GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

WULULULULU said:
Reviews of the B580 are out. I think we have our 6700XT/2080ti/3060 12GB successor. Between this and a refurbished 2080ti, I'm gonna have a hard time to pick a GPU for a friend of mine.
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They really need to fix their drivers especially when it comes to older games and once they fix that issue and others it will definitely be budget GPU to buy.
 
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What are the best routers on the market that aren't clearly overpriced? I spent like $200 on a good one but it seems to get overwhelmed by traffic between devices and to the internet, plus I plan to move somewhere with fiber Internet and would like to get 2.5g internet. Or is anyone making their own routers using Linux, and what hardware do you recommend that has enough power and at least two 2.5g ports and 4 or 5 1g ports?
 
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What are the best routers on the market that aren't clearly overpriced? I spent like $200 on a good one but it seems to get overwhelmed by traffic between devices and to the internet, plus I plan to move somewhere with fiber Internet and would like to get 2.5g internet. Or is anyone making their own routers using Linux, and what hardware do you recommend that has enough power and at least two 2.5g ports and 4 or 5 1g ports?
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Ubiquiti stuff is pretty good.
 
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Betonhaus said:
What are the best routers on the market that aren't clearly overpriced? I spent like $200 on a good one but it seems to get overwhelmed by traffic between devices and to the internet, plus I plan to move somewhere with fiber Internet and would like to get 2.5g internet. Or is anyone making their own routers using Linux, and what hardware do you recommend that has enough power and at least two 2.5g ports and 4 or 5 1g ports?
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Mikrotik has some nice stuff. For build it yourself get an x86 N100-ish system with the ports you need and put OPNSense on it.
Just realize if you're using the ports on an x86 system for the same VLAN/Subnet then performance will likely be better with an external switch.
 
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Kinda annoyed how AMD doesn't have a lot of dedicated laptop graphics solutions. It's all just NVIDIA. It wouldn't be so bad if NVIDIA had better open source graphics support on Linux.
 
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Frederica Bernkastel said:
Kinda annoyed how AMD doesn't have a lot of dedicated laptop graphics solutions. It's all just NVIDIA. It wouldn't be so bad if NVIDIA had better open source graphics support on Linux.
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Yea. I think its a situation where they just don't want to have to compete against Nvidia in another segment they know they can't win. Can't really blame them either. They have been focusing on their APU solutions and they have been killing it with the console and handheld markets.
 
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I decided to give Lossless Scaling a try. This is is an application that has a number of upscalers built in, including FSR and their own approach.
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Since I was just talking about Lossless Scaling in another thread I just had a lightbulb moment and finally found a way to apply ReShade to VLC.

In short: install ReShade on Lossless Scaling itself. Anything you upscale via Lossless Scaling will have your ReShade preset applied to it.

The thing is, you can't seem to control ReShade whatsoever (even the screenshot key doesn't work), so you have to first install it on a DX10 application (e.g. a game) and copy the files over. Make sure it's setup properly beforehand so you don't want to change it later.

The API is DX10+. With a simple Sharpen+Levels+Vibrance mix it's amazing how movies pop. Much better than VLC's built-in sharpening tool, and doesn't tank the performance in 4K either. Really a "fucking finally" moment.
 
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Frederica Bernkastel said:
Kinda annoyed how AMD doesn't have a lot of dedicated laptop graphics solutions. It's all just NVIDIA. It wouldn't be so bad if NVIDIA had better open source graphics support on Linux.
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4090 Chad said:
Yea. I think its a situation where they just don't want to have to compete against Nvidia in another segment they know they can't win. Can't really blame them either. They have been focusing on their APU solutions and they have been killing it with the console and handheld markets.
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They have tried but have generally been rejected by the laptop industry. Which is why you see things like the OneXPlayer RX 7800M eGPU instead. They made some dies and dumped them on China.

Hopefully Strix Halo and successors take off. That's a big ask since it needs a new FP11 BGA socket, and is positioned as a competitor to some Nvidia mobile dGPUs.
 
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Betonhaus said:
What are the best routers on the market that aren't clearly overpriced? I spent like $200 on a good one but it seems to get overwhelmed by traffic between devices and to the internet, plus I plan to move somewhere with fiber Internet and would like to get 2.5g internet. Or is anyone making their own routers using Linux, and what hardware do you recommend that has enough power and at least two 2.5g ports and 4 or 5 1g ports?
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Do you need wireless support or will you use a separate WAP? Do you understand networking concepts like NAT or are you willing to learn? Do you have some existing hardware that is acting as a server you could theoretically run a software router on? Do you have a switch already? If so, is that switch managed?

