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Looks good. I would only suggest you maybe look into upping your RAM to 32GB if your work requires it. It's quite easy to max a 16GB kit these days. If not i see you left a path to upgrade later, which is good!

Physically it looks like the H50 can accommodate a standard motherboard in micro ATX form factor. You may have some trouble with the IO shield. But the PSU is the thing that worries me. If it's Lenovo's PSU it has a high chance it uses the non-standard 14 pin motherboard connector compared to the 20 or 24 pin connectors.There are adapters from 14 to 24 pin cable but i can't recommend them.

If the rumors are true, Ryzen 4000 is coming around September. Truth be told, i'd suggest upgrading your ram if you have more memory slots free and you are not replacing existing modules. 4gb or 8gb of DDR3 memory should be super cheap, compared to a whole system upgrade. I think that some of the stuttering you are experiencing is due to lack of RAM and excessive usage of the swap file. In my books, if you are more than 80% of RAM used you should get an upgrade. However new hardware is new hardware. If you got money to spend and want some new parts, go for it! Buyer's remorse be damned

Right! I forgot about the QuickSynch thingy. I'm using the free version right now but if i'm going to upgrade my hardware I will get the lifetime Plex pass for sure.

Hey LTT forum! I have a Plex server at home which I plan to upgrade soon. Currently i'm rocking a intel atom D2700 - pretty serious stuff, i know. I want to start transcoding though, for which i will need better hardware. My current thoughts are that I want a low-powered chip (or a low powered IDLE chip) which will run 24/7 like my current one. I have a fairly limited budget and i'm looking at second hand hardware, mainly the CPU because I have a mobo already. As preference I would like to get a 4th gen Intel chip because I have a lot of other 4th gen machines and I can swap components in an emergency and they are relatively cheap nowadays. Currently I'm looking at the i7 4790 (non k) because it packs quite the punch and does it in a fairly ok-ish TDP. The plan is that I want Plex to be able to transcode 1080p with subs to 4-5 different clients at the same time, this ofc being the worst-case scenario. Any thoughts, recommendations or comments are appreciated!

My bad, my router is actually Archer C2, not C20, which is a gigabit router. I'm pulling files off my NAS (which admittedly is a low-end NAS) and server at around 20MB/s - 25MB/s. Could i get that number higher somehow? Nice! I'll be looking in to that more thoroughly in the flowing days. To be honest i want something like the google WiFi 3 APs put to lower transmit power but they are expensive and are not currently sold in my country.

Hey guys! I really want to upgrade and optimize my network on a nice level and i need your guys's suggestions. A little bit of context: I live in a block in the middle of a city so there is a lot of WiFi interference. My apartment is medium size at around 80m2 (or 860 ft2) but there are a lot of thick walls due to the actual design of the structure. Currently i have a 100mbit rj45 line internet (no fiber or anything) hooked up to a TP-LINK Archer C20 AC750 router placed on a high point at roughly the center of the apartment. I also have a 8 port switch TP-LINK TL-SG108E. My wired clients are two PCs roughly 13m away (by cable), a NAS right next to the router and a server right next to that. Additionally I've moved my smart TV to a wired connection (11m away by cable) and I'm planning to add two more TVs in the future, both around 13m away by cable from the router. So far I've got a cat 5E cable run everywhere except my main PC, which has a cat6 cable. My router, switch, NAS, server, both PCs and the cables are 1Gbps ready and currently everything is plugged in the switch and only the switch is connected to the router. As for wireless we have at best two smartphones and a tablet, and at worst two laptops, ~10 smartphones, and the tablet (it gets pretty busy during the weekend here). Currently everything wired runs at gigabit speeds (save the TVs) and wireless signal is okay in places and really bad in others. At best i'm getting 5MB/s on a file transfer sitting on top the router with wireless AC, around 3.5MB/s on wireless N. I really want to fix the WiFi range and speed problems (well and take some feedback on my setup, maybe improve something else too). I was thinking of two scenarios: getting a beefed up router and marching with just one strong device or getting an okay gigabit router and make a new access point in another part of the apartment. Currently i'm leaning towards the second option, maybe getting something along the lines of an Archer C7 AC1750 to put as my main router and putting the Archer C20 as the "dumb" access point. What are your guys's thoughts, should i get a single expensive router or pair my okay router with another okay router? Should i look into features such as MU-MIMO, dual core processors etc? And about the backbone, should i stay with cat 5E or should i buy cat 6 in the future, should i move devices away from the switch and onto the router? Thanks!

I've tried the version 0808 beforehand but the flash utility refused to flash that bios. The error was "System was not new AWARD BIOS version!". As far as i know the bios is Award BootLock v1.0 and it's not supported by ASUS. I'll send a ticket to them via mail soon, thanks.

I found that as well, problem is it's an add scheme and i can't download it. It redirects me to BiosAgentPlus site where it requires an account to continue. I don't think that's legit. Can you confirm that the source is OK?

Initially there was no CD in the system, it didn't want to boot from the HDD then. The mobo is in a state of "something's wrong, please give me something to recover with" and only seeks CD-ROM drives. Sadly it doesn't think my HDD as an IDE ATAPI worthy boot device. I tried that several times. I even left the battery out of the mobo for days but nothing changes. I've been tackling this mobo for around a week now

Hello everyone. Here is my situation: I have an old, but still pretty OK system (Athlon x2 4800+ and 4GB DDR2 RAM) with a dead motherboard. I got a cheap second hand mobo replacement for that PC from some guy but the freaking thing is weird AF. The motherboard in question is ASUS m2ns-nvm/s and as far as i can tell it's a mobo from a pre-build Packard-Bell machine. When i try to turn the PC on it gives me a "BIOS ROM checksum error" and then proceeds to boot from a "IDE ATAPI" device. I've read around the web and turns out that this means my bios is screwed up and i should reflash it via the CD. I can't get into the bios and the only thing that wants to boot is an IDE CD drive. Problem is that i cant find any bios for this mobo anywhere. I've searched around but nothing comes up. That got me thinking - can i trick the PC to boot to a HDD somehow without going in the bios and changing stuff (because obviously i can't do that)? Can i get some sort of software/code/whatever that can be executed from the CD ROM (CD boot does work, tested with DOS) that seeks and boots the HDD. Basically boot to CD that transfers the PC over to the OS on the HDD. I'm sure i've seen this somewhere before, something like "boot other device" from the CD menu screen. A boot loader on a CD if you will. I know this approach is not the best way to solve this but i can't think of another one. Can you guys help? If i can fix the bios that would be great! I can't buy another mobo, they are quite expensive here.

Yes it looks nice but watch out when adding more than one fan to one fan header on the motherboard. If you put a lot of fans or a few power-hungry fans on a single fan header it might fry the fan header. If you somehow manage to draw power from your PSU directly and control your fans with the 4 pin mobo connector that would be the way to go.

Judging by the mobo's picture in the official site it seems that it has two 4 pin PWM connectors and on is for the CPU cooler. So you probably have only one connector available. If so you can get a molex to 3pin power cables for the cheap but you won't be able to control how fast they run and they will be pinned to 100%. You can also get a fan hub like others suggested.

I don't know if the BIOS telling you "Unknown vendor" is a problem tbh,maybe it is but maybe the mobo just doesn't have a clue on what's plugged in. Did you manage to boot in the OS and try out some drivers? Did you just plug it in last time and it worked?

This is only if your motherboard support the so called "flex" mode. If it doesn't then the dual channel operation will be disabled. Either way the recommendations still stand.