does a beautiful breakdown of Linus' true colors:

- It's funny to watch at 7:48, where Linus is giggling and mocking peoples' concerns and is confronted about the low-bar "Trust me Bro" T-shirts. I can't believe how tone-deaf Linus is to the very fanbase that made him millions. Then, he laughs at how much MORE money he made by disrespecting his own fan base.

Linus looks like a deformed stork too. Just wanted to throw that in. Oh, sorry, he "allegedly" looks like a deformed stork, but I don't warranty that insult. Trust me bro.

 

[Ghoostknight]

i just cheaped out on my next PC build... bought even used but they were good deals imo...

Lian Li V351 matx case, 25€ (pretty old case (released around 2009), but beside the usb 2.0 frontpanel there is nothing wrong with it, looks even new and its one of the few good aluminium matx cases imo (i dont need fancy windows..))
MSI B660M Mortar Wifi, 120€
Intel i5 12400, 115€
32 GB 3600mhz CL17 DDR4 ram, 40€
Samsung 980 pro 1TB, 50€

i will reuse my current bequiet power supply, WD storage HDD`s and MSI GTX 1070 (i plan to upgrade graphics somewhat soon tho)

overall a pretty good deal imo, people are selling pc`s for 1k with these specs lol

i would have liked to go with a Z690/Z790 build but matx boards are kinda rare if you search used for them, but my overclocking times are kinda over anyway, i usually just raise mhz by a few hundred (before it runs unstable) and call it a day, but i think i picked a good B660M board

why i dont upgrade to higher specs?
imo its more costefficient to go for a "mediocre" build, then you can upgrade more often (if you need/want) and dont need to pay high end premium
even my current ryzen 1600 build still works kinda fine for what i do with it, i just thought its time again to upgrade

 

[Ghoostknight]

He's very knowledgeable about PC stuff but he's trying to bang out alot of content without any substance these days just for views. He cares more about views than anything else these days and his content is being pushed out for volume with little thought or testing put into it. He's lost all credibility with me.

He's been on a "debunking" audiophile myths thing lately. Because its an easy target and the popular thing to do apparently.

For a person who doesn't care about audio, he has alot of things to say about it. He should stay in his lane, no one is looking to linus for audio advice, nor car advice, nor diet advice, nor excercise advice, well you get my point.

i mean on one side i kinda agree but this video:


seems pretty objective to me and the noisefloor of the dac actually increases substanially with the filters (i dont think these results are faked...)
imo not in any case should make things that are supposed to clean up things make them "more dirty"

i wanted to give the elfidelity stuff a chance not long ago till i saw this video but they are clearly adding noise

well maybe power delivery gets improved for the cost of noise which "might" have an effect but honestly? if people think these help and they actually hear a difference "that is there" then i think its more reasonable to believe that these people actually like something that is objectively "worse" after then before

 

[iFi audio]

He's been on a "debunking" audiophile myths thing lately. Because its an easy target and the popular thing to do apparently.

I can agree with that. Their way of tackling some audiophile stuff is entertaining, but of little to no meaning to audience on forums such as this one. Audiophile products are easy targets indeed.

On the other side, LTT needs to put out a lot of content to make a stable working place for a rather large crew they got now. This part I understand. As far as PC tests go, they're still very good I think.

 

[SilverEars]

i mean on one side i kinda agree but this video:


seems pretty objective to me and the noisefloor of the dac actually increases substanially with the filters (i dont think these results are faked...)
imo not in any case should make things that are supposed to clean up things make them "more dirty"

i wanted to give the elfidelity stuff a chance not long ago till i saw this video but they are clearly adding noise

well maybe power delivery gets improved for the cost of noise which "might" have an effect but honestly? if people think these help and they actually hear a difference "that is there" then i think its more reasonable to believe that these people actually like something that is objectively "worse" after then before

This is what I call entertainment. I had no idea this existed. I watch Linus for various content like that. He delves into different types of contents, and there are some entertaining ones. Yes, he has to keep his crew fed, so I get the sponsors. That's probably what I like about what he did. He created jobs for people, and he probably likes having a crew around him, which is probably why it grew to that extent. And he brings them on camera as well. Seems like a fun working environment based on what I see on video.

I remember one when he had a competition between video editing on Mac vs PC. I find stuff like this entertaining.


I like when Dennis shows up. I find him really funny. I don't think Dennis tries to be funny, but it just happens. lol Linus's channel seems to bring out the characters in the people that are involved in the channel. There's are different things the channel does with these people that I find it more entertaining than just Linus on screen. I feel like this is the modern day Bob Vila TV, but just more entertaining.


