[QUOTE=TrafficMan;51073966][img]https://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-irony.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
News flash: I own a GTX 570.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51076012]How much are they traded for anyways[/QUOTE]
Last I head one sold privately for around $800.
[QUOTE=garychencool;51077360]Ah docking stations. I've tried some of them. I want one that works seamlessly with the laptop but it doesn't always work out because something is broken about them.
I tried using the Surface Book with the Surface Dock and I've often run into the issue of the screens not being detected. Not sure if this is my dual monitors faults since they are cheapo Asus TN panels, connected via miniDP to HDMI adapters. I even got the adapters from the Microsoft Store and that issue still happens. Unplugging and replugging the adapters a few times usually fixes it. Also devices connected to the dock might not always wake or connect properly. This is probably more Logitech's fault than anything, where restarting Logitech Gaming Software fixes it most of the time. Since the Surface Book has a 3000x2000 display, I run into scaling issues that I talked about a while back. Basically the DPI scaling is set to 200% so things aren't stupidly tiny on the Surface Book but once it gets docked to the 2x 1080p Asus monitors, some programs don't scale properly for the 1080p monitors. A lot of programs can detect the scaling setting but it they seem to only get the 200% scaling when it should be 100%. When I docked the Surface Book, I set the display on the Surface Book to turn off, and have one of the 1080p monitors as the main display. Windows should tell apps that the scaling is now 100%, not 200% right? Well, it doesn't seem to do that. Chrome seems smart enough to adjust scaling based on what display it is on.
I really liked the single cable that handles data and power, which is also magnetic and easy to use. It made docking and undocking seamless and easy.
I tried using the XPS 15 with Dell USB 3.0 Dock and I've run into the situation where the only way to wake your laptop is to open the screen up and press the power button or tap the keyboard. Although that's a minor thing that doesn't really matter too much. Sometimes the dock lags and when it lags, the screen lags and that's not useful in gaming. Another annoying issue is that on the second 1080p monitor, there was some artifacting going on. Some pixels would be solid green or red or blue. This seemed to be a GPU issue as it was viewable in screen recordings. Updating the drivers for the GPU and the dock did nothing. I wonder if the Dell Thunderbolt 3 dock would be any better.
I think docking stations tend to be finicky and buggy. I've yet to experience a solid laptop to docking station experience.
I am curious to try the HP Zbook Studio and the HP Thunderbolt 3 Dock. The connector is kinda proprietary because it's a 2-in-1 like the Surface and Surface Dock, where it's Thunderbolt 3 and charging/power in one cable. It's not magnetic but oh well. That's pretty neat and convenient because it's just one cable to plug and unplug instead of 2. Still better than plugging and unplugged like 5-6 different cables each time, which is such a hassle. I'd probably get two DP to HDMI adapters for it to work with my monitors, or be cheap and get one and use the VGA output on the dock.
[IMG]http://support.hp.com/doc-images/389/c05147619.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
It's always the adapter, never had a USB Dock that worked right either. The Zbooks are nice, ideally thunderbolt would be a better connection than USB.
[QUOTE=pentium;51077654]News flash: I own a GTX 570.[/QUOTE]
Updated systems spec pls
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51077735]Updated systems spec pls[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure it's a first gen i5 and a 570. Better than Gary and his 210 :v:
[QUOTE=Makol;51077358]do you need help?[/QUOTE]
we don't want help.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51077835]Here's something I'm glad Steam supports.
Libraries over the network.
I could really just have a 512GB SSD and have everything else over the network with mapped discs.
I could REALLY DO THAT NOW and install my 3TB library.
But I won't.[/QUOTE]
Even on gigabit you still have less bandwidth than a single HDD though. Load times would be awful.
[QUOTE=Makol;51077864]wow[/QUOTE]
It's a disease that we enjoy having.
I got the storage, but not the means to use it well right now. That's what my big Storage Space server plans are for.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51077758]Pretty sure it's a first gen i5 and a 570. [B]Better than Gary and his 210[/B] :v:[/QUOTE]
:godzing: holy crap, people still remember that?
