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Teaching a Robot how to Game with Turnstone and Nvidia VSS!

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Ultimate Proxmox Guide: Set Up a Production Cluster ft. OpenMetal.io Dedicated Servers!

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We're Testing 4 Radeon AI Pro R9700s... What do you want to see? Community Event and Giveaway

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ZimaBoard 2: Can I Run ZFS on it?

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DIY vs Prebuilt - Testing the MSI DP400

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Strix Halo Mini PC vs DIY Build -- Does it make sense for Gaming? For AI? What for?

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Minisforum MS S1 Max AI Review, Benchmarks, and Comfy UI Setup Guide

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Framework Desktop Tested: 128gb AI Max+ for Gaming, AI and More

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The New Threadripper CPUs are OVER 9000! Linux Review and Benchmarks

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AI and You Against the Machine: Guide so you can own Big AI and Run Local


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Tired of Waiting for the Steam Machine? Build One Yourself!

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Building a Somewhat More Affordable AM5 Server in the Silverstone RM32 3U Case!

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Building a PC to help with the Existential Dread (w/ PZ MSI Mobo and Fractal North XL Momentum Case)

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Ultimate Proxmox Guide: Set Up a Production Cluster ft. OpenMetal.io Dedicated Servers!

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Fractal Pop 2 Air Quick Build

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Minisforum MS O2 Ultra Is a Fantasy Level Mini PC

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WRX90 Madness! Building a Fire Breathing Threadripper Pro System!

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DIY vs Prebuilt - Testing the MSI DP400


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Teaching a Robot how to Game with Turnstone and Nvidia VSS!

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Attempting to Troubleshoot the ASRock Motherboards of Death!

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The MSI EdgeXpert is FASTER than the Nvidia Spark? Let's Check it Out!

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Strix Halo Mini PC vs DIY Build -- Does it make sense for Gaming? For AI? What for?

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The Intel Arc B50 is the Better Alternative to Nvida's A1000

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520Hz Gaming Monitor: The PG27FFX2A from Phantom Gaming

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Framework Desktop Tested: 128gb AI Max+ for Gaming, AI and More

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Inside the Modern Data Center! SuperClusters at Applied Digital

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An Updated Nano KVM Pro from Sipeed

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Teaching a Robot how to Game with Turnstone and Nvidia VSS!

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GTC Forum Thread: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/nvidia-gtc-san-jose-2026/246626

Wendell checks out Video Search and Summary from Nvidia, and shows how it could be used for debugging and other cool gamedev stuff. Rad!

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Ultimate Proxmox Guide: Set Up a Production Cluster ft. OpenMetal.io Dedicated Servers!

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Thank you to Openmetal.io for sponsoring this video!

Check out Openmetal.io here! https://openmetal.io/promos/l1t-proxmox-on-bare-metal/

Level1Forum Thread: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/proxmox-full-production-in-the-cloud-wi…

This isn’t a homelab Proxmox install. This is how you run Proxmox in production on real hardware.
We build a proper 3-node cluster on OpenMetal bare metal with VLANs, bonding, ZFS, HA routing, and tie it into Proxmox Datacenter Manager and Proxmox Backup Server so VMs can move between local infrastructure and the cloud.

If you’re coming from VMware, this is the part people miss: Proxmox VE by itself isn’t the whole story. VE + Datacenter Manager + Backup Server is what gives you real HA, replication, migration, and backup.
We’re doing this on OpenMetal bare metal because they make it easy to deploy enterprise bare metal dedicated servers with multiple VLANs, bonded 10G networking, and IPMI access so you can build an actual cluster the way it should be built.

This setup lets you run workloads in the cloud, keep local restores, and move VMs back and forth with confidence that the cluster is actually redundant.

If you are seriously considering moving your Proxmox onto hosted bare metal, OpenMetal offers Proof of Concept (PoC) clouds and also has a viewer promo: 👉 50% off the first 3 months when you commit to a 1-year term on bare metal servers.

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#Proxmox #BareMetal #DedicatedServers #OpenSource #Datacenter #Virtualization #OpenMetal #HA #pfSense #SysAdmin #Networking #SelfHosted #Linux

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We're Testing 4 Radeon AI Pro R9700s... What do you want to see? Community Event and Giveaway

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Community event thread: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/the-4x-amd-radeon-ai-pro-r9700-128gb-gi…

Ubuntu guide: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/4x-r9700-getting-started-ubuntu-24-04-s…

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ZimaBoard 2: Can I Run ZFS on it?

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Check out Wendell's Forum post and tutorial here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/ultra-tiny-offsite-zfs-replication-targ…

Check it out here: https://shop.zimaspace.com/products/zimaboard2-single-board-server?utm_…

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DIY vs Prebuilt - Testing the MSI DP400

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Wendell asked to borrow this thing for some testing, so he decided to make a video about it too. Prebuilds aren't just for gamers! Lets take a look at this high end build and see what it's made of!

Currently not available, but soon™
https://us.msi.com/Business-Productivity-PC/Pro-DP400-AI/shopnow

0:00 Intro
0:29 Unboxing and Overview Breakdown
4:56 Testing Setup
5:56 Testing Results
6:08 HardwareInfo64
7:56 First Set of Benchmarks
9:05 Thermal Limit
9:23 Expansion
9:45 Two GPUs?
10:50 CPUs
11:34 Second Set of Benchmarks
15:40 AI
17:47 Conclusions

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Strix Halo Mini PC vs DIY Build -- Does it make sense for Gaming? For AI? What for?

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Strix Halo is great, but is it the best you can do for gaming and other workloads at its price point? Wendell investigates!

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/so-strix-halo-is-cool-huh-should-i-buy-…

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Minisforum MS S1 Max AI Review, Benchmarks, and Comfy UI Setup Guide

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It's time for another small form factor pc! This time as a small form factor server? Check it out!!

Forum Guide here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/minisforum-ms-s1-max-comfy-ui-guide/237…

0:00 Intro
1:47 Overview and Strix
4:01 Tear Down
5:46 Bios Tour
7:56 Thunderbolt 5 and Chroma Dock
9:11 Benchmarks
16:13 What Can We Get Away With?
17:37 Rack Server?
19:41 Comfy How To
30:07 Linux and AI?
31:10 Conclusion

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Framework Desktop Tested: 128gb AI Max+ for Gaming, AI and More

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You may know Framework for their excellent user servicable laptops, but now they have a Mini-ITX desktop machine that just might change consumer computing forever. Wendell checks it out!

https://frame.work/desktop

Arch setup on Strix Halo: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/the-ultimate-arch-secureboot-guide-for-…

0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Unboxing
2:48 - Inside the Machine
7:52 - Overview
16:48 - Linux
28:35 - Windows
29:57 - Benchmarks
35:23 - AI on Windows
44:29 - Outro

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The New Threadripper CPUs are OVER 9000! Linux Review and Benchmarks

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Threadripper 9000 is here, and they're even further beyond the power of Threadripper 7000! But how do they fare on Linux? Wendell has the scoop!

0:00 - Intro
1:06 - Platform Overview
4:03 - Linux Features
8:38 - HEDT Thoughts
12:43 - Benchmarks
16:19 - Use Cases for Threadripper 9000
21:40 - Final Thoughts

Check out our Threadripper build guide here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/the-ultimate-guide-to-building-a-thread…

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AI and You Against the Machine: Guide so you can own Big AI and Run Local

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Set up your own Learning Model that isn't in the cloud or owned by anyone but you!

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