Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "JayzTwoCents" channel.

  1.  @adamhearts9195  Unless you are joking, I'll explain, those little brass screws with threads on the top, those are the standoffs, and they are designed to hold the MB OFF the MB plate in your case, or you will likely short out the MB.
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  2. In July, there will be a 16G version, but at 128 bit bus though, Vs the 3060 that has 192bit bus at 12GB of VRAM.
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  3.  @jondonnelly3  Agree, 1440 looks quite good, though, 4K is a bit better, but not hugely better. Definitely way better than 1080 though! That's on YouTube videos however. That said, even on the Tubes, 4K isn't all that common, still material at 720, and 1080, let alone 1440.
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  4. Not a gamer, but am a content creator. So for me, it's been Intel, and am building a new PC based on Intel Core Ultra CPU and just today, picked up the Intel Alchemist A770, wanted B580 but they are so elusive at the moment. Only Micro Center has them, but not available online, gotta go into a store to get one, and I live in a state where they do not exist (yet). So the A770 it is for 4K video. Being that I multitask as this is also my main PC, I do research etc on it when not editing so it has 65GB of DDR5 memory. Since it's the new Core Ultra, it requires a MB that has the new socket (1851) and chipset (Z890) and DDR5 memory, which is 6400/CL 30. At one time, had considered the Ryzen 7 but ended up back with Intel. I run now a 7th gen i5 processor in a Dell SFF Optiplex and it does OK, not great in anything productivity wise.
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  5.  @lorenzozs  Hey! I run a 7th gen i5 SFF workstation from Dell and it has the GT 1030 in it, does alright but occasionally stutters in 4K when watching YT videos, (yes, have a 4K Dell monitor, bought last spring to replace a tired 1080 Dell monitor). Soon, when the rest of the stuff arrives, I'll be upgrading to a full upgrade build based on the 15th gen Core 7 Ultra.
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  6. I wished I knew... Even my low level system from 2017 with a GT 1030 plays 4K YT videos just fine.
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  7. Really, I don't give 2 shits for gaming but AM interested in content creation and being able to edit in 4K if I want so we need someone to look into that as well. I did see in the past week or so, a brief graphic showing that the B series cards from Intel didn't really shine as well for games, but did very well on content creation. The B580 does look promising and with 12GB of GDDR6 memory, should be more than fine for content creation of any type and not break the bank. I was hoping they'd do something akin tothe A770 as well, but we'll have to wait on that when they do release the Battlemage variant.
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  8.  @RyandBurtson  I know, a 2 year old comment, sadly, Fry's is gone and I SO miss it. Missed being able to just zip down to Renton to the Fry's location there and get what I need.
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  9. A very good video on keyboards, I agree. I discovered years ago the old model M buckling spring keyboard from IBM. The station I did my work study at had even in the mid 90's, used "vintage" IBM's, IE, either 286's, or the 8088 before that, running Word Perfect. Since then, have wanted to find a model M, but soldiered on with my first several PC's with the bog standard rubber dome models, some were way better than others. Packard Bell was one of the worse for me as the 386 I had, the stock keyboard was giggly, keys too close together etc and it took getting a first gen MS natural keyboard to learn how to touch type. When that keyboard finally died in the early 2000's, I went back to the standard Qwerty keyboards and have not looked back. Been watching, off and on Keychron with his "obsession" with keyboards and discovered the various types of mechanical, magnetic, and optical key switches, and learning about how the rubber dome is constructed, I landed on either the Buckling spring or Cherry MX keyswitches. Today, I run a rather affordable Aukey mechanical, using Chinese clone Cherry MX blues. This keyboard is surprisingly durable, but noisy (and I like that) as it has a LOUD clicky, clacky sound, again, prefer that to silent. It's tactile, like buckling spring, has good weight for touch typing and for a fella that is tactile oriented, it's perfect. Yes, I am like Phil, I bottom out my keys when I type (yes, heavy handed). At the moment, one keyswitch does not light up at all, the rest continue to, though in other colors outside of red, some don't show the same color. Red is the only color that shows on all keys, though the /? keyswitch no longer lights at all. This is due to liquids (twice) have fallen on it, been cleaned once and then contact cleaner used on each key, key caps pulled and scrubbed/washed and the top, aluminum place scrubbed, sadly, not hot swappable but the cleaning did restore an almost new like appearance to it. HOWEVER, the key caps are crappy. They look premium, but are slick and NOT double shot, the F12 key cap is now badly scratched due to the keyboard tray that runs off the center rail. If I don't lower the tray enough, the F12 key cap hits the rail. When I get another keyboard, it'll be the full 108 Key, similar in profile to this one, but preferably hot swappable instead.
