Buying the jbl tune 120 tws tomorrow for 60€.

Good or bad deal?

any plex users here ?

what settings do I use to get the best quality

what settings

I mean for video quality there is literally a setting that has maximum quality <:thinkturt:498925089224654859>

So I guess just go with your gut?

If you need to transcode then I suppose select high quality, unless your server is weak

idk how plex works exactly because I stopped using it long ago in favor of jellyfin

but the settings that matter are on the client

the first one is only used as a default for external (outside LAN) connections

the second one is usually not even used because you want to stream original files

IIRC the transcoding is used in case for whatever reason the client device can't play the original format too

_Which shouldn't ever really happen these days lel_

that's why i said the settings that matter are on the client

there's 9900 xeon versions on tao right now, e2278g and e2288g, both turboboost to 5ghz.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amd-unveils-worlds-most-powerful-desktop-cpus/

NOOO INTEL BROS

at what point do you cross from the threadripper environment into milan/eypc idgi

2S+ / higher than 32 core requirements

are modern games really sufficently parallelized to see benefit from this many cores? what about desktop performance? last time I saw real benefit for desktop/development use was when I switched to SSDs. It's always nice to have files decompress faster, and intense encoding and the like go faster (but sometimes these things only run on one processor), but it doesn't compare to the bang-for-buck I got from going from HDD to SSD...

games are not this heavily parallelized. but depending on what you do with your desktop, definitely.

these processors are targeted at 3d modelers (3ds max, blender), video editors (premiere, resolve, vegas) and developers whose workloads are sufficiently multithreaded to take advantage of the chip's pure horsepower

i can't talk for the other workloads but premiere's newer releases take advantage of as many cores as you can feed it during video encode and render

Imagine a game engine that feeds on as many cores as it can get

<:woah:333623269674713098>

I am not so sure how much it might change the game

also you get huge benefits if your run any kind of virtual enviroment specialy in cases where all your homes pcs get served and processed in single homeserver(s)

and ofc CAD and Fluidsims benefit a lot from the extra parallelization (and beef behind that)

Mini pcie for WiFi on x99 <:pepesmug:589101277879992339>

what is the pepe part

that's quite normal

especially on older shit like x99

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15084/sharp-nhk-develop-rollable-30inch-4kp60-oled-screen-100-grams-5-mm

100 grams

huh

those are always neat news

but i always wonder what they sacrifice in process

head dissipation ? lifetime ? brightness ? color gammut ?