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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): 1. Budget & Location Budget (including currency): <$1000 USD not a hard limit but going over will require strong justification for the value Country: United States 2. Aim Short term(2 years): CS Degree in Data Science. Some Machine Learning and Database work. Zoom Calls Long Term(10-15 years): Simple home office and occasional photo editing (just touch ups and Christmas cards). No gaming at all so probably doesn't need a GPU unless there is a good reason to have it for ML based course work. Web, Excel, watching videos 3. Monitors/Peripherals We have a Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, and web cam already, so don't need those. Will need a copy of Windows 4. Why are you upgrading? Wife is using a $500 laptop from 2009 and it isn't keeping up with her course work. Plan is to build a small desktop computer that, realistically, she will use for at least 10 years. She won't upgrade unless it is legit broken or actually can't do what she needs anymore, she is the master at tolerating slow to avoid buying new tech. 5. Requirements Small, smaller the better as her desk does not have much room. 16-32GB of RAM will eventually be upgraded to 32 but might not start there USB-C front IO (for future proofing) No RGB or glass panel as she won't care at all but case in a fun color is totally on the table 2-4Tb of total storage. expect 400Gb photo library, 50Gb music library, 100Gb school work plus room to grow and/or have backups Room for at least 2 drives (including NVMe SSD) Wifi 6 Ideally quiet, at least not loud BONUS: because she is old school, she would use a DVD/BlueRay drive for watching movies if it had one. I realize this completely flies in the face of "small" though. 6. Timeline Looking to buy and build the system this fall. Next semester she will need it starts in January so finishing the build in January is ideal. If there is something, like a new CPU gen or black friday deals coming that is worth waiting a couple months for I can

I have a home NAS in a Fractal Design Node 304 case. In it I have 5 HDDs and an SSD. The hard drives are all running hot 45-50C, which while within spec, is close the max. I have the stock front and exhaust fan plus a Hyper Evo 212 CPU cooler in the case. Is there any way to improve cooling in the case? Would replacing the stock fans make much of a difference?

I am looking for some cheap and compact speaker. The ones built into my monitor (BenQ GW2765) aren't quite loud enough sometimes so really all I want is a small volume boost. Budget: $50 max, really hoping for something around $30, cheaper the better Uses: - Spoken word: Youtube videos and Top Gear - NO MUSIC, I don't listen to music so anything base heavy is a negative Features: - Compact, single unit - Hang from my monitor if possible. I am really trying to avoid taking up any desk space. Thanks for any suggestions!

I cheat constantly. I don't have the time to play games slowly and carefully like it would take for me to beat them without cheating so I play them with cheats to "speed them up" I at least get the story but I do miss out on the stress and some excitement.

But is your GPU sagging? Some motherboards/cases have stronger PCIe slots so can take more load. Sever sag most definitely can damage the PCIe slot, just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it isn't a risk.

Why does he want to trade? It would be a downgrade for him and upgrade for you if real? I cannot find a model called "Combat" on Inno3D's site but if it is a single fan you will probably be sacrificing noise and heat for a faster graphics card.

About RAID, both FreeNAS and UnRAID explicitly say that they DO NOT support RAID cards and using them can actually result in data loss. Both OS's need direct access to the drives and their SMART access as they manage the raid like redundancy themselves. Key differences: FreeNAS: - Has great data integrity protection - Must have all drives the same size and you cannot add drives to an array, the only way to expand is to replace ALL drives with larger ones. Unraid: - Can accept any mix of drives you want - Effectively only supports 1 large pool of drives (plus a cache pool)

No, it gets all of its power through the M.2 connector which in turn is powered from the Motherboard power connection.

Quick recommendation: Don't get mSATA. That connection format seems to have lost out to M.2 so I would expect that no new products will have it as they will all have M.2 instead. M.2 slots can support one or both connection protocols of PCIe (NVMe) or SATA. An NVMe SSD in a PCIe supported M.2 slot can be much faster than 2.5" SATA drives but most M.2 SSDs on the market now use the SATA connection protocol which means they are exactly the same speed as a 2.5" SATA drive. In the specific case of the Samsung 850 M.2, it uses SATA over M.2 so will be EXACTLY the same speed as the 2.5" version.

I have a G710+ and I dislike how much room it takes on the desk (why does it need to extend so far past the edge of the keys?) plus no RGB.

Screw holes will be the same on either version, the only difference is that the 9.5mm is slightly thicker with all the extra thickness being on the top side. I think most are 7mm but 9.5mm might be able to fit an extra platter in traditional HDD so could have higher capacities theoretically. Really, you just need to look at the specs of the drives you want to find out if any are 9.5mm. Or just allow 9.5mm of clearance and don't worry about the drives you buy.

If the price difference if negligible, get the 750w. The fan in it (and the 650 I believe) doesn't spin at all if the load is low enough and by getting the 750 you will spend more of your time in that silent range. Also, if you ever want to consider SLI/Crossfire in the future, the 750 will give you that extra breathing room.

It is also WAY more secure to use VPN (IPMI software is usually pretty easily hackable) so I would use VPN from a security standpoint anyway.

EVERYTHING on a network has a port. If you aren't specifying one in the URL for IPMI then the port is 80 (if it says HTTP) or 443 (the URL has HTTPS)

Nah, should be fine.