When Valve introduced its Steam Machine cube gaming console/PC, the gaming community began questioning the hardware choices and Valve's performance claims. However, a Valve engineer stated that the Steam Machine is more powerful than 70% of gaming PCs on the market, based on Steam Survey data. It fe...
Well, if you are adding my 15yo Core2Quad in the percentage, of course those numbers come easy.
54% of all steam users have 16GB RAM or less. 66% has 8GB VRAM or less. 80% of players have 8core CPU or less. 70% of people have a CPU with a 2.3 Ghz to 2.69 Ghz core or less.
70% is not so hard to beat.
I wish dual CPU motherboards were mainstream.
I could then use the one I am keeping aside, during compilation/encoding tasks.
But my current computer definitely come above on everything other then the VRAM.
That’s not how you compile fast. I mean they exist but better buy a second PC for the price. Or optimise your project, or get a build cache.
What about a virtual machine with half of the CPU’s assigned?
Yeah, I get it.
But what if most motherboards were just expected to have 2 slots, you know?
Of course I won’t be switching to Threadripper just for getting 2 CPUs on a single motherboard and have kept the other CPU lying around, thinking of using it for keeping all the storage HDDs, and maybe offloading all re-encoding stuff onto it.
For compilation though, I’m fine with just using my main PC, although I did look into distributed computing options, specially when using my laptop, I think I’m fine for now.
It’s more like a fleeting though that came to me a few times, when I felt like playing a game while reencoding, but was unable to properly set the CPU usage for the encoders in ffmpeg.
Time to get a little homelab :-) ! Like it can encode stuff for days without getting in the way and keep those drives accessible. Nowadays any tiny pc comes with an ethernet port so usually its just plug & play too.
I was looking more towards something that can use my spare CPU and have enough SATA ports to last a long time.
And while USB to SATA is expected to be inherently unreliable, all PCIe SATA devices I see seem to be problematic in their own right[1] (from the reviews). The only one that seemed fine was the PCIe SCSI device, for which, I would be very careful, making sure I don’t get a fake.
Then the available motherboards having >6 SATA ports seem to all be high end ones, which doesn’t make sense considering I am trying to save some money.
doesn’t make sense to have a SATA adapter that goes around corrupting the data in a way that it is hard to detect ↩︎
What’s the spare CPU?
Maybe an old mobo with 6 sata can be found for cheap.
I totally agree with the sata (or raid) cards.
The spare one is a 5600X which was previously in the same motherboard before I switched to a 5800X.
I am considering getting a B550 motherboard once I have the funds, but the number of SATA ports is kinda low. My current one is X570 with 6 ports.
I am not planning on RAID for now, as I don’t really plan on ever having enough for redundancy, but I definitely want to be able to use the system for any and every task I can program to control via a local SSH. So definitely going with a full distro, like Debian or sth, and not a NAS specific thingy.
I can even make use of my old Radeon 4650 for a display while setting it up.
E8400 for the win! Q6600 is soo out!
There’s also a Q8400 btw.
That’s what is lying around now the the motherboard is not working.