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Valve Claims Steam Machine Outperforms 70% of Current Gaming PCs (www.techpowerup.com)
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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (9 children)

I wish dual CPU motherboards were mainstream.
I could then use the one I am keeping aside, during compilation/encoding tasks.

But my current computer definitely come above on everything other then the VRAM.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    That's not how you compile fast. I mean they exist but better buy a second PC for the price. Or optimise your project, or get a build cache.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

    Yeah, I get it.
    But what if most motherboards were just expected to have 2 slots, you know?
    Of course I won't be switching to Threadripper just for getting 2 CPUs on a single motherboard and have kept the other CPU lying around, thinking of using it for keeping all the storage HDDs, and maybe offloading all re-encoding stuff onto it.

    For compilation though, I'm fine with just using my main PC, although I did look into distributed computing options, specially when using my laptop, I think I'm fine for now.

    It's more like a fleeting though that came to me a few times, when I felt like playing a game while reencoding, but was unable to properly set the CPU usage for the encoders in ffmpeg.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (5 children)

    Time to get a little homelab :-) ! Like it can encode stuff for days without getting in the way and keep those drives accessible. Nowadays any tiny pc comes with an ethernet port so usually its just plug & play too.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (4 children)

    I was looking more towards something that can use my spare CPU and have enough SATA ports to last a long time.
    And while USB to SATA is expected to be inherently unreliable, all PCIe SATA devices I see seem to be problematic in their own right^[doesn't make sense to have a SATA adapter that goes around corrupting the data in a way that it is hard to detect] (from the reviews). The only one that seemed fine was the PCIe SCSI device, for which, I would be very careful, making sure I don't get a fake.

    Then the available motherboards having >6 SATA ports seem to all be high end ones, which doesn't make sense considering I am trying to save some money.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (3 children)

    What's the spare CPU?

    Maybe an old mobo with 6 sata can be found for cheap.

    I totally agree with the sata (or raid) cards.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The spare one is a 5600X which was previously in the same motherboard before I switched to a 5800X.

    I am considering getting a B550 motherboard once I have the funds, but the number of SATA ports is kinda low. My current one is X570 with 6 ports.

    I am not planning on RAID for now, as I don't really plan on ever having enough for redundancy, but I definitely want to be able to use the system for any and every task I can program to control via a local SSH. So definitely going with a full distro, like Debian or sth, and not a NAS specific thingy.
    I can even make use of my old Radeon 4650 for a display while setting it up.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    The 5600X is a beast IMO, I had a 2600X IIRC that my kid now has, very good CPU, I understand why you'd like to compile with it 😁.

    I also remember mobos were kind of bad, like 2 RAM lanes and few connectics compared to how it usually was "before".

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I made sure to get one with 4 slots (still haven't managed to use them all though) and good component cooling.
    Thinking back, getting the G version would have done better, but I didn't intend on swapping with a 5800X back then.

    Now it's just about getting the right parts to accompany the CPU and RAM I have lying around. And the HDDs of course. The Toshiba one ended up having an undesirable delay, meaning I would have to go with the Seagate ones priced 50% higher.

    And then a router not having a backdoor.
    Hopefully I can find one with OpenWRT without having to choose ASUS.

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