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It certainly is, I use a NAS to serve games directly and leave the drive mounted all the time... I do have a 10Gbit connection between the box and my pcs though but it works well The issue you'll run into is game saves, steam does a pretty good job at cloud saves but most stuff preferences/saves etc drop to your documents, you may have to watch out if saves dont sync across. As you copy/delete them you'll find that steam will want to re validate if you drop the files in manually, not sure about origin...

I would strongly look at something like GNS3, using the Cisco IOS you can get much more complex at a lower cost than running physical kit. The great thing is that GNS3 runs images like an emulator, so no missed features. https://www.gns3.com/

^^^ proxy or vpn over port 443, unless they are packet snooping for incorrect protocols

https://cougargaming.com/us/products/cases/qbx/ I've got one and a 2 1/2 slot card in it right now. dont mind the outdated advertising, it's doing my PC very well!

I need all the same requirements as you pretty much, and I am torn between freenas and openmediavault Have been using FreeNAS for some time now with no issues. FreeNAS 11 has the ability to use kvm, so it covers anything like VPNs if you cant use a FreeBSD jail. It has plugins for Plex/Sonarr etc, and I'm slowly following a guide here For offsite backups tarsnap or crashplan are both pretty good options, and the I've seen the FreeNAS community build jails to accommodate them if needed. It does prefer ECC RAM and ZFS can take a bit of getting used to, but mine has been working without issue for over a year now. OpenMediaVault is similar, more plugins, debian based (most likely easier than freebsd), and a little more friendly, but it just didnt seem to have the optimization that FreeNAS has.

I'd definitely run a disk cleanup, from file explorer right click on C drive, then hit 'Disk Cleanup', then Clean up system files the tick all the boxes and see how much that will free up your system.

Not too sure if it can support this, but i'd go with x5650/60/70 as that motherboard supports overclocking, and your xeon can just OC to better than x5690. I've seen an x5650 on 4GHZ at 1.4v before!

Hi, I've got a 1200mbps powerline adapter from tp-link too but only get about 50mb/s real world speed down the line. (running it to an SSD based NAS with 1gbps nic, and cant find any other reason for the slower speeds, when i get 120mb/s wired in without the powerline adapter. It is actually throttled by the 'noise' in your home power cables, and the distance one is from the other. If you really need the speed I'd look at getting a cat6 cable running through a wall or near one, and put a switch at the other end. Your 'theoretical' limit actually looks like the max speed of a 1gbps link, which your router is probably using. 1gbps = 125mb/s, with peaks that may be faster Hope that helps answer something at least!

its a hook that when you press, it lifts the tab enough to get over the ridge on the motherboard female side socket. I'd press that and try to see if you are lifting it over the ridge. If not, then get some thing non conductive and sturdy and get the hook over the ridge. From there, its wiggle wiggle wiggle

It wont game at all, but its rock solid stable and pretty nice to use. Source: Set one up for a friend. I have a probook 820 G2 myself, which is basically the smaller 5th gen version and that does everything APART from gaming, youll want a dedicated GPU for that - GTX960m at least

Sounds like it could be software related, check all the junk on windows 10, and get something like OpenHardwareMonitor to check if the game is actually using all of your cpu/gpu/ram power.

i7 3770k OC to 3.7ghz Palit GTX 970 8gb 1866mhz ddr3