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Checklist To Be Prepared For LAN Party (Adjust if needed if you use a laptop):
1. PC 2. Monitor 3. Keyboard 4. Mouse 5. 2 Power cables 6. A wired internet cable 7. Display cable for your monitor that can hook to your PC 8. Mouse pad 9. Headphones 10. Game controller 11. Have the games that are going to be played at the LAN party pre bought, downloaded, and updated 12. A PC clean of dust and disgusting stuff that builds up on the inside If you don't have any of those listed please let a friend who is coming know and see if they can help out   Extra stuff that would be handy to have to contribute to helping others set their PCs up: 1. Extension cord and power strip 2. Network switch 3. Snacks and Drinks 4. Plates and cups 5. Folding chairs 6. Compressed air can (to help anyone who needs a quick dust off of their PC or to get crumbs out of a keyboard) 7. Extra mouse pads   Extra personal stuff that is handy: 1. Water bottle or reusable bottle 2. Phone USB cable to charge phone (you can plug your phone into your PC to charge it no need for the wall plugs as outlets may be scarce) 3. Small USB fan 4. Webcam and/or microphone 5. A pillow or cushion to sit on 6. Extra cash for dinner   And if you want to be extra safe making sure everything works and nothing breaks: 1. Extra cables 2. Screw driver 3. Extra mouse/keyboard 4. USB drive with Windows installer on it   Now remember to check and make sure everything works before you bring it, be prepared to sit for multiple hours and make sure to keep yourself cool and hydrated. Also most importantly HAVE FUN.   If I missed anything feel free to add it below

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.

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
 

That partlist seems good I have the RX 480 and a i5 4690k and I'm currently running overwatch at ultra settings 1080p at over 80fps and quite often going over 90fps so a RX 470 will be good

Well in my opinion at least find a old 250gb HDD off eBay for $20 so he'll be able to go for a while until he needs a bigger HDD because with the core games I play a 270gb ssd fills up fast for me since I'm not able to put the 3 core games I play on my SSD without filling it up. Also I have had good luck with some eBay hdds I remember getting 2 of them to put into builds I was building for family members and they still work great after they had the PCs for a while now.

Well I don't think the OPs friend will have a stack of HDDs laying arround like some of us PC guys who do PC building a lot I have a stack of like 4 HDDs on my dresser sadly they are all IDE though

A great way to spent $20:
 

True but I already have a assortment of HDDs totaling 5.5 tb of HDD goodness in my main PC

I do video editing so that's why I have so much HDD space I have like 300gb worth of videos saved to one drive on my PC and I also managed to fill a entire 500gb drive full of games. I can thank The Witcher 3, Rise of The Tomb Raider and Doom for all that space taken up. 

When you shoot video at 1080p 50fps at a pretty high bitrate with a DSLR and you also record your screen a lot when playing games for replays you will fill up HDDs very quick

that's really cool, my teacher dropped his MacBook pro-15 inch his foot and had a broken foot. 

search and buy a used Thinkpad from ebay with a 940m. 

Lol that's the funniest thing I have read all day good thing my foot wasn't where my 13 inch brick of a gaming laptop landed

I'm doing video editing on a Alienware 13 with a i7 5500U dual core with hyperthreading and 16gb of RAM with a GTX 860m 2gb and it handles 1080p fine from my DSLR with the preview quality turned down a tiny bit in Adobe premier but it works and gets the job done you should be fine with that laptop as I believe my low powered 5th gen Broadwell i7 is a bit slower then a current gen Kabylake i5

Well I don't think the OPs friend will have a stack of HDDs laying arround like some of us PC guys who do PC building a lot I have a stack of like 4 HDDs on my dresser sadly they are all IDE though

Meanwhile in Arizona.. 

AWW YE, SCHOOL WAS CANCELED
 
 

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I'd say, put a GPU in there and you have a very solid OC for less than a console

My response was more so as backlash to younger audiences assuming they're owed something from the YouTuber rather than criticism towards you or your post. It bothers me personally to watch people take free content and then criticize the publisher for not releasing videos sooner or being personally offended when the content creator changes directions in his content.
 
One video a day doesn't seem like an easily sustainable model, props to the guys who do it and still release good content, but I'd imagine you would have to take breaks from that.

That's what the forum is for we aren't here to command you what to do we are here to give some advice and suggestions and help you fix the problem

They should but I dunno in your room My room is covered in sound foam.

i have a 1070 and two 1440p monitors, i average more than 100FPS on almost all the games i play
you can turn setting down to get more fps if you want
 
i recommend 1440P
144hz if you can