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I do run a Plex Media Server where I employ port forwarding, as well as port forwarding for the XBox .

Thank you for your thoughts. The reason why I'm going with an OPNsense dedicated firewall is that with routers, after 3-4 years, the router manufacture generally ceases providing security updates for the firewall - and other aspects of the all-in-one units provided by carriers. Therefore...

Hey Guys, I'm trying to install a dedicated OPNsense firewall at home. I have a mini PC with 2 GbE ports and need to source a VDSL2 30B (preferred) or VDSL2 30A modem that supports RJ11 connectivity to go between our copper based wall sockets (that go down to a Fibre to the Basement (FttB)...

From my understanding, the AM5 architecture provides 28 x PCIe lanes from the CPU to the system. These are apparently seen as the following table: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a4epI4uKUtbSCZbDt-jvKSI_E53xgRN5/view?usp=share_link So basically, there are 16 lanes for a GPU. There are 4...

Thank you for that. I never really contemplated the ability of applying firmware updates to NVMe's in a raid config!!! 😉

Hey Guys, With respect to the following article wrritten by Joe Shields from the Tom's Hardware team in the past 24 hours (https://www.tomshardware.com/features/x670e-flagships-roundup), what I'm trying to determine is, if I go with only 2 x PCIe 5 NVMe's running in a Raid 0 config, and, I am...

Escksu, my raid card is a PCIe 3.0 x8 Adaptec 2277000-R Single 8885 raid controller supporting 12Gb/s. So regardless, it's going to take up 8 lanes I'm assuming, unless there is someway the system would only use 2 of the PCIe 5.0 lanes to actually transfer the data - which should equal what 8...

TCA, Thanks for your thoughts. But if I want to one 1 x GPU (16 lanes), 1 x Raid Card (x8) and 2 x NVMe's in Raid 0 (2 by x4 lanes), there's no way I'm going to be able to do this - even if all 24 lanes were available to me, yes? BTW, am not sure if you saw my Biostar update to my post before...

I'm struggling to come to grips that my 10 year old PC config that has an X16 (GPU) and an X8 (Raid Card) slot will not be supported on the new AM5 mobo's?!? 😲 If I understand correctly, according to the statement made in the article, "...with up to 16 Zen 4 cores, up to 24 PCIe 5.0 lanes (x16...

Hey Jarred, Great article but my head is now swimming with ideas of what I can and cannot achieve when it comes to mining. I've been waiting for quite awhile to update my PC and was planning to go to a WRX80 Mobo until I learnt that I couldn't put a 3960X (4 channel) TR CPU in it... 😭 I...

Why are you not including any of the the AMD threadripper CPU's or at least the 3950X in this comparison. Some of us would like to see how the threadripper compares to intel chips as a gaming platform. Yes, it may be a bit more expensive, but how much extra bang will you get on these platforms...

Very disappointed in this revised product as I wrote to Lenovo over a year ago requesting them to build a wireless trackpoint keyboard exactly for the very purpose of it being the keyboard for my PC being played through our 65" TV on the wall. I've been using a Logitech K830 for a couple of...

Actually, my bad, the article does have the 3950X - and it comes in at 5.2 % lower than i9900KS - which I can't find pricing on these days. So let's go with the i9900KF - as that was the one my son was thinking about getting (same as i9900KF but without internal GPU). It came out out at 97.1%...

Yes, as a gaming CPU - the Intel CPU has it by 4% according to Paul Alcorn. But the processing requirements for a game and its subsequent presentation to the user goes well beyond the CPU - there's so much more going on that just what the CPU does alone. And you don't need to go to the 'enth...

Phaaze88, much better - but not quite there. Without trying to understand the why's and wherefores, I'm trying to determine how much of a theoretical difference there'd be in FPS - and because we don't want to limit ourselves to current technology (no PCIe4 GPU's yet), where's the best...