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  10. Dang, just got my motherboard and CPU yesterday via Amazon but even the Sparkle is out of stock, so is Acer, AsRock on NewEgg. Many of the A series are also disappearing, most especially the A770. Gunnir is trying to get AT LEAST 350 for the B580, those are in stock, AsRock, Acer, Intel and Sparkle are within 20 bucks or so of each other, all out of stock at the moment.😒
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  11.  @brahtrumpwonbigly7309  As a content creator, not a gamer, totally agree.
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  12. Not sure where your getting that, I am looking at the MSI Pro Z790 MB and it has 4 NVME slots, one directly from the CPU, (they are all PCIE 4), PCIE 5.0 for the graphics card, a plethora of USB 2.0/3.0/3.1/3.2 and USB C, WiFi/BT connectivity etc. Oh, it has I think 6 SATA ports, but are shared by 2 of the NVME slots if not mistaken. Oh, this will hopefully run DDR5 and an i7 processor. The point is, if you stick with the Z790 chipset, you WILL get all the connectivity for mid to higher end PC builds, but not when you go with the B760-H770 chipsets.
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  13.  @valenrn8657  As for the socket, might be, but there are NO drives to support PCIE 5 yet. I have looked.
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  14.  @cjadams7434  If you read my comment more closely, I said the SATA connections are shared by 2, or 3 of the NVME slots, and only ONE of 4 slots is tied directly to the CPU (NO 1), the rest via the chilpset.
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  15.  @valenrn8657  I know most Z790 MB's have Gen 5 NVME, but not the DRIVES themselves, most are at best, gen 4. The ONLY gen 5 lanes are dedicated to the graphics card, not the NVME. I was looking at a Gigabyte eleite that only had gen 5 for the PCIe slot, the NVME's were all gen 4. I later went with MSI for the MB due to how poorly they hand any RMA's, and they seem to be dealing with a lot of those also. Also, trying to keep the budget to no more than $1300 for the entire build, the MSI Z790 Pro is in the low 300 range, and is a full ATX board too.
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  16. I just bought the Gigabyte Aero G board, the Z890 for the new 15th gen Core 7 Ultra and it has the 2 digit LED screen for codes. The board was 350, about 20 dollars or so less than the CPU. The older Z790 variant of the same board is just under 300 dollars.
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  17.  @NonLegitNation2 me too. It's nice when a creator wears something other than their channel T-shirt anyway.
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  18.  @laowai2000  Worth it if the system is already SATA based, not so much for older pre SATA systems however as you will have to also get a converter to convert from IDE to SATA and they run somewhere between 16-20 dollars on top of the drive itself, and then you may have to go with an M.2 form factor to make it fit in the existing cage, however, it's moot as you are now running through the low bandwidth of IDE/PATA to begin with, so you won't get the speeds of even SATA with your SSD.
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  19. I'm not a gamer, nor interested in overclocking, nor water cooling, but I DO need to upgrade my PC. I run a run of the mill SFF Dell Optiplex with a 7th gen i5 and currently sits at 32GB of RAM as that's all it can handle. I do content creation, like you, have a channel and do my own editing and I can do OK on a 2GB of VRAM Nvidia GT1030 GPU at 1080P and want to move to 4K. Even as is, it does not scrub terribly smoothly, especially in reverse but I can edit on it nonetheless. I run an older version of DR, which does have the cut page and Fusion page, Ideally, should have 4GB, but with a weak sauce PSU (188W), I'm stuck with the 1030 due to not needing much power, and is low profile. I have been planning on Intel for CPU, likely the GPU, but waiting to see if Battlemage becomes available, or it'll be Arc A770. If battlemage, it's equivalent A770 like model. I'm looking at 1500 all told for the most part for the entire build, not including the monitor as I had to replace that recently. It's 4K, IPS panel and is a budget friendly model from Dell. Yes, I can see 4K videos on this present system, but would love to run DR 18.6, or 19 but can't at the moment, so run DR 16.
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  20. Last fall, I had to expectantly replace my computer, an older Dell SFF Optiplex with a newer, but used/refurbished SFF Optiplex, and ended up having to replace the graphics card as the old one, an Invidia GT 610 would not play nice with Windows 11, only to find out why, Ferni, and by extension, Keplar had been depricated, so anything Pascal or later were fine and had the updates for WDDM/DX 12. So had to replace that with the GT 1030. That begat a monitor replacement. My main monitor is a 1080P Dell workstation monitor I had picked up last spring/summer when the older Dell monitor of similar specs died after being used for over a decade. So then tried to utilize the still working 20" Dell 720P monitor, but the new graphics card had no VGA port, only DVI-D and HDMI. So I replaced that monitor with an Onn brand 22", 60Hz monitor for $80 and could get it locally. For a 1080P monitor, it's been quite good. the background photos from MS are really good, clean and full of detail. Yes, the controls are on the bottom edge, but in the middle, and are highlighted by a blue LED when off as the power button is there also.
