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  1. Budget (including currency): £1000 Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Video+Photo editing (Premier Pro, Davinci Resolve, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop) Other details: Current build: i7 6700k, 32gb DDR4 4200, Asus Z270i, RTX3070. Mobo MUST be Mini ITX Hi All, I am looking to upgrade my PC to help with things such as video and photo editing as my current setup is pretty slow even with just one application open. My CPU has been through it and has served me very well but unfortunately the workload I have exceeds its capacity (editing 4k 60 10-bit video). My thoughts are get a last gen CPU for a little cheaper unless current gen is worth the upgrade cost. I am not looking to upgrade the CPU, motherboard, RAM and maybe storage to help streamline my workflow. Although I say the budget is £1000, I am happy to spend more if it will bering longer term results and there is a drastic improvement in performance. As my 3070 is still pretty new it wouldn't need upgrading, I am bottlenecked by my CPU when editing. All is housed in Jonsplus i100 Pro so the mobo NEEDS to be Mini ITX Also the mobo should have a decent amount of IO ports due to the vast amount of devices I have plugged in all the time: Keyboard(with extra port), Mouse, webcam, Davinci activation USB stick, microphone, 3HHDs and one or two USBC ports spare for connecting media when IP get back from a shoot to (excluding front ports) (I know you can get USB hubs but actual ports are more reliable) Any help or advice is greatly appreciated!
  2. I am an IT admin in a medium sized business. Currently when a staff member leaves we need to reset passwords and login to outlook to download their email PST. I am curious if anyone has come across a better way of downloading a users mailbox without the need to login etc which takes a lot of time
  3. Budget (including currency): £300 Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Plex media server Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I have a Mini PC on order for hopefully a lightweight plex media install. It has space for 2 m.2 drives which I would like to populate with the cheapest bulk storage. I don't mind how slow it is (to a certain degree). I just want the cheapest bulk storage in a small package. It may be worthwhile finding a large sata SSD and hooking that up via USB but I would like peoples recommendations
  4. I have been looking into getting a server for a while, I have dabbled with a second windows 10 machine, running a Plex server, along with a few other things like teamviewer and a few hard drives. However recently I bought myself a used Cisco C210 M2, just to experiment with, and I fear I jumped into the deep end way sooner than I was comfortable with. It may just be a hardware issue, but it is most likely a stupidity issue on my part (on top of this, the server was listed as tested, from a reputable IT company). The server seems to not boot up into any installation media, from a sata hard drive, USB stick and disk drive. If anybody could point me in the direction to get this server up and running I would be eternally grateful!
  5. Unfortunately the fans are the size of the case and I couldn't fit anything bigger into it. And the front of the case is full of drives. Ideally I would also want the sever to sit ontop of a wardrobe being relatively quiet, so mods may not nessasarily work. What I think I'm going to do is put some resistors inline with the fans, and maybe see about replacing fans when I have more knowledge of servers and intelligent redundant systems. Especially since this server has two power supplies
  6. What does not work? More fans stacked does mean more static pressure, not doubled, but increased, even if it is only slightly. In turn increasing airflow, if there are obstructions in the way, yes not by much, but still a small amount
  7. They are about 3x less airflow. But also they are thinner, so I could stack them up for more static pressure
  8. I recently bought a server (Cisco UCS C210 M2 Server) to mess around with, something used and cheap to get a grasp for servers and what I can start doing with them. I got it super cheap and the parts sold individually would makeup for the overall cost. It has been great so far, however the fans (Delta GFB0812DHU 8-Wire Fan) are extremely loud for my room and I want to replace them with quieter fans. Before I get told off, I know the sever has been configured to have a certain airflow with a certain fan for everything to be optimal, and replacing fans could kill it. So on and so forth. I just want less noise, if that means less airflow, so be it. Ideally I would replace them with some noctua fans, but is there any way of wiring them into an 8 pin redundant fan connector without causing any major issues?
