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That's really helpful cheers! Yeah I've heard so many different things about the Z series and really didn't want to buy into it to only find it basically isn't fit for purpose. I'll take a look into hardware on eBay as I don't have anything lying around but at least this gives me a good baseline. Thanks again

I'm open to suggestions, as far as I'm aware a rack mount might be easier for longer term additions to the home lab?

Excluding drives I've got roughly £500 to play with, however I'd rather do this right the first time so if saving for a few more months is the best bet then I'm happy to do that.

Is that stand alone CPU performance? Or combined if it has dual socket support?

To begin with it'll need to cope with 2 1080p streams, however I see that increasing to 4 in the near future once friends request access.

Looking at getting into the homelab scene and after some research I need a few pointers. First off essentially I'm looking for my homelab to do the following things short term. plex server NAS (with file access for multiple people over the web) Development VM's for applications in writing/ will build over time Potentially self hosting of my brothers website (will have low traffic) Backup repository for 2 laptops and PC A host of other VM's down the line for playing/ learning e.g pfsense Having done a bit of browsing and asking a friend of mine he suggested a HP Z800 or Z820 (if I can find a relatively cheap one). As far as I can understand this machine sounds like it'll have plenty of processing power and RAM capacity, however what I'm unsure about is the HDD aspect. I'm looking to use FreeNAS as the base OS so would be booting of a thumb drive, is this possible with this machine? Additionally over time I'd build up a big chunk of data to store so would ideally be looking at getting fewer larger drives (say 4TB or 6TB as this will give me long term growth instead of buying lots of small drives that I end up having to change all of them) but again I've read somewhere the Z800 series only supports 2TB which be a massive pain. Are my concerns accurate and if so what other solution should I start looking at? Thanks in advance. EDIT: Since posting I've done some more reading and seen some suggestions for a dual E5-2670 setup - it seems I'd be able to get a super micro 2U 8 bay rack case that would allow an ATX dual LGA-2011 mobo for the xeons is this a viable option? I believe it increases cost a fair bit but that's okay, I'd rather do it right first time.

Hi there, I'm currently researching into the constellation method for tracking moving objects, as far as I'm aware the Oculus Rift uses this method. Currently I am reading through some heavy literature reviews and literature reports being unable to fully understand how this method works. Is there anyone that could give an introductory explanation of the method and how it works in the hope that if I grasp the basics and principle behind the method the reports will start making more sense. Thanks very much in advance!

Hi guys, i'm currently playing around with databasing (mysql and php) I've been doing this for a couple weeks now and have come up with quite a cool little practice website however, on friday evening i went to do some more work on it and when trying to access localhost in my browser i came up with the following error (photos included). I have literally tried everything, followed every forum i can find yet nothing seems to be working, has anyone got any ideas as to how it broke itself? If you need anymore info or screenshots please do say, i'm just losing my mind over this thanks in advance for any help, Nick

I would love the Excalibur v2 keyboard, I've been wanting to change my keyboard out for a mechanical one for some time now D:

There's some nice builds going on here guys well done! Very creative names too here's mine: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/guide/M4PxFT/msi-build-your-dream-pc-guide-drogon

Both mice would be a damn fine upgrade for me but i think if i was to choose I'd pick the Kova keep up the good work LMG and cheers Roccat for the give away!

If you really want to uninstall it rename the fold/applications and that way when you end the task it wont restart it automatically so then you can unistall

Because my start button has also gone rogue, 9/10 times i get onto windows and when i click the button it tells me theres an error and theyll try fix it next time i log in, been like that for weeks now and i've tried everything to fix it.

Oh right, do you know which update it is?

All of a sudden my RivaTuner wont open at all... I double click to load, it runs the program (as its in task manager and stats show up in game) yet it doesnt show up on screen so i cannot edit setting or anything, any ideas?