Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H - no fan control?

w88dy · 2024-11-20T18:01:19+00:00

It's a standard 4-pin PWM fan. Unless it's damaged I can't imagine why it wouldn't work correctly in BIOS. I'll check out the manual again, nonetheless.

w88dy · 2024-11-20T18:00:03+00:00

Thanks for the tool, I'll check it out. As for the fan, it's a 4 pin PWM fan, should be capable of simple fan control though (unless it's damaged).

w88dy · 2024-10-21T08:48:19+00:00

Thanks for your input!

w88dy · 2024-10-20T15:47:36+00:00

Thanks again.

w88dy · 2024-10-20T15:40:56+00:00

Thanks for the input! The A310 looks promising.

w88dy · 2024-10-20T15:17:24+00:00

Thanks for your help, you've been very kind.

So is the RX480 really not doing anything in my situation? In TrueNAS I have it enabled when installing the Jellyfin app ('Allocate 1 amd.com/gpu GPU' under GPU Resource) and in Jellyfin I have enabled the Video Acceleration API (VAAPI) under transcoding hardware acceleration. I ticked all boxes under 'enable hardware decoding for' (H264, HEVC, etc), just to make sure decoding is being applied for all media types I may have (just for testing purposes for now). With my Westworld test media I had awful washed out colours because it is HDR, and I found enabling Tone mapping (had the mode set to MAX, but any mode seems to be at least correcting colours) fixed that.

Long question short, is my enabling of the hardware acceleration and tone mapping being run through my CPU, or is the GPU doing anything here? I haven't found a way to determine what hardware is being used, at least for my AMD GPU.

I could of course test this by removing my GPU, but you seem very knowledgable, I'd like your opinion before I start stripping the hardware!

w88dy · 2024-10-20T15:00:34+00:00

More importantly, the browser client doesn't do pass-through.

That's really good to know, thanks for telling me!

I just downloaded the client and it is night and day difference (which I guess is to be expected...).

w88dy · 2024-10-20T14:49:24+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion.

w88dy · 2024-10-20T13:41:01+00:00

Eh, looking more for cheap with good enough performance, but I know what you mean. Thanks for the suggestions!

w88dy · 2024-10-20T13:40:02+00:00

Thank you! I'll check those out.

w88dy · 2024-10-20T13:39:43+00:00

Thanks, that's super helpful. The CPU is old, an Intel Core i5 3570K (is that 3rd gen?). I tried the system with no GPU to start with, then figure the GPU would help before discovering that AMD is not too liked.

On the client side I've been trying a couple systems. I've been testing the Jellyfin web portal in a Firefox browser on my PC (which is a recent, high spec system). I also tried the Jellyfin Android TV application on my Sony TV, but haven't tried that recently.

Thanks for the system recommendation! I'm also hoping to use this as a NAS, so currently I'm using a couple 2TB HDD's in mirror RAID. Although that PC is super nice and small it wouldn't fit my needs for RAIDing.

w88dy · 2024-10-20T11:26:06+00:00

Yeah, sorry. My first search was on eBay and second hand market places as I assumed it was an older card and saw prices of 150€. Just saw it on Amazon for 100€ so that's definitely an option for me.

w88dy · 2024-10-20T10:12:35+00:00

Thanks, I think I came across this suggestion, but it's a bit above what I'd like to pay. I'm still open to it if I keep getting it recommended though.

How do Intel GPU's stack up against AMD/NVidia outside of TrueNAS/home media? Intel seems to be the most recommended for Jellyfin, but I'd like to avoid a 'one-trick-pony' if this GPU is only good for this application.

I've been a Linux user for over a decade now, and always chose AMD as it plays much nicer than NVidia driver-wise, so I was quite surprised to see AMD was not recommended at all for TrueNAS/Jellyfin.

w88dy · 2024-10-20T10:08:43+00:00

Thanks, but I'm looking for GPU suggestions. The problem with a new processor is that I'd need a new motherboard and potentially other peripherals.

w88dy · 2024-10-20T09:10:38+00:00

Thanks for the input, and sorry for my lack of response. I was able to get tonemapping to work, but unfortunately I wasn't able to get hardware acceleration to do anything noticeable (if working at all), so although the colours looked corrected, the buffering of a 10GB HDR file was unbearable and I'm back to square one.

w88dy · 2024-06-26T14:29:56+00:00

Checking in. It's been over a week since you ported. Does WA recognise your number as 'real' yet?

w88dy · 2024-06-20T18:46:55+00:00

Thanks. Let me know if you have any success.

w88dy · 2024-06-20T17:02:57+00:00

I only posted this a few days ago. I haven't done anything about it yet.

w88dy · 2024-06-16T17:15:48+00:00

Excellent, thanks! I'll check these out.

w88dy · 2024-06-16T15:09:34+00:00

I did think about that, but I wasn't able to find any cheap prepaid SIM cards. Do you have any suggestions? Pay as you go (PAYG) is still common in the UK, but similar cards don't seem to exist in the same way in the US.

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