SuperShermanTanker

Might just be a bad VGA cable or adapter on my desktop I keep in my room that I used a VGA cable and a DVI to VGA I get some not too noticable but still there wavy lines on the display when there's a dark image on the screen and I know it's from the cable since if I jitter the cable a bit the lines go away and come back

Cant bring the modem nor my switch since it's now being used on my network which I can not disconnect but I will definately bring some eathernet cables

I'm not hosting the party my friend is at his house

So I'm going to be going to a friend's LAN party next week and I want to get what I'm going to bring ready before the LAN party. I'm going to bring 2 PCs, my ITX shoe box sized LAN Party/Spare PC and my 13 inch Alienware 13 laptop for a friend to play on since he can't bring his PC. I do know what perfierals I'm going to bring but I have multiple monitors and I don't know which monitor I should use. I have a 19 inch AOC 1080p 75hz Freesync display, a 23 inch 1080p Lenovo Touch screen display, two 22inch Acer 1680x1050 res displays and lastly I have my old VGA 17inch 720p Emachines display with built in speakers. Also I don't know what other stuff I should bring cable wise, the last LAN party I went to I brought my network switch and a bunch of eathernet cables and power cables but this time I want to go with a setup just for me and my one friend who is going to use my laptop. This is the PC I'm going to be bringing and it has a i5 4590 and a Radeon R7 370

The server is sitting in the closet of the room I sleep in and I'm a very light sleeper so that server has to be as quiet as a whisper

Yah I'm considering that but the noctuas are a bit pricy

It's a bit of a oldie that was upgraded it's a Athlon 64 X2 2.2ghz with 4gb of RAM, a 120gb SSD boot drive with a 1tb 7200rpm Seagate storage drive, and I installed a new PSU in it that is a 300watt Seasonic 80+ Bronze power supply. It also has a PCI Express usb 3.0 card that has a built in gigabit eathernet port on it. Also I'm kind of curious how well the noctua fan will work with the CPU cooler I have.

So I want to get a different fan then what came with my aftermarket CPU cooler for my file server and I want it to be somthing that's quiet and is 80mm I currently found a static pressure Cooler Master one on Amazon but I wonder if there's somthing out there that would be just as good and quieter

Server is all upgraded to the new cooling system

Good to know I'll definately take a look into that

I'll definately look into that I don't know about SAS drives though how are they in terms of price and reliability? Will look into those too maybe I can get a 5 drive raid array going eventually in the little thing or at least get a bay or two that's not blocked by the RAM and CPU cooler

It's just a file server and maybe also a basic personal media server in the future. Also I'm running Windows Server 2016.

I'm currently using Windows Server 2016 that I got for free from the collage I go to and I do want to upgrade the storage in the future as well as maybe set up a raid setup as the machine has 4 drive bays and a extra 5.25 inch bay I can fit a adapter in for either a pair of 2.5 inch drives or a extra 3.5 inch HDD And yes the server is a bit power hungry but after letting the Athlon 64 X2 downclock itself at idle it goes under 1ghz at idle and the server basicly idles most of the time until I either transfer some files or it does it's nightly backup to the cloud and I only am going to spend money as needed for upgrades and mantinance so I don't have a specific budget and I'm not going to buy anything really expensive for it too. I do know somthing like a synology NAS would work but I don't have the budget to spend the money on one and for a cheaper price (not counting power consumption) I can use the machine I already have that still is comparable in performance to a Atom/Celron based server.

So I have a file server I set up a few weeks ago from a old Athlon 64 X2 2.2ghz Acer Desktop that had 4gb of RAM and I set it up with a 300watt Seasonic 80+ Bronze PSU, a 1tb 7200rpm Seagate Survalance drive for storage and a 120gb Silicon Power SSD for a boot drive. The first upgrade I did was to modernize the machine a bit and I got a PCI Express x1 USB 3.0 card that had a gigabit eathernet port built in and I got specificly that card so I can add a SATA 3 RAID card later on which needs the larger PCI Express slot in the server as the server only has 2 PCI Express slots For the second upgrade I got a newer DVD drive and I hooked it up to a PCI to SATA 1 card I had laying around as the machine only has 2 SATA 2 ports And now for the 3rd upgrade I'm just using parts I already have laying around I'm going to upgrade the cooling and make the server a bit quieter by replacing the old fans and putting a tower cooler in the machine And hopefully after I upgrade the cooling system there will be smoother airflow through the machine and it will run a bit quieter Also I do want to ask does anyone have any suggestions for future upgrades as I'm kind of new with figuring out a upgrade path for a file server?