PC Tech Thread

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https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cws8BL

semi troll post for @ectoplasmosis with that many not that good, expensive nvmes

Also would probably just stick with 3090 until 50 series out (along with current ram/psu/cooler etc), so more like this list:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Bjr3dH

Mobo is great (as far as consumer boards go).

Still don’t understand the rationale behind speccing those SSDs tho…

New monitor first captain 1080.

I'm always going to want to play games more than actually do work so won't be going down the threadripper route any time soon.

Meaning if I went with that mobo, I'd prefer to use the four M2 slots rather than pcie things for an easier built / moar space inside?

Am assuming enough lanes on that mobo to get four m2 + a 5090 next year playing well together.

4 ssds because I kind of like the idea of making a raid out of them but as I typed that I realised it's not possible without another drive to act as OS for a softraid option?

So maybe just 2 drives in the m2 slots, 2 empty and then somewhere else in the case stick a stack of those data centre SSDs you mentioned the other week and build a raid somehow?

Looks like you can get 8 x 2.5" stuck in there:

But maybe something like this is more appropriate plus a single 8tb in an m2 slot:

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-hyper-m2-x16-gen5-card-pcie-50-40-4x-m2-pcie-2242-60-80-110-slots-upto-512gbps-supports-pcie-50

End goal is:

very fast gaming and resolve/after effects PC with tons (8tb+8tb+maybe another of 32tb raid) fast (quieter than my external spinning raid) internal storage. raid in 6 or 10 (probably 6 for high read performance).

suck a fuck m9

Lane quantity is dictated by the CPU, not the mobo.

For 4x 4-lane SSDs and a 16-lane GPU, you’d need 32x lanes direct from CPU (chipset lanes are hobbled by the limited chipset-CPU bandwidth). Consumer CPUs don’t come close to supporting such a setup without crippling performance.

In this case, there is no point in multiple drives; just get one or two larger-capacity ones, ideally not consumer-grade.

Why not just get one hench M.2-110 enterprise drive and stick it in the 110-length-capable slot? If it’s PCIe5.0 you’ll get ~14GB/s read/write.

Why u no Threadripper? You’re literally the target market for it.

You could get a previous-gen (3rd Gen) CPU & mobo for relatively cheap, then have cores, lanes, slots and memory channels oozing out ur eyeballs.

Also, I really wouldn’t bother with NVME RAID; you won’t gain any meaningful performance over a single drive in Windows unless you implement something exotic like G-Raid or running Xinnor in a VM (both £££ and far from plug & play).

If I were you, a single large-capacity PCIe5.0 enterprise drive in U.2/3 form factor with a cheap passive adapter to one of your Gen5 M.2 slots is what I’d get.

because I'm 5000 hours into PUBG and a threadripper system will, by accounts of others on reddit who have tried to, make it feel worse than the old days when I used a 2015 iMac in bootcamp to play.

Why not just get one hench M.2-110 enterprise drive and stick it in the 110-length-capable slot? If it’s PCIe5.0 you’ll get ~14GB/s read/write.

That could be a winner.

Makes no sense. In what way would it ‘feel worse’?

Have seen countless reddit threads of them giving terrible performance (often attributed by people responding as being down to PUBG being developed by imbeciles and not optimised for multithread).

edit: have now seen a few where they've got it going a lot better than 3 or 4 years ago when I last looked - but still variable framerates which for playing something competitive isn't ideal.

edit 2: found a video at last:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKdyLFDVZeU

But it's an old af cpu.

Have seen more recent ones using 5965wx comparing different more recent games and looks a lot more promising - not pubg specific.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mpaPgciAI

Another video shows a 7950x3d (3d being the one optimised for gaming right?) vs a 5995wx and the threadripper got consistently lower frames (about 140 vs 200 - that's quite a drop tbh and the increase to my work efficiency through faster playback on timelines / faster renders etc would have to be extraordinary to give up those frames).

This kind of stuff used to be a problem with older Zen Gen 1/2 based TRs and older Windows versions with shit thread schedulers. Hasn’t been an issue for ages.

I’m willing to bet all those Reddit threads feature the above combo, and are from 1+ years ago.

ffs... ok. do I really have to spend more time on pcpartspicker? I'll do it at the weekend when I'm not supposed to be packing for a shoot in the morning and instead have spent about 5 hours configuring stupid combinations.

If I were you, I’d seek advice on Reddit or whatever about the current state of PUBG/TR/modern-Win11/3090 combo performance.

Like I say, Windows thread scheduler issues with older Zen architectures are a distant memory, but better safe than sorry.

@CYOA just build a separate work machine and a get KVM

You're a KVM.

KOOL VECTOR MAN

Have decided I'm not getting a threadripper. Prob only want to spend 2k tops upgrading bits this year. I'll upgrade mobo to that proart one, new cpu - maybe 8950x this summer?

Then maybe a 5090 next year.

Would consider looking into under desk hanging storage this year, as nice as the proart case is. Or maybe even rack mounting in a 4u case but that may require a shelf upgrade. Not impossible.

Beware that most high-end consumer GPUs won't fit in 4U chassis. When building a couple of 4090-based 4U servers, I spent ages finding the smallest one, then had to modify it to fit. It also needed a custom angled 12VHPWR power adapter.

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Thanks, yep have read a couple of similar accounts but have seen some successes. Will prob enjoy the challenge/research.

https://www.mcprue.com/

Blimey! Been looking for a decent 5U chassis…

Is it real or vapourware?