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

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I think i mostly just want a router that has dynamicDNS support built in, can redirect dns calls to an internal server, and can handle surge loads without choking

AVM makes the FRITZ!Box, the best home router bar none (which also receive firmware updates including new features for like, a decade after release).

They are a bit pricey though.

 

[DavidS877]

I think i mostly just want a router that has dynamicDNS support built in, can redirect dns calls to an internal server, and can handle surge loads without choking

OPNsense?
True, you still have to figure out the hardware to run it on, and then the WiFi.

The biggest issue with UniFi is that all of their shit is cloud based, and unless you go out of your way to host your own controller and rebind the devices to that, or you cut the functionality by switching to standalone mode, you're running your shit on Ubiquiti's servers, and they already had breaches in the past. That's the number 1 turnoff for me when it comes to them.

Never had anything cloud from them. Install AP and switch, install controller on spare Raspberry Pi, register devices, done. No idea on the router devices or cameras, but the access points don't.

Looks like some of the other gear requires it and some doesn't and they seem to break it at random.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I think i mostly just want a router that has dynamicDNS support built in, can redirect dns calls to an internal server, and can handle surge loads without choking

Mikrotik released a new whopper of a router that's mean to sit a tier above the mighty RB4011 series called the RB5009. It's probably overkill and the RB4011 is still plenty strong for all the stuff you're looking for. Sell the deco trash, get mikrotik and some TP link enterprise access points and you'll be happy with an effective, budget friendly solution.

 

[Betonhaus]

What about this one? https://www.amazon.ca/TP-Link-AXE5400-Tri-Band-Archer-AXE75/dp/B0B6M2N6PJ

...I have an old Archer C7 V5 that I could probably set up as the primary router and see how that works. it has the tp-link ddns I'm currently using (and supports two other ddns providers) i'll probably switch them over tomorrow and see how it runs over the weekend. Turns out my current router, the Deco x50, is known to be unstable

 

[Slav Power]

I think i mostly just want a router that has dynamicDNS support built in, can redirect dns calls to an internal server, and can handle surge loads without choking

Mikrotik can do all of that shit and even more. Well, DDNS support is technically built in with their own DDNS service, but you can always add a script to update a DDNS service of your choice.

Mikrotik released a new whopper of a router that's mean to sit a tier above the mighty RB4011 series called the RB5009. It's probably overkill and the RB4011 is still plenty strong for all the stuff you're looking for. Sell the deco trash, get mikrotik and some TP link enterprise access points and you'll be happy with an effective, budget friendly solution.

Yeah the RB5009 is really crazy, especially with it's ability to shove 4 of those into a 1U rack slot. Probably best to go with that instead of the RB4011 since it's newer, it's designed for ROSv7 which is the current ROS version, and it's on ARM64 instead of ARM32. I'm still hoping for them to release proper modern WiFi gear this year, but that's a big .

What about this one? https://www.amazon.ca/TP-Link-AXE5400-Tri-Band-Archer-AXE75/dp/B0B6M2N6PJ

...I have an old Archer C7 V5 that I could probably set up as the primary router and see how that works. it has the tp-link ddns I'm currently using (and supports two other ddns providers) i'll probably switch them over tomorrow and see how it runs over the weekend. Turns out my current router, the Deco x50, is known to be unstable

You want good WiFi, build your own network based on prosumer/enterprise access points instead of betting everything on a magical all-in-one device with billions of antennas that defy laws of physics only in the marketing material. And you want to replace a consumer TP-Link with another consumer TP-Link to solve issues that exist with consumer TP-Links.

 

[Susanna]

Eschew WiFi, embrace the mighty cable.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

You want good WiFi, build your own network based on prosumer/enterprise access points instead of betting everything on a magical all-in-one device with billions of antennas that defy laws of physics only in the marketing material. And you want to replace a consumer TP-Link with another consumer TP-Link to solve issues that exist with consumer TP-Links.

I've had a great experience with the TP Link eap line of access points. They're cheaper than Ubiquity counterparts and have all the "enterprise" type features like vlans per ssid. Been running a couple EAP225 for almost 4 years with no stability issues.

 

[Slav Power]

install controller on spare Raspberry Pi, register devices

This is the main issue. By default you connect to their controller, so you have to go out of your way to set up your own just to use the devices. Mikrotik, for all of their flaws, doesn't do that.

