Janeyadonnah

I am looking to build a small and power efficient (german energy prices yay) home server using this Gigabyte Motherboard, a Ryzen 5 5600x (set to as power efficient as possible in bios), 2-4 sticks of ram and a M.2 ssd. As far as I can tell, the system shouldn't be using more than 100W. Normal ATX PSUs dont even start under 300W and perform poorly (efficiency wise) when only using <30% of their capability. I have heard of PicoPSUs and such, but my question is if they are still considered to be the best, reliable option for low power applications. Also the aspect to find a good quality 12v powerbrick is a bit tricky, as i dont have much experience in that field and everything on amazon looks to be the same. (if you have some recommendations here aswell, feel free to let me know)

For some additional info: - The CPU_LED is shining red on start-up and no other leds light up - We only get fan-spin and nothing else - We originally had reg. ECC RAM installed, but later found that to be incompatible. We have now switched to 1 standard DDR4 DIMM - We tried the Q-Flash Plus procedure, but couldnt find any information as to how to rename the BIOS file - We tried two different GPUs

If I remember correctly LibreOffice can also open Word Documents? Another idea would be to have a server with a few VMs (I already have a server capable of this task) and just let the Pi to connect to a VM. But I also don't know if the Pi has enough processing power to decode such a videostream ...

1. Budget & Location I would like to roughly spend max ~80€ per system. (I will need two) (Germany) In case of a raspberry this budget should incloud a powersupply and case. 2. Aim The system would be mainly used for presentation (e.g. browsing the web, word documents), but should also be able to play youtube videos (@1080p) or the occasional TV Stream (Network SAP) As Operating System I would choose some flavor of Linux/GNU 3. Monitors I have already purchased 2 1080p Monitors (each system would connect to one) (connection via HDMI) 4. Peripherals I would need to purchase a keyboard and mouse for each system, but this is not inclouded in the budget I have already looked at the Raspberry Pi 3B+, but I am not quite sure if it is able to play YouTube videos or network tv streams. Maybe you know of some sort of other small computing board, which would be more fitting? Anyway, thank you for your help!

yep, it states that feature on the specifiaction page on the gigabyte website guess I mark this thread as solved then

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for, I was looking at the K5 before, which stated that it *doens't* run ECC memory in ECC mode But the K7 does explicitly run it in ECC mode And as far as I'm concerned the BIOS flashback/dual BIOS feature is only on the expensivee Asus boards (200€+) or on the Gigabyte boards

So I have been looking around but couldn't really find something that fitted my needs. If you find one feel free to hit me up! The requested features: - chipset to support oc on my Ryzen 7 1700 - good MOSFET cooling, as the system will be used as a server and will be online 24/7 - support for ECC (unbuffered) memory - a way to reflash the BIOS/use a secondary BIOS in case it decides to kill itself (yes, i have had that problem on the Asus X370 Pro :c) - min. 6 sata 3 ports - min 2 PCIe x16 slots - min 4 DIMM slots

Wow, thank you for your effort! Unfortunatly my Mainboard (even though it costs ~150€) doesn't have Dual BIOS nor a socketed BIOS chip as far as I can see. An the thing with the 5sec power button is, that even directly after powering und starting up the system, it takes 5sec, which shouldn't be so Edit: But I think that just like the guy you quoted, my BIOS just decided to brick itself ... I will try to hit up Asus Support and see what they can do, I mean I am still under the warranty period

Edit --> As far as I can tell, there is no obvious damage or smth like that Edit 2 --> Sadly AFAIK there is no way to flash the bios without going into the BIOS/UEFI or an operating system. Correct me if I#m wrong! Oh and no luck with an analog monitor One other thing I noticed, was that to shut down the machine i need to press the power button for the full 5sec, with just a single short press nothing happens.

Disclaimer: YES, i have done all the troubleshooting steps for no POST as explained in this thread. The system DID work, but was pretty unstable with ubuntu 16.04 64bit (I am not the only one with Ryzen instability on ubuntu, seems to be a common problem). I then did a BIOS upgrade (from i think it was 0604) with a flash drive and the utility provided in the BIOS (i think I upgraded to 3402) After the BIOS update the system prehaved pretty normal e.g. i did a couple restarts, which worked fine A few days later, after the system locked up a few times, as usual with ubuntu on Ryzen, i wanted to restart the system, but there was no display output an the ethernet connection from the mainboard kept at 100Mbit/s. But all fans seem to run at their usual speed, as set in the BIOS. oh and the RGB lights oni the mobo still work, sooooo thats a positive i guess ... Specs of the system are: - Ryzen 7 1700 @stock - Asus X370-Pro - Noctua NH-D14 w/ Am4 Adapter - bequiet system power 8 PSU (have checked with another PSU which only had a 4pin EPS connectoer --> still no display) - GTX660 (checked with another GPU, same problem) - 250GB SSD - 3* 4TB Seagate IronWolf - one 16GB unbuffered ECC 2133Mhz DDR4 Stick (it isn't listed on the compatible page, but in general ECC is supported) (also couldn't test with other memory so far) - generic rack mount case Sadly, even though the mainboard is advertised as "pro", it DOESN'T have a error code read-out, or the handy reset bios usb port, which does work without a cpu. My bet would be that the mainboard is dead in one or another way. If you have any idea whatsoever, please hit me up, i will try to respond as soon as possible.

https://forums.battlefield.com/en-us/discussion/42847/high-cpu-usage-low-fps-potential-fix This seems to work for many people, sooo maybe try this

This really shouldn't be a bottleneck as far as I'm concerned. Can you post screenshots of the temperature and the frequency of your CPU?

When you go into the "This PC" folder you can see all the connected hard drives of your PC with an icon, a bar which displays the capacity of the drive and so on. And since one update ~1 year (maybe?) ago, the icons of those hard drives (and network drives) are moved a bit to the right, leaving blank space to left of them. I have seen this behaviour on several machines running the latest version of Windows 10. But on WIndows Server 2016 it is still the old way! Can someone link me to an article (as I haven't found one googling), or explain to me, how to get back the old style of displaying the icons? some screenshots: (Windows 10) (windows server 2016) the new, ugly and short way as it is supposed to be PS: Why do I care? It makes the possible name of the drive, without loosing the ability to directly see the capacity, shorter. e.g.:

So, i have searched the internet for up to date tutorials for installing ZFS and setting up a storage pool, but everybody seems to be doing different things, as some just install one package, punch in one command are ready to go and others pack together some packages install a whole bunch more and even modify some system files. I have tried some of those tutorials which led to not being able to complete the download process of packages to not being able to see the zfs pool after a reboot. And with that i am turning myself to you, loyal forum members! The current set up on which intent to use ZFS: Ryzen 7 1700 Asus Prime X399 16GB ECC unbuffered DDR4 (1 Stick) GTX 660 250GB SanDisk Plus (boot drive with ubuntu 16.04 LTS) 3x 4TB Seagate IronWolf (the ZFS array) What features i intend to use with ZFS: -RAID Z1 (~RAID5) with protection against bit-rot -create ONE pool, consisting of the 3 4TB drives -being able to add more drives in the future (which is relatively easy as far as I'm concernced) If you can provide a turorial which DOES indeed work I would kindly ask you to help me out

no that would work perfectly fine. I have 1 GTX980 and a 27" 1440p 144hz w/ gsync monitor and I am able to hit ~60fps in most games (which looks pretty daamn fine with gsync)