also I know this is the unofficial ITX fanclub but please practice selfcare, SFX power supplies are too fucking expensive right now, build ATX or mATX
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this post makes it sounds like you want to hear how I blew several hours of my day trying to make switchable graphics work under linux because Ryzen APUs support VP-9 and HVEC decode
short version: it worked until vulkan
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I spent enough time worrying about how to get this package building on a regular interval that I am pretty happy at this point to let edge have its status as technically the most feature rich and performant browser out there AUR (en) - chromium-vaapi
oh lord no
I feed urls into mpv or streamlink in the terminal
coincidentally, mpv doesn’t have hwdec on by default. that was fun to find out
hey it turns out I was invoking the wrong environment variable and now I got it all working
looking forward to revisiting this hell when I try to summon the unholy alliance of Mesa and Nvidia proprietary (acutally it should probably fine since Intel+Nvidia plays nice but who knows)
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hahaha tweetbot went subscription
yeah, but Twitter are holding API features to ransom; it’s a paid feature to have access to polls and such. you are, in effect, finally a subscriber to Twitter itself
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people still use twitter?
where else am I going to doomscroll
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They got rid of the NPR comments section and Tumblr so now totebag enthusiasts and independent pornographers are on the all-forum together
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Does anybody need a Surface Pen? From a Pro 4, should work on anything released from Pro 3 on iirc? And also maybe other Ntrig screens?
oh dang my two favorite bands playing the same show
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I’ve decided to migrate my music production to a PC. I just kind of slapped together this build bc I still don’t know what I’m doing. processor speed is apparently the most important thing for DAWs. ideally you need a decent balance of both single and multi core speed due to the different ways various plugins are engineered. I’ve read that nvidia cards can cause latency spikes for some reason so I just found the cheapest amd card. it will be a two monitor setup, one at 2560 x 1080 and the other 1920 x 1080. due to the version of pro tools I’m using I’m going to be stuck with windows 7, idk if that actually matters in terms of any of this hardware:
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/2psy/saved/#view=dj3wgs
is there anything notably wrong with this? any obvious ways to make it cheaper?
Looks fine enough to me. You could probably cut out the cooler though, and just use the one that comes with the CPU
also liquid cooling is a meme
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PSU might be too big for the case, CPU and GPU are pretty bad but the retail market is fucked up right now, I would try to get at least a Ryzen 3600 and a 1070 (idk about that latency thing), but secondhand – you’ll come in around where you are right now anyway if you look
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is that gpu insufficient for two sub 4k monitors? not going to be gaming or streaming or anything on this machine.
the water cooler is to reduce fan noise, but I really don’t understand how all that works and if it’s worth dealing with.
where should I look for used parts? everything on ebay for that processor (that’s buy it now at least) is basically the same as buying new, and the ones for bid aren’t much lower.
Water cooling also has fans. If your load is low (e.g. not gaming or streaming) your fans will most likely not even turn on. AFAIK the only people that go water cooling are the ones that want to cool hotter CPUS rather than cool less often.
Also, if you’re trying to go completely silent… you might as well get an M1 Macbook Air or Mac Mini.
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macs are not an option
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I suppose I can try it without the water cooler and add one later if it ends up being noisy, doesn’t need to be perfectly quiet, just want it to be as quiet as is reasonably possible.