  9. I am looking to make a comapct folding system with a few GPUs in, but budget is limited. I have found a "1050ti" on eBay (in the UK) for £43 new, when they usually sell for £100 used. I am wondering if fake GPUs still work with FAH, and if they'd give similar points, which I doubt
  10. I did try to run a 970 from the 600w PSU with lots of cable adaptors, but the wires going to the PSU got too hot to be safe. There is a 6 pin 12v connector going straight to the PSU and a few peripheral connections, however not enough to run a 6+8 pin card. I am looking into upgrading the power supply at some point, but I do want to squeeze some more life out of it. The PSU can put out 12v 26A, 5V 36A and 3.3V 30A So a slightly older spec with less wattage in the 12v rail. I could use a separate PSU Scrapyard wars style, for the GPU though. Basically I want to spend as little as possible but get the best results from a 24/7 machine. However I do understand if I want something powerful and reliable, I will have to spend money
  11. Anything under three digits really, the cheaper the better
  12. I am currently in accommodation where my power bill is free, so I am not too concerned about the efficiency of cards, but the price of initial purchase and the power it delivers. I have a machine with a 600w PSU, and a 6 pin 12v rail What cards are out there which are relatively cheap (used on eBay) but get enough points on FAH to be worth it? I do have space for 3 cards too, but limited by power supply issues Any help with this would be greatly appreciated
  13. I am not looking at putting serious data on this, I want to get my head around the software and understand it. If the hard drives break then I couldn't care less. I would prefer to RAID two almost dead drives with useless data on, with little knowledge of the system than two expensive drives, without knowing what I am doing I know that to have a solid backup system I will need to spend money on dedicated good hardware, this is just something I can do to gain experience
  14. I want to make a windows based server, for plex media and a NAS style storage system for family photos. I take apart old, free, computers from my dads work, and a few other places, the computers I get are usually old workstation style computers. I recycle the broken hardware, sell the components I don't need and keep the highest end stuff I get. I have a machine with: AMD Athlon X2 260 Nvidia GT 240 4GB RAM Storage: Samsung 850 pro 128gb ssd WD Blue 3tb WD Blue 1tb 2x Seagate Barracuda laptop 1tb (Basically brand new) Seagate Desktop 1tb WD Blue 250gb Samsung 160gb Seagate barracuda 80gb WD Caviar 40gb 2x Maxtor 80gb (IDE) Maxtor 40gb(IDE) Ideally what I want to do is use up all of these drives in some form of RAID system as the lower capacity drives are obviously worn quite a bit and are on their last legs. I would like some of the SSD to be used as a chase sort of system too, for quick transfer of smaller files, if at all possible. I would also prefer not to buy any additional hardware, I just want to mess around with NAS/server style systems before I spend a lot of money on a better system (All drives equal capacity and dedicated hardware). But in the meantime I would like to discover some of the NAS options I have. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
  15. I take apart old computers which are listed as broken on eBay to try and salvage some components and put together a working machine (actual dead hardware goes to recycling) So I have a load of different hard drives, with different speeds/makes/capacities and I was wondering if there is any form of NAS software which will just take all of these drives and shove them together as a larger volume. I know that speeds and latencies will be terrible, but I just want to squeeze some life out of older hard drives and have some sort of external storage system to mess around with. I also know that it would be MUCH better to buy new NAS hard drives which are exactly the same and out them into a machine and use some proper software, but for me that would just cost too much at this stage, I just want something to play around with and build my knowledge Any help would be much appreciated
  16. I thought it would be something along these lines. So you are saying that adding another GPU to this setup (if it works at all) would make no difference in game at all
  17. I am asking this out of pure curiosity as a proof of concept so to speak (but also would be willing to try it) I have a mini ITX board, which only has one PCIe slot for one GPU, however the board has two m.2 slots, one of which is being used for an SSD and one which is free. I am aware of adaptors which take an m.2 connection and convert it to a PCIe connection. However I am curious what would happen if you were to run two identical GPUs in SLI/crossfire. One GPU running from the m.2 slot and the other from the regular PCIe. Would this improve in game performance over one GPU, would this "double" FAH scores ect
  18. Yeah, that's what I think I will do. I was just wondering if anyone knows of a smaller cable that doesn't need three adaptors to make, as space is at a premium. Thanks a bunch for your help though!
  19. Unfortunately there are no internal USB 2.0 headers
  20. Definitely! I have looked everywhere however and there is no one single cable which takes internal USB 3.1 to Micro USB. Apart from tinkering around a little with a few cables, there is nothing I can find.
  21. That is a Micro USB to USB-C. What I need is a USB 3.1 to Micro USB. I need it to connect from the motherboard straight into the AIO pump. Imagine connecting all of the products in the images together here
  22. Yep, but there is no simple USB 3.1/3.0 to micro USB connector (which I can find), without having to plug adaptors into adaptors
  23. I am upgrading my PC a little bit, my current PC has had no issues with fan configurations as it is a "regular" style case. However I am upgrading to a phanteks ENTHOO EVOLV SHIFT X, which has a strange airflow system. I will be using a 280mm radiator in the front. I am not too sure which airflow configuration will have the best performance in terms of internal temperatures and dust management. I will have a regular GPU (not watercooled) with hopefully a modest overclock too. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated
  24. I have recently bought a new system, with an ROG STRIX Z270-I GAMING and Corsair H115i platinum. -The motherboard only has one USB 3 internal connector and one USB 3.1 internal connector. Problem is that the AIO cooler needs a micro-usb connection, and there is an adaptor, however it is only USB 2, physically incompatible with USB 3 headers. I want a simple USB 3/3.1 internal header to micro USB connection, without having to buy a load of bulky adaptors, as I have very little cable management space (Phanteks ENTHOO EVOLV SHIFT X) Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated :)
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