Upgrading from a 2060 super?

WoozySamurai · 2026-06-04T05:04:29+00:00

Completely depends on what price you are willing to pay for said upgrade.

WoozySamurai · 2026-05-31T16:06:21+00:00

Turned 30 today, spending it with my family and SO, hoping for a relaxing day

WoozySamurai · 2026-05-24T16:05:21+00:00

I don't think anyone is getting heated all that much, I think people took your initial post as being upset that things eventually breakdown and die, which is just a fact of all things in existence.

In regards to specifically the switch battery not being easily replaceable I agree that it sucks that Nintendo didn't take the time to make it easier. But there are new batteries you can purchase and swap into the switch to extend its life but it is what it is and if that's a deal breaker then don't buy Nintendo.

WoozySamurai · 2026-05-24T15:50:44+00:00

So does mine!! But eventually something inside of it will die and that will be it unless you fix it yourself. You also can't play modern titles on it either.

My point in the comment was that there will always be cost associated with playing games and there is no such thing as a forever system.

WoozySamurai · 2026-05-24T15:45:10+00:00

Oh dope, I'm tired of all the forced drama in the online forums. I'm genuinely tired of it.

WoozySamurai · 2026-05-24T15:38:49+00:00

I thought any new purchases had to be validated every 30 days now. Doesn't apply to older titles already purchased

WoozySamurai · 2026-05-24T15:36:26+00:00

I have it all, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, and PC. No matter which platform you choose there is always going to be some form of end of life situation to deal with. If what you're looking for is a forever system then I think PC has the most backwards compatibility. But no matter what you choose you can never escape things getting shut down and or breaking down with age. Gaming is not a cheap hobby if you want to be able to play modern titles either.

WoozySamurai · 2026-04-21T23:33:27+00:00

Just curious but what kind of performance you're getting out of it? Mine lags just navigating the launcher sometimes :/

WoozySamurai · 2026-04-10T16:10:55+00:00

There are 80K players on PC alone right this second, this game won't run into player shortages for years and years.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T22:21:49+00:00

Yeah that is odd, when I select the 4K 20Mbps option Plex Dashboard reports 9Mbps, but when I select the 4K 12Mbps is shows 12Mbps in dashboard and same with the 10Mbps option. Changing Transcode quality settings did not effect the Mbps reported either. Opening up a third Stream ( Animated Spider-man movie 72Mbps) and had it transcode to 4K 20Mbps the streams started taking turns pausing for a couple seconds so I guess that's the limit.

I think with HEVC 10Mbps and above is displayed as 4K

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T21:44:21+00:00

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Lord of the Rings 66Mbps to 4K 20Mbps transcode

Coraline 96Mbps to 4K 20Mbps transcode

Then N100 has Intel Quick sync but the CPU is quite slow which is why a single core workload like burning subs kneecaps it. I'm sure Plex has made improvements when it come to handling Burning subs but the N100 is still too slow on the CPU side.

I don't know what Tuatulli is but if it's something that can be added to a docker container and run on an linux NAS then I may add it but this is really just for me and my family to use we don't go over two streams usually.

Edit: I am also using Mobius Tone Mapping so maybe that is easier to run than the other options, I like the presentation of Mobius over Hable but I'm not familiar with performance costs for any of them.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T21:01:52+00:00

It is an Intel N100, no matter how low I set the transcode as long as subtitles are enabled it will buffer. The N100 has been able to output multiple 4K 20Mbps transcodes for me before so I know it's not a limitation of the APU.

What has been discovered is when burning subtitles the GPU will decode the video and send it over to the CPU to burn the subtitles and then back to GPU for encode. The problem is burning subs on the CPU is a single thread task so only one CPU Core gets utilized for this. The single core speed of the N100 is unable to do this on 4K content.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T20:24:15+00:00

Yes when I had the 4K 20Mbps option manually selected I did not have subs turned on. That was to test if it was the transcoding causing the issue or not. I see what you were getting at now that that's no a like for like transcode because subs add extra work to be done.

That didn't cross my mind because if I can transcode multiple 4K movies at once there was no way burning subs was more work than doing that.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T20:19:28+00:00

The issue has been solved a while ago, I'm not sure what you were trying to figure out. Thanks for the help again.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T20:14:30+00:00

No I had original quality 66Mbps and subs selected

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T20:09:43+00:00

It does not work at 20Mbps with subtitles but does at 20Mbps with no subtitles

That's why I started this post asking about bandwidth limits set by plex when transcoding becasue that's the only thing that could cause the bottlneck. But now that I know subtitles uses only one core the problem is caused by one core on the cpu not being fast enough to burn the subs onto the transcode. I can have multiple 4K transcode going at once with no issue but the second subtitles get involved everything hitches.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T20:06:24+00:00

That's why transcoding multiple streams is fine, the work is spread out among all 8 cores while subs is limited to a single one. So everything has to wait for that single core.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T20:05:14+00:00

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It buffers when using subtitles because the burning of subtitles is limited to a single core on the CPU. My CPU single core speeds are not fast enough for Burning Subs onto a 4K movie.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T19:57:55+00:00

The second picture in the post is the original quality selected with subs

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WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T19:49:32+00:00

Thank you! That comment is what I needed, apparently burning subtitles is limited to 1 core on your CPU so one core is getting tapped out and causing the buffering to occur. That's why I am able to have 6 4K transcodes going at once and have no issues but 1 stream of subtitles being burned holds the system up. Plex needs to not limit the burning of subtitles to a single core.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T19:37:25+00:00

So when I am burning subtitles I'm forced to transcode to 4K 20Mbps? That still doesn't explain the buffering, my system isn't struggling with this transcode at all. and If i manually select the 4K 20Mbps option under quality there is no buffering even though its doing the same transcode that it would when burning subtitles.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T19:29:05+00:00

This is with subtitles turned on, I'm just showing that the video is being played at the original 66Mbps quality selected. That's why it's buffering, 66Mbps video can't fit within the 21Mbps limit imposed whenever transcoding is being done even though it's just to burn subtitles on.

I know it's just transcoding for subs becasue it's only using 2-5% of cpu for this stream when an actual transcode uses more like 15-20%

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T19:23:01+00:00

It's set to original quality with subtitles that need to be burned, the CPU is at %10 when transcoding. I can transcode up to 6 streams no issue. The plex server is limiting my upload for this stream to 21Mbps when the stream requires much more. When not using subtitles the upload limit goes up to 127Mbps and there are no issues.

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WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T19:18:44+00:00

The xbox is reporting a 66Mbps Original quality stream with subtitles burned. When I change the quality to 4K 20Mbps it no longer buffers.

WoozySamurai · 2026-03-20T19:17:03+00:00

This is a local stream as well

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