By default each device is completely standalone, but wireless access points can be managed by what they call CAPsMAN. The way it works is that all the access points connect to another Mikrotik device that has a CAPsMAN server running on it, so whatever changes you make on the CAPsMAN server will get applied to all the access points. And it's completely optional for the sake of making AP management easier.

You only have Mikrotik AP's? No problem, you can set up one of them as a CAPsMAN server and link all the other ones to it. And each of those AP's is basically a fully fledged router you can configure with VLANs and other fancy things. This is something that I like about Mikrotik, that they don't make you use some magic cloud service or a dedicated controller just to keep your shit off the cloud. Their hardware and software is very old school and can be kept completely off the grid, and it's why I would avoid Ubiquiti even if they offer better WiFi products. Either do it like Mikrotik does so I won't have to use your cloud or set up a dedicated controller device, or go fuck yourself.

 

[Kit Marz]

I need people to talk me down. I'm really tempted to buy upgrades from my PC but I feel so weak. It started this week when I upgraded the RAM and replaced some of my hard drives with SSDs. I built my PC in 2017 and have left it mostly as it is now and it still serves me well. It has an RTX 2070 turbo and i7 7700k. I've been tempted to get the new RX 7900 and the Ryzen 7 5800x3d. I was looking at that CPU because I just bought new ddr4 RAM and didn't want to have to buy ddr5 if I did upgrade to an am5 board. Plus, all those upgrades would be relatively cheap, but be a significant upgrade to what I have. I really want to do it, but don't know if I want to spend the money.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Infinity Fabric is not a cache technology. Infinity Fabric is the high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnect used between chiplets and sockets.

Am I confused or did they make cache larger on RDNA2 (Or am I thinking the X3D CPUs again)?

The Xeon Phi didn't have HBM. It had MCDRAM, which isn't the same technology. The name of the product formerly called Ponte Vecchio's is not "Intel Xe;" it's Intel Max Series GPU. This is different from the Intel Xe Max, which was a very shitty laptop dGPU

Huh, I didn't know that about MCDRAM. Any thoughts on it versus HBM? I did some searching and it said Micron was moving to HBM.
I don't know what Intel's fetish with Xe- labeled shit (Xenon, Xenon Phi, Xe, Parallel Studio Xe) but it makes shit hard as fuck to keep track.

On the other hand, I've gotten my hands on a Chinese RISC-V board. They're designed for "IOT" gateways that are in every apartment by law, but I realized these pretty much designed for jumping the great firewall with several ethernet ports lol.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

I need people to talk me down. I'm really tempted to buy upgrades from my PC but I feel so weak. It started this week when I upgraded the RAM and replaced some of my hard drives with SSDs. I built my PC in 2017 and have left it mostly as it is now and it still serves me well. It has an RTX 2070 turbo and i7 7700k. I've been tempted to get the new RX 7900 and the Ryzen 7 5800x3d. I was looking at that CPU because I just bought new ddr4 RAM and didn't want to have to buy ddr5 if I did upgrade to an am5 board. Plus, all those upgrades would be relatively cheap, but be a significant upgrade to what I have. I really want to do it, but don't know if I want to spend the money.

Ryzen 5800 X3D (or the 5600X3D) is worth it if you have AM4 boards and can't afford (or want to cheap out) instead of AM5 and DDR5... Unless you run dwarf fortress. AM5 is kinda like right after 15h was launched and Intel knew they could sit back and just watch the self-immolation.
Personally I'd hold off on the GPUs but I've been doing that since 2015 lol. Still waiting for an HBM card to lower power draw and size... It'll never happen unless AI/ML bubble bursts.

 

[seri0us]

I need people to talk me down. I'm really tempted to buy upgrades from my PC but I feel so weak. It started this week when I upgraded the RAM and replaced some of my hard drives with SSDs. I built my PC in 2017 and have left it mostly as it is now and it still serves me well. It has an RTX 2070 turbo and i7 7700k. I've been tempted to get the new RX 7900 and the Ryzen 7 5800x3d. I was looking at that CPU because I just bought new ddr4 RAM and didn't want to have to buy ddr5 if I did upgrade to an am5 board. Plus, all those upgrades would be relatively cheap, but be a significant upgrade to what I have. I really want to do it, but don't know if I want to spend the money.

