re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

Yep. nVidia does some really stupid shtt in terms of PR.

The whole thing is ridiculous.

No issues after installing it on my desktop and my laptop.

I'm sure you understand all of it, Mr. Objective.

I just wanna say I really benefited from the GPP to buy an AMD card because Asus was trying to get rid of all their AMD ROG cards on the cheap.

I got a rx 570 from microcenter for $249 with rebate when every other 570 is at least $300 and most are $350.


Of course looking back on it I fricked up because RX 580's are only $10 more than a 570 at the Marietta store


Wish I had researched that. Oh well. Still a good deal.

I remember 2 years ago I bought a Sapphire R9 380 4GB card for $175 after rebate, and I bought 16 GB DDR4 of HyperX for $65

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Schiit Vali 2

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For plain music purposes, nice. For gaming, yuck.

When I go back to dedicated cans and mic I'm going to get the stack

Yeah I use tubes. Enjoy the life it injects back into the sound.

Welcome to 2013 UH.

Edt: how are those cans?

It's what I've used for the last couple of years, it was great for my old 598's. Was a big improvement over onboard sound from both my MSI Gaming M7 Z170 and current Asus Rog Strix Z370.

For anyone who has 1GBps service but want higher than 40MBs downloads. I recently moved back home and switched my home service from 150MBps to 1GBps just to see how much was being wasted. Well look into cacheing. The bottleneck is the controller as you all probably know. Little write up of how to set up a cache for Steam. Anyone who already uses FreeNAS will be very familiar with this process.

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A few years ago, we were fortunate enough to get a fiber internet connection installed at the PC Perspective office. Capable of 1Gbps download speeds and about 250Mbps upload, we were excited at the possibilities that laid ahead.

However, when you have access to a very fast internet connection, you begin to notice that the bottleneck has shifted from your connection to the servers on the other side of the content delivery networks (CDNs) that power the internet. While these CDNs have very fast links to the internet, they generally limit bandwidth so that there is more speed to go around to multiple people at the same time.
One of the services that we found would max out our connection was Steam. Since we download a lot of PC games at the office, it was a nice benefit to have an internet connection as fast as our NICs could handle, and that the Steam CDNs would serve us at our maximum potential. In fact, the bottleneck shifted over to storage performance, as the random writing nature of Steam thrashed our SSDs at the time.

Unfortunately, this has ceased to remain the case. At some point, Steam downloads started getting slower on our same internet connection. Not only did storage utilization during a Steam download start to increase, but also CPU usage, pointing to a potential change in how Steam distributed their data. While downloads on our high-end systems fell to around 50-60MB/s, systems with less CPU horsepower started to see speeds fall to 20-30MB/s. All hope was lost for fast game downloads.. or was it?

Recently, Wendell from Level1Techs mentioned on Twitter that they were running a local Steam caching server on their network with great success. After some guidance from Wendell, we decided to tackle this project and see if it would help our specific scenario.

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This next statement in the article is something I talk about all the time. IMO is one of the biggest things you can do for improving network responsiveness. I block all ads not by using an ad blocker but by blocking the addresses which ads are pulled. This shortens access time and provides a quicker reply to my router. I use PiHole on a Raspberry Pi 3 B Plus.

Look into PiHole here

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Second, you need to be running the steamcache-dns container to redirect the DNS requests to your local server. This requires your computer sending all of it's DNS requests through to Docker container. This can be configured either by changing the local DNS server configuration on your computers or by changing the DNS server configuration in your router. Running a local DNS server will provide additional speed benefits to activities such as web browsing since your computer no longer needs to make a request to an external DNS server for every possible HTTP request. This means a lower access time for all HTTP requests.

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PCPer - Building a Steam Caching Server

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