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Thank you for the feedback, very useful. Dale

I work from home and many times I have to log into a VPN for a customer. When I do this I cannot access the Internet. If I use two different NIC cards can I configure this somehow to use one for the VPN and the other to connect to the internet at the same time? Any help would be much appreciated. Dale

I am probably one of the oldest members here, been around tech and computing for over 30 years. I have worked hard for almost the same amount of time earning what I have, having to make decisions that impact my family and those around me. I worked my way up from the trenches to were I am today with blood sweat and sometimes tears. Linus provides free video entertainment, a free forum here for people to have discussions. He has worked hard and earned his way from being a retail pawn to where he is today. If more of you young people would take lessons from what he has acheived and work just as hard as he has you might be doing as well as he is. He provides for his family, which includes those who work for him. He has responsibilities to live up to and provide for those individuals. He decided to work smart and has built his business from the ground up. With a lot of hard work. Which I doubt most of the keyboard warriors sitting in their tighty whities behind the screen with a bag of chips and a 2L soda can say for themselves. I would suspect most of the keyboard warriors are still living at home with mommy and have no repsonsibilities other than turning on their PC nad drinking cans of Monster. I challenge you to do half of what Linus has accomplished by the time you are his age and support the family and people he does. Until you have those repsonsibilities or have built something comparitive to what he has, your opinion doesnt amount to the sweat rolling of his back from the hard work he has poured into his business, " his business" not yours.

Before the Atari, we programmed the TRS80 to play pong, dad would order us the programming magazines that had the code in them, then save the program to tape, then 5 1/2 in floppies when they came out. I went through my Dad's things last year and found an unopened box of 5 1/2 in Verbatim floppies still sealed in the celaphane.

Man you guys make me feel OLD! My first "PC" was a TRS 80, in the early 1980's with a tape drive and a tiny CRT monitor, been building and tinkering with them since.... before Atari, and I still hae the original Atari from my childhood.

Go to www.microcenter.com under products/clearance/openbox, you can get some great deals there. I bought a Corsair 730T case for 100 bucks just because the box was opened. But I know they have some NAS with and without disks, look there and in clearance or refurbished, good deals there as well.

Very good, I use 2 SSD's in a raid 1, 2 1TB Seagate HDD's for storage in a raid 1. I primarily require redundancy, I use my PC for work as well as gaming so I cant afford to lose data and then backup to the cloud.

I was looking at your build there at the bottom of your response, are you using only one SSD drive for the system?

True, most new comers to AMD and the FX line tend to do that. I have been using AMD since their first single core.... (another grey hair just poped into my chin). I have used water cooling in some builds and air in others, just depends on what the coffee does to me that morning. And I want to say that old AMD was a K5? my memory not as long as it used to be. Anyway, I just really enjoy the conversation and the sharing of knowledge, no matter the topic. I work from home these days so I get on here and see what I can get into, thank you for the responses I hope I didnt come across like an ass..

Benji, I write algorithms for a living specifically for power and cooling so I know how that works. The personal tools I use for managing my temps gives me quite accurate temps. My load temps are right around 52c usually. As farf as copper loops is concerned it was mainly meant to help get my point across about water/ligquid cooling. I engineer cooling systems/power systems and control systems for many different applications. If you had the space using longer coil runs it would make a difference in temp. Yes most AIO untis are adequate, that was not the point. Main point being you CAN achieve adequate and or very good temps with air cooling.

I'm an old timer, I can remember when there was nothing but air cooling, so it is what I grew up with. Plus my work environment is all about energy/cooling/electricity and control. If you bring in air from front/sides/bottom and push air out through top and back with enough air flow you can maintain very good temps even with a load. Currently I am maintaining 42c CPU temp @ 1.5v CPU and 23c MB temp, CPU clock is 4.4ghz

Yes, additional cooling capacity. There isnt really enough distance or length in the tubing run or the within the radiator to make significant change in the temprature. So its not about speed, its about heat disipation. Dont get me wrong, the all in one CPU coolers are good for maintaining good temps, but I achieve good temps with air cooling as well. And I am not against liquid cooling, with a larger case then the one I currently have, using copper, I myself would use liquid cooling but would create a copper loop/coil that would be in line with the raidator to better disipait heat.

Hmm.... apologies it didnt register about the Ubuntu. Installing it on the USB drive it might work, you are not actually installing it on the Ubuntu machine, your installing it to the USB. Might work or you might have to get on a Windows or Apple machine to get the media created on the USB. Apologies....

The problem you have is that Windows will not boot from an ISO. You have to create the bootable media. You go to this link and download the media creation tool that will install and create the bootable USB media for you. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10