Have I gotten actual tech tips? I can't recall if I've ever did. lol

 

[Ghoostknight]

well what i like about linus tech tips is that they often have a sponsor that is completely unrelavent to the content shown, this means they can have a way more objective take on things

yea the LTT shop stuff kinda gets on the nerves but they need to make money and better like this then showing directly sponsored devices (which they do too but not that often i think, and if they do they still seem very objective about things)

overall its a buisness and how people act on LTT (and linus itself) reflects this to some degree, but they are still great at what they do and the popularity also shows this

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and overall i have to say that the sponsoring on LTT is waaaay better than what we see in the hifi scene
rewievers that get offered devices "for a honest review", you REALLY need to read between the lines with those...

most of the time the reviewers refuses of speaking bad about products because they dont wanna get "blacklisted" by the companys sponsoring them... so there is always that urge for reviewers to stay positive.... or focusing on the positive sides instead of negatives

 

[SilverEars]

well what i like about linus tech tips is that they often have a sponsor that is completely unrelavent to the content shown, this means they can have a way more objective take on things

yea the LTT shop stuff kinda gets on the nerves but they need to make money and better like this then showing directly sponsored devices (which they do too but not that often i think, and if they do they still seem very objective about things)

overall its a buisness and how people act on LTT (and linus itself) reflects this to some degree, but they are still great at what they do and the popularity also shows this

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and overall i have to say that the sponsoring on LTT is waaaay better than what we see in the hifi scene
rewievers that get offered devices "for a honest review", you REALLY need to read between the lines with those...

most of the time the reviewers refuses of speaking bad about products because they dont wanna get "blacklisted" by the companys sponsoring them... so there is always that urge for reviewers to stay positive.... or focusing on the positive sides instead of negatives

I think Tyll's articles/channel was the last time I've actually looked at audiophile articles. I really don't like the audiophile content these days, and same sentiments here. Everything is all subjective bla bla, I get it. I don't need to see the reviews then. At least the PC tech reviews present performance data.

 

[Kukuk]

Even with PBO, on a modest air cooler, this chip is remarkably easy to cool. The 2950x was also really easy to cool, but I had an even bigger cooler for that.

I might toy around more with overclocking on my next days off, before I get it situated in my server. I tried 3.75ghz on all cores, but it crashed the moment I tried to put a load on it. Might just need more voltage. We'll see.

Also it didn't like the A770 without resizable BAR. I knew it probably wouldn't, but some games didn't even load up, and the ones that did ran especially poorly. Oh well, this CPU was never destined to game on.

 

[Radio81]

Even with PBO, on a modest air cooler, this chip is remarkably easy to cool. The 2950x was also really easy to cool, but I had an even bigger cooler for that.



I might toy around more with overclocking on my next days off, before I get it situated in my server. I tried 3.75ghz on all cores, but it crashed the moment I tried to put a load on it. Might just need more voltage. We'll see.

Also it didn't like the A770 without resizable BAR. I knew it probably wouldn't, but some games didn't even load up, and the ones that did ran especially poorly. Oh well, this CPU was never destined to game on.

Are you planning to use the A770 for the media server?

 

[iFi audio]

I think Tyll's articles/channel was the last time I've actually looked at audiophile articles

Tyll's content was great. As much as we miss that, we're happy for him.

 

[Ghoostknight]

Tyll's content was great. As much as we miss that, we're happy for him.

oh i didnt know who it was at first but you mean tyll from innerfideltiy right? i stumbled across some of his videos the last 2 years but never took a greater look on the channel, will definitely do im currently on a "hifi youtube" run anyway haha

wish him also the best the last video is a great one, i like his philosphy, everyone is free to leave when he wants and i can understand him i just get sick of most hobbys i started too at some point... 25 years is a looong time

 

[SilverEars]

Yes, this guy. lol


I want to rant on the power limit on the breaker for my room. I have a 15 amp breaker, and I share the same breaker with another room running two fans (one a ceiling fan). I'm running an AC that draws majority of the breaker limit watts, and my new PC is 100watts more inefficient. Now the breaker trips when I play something intensive like Jedi Survivor that draws whopping 500 watts in 4k maxed out in ray tracing. An then flip of switch of the bathroom light will trip the breaker. There were 6 - 40 watts light bulbs in the bathroom. That's 240 watts from the bathroom lights! That will over load the breaker. I quickly went down to Lowe's and got 3 watt bulbs hoping I don't run into this situation again. lol I hate that my PC draws 500 watts. It's getting bad now. I had to go through all this because the newer PC draws so much more power.

 

[Kukuk]

Are you planning to use the A770 for the media server?

Nah. I don't think Plex is going to support AV1 encoding anytime soon, and the CPU would probably be plenty for that anyway since I'll only be feeding to a few different TVs at once. Actually plan on selling it once I get the server all up and running.

 

[Radio81]

Nah. I don't think Plex is going to support AV1 encoding anytime soon, and the CPU would probably be plenty for that anyway since I'll only be feeding to a few different TVs at once. Actually plan on selling it once I get the server all up and running.

Cool. Was just checking. Definitely think it would be overkill, but I've seen people run 4090s in their servers lol.

I use a Shield TV Pro for my Plex server, and it's also the Plex client for the main TV. Other TVs use a fire stick 4K Max, and a PS5 as Plex clients. No issues with playback on those devices via Plex streaming from the Shield. I connect a USB drive directly to the Shield TV for my shared media. I manually back up the data to another drive. Since it's just for media shares, it's not crucial for me to have a full-on NAS. I find it much easier this way, and less maintenance and hardware costs. Then again, I really never have more than one stream going at a time. If it were multiple shares I might need something with more power on the server end.