In terms of software routers, there's pfSense and OPNsense. Both are free, OPNsense is a fork of pfSense because the pfSense devs are glue eating retards who refuse to improve their trash architecture. These are purely routers, not WAPs nor switches and you need somewhere to install it. You can basically install it on anything x86 and 1 Gbps performance isn't hard to achieve. They're both very easy to virtualize too.

For actual network gear, if you want something user friendly, Ubiquiti is a decent choice. That being said, if you need a WAP and go Ubiquiti, you must keep in mind that it's braindead without a controller. You can run the Unifi controller yourself as a virtual machine, use a separate CloudKey or buy a bundle that includes one like the Dream Machine. Shit is expensive though.

Poorfags who want a taste of the enterprise networking experience look no further than Mikrotik. It's cheap as hell but only genuine autists can truly operate them. Mikrotik network gear generally comes in two flavors, SwitchOS and RouterOS. The SwOS devices are very easy to configure with a basic web interface that gives you layer 2 management functionality, but it's really just for cheap managed switches and is generally only useful if you want to do VLANing.

The ROS devices are the full router experience but again, the interface is something to behold. Enter Winbox
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It's a very spartan UI, incredibly fast and uses no resources whatsoever, but it's also incredibly user unfriendly. From a barebones install you have to configure everything, outbound NAT rules, sensible inbound firewall rules and common services such as DNS forwarding, DHCP server, etc. There's wizards to try and make the experience easier, but they can sometimes make life harder.

You can get a little box like this and it can do 1 Gbps under most circumstances. I was using one for a bit but only moved back to OPNsense because the Wireguard performance was bad on the anemic CPU.
 
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Flaming Dumpster said:
Do you need wireless support or will you use a separate WAP? Do you understand networking concepts like NAT or are you willing to learn? Do you have some existing hardware that is acting as a server you could theoretically run a software router on? Do you have a switch already? If so, is that switch managed?
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I can set up a seperate wap, my old router can be used for that plus another one wired by Ethernet on the other side of the house. I'm pretty familiar with NAT. I could possibly use my home server as a routers but it's at near max bandwidth at this point and I'd prefer to use a dedicated system even if it's built from scratch. I have a couple $15 TP-Link TL-SG1005D switches I could probably use, one is in a box somewhere and the other is on the other side of the house where it breaks out ethernet to my desktop, a IKEA hub, Google TV, and a htpc that's barely used. I don't think the switches are managed. My router is a tp link ax6000/ax80
 
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They have tried but have generally been rejected by the laptop industry. Which is why you see things like the OneXPlayer RX 7800M eGPU instead. They made some dies and dumped them on China.

Hopefully Strix Halo and successors take off. That's a big ask since it needs a new FP11 BGA socket, and is positioned as a competitor to some Nvidia mobile dGPUs.
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Yeah, like only two of those (7600S) and (7700s) are in laptops this gen. That's just grim. Framework has stuff, but their prices are trash compared to what you can get with a NVIDIA laptop, and they're not even competing with NVIDIA.
I'd be surprised if they make anything dedicated laptop wise next gen. It's like they gave up.
 
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Betonhaus said:
What are the best GPUs with 10+GB, new or used, that go for under $250?
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B570 hasn't been released/reviewed yet, B580 is out of stock since it's a low volume, zero margin card Intel is dumping to avoid investor lawsuits.

7600 XT 16GB should cost that but doesn't. 6700 10/12 GB prices don't look good on ebay. RTX 3080 is selling over $400. Either I am bad at finding cards or the market is shit.
 
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How does one personally benchmark a CPU/GPU without relying on word of mouth or online reviews?
As in as a regular ass consumer what exactly am I meant to be looking at in order to go "This GPU is probably this much better than my current one and as such I will get it"?

1080p gaming, ryzen 5 2600 and a 1660ti. What won't cost me an arm and a leg(say... ~1000 dollars? I really don't know what's reasonable in terms of PC prices anymore since I haven't kept up) and would last me at least half a decade?
I don't care for 1440p or 4k.
 
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