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  21. All very good Jay and well needed. I noticed something when "shopping" for new parts for a PC build as I NEED to go on from a now 10 YO Dell SFF optiplex with a Core 15 processor and a wheezy and about as old graphics card with a mere 1G on it (Nvidia GT 610. It was what I had from a previous PC that I had to replace on short notice and it was a decade old and carried the graphics card over as one, it fits the SFF, just). Anyway, I'm not gaming but editing, and was running Premiere Pro CS4 (yes) and then HitFilm but it's future is now uncertain, so now have jumped to (at the moment) Davinci Resolve 12.5.1 as it'll work (yes) on this current box, as long as I do the KISS method and no higher than 1080P. That said, am if approved will be going with the Intel Core i7, with iGPU/fan, The Nvidia RTX 3060 w/ 12GB, DDR5 memory (32GB), the Z790 based DDR5 motherboard from MSI at minimum with Win 11 and will then jump to DR 18. I was going to go with Gigabyte but after hearing about their RMA issues, decided to go with MSI, and both had identical specs for their boards, including 2.5GBe ethernet, WiFi 6e, BT 5.3, PCIe 5.0 lane for the graphics card, 4 for the NVME drives, you get the picture. Seems that no matter who builds the boards, it's a tight race, and with identical, or near specs, so it then becomes what board do you like the looks of instead, and the RMA issues, if any. Total build is going to run somewhere between 1200-1500 bucks, with case and OS. This way, I future proof and not have to do a total upgrade of most of it sooner, rather than later. I'm also thinking eventually outputting to 2K, if not 4K if it comes to that. Some of my decisions came from inquiring with Blackmagic/Davinci Resolve folks, Richard Lackey and Simon Says for the most part on what Davinci needs and then build it with that in mind and it'll be more than enough for the rest of the software I use. I just weeded out the cruft and decided on what Davinci needs to run smoothly and costs, finding out that DDR5 does not seem to cost all that much more than DDR4 now for the came memory capacity, and I can get a Z790 based board for 239 or so (MSI), the processor is I think $350 or there abouts, 32GB of RAM (2x16) runs just over $100, and Amazon, Newegg and B&H are very close, within a few bucks of each other, barring any coupons. I'd go with Microcenter, but from what I saw, the choices are not as vast online and there is not a store in Washington State, sadly, and of course, Fry's is long gone, used to have a store here and I've bought stuff from them in the past. Looks like there is ONE chip, but with various tweaks, like overclocked or not, GPU or not, cooler in the box, or not, but the very same processor per each core model for Intel at least. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how this all plays as far as my new build goes.
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  22. I am now working with a buddy to upgrade my aging Dell SFF that is now 10 years old, yes, a 4th gen Core i5 processor and it was supposed to be a short term replacement but 4 years later, here we are... The motherboard I am likely to go with will have everything I've been looking at, and a few that I was not looking at initially. It has WiFi, BT (for the mouse at least), 4 NVME slots, 3 are regular NVME slots, with one that is for the OS/software drive (directly lane to the CPU), has the SPDIF out and DP for the iGPU, Z790 chipset, PCIe5 for the graphics card etc, and it'll set me back 239 or there abouts. I WAS looking at a Gigabyte with almost the exact same features that was a bit more (still less than $300, the Arous? Elite ex or something like that. The board I'm looking at is an MSI Pro Z790. I decided on the MSI after hearing not so good news about Gigabyte having terrible issues with RMAing the boards and how poor they handle the issue. I felt that was a reasonable price, of $250 or so for a board. I'm sure for less features, one can get a board for less. Yes, both boards are for DDR5 (trying to future proof) for editing so no need to upgrade for a while, outside of upping the memory down the line from 32 to 64GB. Both take Sata III with 6 headers that share the lanes with the NVME's. I'd use the SATA for long term storage of video projects as I can stick spinners in there and have NVME for all projects in progress, including scratch disks.
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  23.  @dsm828  That's like, old, I had the 920 i7 in a Dell Studio XPS that I bought new in 2009.A good system until the ORIGINAL HD (a WD Blue) finally goes in 2019 which meant a new PC, or refurbished Dell Optiplex with the 4570 i5 and it's running a similar aged but bottom tier GT 610 with a "whopping" whole GB on it. Needless to say, the GPU is the bottle neck dujour at the moment, and I'm editing 1080P footage in Davinci Resolve 12.5.1, with fully optimized media at 720, with proxies. Not smooth at all but not as bad as it could be though.
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  24.  @racerex340  Agree. Typically, when I get rid of PC's, they are already at least 10 years old and I just pull the drives and hand over to eWaste. I have a pile of old electronics and cables to hand over before long.
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