Computer and Laptop Tech Thread

[JohnM]

Defender lang on all 3 machines. I also told my kids not to click anything suspicious. One even found a new browser with built in adblocker recommended by online playmates. So far no issues.

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[kisshmet]

Survey sa mga tsikoteers na windows ang laptop. Is windows defender enough for you or you replaced it with free anti virus or are you using a paid anti virus? Which one?

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Some anti-virus contain VPN function..so if you are into netflix or youtube which restricts availability of some videos to certain regions then its all worth it

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[JohnM]

Our printer/scanner conked out years ago so I do all printing and scanning via USB at the nearest seedy neighborhood internet cafe. Nadetect naman ang virus from one of the shops and Defender quarantined it at once.

[papi smith]

Also stopped buying printers since our last one conked out. All my printers had the same issue of ink cartridge drying out as it is seldom used. Found it cheaper to just have it printed outside, hassle lang lumabas. And less clutter too.

[TsekwangBakla]

Bumii ako Huawei Matebook D14 na Ryzen 7. Sulit na sa 43k [emoji3]

[dreamur]

Hero yata pinakamurang laptop. Wampipti lang!

[oj88]

Can anyone help me tweak this "daddy" setup? This is my 24x7 Plex server, FWIW.

CPU: E3-1285v4 (Broadwell). This was recently upgraded from an i5-4570 (Haswell)
Motherboard: Z97-D3H
Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P SE2
GPU: IGP + 1050Ti (for transcoding)
DRAM: 32GB DDR3 1600

Other than the BCLK, are there tweaks I can do in BIOS to squeeze more oomph out of this Xeon? It's a locked processor, I know. Still...

CPU-Z details: Intel Xeon E3-1285 v4 * 3573.39 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

CB R23 results with stock config:

[ice15]

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[Jun aka Pekto]

Also stopped buying printers since our last one conked out. All my printers had the same issue of ink cartridge drying out as it is seldom used. Found it cheaper to just have it printed outside, hassle lang lumabas. And less clutter too.

That's why we switched to a black & white laser printer. It's pretty much Use & Forget until the toner runs out (a year later).

[mda]

Can anyone help me tweak this "daddy" setup? This is my 24x7 Plex server, FWIW.

CPU: E3-1285v4 (Broadwell). This was recently upgraded from an i5-4570 (Haswell)
Motherboard: Z97-D3H
Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P SE2
GPU: IGP + 1050Ti (for transcoding)
DRAM: 32GB DDR3 1600

Other than the BCLK, are there tweaks I can do in BIOS to squeeze more oomph out of this Xeon? It's a locked processor, I know. Still...

CPU-Z details: Intel Xeon E3-1285 v4 * 3573.39 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

CB R23 results with stock config:

You can only do bclk with Haswell/Broadwells.

Probably you can find a coffee lake or a Ryzen 2nd gen APU for cheap.

[oj88]

You can only do bclk with Haswell/Broadwells.

Probably you can find a coffee lake or a Ryzen 2nd gen APU for cheap.

No can do. That will compel me to replace the board and all 32GB of DDR3 memory. Anyway, decided to keep it stock na lang. It's a server so I guess keeping it stable should be top priority.

My main PC is a Ryzen 5 3600 * 4.2 all cores.

[mda]

No can do. That will compel me to replace the board and all 32GB of DDR3 memory. Anyway, decided to keep it stock na lang. It's a server so I guess keeping it stable should be top priority.

My main PC is a Ryzen 5 3600 * 4.2 all cores.

For plex, overloaded na ba yung ganiyang setup?

No experience using that but the IGP / quicksync should help a lot hindi ba? hehe

EDIT: Remembered that the 1050TI and all the other NV consumer cards are limited to 2 simultaneous transcode streams before dumping the rest of the load back to the CPU...

If that's your bottleneck, a quadro card or a driver hack (if exists for your OS/platform?) should allow more concurrent streams.

[oj88]

For plex, overloaded na ba yung ganiyang setup?

No experience using that but the IGP / quicksync should help a lot hindi ba? hehe

EDIT: Remembered that the 1050TI and all the other NV consumer cards are limited to 2 simultaneous transcode streams before dumping the rest of the load back to the CPU...

If that's your bottleneck, a quadro card or a driver hack (if exists for your OS/platform?) should allow more concurrent streams.

Yup, I know about the limitations. I haven't found it necessary to hack the driver. Of course I've been waiting for a bargain P2000 to come along but after a couple of years, they're still expensive and hard to come by.

Anyway, both the Intel Iris Pro Graphics P6300 (IGPU) and the dedicated 1050Ti, together with the CPU, do pitch in to do the transcodes. That said, Nvidia's 2-stream limit is not too big of an issue for me. At least, not yet.

CPU, GPU 0, and GPU 1 utilization while plying 4 or 5 streams:

[mda]

Yup, I know about the limitations. I haven't found it necessary to hack the driver. Of course I've been waiting for a bargain P2000 to come along but after a couple of years, they're still expensive and hard to come by.

Anyway, both the Intel Iris Pro Graphics P6300 (IGPU) and the dedicated 1050Ti, together with the CPU, do pitch in to do the transcodes. That said, Nvidia's 2-stream limit is not too big of an issue for me. At least, not yet.

CPU, GPU 0, and GPU 1 utilization while plying 4 or 5 streams:

Looks like that box can handle another 3-4 streams easy haha.

[oj88]

Looks like that box can handle another 3-4 streams easy haha.

True. But of course, it depends on the media and the playback device. In the test above, I forced all streams to transcode to force the CPU and GPU to work their arses off. In reality, however, if the playback device supports the media type, it will use Direct Stream or at most Direct Play.... which consequently consumes very little processing and is only limited by the storage IO.

[BratPAQ]

Anyone have monitor that can turn into portrait? I'm thinking of buying a cheap one for viewing source code.

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[jut703]

Anyone have monitor that can turn into portrait? I'm thinking of buying a cheap one for viewing source code.

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I used to have a Dell IPS monitor from long ago (U2412M) that I sometime use vertically for spreadsheets. The mount is rotatable for vertical and horizontal use.

I gave it to my brother na, this is his current WFH setup:







A used Dell IPS monitor is about 3k nalang these days.


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[BratPAQ]

I used to have a Dell IPS monitor from long ago (U2412M) that I sometime use vertically for spreadsheets. The mount is rotatable for vertical and horizontal use.

I gave it to my brother na, this is his current WFH setup:







A used Dell IPS monitor is about 3k nalang these days.


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Thanks for the tip. I'll try to look for that one.

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[oj88]

Just sharing what I did with my old PC hardware... from E-Waste to E-Art.





I still have a lot of old, defective, or otherwise obsolete hardware I might put up and make eyesores into something cool.

[Vodka]

Just sharing what I did with my old PC hardware... from E-Waste to E-Art.





I still have a lot of old, defective, or otherwise obsolete hardware I might put up and make eyesores into something cool.

pop the lid from the K6 turn it into a keychain

meron ba dyan S3 virge 3d decellerator LOL