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M.2 is for boot. SSD's are going to be in RAID for active content. 3TB HDD is for storing content that isn't in use at the time. I haven't considered the locked CPUs as it's kind of in budget but I will take a look at other motherboard offerings and locked CPUs. By saying that do you think I should be looking at the 2666 version of the LPX? Cheers man!

The video processing is very demanding. Capturing up to 4x 1080p inputs, outputting a little over more than 4k over a couple outputs

Building a media server for video playback for a nightclub. It needs to do the following: - LED Video Wall @ 1080p - Control screen @ 1080p - Projection map @ 5,760 x 1080 - Standard screen @ 1080p - Run Resolume Arena 6 I've gone through a few iterations and below is what I think is the best option. What are your guys thoughts? PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/xk6Jw6 Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/xk6Jw6/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor (£303.59 @ Aria PC) CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-U9S 46.4 CFM CPU Cooler (£52.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Motherboard: Asus - ROG Strix Z370-H Gaming ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£158.98 @ Aria PC) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£286.97 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£77.94 @ Aria PC) Storage: Samsung - 860 Pro 512GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£167.94 @ Aria PC) Storage: Samsung - 860 Pro 512GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£167.94 @ Aria PC) Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£73.19 @ Aria PC) Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GAMING X Video Card (£746.31 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£117.04 @ Amazon UK) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro Full 32/64-bit (£184.97 @ Ebuyer) Wired Network Adapter: Intel - E1G42ETBLK PCI-Express x4 10/100/1000 Mbps Network Adapter (£95.97 @ Scan.co.uk) Case Fan: Noctua - NF-F12 PWM 55.0 CFM 120mm Fan (£16.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Case Fan: Noctua - NF-R8 redux-1800 PWM 31.4 CFM 80mm Fan (£9.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Case Fan: Noctua - NF-R8 redux-1800 PWM 31.4 CFM 80mm Fan (£9.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Other: Codegen 4U Rackmount 600mm Deep Server Case (£84.98) Other: Blackmagic Decklink Duo 2 (£387.60) Other: 120mm Fan Filter (£3.49) Other: 80mm Fan Filter (£3.49) Other: 80mm Fan Filter (£3.49) Other: Backlit Keyboard (£12.99) Total: £2966.76 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-07-03 12:57 BST+0100

Quite expensive but would be sickkk

The Story: Bought an Asus MX279H about 2 years ago. Around 3 months ago is starting going funny; the screen would go blank but the LED indicated that it was still powered and 'on'. To sort this I had to unplug the power, leave for 5 seconds and plug back in. As time went on I had to leave it unplugged for longer and longer before it worked again. The OSD buttons went at this point too. Now it just doesn't turn on at all! I got in touch with Asus UK but they said the monitor was bought in Germany (I bought from Amazon UK Marketplace) and to speak to Asus Germany. Asus Germany were happy to replace it, if I had a pick up address in Germany; which I don't. Originally Asus UK said it sounds like a power issue. I bought a 3rd party power lead and transformer thingy, hasn't resolved the issue. I've opened it up and nothing looks dodgy; PCBs all seem in tact etc Anyone out there got any ideas?

Got any suggestions about what might be wrong mate?

Checked the Mobo spec. Can support up to Phenom 9600 Quad. Cheers for the advice!

Haha I do love her, I just can't afford to get her a new computer. Cheers though!

C'mon! It isn't that bad! She only uses it for Chrome and Word.

My Mum uses an ancient HP A6421.UK desktop. Specs are listed below. The main bottle neck of the system is the CPU. Seems to be pegged at 90% constantly even with fresh install. I'm wondering what is the highest performing CPU that I could use to upgrade this? I've found a number of AM2 CPUs for a mere £20 on eBay, just not certain which will work. HP A6421.UK AMD Athlon 64 x2 4400+ MSN68-LA Mobo Corsair DDR2 4GB Corsair 60GB SSD Some terrible discrete graphics card (it's good enough) Cheers!

Hi LTT Guys - (Sorry about the long intro) So I work for at my Students Union in Tech and I'm currently putting a report together with ways to upgrade the screens we have dotted around the building. In total there is around 34 screens all ran off Kramer Video Senders/Receivers and VGA'd into the screen (Yes I know it should be HDMI but this required dual layer cat6 so they went VGA, meh). At the minute we have a laptop running powerpoint, which is then sent to another Kramer Unit which sends the video to all the screens. As each screen has its own Kramer Video Receiver, we can theoretically send a different video input to each screen (if we had 34 different video inputs). My plan is to run around 3 or 4 different video feeds to certain groups of TVs. EG drink adverts to TVs behind the bar, sports game stream to TVs in booths etc... TL;DR HOWEVER, at some point we may want to send up to 6 different outputs to various TVs (probably just Powerpoints and videos for now), so we would require a PC capable of running 6x VGA video outputs; what graphics card(s) would be best suited for this? At the minute we run the TVs on 1024x768 as the projects we have are 4:3 so it scales on both on the TVs and Projectors nicest at that res. We may also want to have up to 3 different outputs for audio. There are 3 floors to the building and at some point we may want to play different music on each floor. Another idea is to use XSplit to add some overlays to video adverts such as time, data, tweets, BBC news feed, now playing song info etc. So the PC will be used for multiple things. Budget Unlimited. Whatever it costs, they'll probably get it. The tech budget was £1.5m, so they aren't afraid to throw some $$$ at it. Location UK Case Fullsize 4u case would be best as we have loads of space on the racks

kodi ftw

Favourite part has to be dat cooler. Looks sexier than my H100 that's developed a horrible cough

1080p footage from movies. He makes mash-up trailers like this (Not his video) and general freelance video editing. Also wants to dive into After Effects and 3D work as his current laptop obvs won't run it. Your input is muchly appreciated! Cheers

@WoodenMarker I'm requiring your expertise input seeing as you're responsible for all PCs I've put together for friends!