PC Tech Thread

It's a blue port so it'll be 3.0 but it's more handy for time machine or something, for your purposes of fast ingest you want a NAS with dual in 10gig NICs and a cache or something.

Tbh, I'd go with Zen regardless as they are an excellent ISP. Even if you put the Fritz!box in modem mode. Really worth for just the good customer service.

for just the good customer service.

ok, I mean that will be a wonderful and refreshing change. Going to do a tiny bit more research but headed there at this rate.

That's the cooler I used for my SFF build, seems really good to me.

So much quieter than the stock one

Ordering computer batteries from Ali express, are there any shops to avoid?

I’m using them. Pretty rock solid.

I've just seen this, it's exactly what I've been looking for -Thank you!

I can also recommend EarTrumpet alongside it to easily adjust audio outputs. It's off topic but i've also been using the following for a while and would recommend them too:

Fan Control V181 - Very easy to use customizable fan setup software (free)
PBOTuner2 - Undervolting software. It's been a revelation for my 5800X3D (free)
ExitLag - Gaming specific VPN, aims to reduce ping basically. I've been using it to play Throne and Liberty on Korean servers, and it aint skipped a beat (£5 pcm)

(I'm sure they've been mentioned before, but just in case)

Anyone used Creative Pebble? Or similar? Looking for speakers that are smaller than my monitor speakers to wack on the laptop for turbo when I've moved it away from the TV, ie. loud enough to hear over the fan, quality less important

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Pebble-Minimalistic-AUX-Type/dp/B07VVP8BGD/

How long can a USB C cable be (for data)? The first couple of hits seem to suggest very short, a metre or two max.

Short without power, if it's powered then it can be whatever length, but £££ (IIRC there was an Apple one which was ~£100).

Edit: I believe "active" is the correct term

There is still a max limit to active USB which is about 30m for usb 2.0 and 20m for 3.0 hence why ethernet and fiber converter exist.
Also @aggi type C is just a plug, what matters is the USB standard, e.g. USB 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 etc etc etc

Just get an Bluetooth speaker, I have an Anker one which is fine. Has a battery, is small, can be used as a USB speaker, Bluetooth or via a 3.5mm jack.

get an Bluetooth speaker, I have an Anker one

Juice are good too, in my experience.

I didn't think about Anker but I like their other stuff so probs a good shout.

Micro USB... urgh

Come on Anker, what are you? Garmin?

They do a USB-C version, it's 2x price.

USB-C
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Minimalistic-Enhancement-Bluetooth-Converter/dp/B08F5BQZL8/

Cheers and @spotter

Yes, technically USB 3.2 I guess. Looks like I can get an active extension cable for £25 or so but, like all this stuff at the cheaper end of the scale, reviews are hit and miss.

Gave a look at ethernet extenders maybe cheaper as it's just the adapters without the cable.

Check their eBay /Amazon refurbished stores. The point of BT is that it's plug agnostic

You can't charge it over Bluetooth is more the point. I prefer to just mash USB-C in and have it make noise and/or charge rather than piss about pairing stuff and I now dislike micro-usb so I will actively avoid it in new stuff.

Fair enough, micro usb is a trash teir connection, but for what it's worth I very rarely have to change my speaker.
The new JBL clip may be type C

I'm really just looking for simplicity. Although a quick google didn't throw didn't throw up any USB 3.2 ethernet extenders (searching just tends to get USB ethernet hubs).

Don't suppose anyone's used Cloud Sync on their Synology NAS to backup to Dropbox? Seems quite a specific combination.

Since switching to Community Fibre and the massive upload speed it seemed like a good idea to take advantage of a cloud backup. Have 2TB on paid Dropbox subscription and 95% was free.

It's so fucking slow tho. By my reckoning 1Gb upload should be ~120MB/s minus a bit for network whatevers. I'm watching the resource monitor on the NAS and it's averaging less than 2MB/s. Seen some suggestion that uploading to Dropbox isn't simply a matter of copying files (and that many small files is slower etc.), but still can't believe it's not faster than this.

Resource monitor on the NAS also shows CPU and RAM use at 20 and 50% respectively, so pretty sure that's not a factor. At least in this state I can leave it running 24/7 without worrying about it affecting anything else.

Have done all sorts of testing with dropbox over the years with high volumes of data on different connections from different hardware and have come to the conclusion it's fucking dogshit and to be avoided at all costs if you actually want anything to happen quickly or easily.

Not sure it's as bad as that. I just uploaded a 500MB file in a few seconds, completely as expected.

Something very wrong with this cloud sync business tho.

Putting my fingers in my ears. Defanecdotally dropbox.