Why do you want to upgrade

 

[Betonhaus]

I need people to talk me down. I'm really tempted to buy upgrades from my PC but I feel so weak. It started this week when I upgraded the RAM and replaced some of my hard drives with SSDs. I built my PC in 2017 and have left it mostly as it is now and it still serves me well. It has an RTX 2070 turbo and i7 7700k. I've been tempted to get the new RX 7900 and the Ryzen 7 5800x3d. I was looking at that CPU because I just bought new ddr4 RAM and didn't want to have to buy ddr5 if I did upgrade to an am5 board. Plus, all those upgrades would be relatively cheap, but be a significant upgrade to what I have. I really want to do it, but don't know if I want to spend the money.

How much can you save by selling your old hardware, and how much will the new hardware affect your daily usage now and in the future?

...swapped my router for an older trusted model and so far I had one internet cutout. I'll be annoyed if all that moving around didn't fix things. When I'm working I'll probably get a real router closer to what was advised here as I see the logic of a wired only router and using access points.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

The biggest issue with UniFi is that all of their shit is cloud based, and unless you go out of your way to host your own controller and rebind the devices to that, or you cut the functionality by switching to standalone mode, you're running your shit on Ubiquiti's servers, and they already had breaches in the past. That's the number 1 turnoff for me when it comes to them.

Open Console Settings and untick Remote Access and voila! Cloud shit is disabled. Those screens are from my Dream Router.

Am I confused or did they make cache larger on RDNA2 (Or am I thinking the X3D CPUs again)?

There's 3D V-Cache on the X3D CPUs which is the extra L3 cache. There's also Infinity Cache which is the extra cache on RDNA2/3.

 

[Kit Marz]

Why do you want to upgrade

My PC is starting to show it's age, its 7 years old at this point. It works, but even with the new SSDs and RAM slow down is noticeable. I truthfully could wait another year or two.

How much can you save by selling your old hardware, and how much will the new hardware affect your daily usage now and in the future?

I know I can get $150 at least for my GPU, I don't know how much I could get for the motherboard and CPU. As for daily usage, it would help get better visuals and framerates on my games. There is slowdown on some more recent games, but the older ones I have still run fine. I've never been one to get obsessed over ray tracing or high framerates, but consistent framerates would be nice.

 

[The Ugly One]

There is slowdown on some more recent games, but the older ones I have still run fine. I've never been one to get obsessed over ray tracing or high framerates, but consistent framerates would be nice.

Have you tried running with DLSS2 on? My laptop GPU is significantly less powerful than a 2070, and I rarely see slowdown.

 

[Kit Marz]

Have you tried running with DLSS2 on? My laptop GPU is significantly less powerful than a 2070, and I rarely see slowdown.

I haven't! I'll have to try it!

 

[The Ugly One]

The other big killer is SSAO. It's an expensive technique that provides only a marginal improvement in image quality. I turn that off in just about any newer game that has it.

 

[BPD Gunt Rider]

My PC is starting to show it's age, its 7 years old at this point. It works, but even with the new SSDs and RAM slow down is noticeable. I truthfully could wait another year or two.

I know I can get $150 at least for my GPU, I don't know how much I could get for the motherboard and CPU. As for daily usage, it would help get better visuals and framerates on my games. There is slowdown on some more recent games, but the older ones I have still run fine. I've never been one to get obsessed over ray tracing or high framerates, but consistent framerates would be nice.

7700k is the bottleneck for newer games. Plus it sucks up power compared to newer CPUs. That's nearing the end of its shelf life.

2070 is still a good GPU, though. Even into the 1440p range. If you're mostly playing older games, 7900 is an expensive upgrade.

 

[The Ugly One]

7700k is the bottleneck for newer games. Plus it sucks up power compared to newer CPUs. That's nearing the end of its shelf life.

2070 is still a good GPU, though. Even into the 1440p range. If you're mostly playing older games, 7900 is an expensive upgrade.

@Kit Marz there is a trivially easy way to tell if your CPU is the bottleneck - drop the resolution and turn off most of the fancy graphics stuff. If your frame rate problem don't go away, your CPU is the problem. If they get better, it's fine.