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    Time for an upgrade

    in Hardware

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    8 minutes ago, bdee1 said:

    Hmm that's interesting.  Would love to get off that cheaply.  I currently have 2gb of ram and my server keeps crashing because of out of memory issues.

     

    my thought was that I would like to get up to at least 8 gb, as it seem like I could get by with 4gb but would like like to have a little bit of future proofing....

     

     

     

    You have a few options available to you.

     

    RAM:

    1. Upgrade to 4GB. Do you currently have 1x2GB or 2x1GB of RAM? Getting a used 2GB stick is quite inexpensive. Heck, I've got one lying here ;) 

    2. Install a swapfile plugin to use the cache disk as a swap file location. Might let you get away with 2GB.... i've not tried this myself.

     

    CPU:

    1. Upgrade to a higher end LGA775 CPU.

    2. Upgrade to a new setup.

     

    I'd bet you can get a Q9650 and 2GB more ram for under $100.

    Time for an upgrade

    in Hardware

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    1 minute ago, bdee1 said:

     I believe my motherboard will only take up to 4gb of ram so I was hoping to update the motherboard too and get a decent amount of ram along with the CPU upgrade.

     

    None of the dockers you want to use will greatly benefit from more ram. Plex is the most demanding, and it wants CPU and more CPU. Your choice, but you can get a 4,200 passmark Core2Quad Q9650 for under $75.

     

    tDallen is using one even, and his server uses seem to match yours closely.

    Anybody planning a Ryzen build?

    in Motherboards and CPUs

    Posted

    Honestly, It's a little disappointing in the pricing, at least up here in Canada. Their cheapest offering is $432CAD, just not going to cut it when an i5 can be had for under $300. YES, I know the 1700 will trounce an i5, but most of that performance is gravy at this pricing level.

     

    I'm also not sold on how effective these will be for VM's. Sure, they have 8 cores / 16 threads, but a quad core intel (4 core / 8 thread) is just a little bit behind in terms of performance... this translates into the intel having a PER CORE advantage since the Ryzen needs double to barely beat it...

     

    They need to release some more mainstream parts, and fast if they are after market share.

    First Build

    in Hardware

    Posted

    12 hours ago, tdallen said:

    Over time you may find that the functions you are running in Windows become available as Dockers anyway.

     

    +1 for sure!  When unRAID was v 4.7 I had the server and a separate 'apps' server. Now I have it all combined into one system (plus Plex Media Server & Plex Media Player). I've been able to reduce 3 systems into 1 without much cost or effort.

    Hello IPS! Forum Migration Complete!

    in Forum Feedback

    Posted

    1 minute ago, jonp said:

    It's not a coincidence either (Linus suggestion led us down this path to begin with).  That said, Luke over at LMG has modified their IPS installation quite a bit.  It is very custom now, so not sure how much they'd be able to help nor do I bet they have the time.  Those guys are crazy busy all the time.  Plus I'd argue they've helped us out quite a bit too ;-)

    I'm sure if you give him a special licence to support this petabyte project he'd bite :) lol

    Best HTPC software ?

    in Lounge

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, jbrodriguez said:

    Thanks to all for the comments.

    I looked at Plex, but Plex Server doesn't support ISOs nor BDMV folders, of which I have many.

    I'll check Kodi next.

    If you dont need to retain menus you could just remux the ISO's.

    Hello IPS! Forum Migration Complete!

    in Forum Feedback

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, jonp said:

    Hi Autumn!  Perhaps you could be our designated expert and help us with a few things while we get used to the new system?  I also have some more pointed questions that you may be able to answer.  Mind if I PM you for some Q&A?

    Maybe Linus could help you out, his forum uses the same software and god knows you've done him a solid or 20.

    Hello IPS! Forum Migration Complete!

    in Forum Feedback

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, jonp said:

    Ok, I'm not sure what custom setting you added to the standard "Unread Content" activity stream.  Can you take a quick snippet of what you changed and share so I can recreate?

    As far as the default stream appearing at the bottom, I agree, this is a bad place for it given how useful of a feature it is.  I'll see if there's a way we can move that into the top menu bar.

    As far as the login showing without having to click it, that might be a bit trickier.  Is that really a big deal?  Just for mobile or for desktop as well?

    What I did was create my custom activity stream, navigate to it and then copy the URL and add it as a favourite in the favourites bar. Mine ends up as "https://forums.lime-technology.com/discover/20/"