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That looks TERRIBLE!!! It's SVGA resolution - that means it's 4:3 aspect and 800x600 resolution. I have the older version of the Optoma GT760. It's projecting a 120" image from 6 feet away. I've had it for 5 years and my bulb life is still at just about 50%. It even does 3D with cheap eBay DLP link glasses. Epson makes some nice projectors too, but keep a close eye on the resolution. Basically, expect to pay $700-$1000 for a decent projector. The quality takes a nosedive below the $700 mark.

Setting it on a cardboard box is generally the accepted way to test a motherboard before putting it in the case. You should be fine. I have a build that I just mounted to an ikea $12 bamboo cutting board. I used the motherboard to mark out the locations for the stand-off, then just drilled a hole slightly larger than the thread of the brass standoffs. Used 5 minute epoxy to secure the stand offs and mounted the board. Still kicking after a year.

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Sandy Bridge Xeons are CHEAP! Here's a quad core e3-1220 for $38 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Intel-Xeon-E3-1220-3-1GHz-8MB-5GT-s-4-Thread-SR00F-LGA-1155-Server-Processor/183183975865?hash=item2aa69da5b9:g:~bIAAOSw8Zha1n0g Supermicro server board for $50 including heatsink. Dual network ports PLUS IPMI for remote management and six onboard SATA ports - no need to buy an add on card for more ports. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Supermicro-X9SCL-Server-MBD-Intel-C202-Chipset-Socket-H2-LGA-1155-HeatSink/273150331030?hash=item3f99074896:g:KVUAAOSwRypZjf-J This board supports (requires?) ECC RAM. Which is a good thing because it's ECC and more importantly because older and slower server memory pricing hasn't gone full retard lately. I just bought 48GB of ECC DDR3 the othe day for $210 Canadian. Here's 8GB for $50 https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Hynix-8GB-4x2GB-PC3-10600E-DDR3-1333Mhz-240PIN-CL9-ECC-Unbuffered-UDIMM-Memory/362188389340?hash=item54541c3bdc:g:rlwAAOSwA~VaNJv2 Get two of the 16GB Samsung SSDs. Yes 16GB. You set them up in a software RAID 1 mirror set for your boot device. You don't need anything bigger than that for your OS. NEVER, EVER put your OS and your data on the same drive. These are server grade drives and should last forever, but keeping them in a RAID 1 will ensure that if one of them fails, your OS will keep happily running along with no downtime for the users. These are going for $18, but I have seen and purchased some for as low as $12/each. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Samsung-16GB-MLC-2-5-SATA-II-SSD-Solid-State-Drive-MMBRE16G5MSP-0VA-R418N/322977790548?hash=item4b32f9fa54:g:CrUAAOSwh1haRxxY For power supply, just go with Seasonic. In my experience and opinion they are absolutely bulletproof. Look what $25 gets you. An overkill 430 watt unit that will outlive you. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/SeaSonic-S12-II-SS-430GB-430W-ATX12V-SLI-Ready-CrossFire-Ready-80-PLUS-Certified/183186838796?hash=item2aa6c9550c:g:HycAAOSwMh5a2OKl Get four drives for storage and you're good to go. You can get WD Red NAS 2tb drives for about $50. Put the four in RAID5 and you have 6TB of Storage with the ability to loose one data drive and not loose any data. Plus you can pick up a 6TB external drive for $100 and back up your complete RAID array for offsite storage. Not counting your data drives, the auctions I linked add up to $199 US. Another $200 for the four drives and $100 for a external back up device puts you at $500. That's for top quality server grade hardware. Oh and FYI - that's the exact mobo and CPU that I was running on my Plex server. With 16GB of RAM, it has enough horsepower to transcode 4 simultaneous 1080p streams and saturate a 10gb network card while recording from 4 security cameras to a RAID1 array.