For the record, it's on the home/family desktop that I haven't been using much for the past 2 years and I don't care enough to fix it.
I'm nearly out of space, thinking of picking up a 2tb drive to replace this 300gb drive
What's generally the best price/performance/reliability drive these days?
Seagate for price, WD Black for reliability, Toshitba under no circumstances.
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;51077668]It's always the adapter, never had a USB Dock that worked right either. The Zbooks are nice, ideally thunderbolt would be a better connection than USB.[/QUOTE]
For the Surface dock, I used two different sets of adapters, one from Amazon and one from the Microsoft Store. Same issues for both. Maybe the adapters are not active or passive or something dumb like that.
For the Dell USB dock, I wasn't using any adapters since the backside had 2 HDMI outputs which worked fine. I swapped cables and which HDMI output to use and the problem still continued. It was weird and annoying sometimes. At one point, I decided to use the HDMI to DVI adapter it came with to see if things are fixed. Nope. Seemed to be some dock or GPU issue.
I like how the HP Thunderbolt 3 dock for the ZBooks have a VGA port tho. I wish the monitors that I had actually had DP on them, but they don't so I'll have to use a DP to HDMI adapter. I don't see myself getting new monitors any time soon either.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51075706]Both you and lavacano are completely missing the point here.
As a start, you don't decide which cards to get by dividng the CUDA core count by their card price and pick the one with the highest ratio. It doesn't work like that at all.
Furthermore, it's pretty obvious robochimp just misused the term "webserver" when he wanted a render server. I don't understand why this is hard to comprehend.[/QUOTE]
But the 1070 has a higher price/performance ratio then the 1080 and the Titan, the Cuda cores per dollar are only one aspect of that.
But i don't think thats even a very terrible metric to go by anyway, its the same architecture, same silicon, its very close in terms of clockspeeds,
Like there is different ram on the 1080 and the Titan but the importance of that scales with the processing power of the card.
Speaking of storage
[t]https://i.imgur.com/U7IocpO.png[/t]
Blu-ray rips and games are killing the storage on this machine. I'm going to get an additional 4TB drive when I can afford it. I hate deleting shit.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51076012]How much are they traded for anyways[/QUOTE]
They show up once in a blue moon on Ebay for $600 or more. The only ones that exist are prototypes.
[QUOTE=Van-man;51075722]AFAIK [url]http://waifu2x.udp.jp[/url] uses Nvidia GPU's for 'intelligent' upscaling[/QUOTE]
Its a shame its promotes itself as just an tool for anime because my random experiments of unrelated shit have come out rather well. If it could just rename itself and promote itself a bit better I think it would catch on rather well.
[QUOTE=pentium;51077654]News flash: I own a GTX 570.[/QUOTE]
And an iPhone!
Alongside probably thousands and thousands of dollars worth of equipment that's older than I am :v:
[QUOTE=helifreak;51077895]Even on gigabit you still have less bandwidth than a single HDD though. Load times would be awful.[/QUOTE]
It's on my 5 year plan to phase out all mechanical storage in my systems and just have 10gbit fiber to a SAN to install all my steam games and bulk shit on.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;51077735]Updated systems spec pls[/QUOTE]
Remember how I got that dual KVM switch?
I'm now running a setup where on one side I got a first gen Mac Pro running 16gb and 8 cores and the GTX570. It handles my darkest desires for El Capitan and Windows 7.
On the other side there's an i5 box with 4gb ram, two 7950GX2's and some other stuff dedicated to Windows XP so I can get my work done and with the push of a button I can switch to the other machine and shut you guys up about me constantly working on an ancient machine and OS.
Also I'm amazed nobody else here is as invested into tape storage serverside as I am.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51079042]It's on my 5 year plan to phase out all mechanical storage in my systems and just have 10gbit fiber to a SAN to install all my steam games and bulk shit on.[/QUOTE]
But, wireless?
