[Dave Rice]

A lot of the reason overclocking isn’t as popular any more is it’s not really needed.

Off the shelf CPU power is more than enough for what most people do.

If you have workloads that need more threads than an i7 then there’s the Xeons.

The Xeon E5-2699A v4 has 22 cores with HTT so it can handle 44 threads and burst up to 3.6Ghz.

These days it’s all about saving power so you can put more processing into smaller form factors and last longer on a battery.

[Dave Rice]

It’ll do that easily.

Just realised the first one was wireless and the F19803P isn’t.

It’s just a matter of bring the Ethernet cable back the network and power supply.

If you need cable let me know.

[Dave Rice]

Most of my family get on fine with their 4.5″ Moto Es but I see the new version E3 with 4G is now a 5″.

Heck of a lot of phone for £8.50 a month with 250 mins 500GB from Tesco mobile or £80 sim free on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/jkybawq

[Dave Rice]

First the kit it’s analogue – nothing wrong with that per se. The reolution is “better than 720P” but the lens will awful.

This is the sort of kit that comes with generic chinglish software with backdoors etc.

They will probably do all you want though and at 5 metres will be OK.

The Foscam is a step up and you can get the newer version for £62 here http://tinyurl.com/jvcz2od

I would probably go for the Foscam FI9803P http://tinyurl.com/zch6o28 as it has the IR separate from the viewing lens. EDIT – this one isn’t wireless b ut they are available IIRC.

I don’t know what you intend to record on, but if you have a Synology you could use that.

If you went for the Foscam FI9853EP http://tinyurl.com/gtv2yqe it has a built in SD card slot so it can do it’s own recordings, but it’s not wireless.

“Not wireless” just means bringing the ethernet cable back to the network as well as a power supply.

[Dave Rice]

I like my G4 better than the 1&1 (now with my daughter) and that’s down to the screen.

I don’t really miss NFC as I have a card that does that just as well.

The battery seems to last forever too.

[Dave Rice]

It’s all benchmark willy waving really.

It’s so cheap these days I pay more notice of the compatibility list and just get something above the basic that’s on it.

[Dave Rice]

It was the first version of pong, not on a 2600.

We had one.

[Dave Rice]

Yes, typically 2 x USB2 (so 4 ports) and 1 x USB 3 (so 2 ports).

[Dave Rice]

The ports have a totally different header so the existing cable won’t do it.

You can get a cable for USB3 header to USB 2 ports quite easily, or just get a USB 3 front panel to fit in a drive bay.

[Dave Rice]

Not an answer to your question as I don’t use Libre Draw.

I use Google Drawings to do the same thing. If you don’t get the answer give it a go.

[Dave Rice]

Sometimes you have to move on to get on.

If your current boss is sidelining you he isn’t going to stop unless you get on his back.

[Dave Rice]

Z170 or Z270 I beleive.

But my i3 boots in ~15 seconds and it’s nothing expensive.

[Dave Rice]

You’ll be amazed whichever way you go.

I still have x3 and x4 PCs about as they are still usable, especially with an SSD.

But even a £50 Pentium dual core blows them away in every day tasks.

An i5 rips them to shreds for multi threaded jobs. You’ll really notice the difference when rendering.

[Dave Rice]

Yes, make sure you tick the Clean System Files button.

[Dave Rice]

A good idea but manual work is half the point of it and it needs to be simple.

Let’s say the synching breaks down, they need to be able to fix it and this is heavily locked down.

There is no remote access for me to just jump on and sort things out.

[Dave Rice]

The TVs don’t have aerials and the distribution system is locked away in the loft.

Park outside in a car with a portable analogue TV transmitter :whistle:  Not suspicious at all. No way the CCTV camera operators would think to check that out  😉

They don’t supply analogue TV for any other reason than it’s just what they have. An ancient system.

[Dave Rice]

It’s to provide a “TV Channel” for the prisons own content.

We’re talking the sort of things you’d find on a notice board turned into PowerPoint then decks of slides or MP4s that can be put into playlist in VLC. Not talking heads.

Each residential block has it’s own analogue TV distribution system (to ancient small analogue CRT TVs). So we put a PC there that has it’s video output ultimately modulated into a TV channel. The PC just runs VLC and a VNC client for remote access.

A central PC is used to create the content. Usually Powerpoint as it’s easy to use and with 2016 you can directly create MP4s. Older PP we save to a deck of jpgs and then use Windows movie maker to turn them into an MP4 with transition effects.

A wireless network links them all up and we use VNC to copy content to the distribution PCs and control VLC. That way each block can run it’s own content and there’s no single point of failure as there would be if we’d gone down the streaming route.

The maximum resolution is 1024 x 768 and the quality of the TVs is awful, so it’s big and bold.

Everything is run by the prisoners – heavily supervised of course. The PC is locked away so that there’s no way to get a USB into it.

[Dave Rice]

I see what you mean, or rather I didn’t see so googled it.

https://www.radiolaguy.com/info/tv.htm reckons you need channel 3 or 4 and that one starts at 21.

If you can’t get out of it and don’t have a use for it I’ll have it off you.

Now doing my second project of this type (it’s to do with prison TV) so hopefully there’s a good chance there will be more.

[Dave Rice]

What are you trying to do with it?

I use something similar to get PC output into a distributed TV system.

PC – VGA to S video converter – S video to coax modulator – distributed TV board (could be an individual PC).

[Dave Rice]

Given AMDs track record of crying wolf I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Early adoption also means you pay a premium.

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