u/ForceGaia — reddlx

Looking to DIY - looking for 2.5Gig Intel NIC

After hitting barriers with my ISP and it's hardware, I'm finally dabbling in the DIY router space. I hear with Opnsense (and other DIY ecosystems) the wisdom that Intel NICs are the gold standard. So I'm wondering how much that key part will sting me, and if there are pitfalls.

The use case is very simple for now, just to be an basic router for a UK openreach 500/75 connection, but with room to not need replacement for if i go over a gigabit later. My current wired devices are all gigabit, so would want whatever i built or buy to be better than that. I'm not properly homelabbing yet, but thats is the goal once i get a place with a more optimal layout for it. So the goal is to see if i can build something to a £200 budget (for base PC, NIC, switch and AP) with either opnsense or another DIY router OS with parts that will be robust enough to last, or if i might as well choose a reasonably priced Asus/Tplink/GL.inet all in one for now, and wait to do DIY til the homelab is ready.

So does anyone here have a decent recommendation for a 2 port or more, preferably 2.5Gig Intel NIC for use with opnsense?

Does it matter if the board has the different manufacturer as long as the chipset is Intel? Anything i should be aware of when sourcing something to slot it into? (looking at the classic 2nd hand small form factor route)

I found there so far, so would like to hear if any are good, or there are better/cheaper/more reliable ones out there

2x2.5gig using Intel I226-V

XikeStor https://amzn.eu/d/0hVOB8tP

Ulansen https://amzn.eu/d/080jgSvr

IFutNiew https://amzn.eu/d/03j2lsLP

2x10gig using X550-T2

Intel https://www.scan.co.uk/products/2-port-intel-x550-t2-ethernet-converged-10-gigabit-pci-e-network-adapter-oem

u/ForceGaia — 9 days ago

▲ 7 r/PFSENSE

Looking to DIY - looking for 2.5Gig Intel NIC

After hitting barriers with my ISP and it's hardware, I'm finally dabbling in the DIY router space. I hear with pfsense the wisdom that Intel NICs are the gold standard. So I'm wondering how much that key part will sting me, and if there are pitfalls.

The use case is very simple for now, just to be an basic router for a UK openreach 500/75 connection, but with room to not need replacement for if i go over a gigabit later. My current wired devices are all gigabit, so would want whatever i built or buy to be better than that. I'm not properly homelabbing yet, but thats is the goal once i get a place with a more optimal layout for it. So the goal is to see if i can build something to a £200 budget (for base PC, NIC, switch and AP) with either pfsense or another DIY router OS with parts that will be robust enough to last, or if i might as well choose a reasonably priced Asus/Tplink/GL.inet all in one for now, and wait to do DIY til the homelab is ready.

So does anyone here have a decent recommendation for a 2 port or more, preferably 2.5Gig Intel NIC for use with pfsense?

I found there so far, so would like to hear if any are good, or there are better/cheaper/more reliable ones out there

2x2.5gig using Intel I226-V

XikeStor https://amzn.eu/d/0hVOB8tP

Ulansen https://amzn.eu/d/080jgSvr

IFutNiew https://amzn.eu/d/03j2lsLP

2x10gig using X550-T2

Intel https://www.scan.co.uk/products/2-port-intel-x550-t2-ethernet-converged-10-gigabit-pci-e-network-adapter-oem

u/ForceGaia — 9 days ago

▲ 8 r/obs

Add SFX to a basic non-stinger transition

I'm trying to add a sound effect to a scene transition, without using a stinger.

The reason for this is that I'm doing a complex zoom-and-move transition using a shader from the StreamFX plugin. A stinger wouldn't allow me to do such a zoom-and-move, as that doesn't allow the A/B scenes to move during it; it just cuts between them at a set point when it's assumed to be opaque or otherwise a good time.

The broad strokes of what my shader transition is doing:

zooms out the current scene to 33%
moves it off to the side
waits a sec
slides the target scene in at 33% zoom
zooms it into 100%;

Under all this, there's a custom background instead of just black, as well as some other effects. The only thing that's missing is some swoosh/vwoop sort of sound effects to match the zooms and slides.

As the Shader transition acts like one of the built-in cut/fade type transitions, it doesn't have a means of adding an SFX to it, as far as I can see.

The only means I can think of is to use a bot program (streamerbot/sammi/mixitup) to react to the transition starting to play an SFX themselves.

Does anyone know of a different/better, preferably OBS-native, way?

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u/ForceGaia — 27 days ago

▲ 3 r/originalxbox

Cannot load hard drive game on EvoX modded console

I am attempting to load a game I transferred the hard disk. It identifies it, but refuses to load it. It tries, but just dumps me back to the dashboard. Xbox is a v1.4, running the EvoX softmod, EU region.
I got hold of a redump ISO, put it through Repackinator, and transferred the folder to the console via FTP, putting it in F:/Games

The main question I have is whether region matters? My console is EU, while the game ISO is USA. I thought that the softmod wouldn't care, and it'd be region-free now

Am I missing any steps? Any common gotchas?

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u/ForceGaia — 1 month ago