Off-Topic Thread V3.0

A few of us have servers. There is actually a 'Servers and Systems' forum under computers and tech here, but it's not the most active.

Any enterprise server (R710s in particular), are going to be loud. Quite a bit louder than you're used to. You'll get people on forums saying you can change fan curves to make them quieter - and you can - but they'll never be "quiet". I built a 2U server a while ago, and even swapping fans to Noctuas, it's still pretty obnoxious. Think very low speed hairdryer.

For some things to google: I'm running a 4U server as my main, built around a 3900X, 64GB RAM, and an X470D4U mobo, running unRAID. There are a few VMs there running game servers, test environments and the like, and a bunch of Docker containers - MineOS, Radarr, Sonarr, Netdata, Bookstack, Docuwiki, Nexcloud, Unifi, Jellyfin, etc.

I also have that secondary 2U box. That was supposed to be a testbed for an ESXi cluster, but I can't seem to get it stable. Something to do with the NIC drivers, on the "hosts" I think.

I used to run custom desktop systems and used them as servers, they were generally a little less reliable for my liking.
I moved over to building custom servers.
I've 4 2u esxi servers. They run dual 5660's with 256gb ram each. Being custom they have custom coolers so are whisper quiet.

I've also recently purchased an R620 (1u) to see if its worth the upgrade. Its running 2 quad cores at the moment and 64gb ram. I've just added 10gb nics to it today and I'm looking to add two 2660v2's (10core cpus) and 768gb ram to it. This one when running cold is quiet but if it doesn't get enough air it sounds like a hairdryer on low like Serephecus said.
If your looking for old servers, I wouldn't get them on adverts as they are well overpriced. I would pick them up from ebay or reddit.
With cpu feature support, I wouldn't get below a r620/r720 though nowadays. You would get a 720 for less on ebay than a 710 on adverts I'm guessing.

At a glance the title card of the video looked like "FU*K STICK"

Not sure I'd use such a thing though. There's pretty much only 2 PC games I even use a controller with; Tekken 7 & Devil May Cry. I'd certainly not use a gamepad for FPS. What's the target audience? Just people who play everything with gamepads and want better design?

Just tried it with my adblocker off in 2 different browsers and same thing with no results.

Shouldn't be a problem

If your parcel does not fit in the Parcel Motel, we will notify you and make alternative arrangements. Please scroll down for full details of our charges or click here to calculate the cost for your oversized/overweight parcel.

https://parcelmotel.com/prices/
https://parcelmotel.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115003494669-Parcel-Motel-XL-Depots-Opening-Hours-

Sheesh. What business is it of theirs where it goes or what happens to it after it's delivered and why on Earth would they hurt their bottom line like that? Talk about annoying.

Not at all. In that range you'd be talking Ryzen 3600 + GTX1660 Super class machine.

JoyPad wrote: »

It is their business to abide by the law. In this case, shipping outside of UK means collecting the VAT for the country

Parcel Motel has a UK parcel point which is where you get your items delivered. So it's not shipping outside the UK.

TitianGerm wrote: »

I was actually looking at it myself this morning. Seems a lot of monitor for €440ish

Similar specs and price to the one I got but with a little more it seems.

I think this is what customers go for now. Something between 300-500 that can do 1440p and high Hz if they're gamers. The stands are usually bad on these things, one of the ways they keep the costs down. I know mine was. So I suggest a monitor arm with em'.

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

If you know that your customer is not in the UK and using a shipping service to redirect the package out of country, most will err on the side of caution as it wouldn't be worth it to them to get tangled in a court case with a foreign country.

Which makes me wonder, does Amazon charge Irish vat if you use a shipping service?

I just had an order shipped to the UK parcel motel address (by mistake) instead of my home one. Here's the price breakdown



Even though the invoice is for my home address I think this is the UK VAT. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm reluctant to spend more on a monitor when it seems that all price brackets have the same QC issues

I actually thought there was something wrong with mine when I first got it. Some kinda of flickering that others were reporting too. I just used a newer display port cable

If it was posted to a UK address I could easily see them applying UK VAT.

When I've bought from Amazon the price goes up slightly for irish VAT at checkout when sent to an Irish address iirc.

The VAT system is a mess,isn't that why the German companies stopped shipping here?

EoinHef wrote: »

If it was posted to a UK address I could easily see them applying UK VAT.

When I've bought from Amazon the price goes up slightly for irish VAT at checkout when sent to an Irish address iirc.

The VAT system is a mess,isn't that why the German companies stopped shipping here?

Its not really. Small sellers can apply local (sender side) VAT. Anyone doing over €35,000 pa has to pay Irish VAT. That means all big etailers pay Irish VAT rates.

If you buy a helmet you'll see a large delta as its 0% in the UK but full whack here.