I suggest that this community should consider bringing in the “Daily Simple Questions” threads. They were fun to participate and build community. Perhaps make the threads weekly, instead of daily as the community continues to grow with Redfugees.
Don’t worry about the reputation / !check system, though. Upvotes for good advice is sufficient, IMO.
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Maybe a weekly thread?
In the context of PC gaming, what would be considered a simple question?
The subreddit’s DSQ threads were mostly things like pcpartpicker lists for feedback, or basic tech support requests like.
Kept everything contained to that thread. There were some dedicated folks who consistently answered; Luminaria, MGsubbie, any of you folks here along with me?
How to pick a PSU? 80+ isn’t as reliable. Think, I should rely on Cybernetics and find reviews about noise and stuffs, but most of the review site only review big PSU like 750 - 1000w, which is overkill for me.
There used to be a PSU tier list thread on the LTT forums that people referred to a lot. Last I checked, it hadn’t been updated in a while, but might be a good place to start, regardless.
Found PSU cultist. They keep updating their tier list and publishing articles. Tom’s hardware also review PSUs in depth.
What are your specs?
CPU: R5 5600g GPU: GTX 1070ti SSDs:
- 512 GB
- 1TB HDD: 1TB
Newegg PSU calculated 500-599 watts, but I think pushing for something like 750+ for head way of upgrading would be nice.
Just ordered a Corsair RM 850. Found it cheaper than some other 750 watts PSUs in my country.
Corsair is a great choice. You’ll have plenty of head room, especially since their PSUs are known to handle higher loads than what they’re rated for
So does anyone use https://chocolatey.org/ to download?
I haven’t yet, but had gone there to check the sha256 of some files to verify downloads from sites.
I used to, but with the official Microsoft app installer (Winget) I haven’t had the need lately (nor have I bothered with ninite, lately).
Winget search …
Winget install …E.g.,
winget search steam
[Shows results]
winget install valve.steam
Tip: Toss in a -i to get interactive (as opposed to silent) installer. Good for when you want to, say, install Steam on different drive.
First time hearing it. Thanks for the heads up.
I plan on upgrading my server PC to a modern gen Intel chip. Along with that, I plan on switching to a Linux distro (probably debian).
I have a large hard drive formatted in NTFS. Will it mount okay or will it be an issue when I switch to Linux?
What kinda server? If you’re just slinging files, you don’t need much horsepower on your CPU – I’m using an SBC and a Debian derivative made specifically for that, OpenMediaVault. NTFS mounts okay for reading; writing isn’t recommended to NTFS due to file permissions.
It’ll be general purpose. Mostly Plex but I also host game servers and a bunch of other docker containers on it. I want a good CPU to handle whatever I throw at it.
Yeah you’d likely want a stronger CPU. As an aside, check out Jellyfish as an alternative to Plex, I prefer it.
As for the NTFS issue, I’d likely suggest just going ext4 as the FS on your server. You can mount it in Windows using a roundabout method through WSL2, should you ever need to.
I’ll probably run both Jellyfin and Plex since a of my friends and family are already on Plex.
I’ll eventually move to a proper RAID setup - probably RAID5 - so I’ll just do a full rebuild with drives included.
