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Lone Wandering Courier said:
I think you miss my point. Sure the 5700G is great value with a GPU, but I'm talking about with the integrated graphics only which is supposed to be the main appeal of these APUs.
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the iGPU on the 5700G is on the same level as an entry level card from 2016/2017, it's perfectly capable of running most modern games at 720p as long as you are not using trash tier memory

i have a 5700G and a decent kit, here's a nice example of just how bandwidth starved the APUs are
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3200MHz CL16 is what you get with the cheapest dual channel kits and even that performs good enough for light gaming
 
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I have a question. My server case has four additional pins for the front panel header (network activity led and warning light). Is there a way to get a basic usb header to gpio adapter and set it so that those lights do something, such as the warning light turning on when there's updates available and the network light turning on when there are active downloads?
 
Betonhaus said:
I have a question. My server case has four additional pins for the front panel header (network activity led and warning light). Is there a way to get a basic usb header to gpio adapter and set it so that those lights do something, such as the warning light turning on when there's updates available and the network light turning on when there are active downloads?
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Some simple Arduino code could take events and operate LEDs accordingly. Arduino dev boards have both GPIO and a USB interface.

The more difficult part is getting the events that you want to use to trigger those lights. If you're running Linux it'd be pretty easy to trigger on things like system temperature over threshold, or your package manager indicating available updates. Triggering on "active downloads" is a lot harder to do reliably. I'm assuming you mean downloads in your web browser? I doubt any web browser exposes download status in a meaningful way, though a lot of them do post a notification when the last download has completed. You could probably write an extension that listens for download events and exposes that info to you in a useful way. I'm not sure, I never done it. If you have a dedicated downloads folder where the only file writes are from the act of downloading, there's probably a way to trigger on when writes are happening, and trigger off when no writes are happening. But that's essentially a disk activity indicator for a particular folder. I'm not sure how useful that is.

If you're on Windows, just forget about it.
 
I've been having a nightmare experience where the farms, streaming, and youtube would crash the graphics driver, leaving a blurry washed-out experience until I hit ctrl shift windows B, but thank FUCK they patched it.

Now I've got the residual feeling of doing that every video, but I don't have to, because it isn't flipflopping.

A few years back I had the same problem with an AMD driver, but the system would reboot when it happened.

Just a reminder to manually check for driver updates, windows will tell you you're on the latest, and they don't know shit.

Oddly enough, it never happened while gaming.
 
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Betonhaus said:
If i wanted to upgrade my 1rst gen ThinkPad X1 Yoga, would something similar to either of these be good deals? it wouldn't be for a few months at minimum.

I'll likely not be doing much pc gaming so if i have a place i stay long term i might just get a thunderbolt dock to use this as a multi-monitor workstation.
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You might also consider picking up a Raspberry Pi and storage to use as a portable mini-server that you can use for backups and other stuff as you move around.
 
davids877 said:
You might also consider picking up a Raspberry Pi and storage to use as a portable mini-server that you can use for backups and other stuff as you move around.
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I'm afraid i don't see a use case for that. I already got jellyfin set up that i can access it anywhere, and I can copy media to my laptop drive if needed. Plus that would be additional hardware to own and keep around. Thanks tho.
 
Betonhaus said:
I'm afraid i don't see a use case for that. I already got jellyfin set up that i can access it anywhere, and I can copy media to my laptop drive if needed. Plus that would be additional hardware to own and keep around. Thanks tho.
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You're assuming Internet access? Also I assume you have someone who can manage care and feeding of your server as you travel.
 
davids877 said:
You're assuming Internet access? Also I assume you have someone who can manage care and feeding of your server as you travel.
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a 16tb portable server would be expensive. Even if i whittled it down a lot it's still a fragile piece of hardware that would get broken or lost if I'm on deployment or wherever I end up. And if I'm in a place that doesn't have internet access for an extended period of time I might just *gasp* not spend time in front of a screen.
 
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Unless you want to run Win10 LTSC, which doesn't have the advanced scheduler. This is the only version of Windows I use anymore, so I went with an Ideapad Slim 7 Pro with an 11th gen i7.
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Wait there are people who actually run Windows on laptops?
 
I admit it, I have Windows on my laptop but in a dual-boot with Linux. I only really have the windows install for a couple of old pirated games (I mean new games certainly aren't going to run on an ivy bridge intel graphics) and really for when I'm traveling as I don't feel like being harassed by nosy normies that get scared of a text-only linux boot screen or seeing a terminal window open.
 
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Linux kinda still often doesn't do well with some off-the-beaten path hardware, that usually includes notebooks that have some minor functionality tucked away in some microcontroller, like battery charge treshold, specific buttons and stuff like that. Since you can't really just pull a battery out these days, many people using their notebooks also stationary and having a battery sitting at 100% all the time kills it quicker so these can be important details. Also linux is kinda worse at scheduling, which often leads to increased power consumption vs. windows. (On the other hand, windows insist on billions of background processes that often include internet access which in a notebook usually means hungry wlan, so in practice a lightweight linux system often still consumes less) Also webcams, fingerprint sensors etc. often might just not work, depending on how they're hooked up internally.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
Linux kinda still often doesn't do well with some off-the-beaten path hardware, that usually includes notebooks that have some minor functionality tucked away in some microcontroller, like battery charge treshold, specific buttons and stuff like that. Since you can't really just pull a battery out these days, many people using their notebooks also stationary and having a battery sitting at 100% all the time kills it quicker so these can be important details. Also linux is kinda worse at scheduling, which often leads to increased power consumption vs. windows. (On the other hand, windows insist on billions of background processes that often include internet access which in a notebook usually means hungry wlan, so in practice a lightweight linux system often still consumes less) Also webcams, fingerprint sensors etc. often might just not work, depending on how they're hooked up internally.
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This is why I don't switch from windows. Despite the background process shit, it's reliable and things just work 98% of the time without thinking about it.
 
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