[QUOTE=helifreak;51079090]But, wireless?[/QUOTE]
Well I won't be gaming on wireless so everything else will survive on whatever wireless will be capable of in 5 years, which I imagine will be 2gbps in the next year alone.
[QUOTE=pentium;51079078]Remember how I got that dual KVM switch?
I'm now running a setup where on one side I got a first gen Mac Pro running 16gb and 8 cores and the GTX570. It handles my darkest desires for El Capitan and Windows 7.
On the other side there's an i5 box with 4gb ram, two 7950GX2's and some other stuff dedicated to Windows XP so I can get my work done and with the push of a button I can switch to the other machine and shut you guys up about me constantly working on an ancient machine and OS.
Also I'm amazed nobody else here is as invested into tape storage serverside as I am.[/QUOTE]
I was trying to get a basic tape setup at my old job for as long as I worked there. The money just never materialized for it, it always had to go somewhere else.
Also TIL you can't have 2 4k monitors at 60hz hooked to a surface book.
I had to fight my motherboard a bit, because of the memory controller, and I had to remove all of my old sticks, but now I have my 2x8GB installed.
Chrome's usable now.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;51078318]Speaking of storage
[t]https://i.imgur.com/U7IocpO.png[/t]
Blu-ray rips and games are killing the storage on this machine. I'm going to get an additional 4TB drive when I can afford it. I hate deleting shit.[/QUOTE]
Also for this server I wanted to get like 10 super cheap DVD USB readers and rip all my mom's CD's and archive them and then put them on her google music account so she can enjoy them easily. She's got hundreds of CD's. Been trying to plan out a way to bulk rip them. That and all the DVD's she's bought and are now scratched. Would like to archive all that so she doesn't need to worry about it.
Someone please convince me not to drop ~$550 on a Unifi AC Pro, Unifi USG, 8 port Unifi PoE Switch, and a modem for my soon to be apartment. I think I can drop the PoE switch comfortably and be at ~$350 since I've got a 24 port non PoE HP managed switch laying around here somewhere.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;51079599]Also for this server I wanted to get like 10 super cheap DVD USB readers and rip all my mom's CD's and archive them and then put them on her google music account so she can enjoy them easily. She's got hundreds of CD's. Been trying to plan out a way to bulk rip them. That and all the DVD's she's bought and are now scratched. Would like to archive all that so she doesn't need to worry about it.[/QUOTE]
I need to get backups for this data in general, one of those drives fails and I'm assured there will be stuff that is unrecoverable.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;51079665]I need to get backups for this data in general, one of those drives fails and I'm assured there will be stuff that is unrecoverable.[/QUOTE]
I'm spoiled with Amazon Cloud Drive. 60 bucks a year. Can upload and download at >100Mbps. Got 14TB on it right now.
[QUOTE=Levelog;51079626]Someone please convince me not to drop ~$550 on a Unifi AC Pro, Unifi USG, 8 port Unifi PoE Switch, and a modem for my soon to be apartment. I think I can drop the PoE switch comfortably and be at ~$350 since I've got a 24 port non PoE HP managed switch laying around here somewhere.[/QUOTE]
I'm not actually sure what the USG does over an EdgeRouterX / Lite that justifies the massive price increase, from what I can see it's literally just an Edgerouter Lite that's configured through UniFi controller, meaning you'll probably need to be hosting the server on something every time you want to configure it
I'm running an Edgerouter X + AP-LR (Non-ac) for my family and it works perfectly. The UniFi firmware doesn't really do a whole lot I need, so I never run the server
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Plus the ERX does POE passthrough, so you can power the router and AP off the same adapter
[QUOTE=Brt5470;51079681]I'm spoiled with Amazon Cloud Drive. 60 bucks a year. Can upload and download at >100Mbps. Got 14TB on it right now.[/QUOTE]
Could do that, but it will take a while to do with a stupidly low 2 mb/s up. A hard drive based system maybe a better option short term or maybe I could use the opportunity to work with tape backup systems.
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