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    E5-2695v3
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    Asus X99 E WS
  • RAM
    128GB DDR4 ECC @ 2133mhz
  • GPU
    EVGA GTX Titan X SC in SLI
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    Corsair 540
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    1x 512GB SSD, 3x 1TB SSD, 1x 2TB SSD
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    LEPA 1600
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    Acer Predator X34
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    Corsair H105
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    Logitech G710+
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    Logitech G700s
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    Bose Companion
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    Windows 10 Pro

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  1. Dark
    Absolutely agree.
  2. Dark
    There is no reason for them to remove the product listings if they don't believe that they were in the wrong to some degree, even if it's CYA. Not that it's really a question at this point, the wrongdoing is blatantly obvious but the outcome in court is not.
  3. Dark
    Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.
  4. Dark
    Dual Epyc 7601 Multi - 6873 Single - 108 OpenGL - no score (poor quality screen shot over rdp)
  5. Dark
    You'll almost certainly need to add a GPU, the Aspeed AST2400 BMC provides vga but won't handle much graphically. The processor itself is fine.
  6. Dark
    which ever DNS you choose, put a pi-hole between you and that provider.
  7. Dark
    If this is for plex then get a chip that supports quicksync. 6700t / 7700t (8700t when available). ASRock H270M-ITX/ac - $100 7700T - $300 Corsair LPX 3000mhz 16GB kit - $200 (pick whichever ram you want) This would serve Plex much better than an E3 xeon.
  8. Dark
    Finding an x86 NAS in that price range won't be easy and most likely will need to be sourced from the used market. ARM based appliances are likely to not support smooth transcoding, if any at all.
  9. Dark
    I don't see how backing up pictures and MP3s are worth $500 in hardware when there are simpler, cheaper, and safer solutions available.
  10. Dark
    Slim ODD power is plenty for an SSD. It would be wiser to replace the ODD with a slim odd to 2.5" sata drive adapter though.
  11. Dark
    Compute is no better than what he currently has and it wouldn't be an ideal solution for someone looking at a storage solution. You're limited to 8x 2.5 or 4x 3.5 drives.
  12. Dark
    R410 and R710 are ancient. He also doesn't want to buy used. The Silver 4108 isn't bad but the base clock is slow (the 6700k offers higher compute capability). Check out the Xeon-D 2100 series chips, may or may not be up your alley. *edit* the passmark score I looked at for the 4108 was referencing a dual socket setup, so I bolded my correction.
  13. Dark
    First off, what's the use case? (what will the server be handling besides Server 2016)
  14. Dark
    For roughly 1TB of data, I would recommend Amazon Drive. Pictures are stored for free and 1TB is ~$60/yea. Regarding RAID, you should always consider RAID6 over RAID5 due to the likely chance of losing another disk during a rebuild.
  15. Dark
    I had that exact NUC model in the past, mounted to the underside of my garage workbench. It handled basic tasks in Windows 10 but it always felt a bit sluggish (even with an SSD), so I would comfortably say that performance with a VM running within Windows will be sub par.
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