A lot (most) of these displays were sold to macbook users - as the magsafe port would suggest. If the previous owner was someone that plugged and unplugged their macbook into the display multiple times a day, the actual displayport connector may be faulty. One of my 24" displays has a connector on it's way out - sometimes I have to wiggle the connection to the DP-mDP adapter to get it to turn on. For what it's worth the adapter that I'm using is the Startech adapter from amazon. You can try getting a friend with a macbook to plug in to the display directly. The Original Surface Pro tablet also has a mDP plug and I can confirm that it drives my displays perfectly. I haven't opened up the flaky connector on my screen so I can't give you any further advice on how to possibly repair it. I've seen replacement cables on ebay, but they are about $80 and you have to take apart the entire display to change it.

Optoma makes some nice units. Try GT760, GT1080, GT5500+.

There are two versions of the Apple Cinema display; one is is the displayport version and the other is the thunderbolt version. The video connector is the same as apple runs thunderbolt through the displayport connector. If the breakout cable from the monitor has magsafe, mini displayport AND USB connectors, you have a displayport version and it SHOULD work with your pc. If the cable has ONLY magsafe and mini displayport, it will NOT work with PC. Unless you have a motherboard that supports a thunderbolt add on card and the add on card supports injecting displayport into thunderbolt. I have three of the older Apple Cinema Displays with the USB plug and they all work perfectly with PCs and Windows. Windows even automatically recognizes and installs generic drivers for the USB hub, the built in speakers and the isight camera.

Yes, quite easily actually. Just be aware to do it means ripping the screen out of the laptop; there is no way to just add an HDMI in to a working laptop - sort of. Open up the screen assembly on the laptop and get the part number off of the back - then just go on ebay and search for that part number and 'driver'. They usually go for about $30. Most of them will give you hdmi, dvi and vga inputs. Some have composite inputs as well. They will have backlight drivers on the same board and some include a separate board with push buttons to navigate an on screen menu for settings like brightness and contrast. If you want to continue to use the laptop, although you can't DIRECTLY add HDMI input, what you could do is buy a USB HDMI video capture device. It's not ideal and would probably add a ton of latency, but your HDMI source looks like a webcam to the computer and you could then just use whatever software you want to play back that video feed full screen.

How old is this hard drive? I have never personally seen a hard drive with both SATA and Molex power connectors. If it's a really old drive, could be dead from other causes.

Technically yes, but dependant on operating system or hardware RAID controller. Only very specific types of workloads benefit from this type of setup and it's generally not recommended. Better off getting a large SSD.

Try a BIOS reset.

As Electronics Wizardy mentioned, get it from OWC. This is what you need; $49. https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MAU3ENVOY12/

Here you go. https://www.amazon.ca/StarTech-com-USB3SPNLAFHD-2-Port-Motherboard-Header/dp/B006PHY0GM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524026200&sr=8-1&keywords=usb+3+header&dpID=41wadG7pU7L&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

No, I use the Mellanox card in a different machine. I use the Chelsio card in the FreeNAS server. Apparently, there is supposed to be support for the Mellanox cards in the next release of FreeNAS, but I can tell you from experience that as of right now the Chelsio card is just drop it in and fire it up; it worked with zero configuration. The Mellanox card in Windows 8.1 required downloading drivers from the Mellanox website.

Stay with 10Gb. That video is a joke and Linus should be ashamed of making that. I have two of those Mellanox cards. I bought them together for $14 each. You can get SFP+ transceivers for those cards from Fiberstore for about $17 each and I picked up 80 feet of optical cable for under $20 from Fiberstore as well. When you're shopping for transceivers you'll want SR (short range) tranceivers with LC connectors. Without any optimization, doing file transfers to a FreeNAS server with SMB, I'm getting around 700-800 MB/s transfers. Be aware that FreeNAS does NOT support the Mellanox cards. I'm using a Chelsio 310 card that I picked up for about $50 including transceiver in the FreeNAS server.