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RobinHood5

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    RobinHood5 got a reaction from Enderman in New Build crashing ONLY in PUBG   
    Yep, for sure. 
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    RobinHood5 got a reaction from SaintPosum in Need help with UPS   
    What matters more than your PSU size is what hardware you actually have in your system (or if you happen to know off the top of your head how many watts your system draws). You are probably not drawing anywhere near 650w if you have a normal gaming computer, certainly not under normal usage scenarios. 
     
    TLDR; 630w UPS is almost certainly big enough for your needs.
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    RobinHood5 got a reaction from Railgun in Any reason to not disable page file in windows?   
    This is some of the most hilarious bs i've heard on here
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    RobinHood5 reacted to AshleyAshes in Server Rebuild Time!   
    My current 'Server' as it stands.  However it does more than act as a server so I'll go over it's history quickly.
     

     
    It was an XBMC HTPC, powered by an Athlon 64 3200+ with (AGP) Radeon HD 4650 with a 2TB HDD for media.  I got fed up and replaed it with an AMD APU, A8-3870K with Gigabyte A75 board.  It eventually got an old Radeon HD 6850 added to it.  It got another drive and then it got more drives.  It currently uses DriveBender to pool 8 drives for a combined storage pool of 22.5TB of data with no redundancy except for select folders that contain something other than media.  In September the Gigabyte board failed and that lead to switching to an Asus B85M-G with i5 4590 in it.  It also now has a Radeon HD 6950 in it instead.  Well, the thing is this lacks expansion options for controllers and it's doing a LOT of jobs.  Like, it's running Kodi for my bedroom, it's running DriveBender, it runs Steam Big Picture Mode for the bedroom, SickBeard, CouchPotato, SABNZBD, Transmission, MySQL, and even Cinema 4D Team Render Client.  So I'm going to split this into TWO machines.  A dedicated server with PCIE slots to spare and a cute pink and black HTPC for the bedroom using the mATX board.  The first step is to rebuild this thing as a dedicated server!  However the hardware will temporarily still run dual purpose while I'll build the dedicated all pink and black bedroom Kodi/Steam machine.  So on with the specs!
     
    Case: Corsair 750D with extra HDD cages installed. ($185 CAD, plus $1CAD USD in cages, air flow panel and solid panel to replace the windowed panel.  Actually got this two months ago but let's factor it in as a cost)
    Motherboard: Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 (Free!  Bought it five years ago for a college workstation, this mobo has been decommissioned and in a box for two years now.)
    CPU: Intel i5 2300 2.8ghz ($80 USD, basically the cheapest compatible CPU I could source without going dual core.)
    RAM: 2x4GB Corsair SMS08GX3M2A13339C 1333mhz SO-DIMM DDR3 memory.  (Free!  In a drawer since a laptop was upgraded to 16GB.)
    Graphics: PowerColor Radeon HD 6850 1GB (Free!  Also left over from the college workstation.)
    PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 650w P2 ($99 CAD)
    Extra SATA Controller: SYBA SI-PEX40064 ($34.99 CAD.  I'll just add more of these as needed)
    RAM Adaptor: SO-DIMM to DIMM DDR3 adaptors  ($9.54 USD)
     
     
    Corsair would ONLY ship via UPS for $48 USD even if I ordered ONE $9.99 HDD cage, so the shipping and exchange are why those extra parts pricing sucks.  Since shipping stayed the same no matter how much I got, I went all out.  No, NO retailer in Canada carried Corsair after market accessories.  Yes, the Radeon 6850 is overkill, but the P67 chipset lacks graphics, I need graphics, and the 6850 is sitting on a shelf right now.  I'll install it on the bottom 4x/16x PCI-E slot so as to leave all other PCI-E slots free for SATA controllers and avoid dealing with riser cables. Look at the bright side, my server will play Portal 2 decently!  More realistically, the 6850 could add useful hardware video transcoding if needed.  And yes, I'll be using SO-DIMM memory in adaptors.  Yes you can do that.  Yes DDR3 DIMMS have 240 pins where as SODIMMs have only 204 pins, did you know that like a THIRD of DDR3's pins don't DO anything?  Go look at a pinout diagram, they're marked 'No Connection' and do literally nothing.  Why pay $50 for RAM when I have perfectly good laptop RAM that can go to use for $10 USD in adaptors?  Anyway, this build will begin next weekend, just waiting on the i5 2300 to arrive.
     
    As for software, yes, I don't like my total lack of a redundancy.  I'll be looking into adding 2x8TB drives and then using FlexRAID snapshot based parity.  This machine only is mostly just a hoard of media files so even a nightly parity snapshot is enough redundancy for my needs.  If I lose 24hrs of new data that has not had parity generated, I'll just redownload it.
     
    This server has evolved a lot and until two months ago it was in a crappy 'Senty' brand case that it barely fit in.  I still fondly remember when I put that APU board in it.  It seemed pretty awesome at the time.
     

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    RobinHood5 got a reaction from Scheer in Possible uses for a HP ProLiant DL360?   
    I've had one of the G4 servers and their not even worth turning on unless your just looking for a space heater. They are insanely loud, hot, and extremely underpowered. You could outperform it with an entry level desktop CPU. 
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    RobinHood5 got a reaction from KuJoe in Possible uses for a HP ProLiant DL360?   
    I've had one of the G4 servers and their not even worth turning on unless your just looking for a space heater. They are insanely loud, hot, and extremely underpowered. You could outperform it with an entry level desktop CPU. 
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