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I haven't considered that, thank you for the advice! The case I've been looking at is the Fractal Design Define R5 or R6 as it has a lot of hard drive mounts. I see! When doing my own research on NAS solutions in particular TrueNAS did look like a worthy candidate So I might be going with it.

Budget (including currency): $800-1k USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Plex, NAS, Minecraft server, self hosted discord bot Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc.): I'm going to be building this with older parts I have laying around what I have so far is mostly my old system that I can work with so it doesn't collect anymore dust, here's the list of parts I have leftover: CPU: i5-6600k Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo Motherboard: Z-170XP-sli RAM: Corsair LPX Vengeance DDR4 16GB 3000mhz (4GB x 4) GPU: GTX 970 or 950 (I have both) I plan to have two 18TB WD Reds in this system to start off I am hoping for some advice on what OS I could use for these use cases, and what case I should go for as well. This will be my first time putting together something like this. I will also appreciate any advice for going into this as well!

Well, it was mostly his decision on what he wanted to do since he makes money slowly. I'll have to see if he wants too, I think he might be able to return the motherboard. It's only been about 3 weeks since he bought it off Newegg so I think he's still in the window of return for it.

I fixed it, but it's a Gigabyte Windforce GTX 1080

He's been wanting to slowly get newer parts over time, so he'll most likely want to buy a new CPU. Otherwise he'll most likely just get a different motherboard, some of these new parts were from Christmas and barely got around to having me move his components for him. I am rather unfamiliar with AMD CPU and Motherboards as I mostly stick with Intel when it comes to the CPU platform. Which would explain my lack of knowledge before doing all of the part moving, That's on me since I assumed that AM4 just worked with all AM4 CPUs. I suppose I'll find out when I get to him later today.

Thank you both for your responses! I'll let him know that he'll need to buy a new CPU, although he might not enjoy the news too much haha. Thanks again for the quick responses!

Hello everyone, I'm hoping to see if anyone has some advice on what I could do about this issue with an AsRock Motherboard that my brother has, I moved all of his parts to this new motherboard and it receives power and even turns on(Fans spin to life lights turn on HDDs start spinning), yet it doesn't post. The Motherboard in question is the X570 Taichi. The only new parts to this system are two new storage devices (a 2TB WD blue & A 1TB Samsung 850 Evo), new RAM (Corsair Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 2x4GB) and the X570 Taichi motherboard itself, Although I feel like I should mention that the EPS connector on the motherboard itself has an extra 4 pin connector along with the normal 8 pin that is plugged in that I could not plug in with his current PSU that he has. The Dr. Debug Code it gives out after every boot attempt is 04 but everything I've found in relation to this code is a Memory or CPU issue yet everything is installed just fine, I even reinstalled the CPU and RAM and tried with the old set of RAM (Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x4GB) and even moved slots, used one or the other stick by itself and got the same code. I am a bit of a loss even after looking through the manual and online for similar issues to mine. The current set of parts are as follows CPU Ryzen 1600x RAM 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro Motherboard x570 Taichi GPU Gigabyte Windforce GTX 1080 SSD 240gb PNY CS900 SSD Kingston 256 SSD 1TB Samsung Evo HDD 2 TB WD Blue HDD 1 TB WD Blue PSU Corsair RM650X Any and all advice that could help is welcome, thank you for your time.

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Thank you for the info! Happy Holidays!

I'd like to know how much performance i'll lose from just adding another 1080p monitor to my current setup I'm getting a new 144hz monitor this Christmas so It'd just be nice to know. If you need to know before answering My current specs are i5 6600K OC'd to 4.4 Ghz 16GB of DDR4 RAM Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1070

Thank you everyone for your suggestions! I'm probably going to switch the psu for a different one and might switch out the gpu and ssd

The person that wants it doesn't have much space to work with so I was thinking it would be the best form factor.

Does this build that I plan to build for someone who needs a mini ITX gaming PC look good? Any suggested changes? http://pcpartpicker.com/list/4HMgzM

Thank you for your suggestion! I'll look into this one as well!

Thank you for the suggestion!