Elochai

No I have’t tried with the fans set to 0 RPM. I’m running a 9900K, it gets toasty with the fans on lol. My rad is mounted to the top of the case as well and I agree, the fans don’t have a good flow of pressure, so down the road I may replace them. 

Well if you don’t mind losing your data and setting it back to “like new” condition then go for it as it can’t hurt. But I’d still do a backup to be on the safe side just in case you did want to do a restore. The other option would be to get in contact with support to see if they can help you. Never know it could be a common feature / bug.

I agree, I bought a cheap Rosewill case for my NAS build. It was very cheap feeling, and a lot of sharp areas inside. But the paint was on the outside only. Silverstone suppose to have good rep for their products. Is there a chance this was a manufacturing mistake that got by QC ?

Never once said I was living paycheck to paycheck. I said that life tends to toss situations that are unknown towards me recently and that have required me to dip into money I have saved up and put it elsewhere that’s more important. This is life, things happen. Other words priorities over luxuries. I could of built the computer I wanted a number of times if I just bought part for part each time I saved a bit, but that’s a bad approach for building a PC. So I rather lose $420 right now for a year then $3000 for one year. In just one month due to unseen events I had to use about $1500 of my savings for priorities. $1500 I can save back up but if I had spent that amount on a luxury then I would be paying back more then $1500 as I wouldn’t of had the full amount and would of had no choice but to use a credit card to sloved the situation at that moment. So do you have a crystal ball? Can you foresee the future? No didn’t think so, so I still like the idea that I don’t need to pop out a huge amount of money for something all at once that is like a car in value of  depreciation although your under the impression that it’s not. I rather pay a small about over time and always have the best of the best (again assuming the service works).
 
cars lose their value over time, so does hardware. And yes hardware does fail. You don’t have to be rough with your stuff for them to ware over time and fail. I also wouldn’t recommend you buying a car by financing it, just like I wouldn’t recommend anyone to buy a computer on a credit card. But people often do these things for luxuries yet they don’t know when something will happen financially to them.
 
So yes leasing / renting a luxury item that will always be upgraded and took care of for less then an overrated upfront cost does sound better to me for a disposable item that can have shorter terms then something that could hang over your head in the event of a financial issue.
 
Now let’s do some simple math, I built my 1st gaming rig in 2006, I bought all parts from NCIX. I went for the best of the pretty much and it total a little over $3000 back then (I am one of them people who do things “go big or go home” that’s my joy and my pride), in 2008 I upgraded the video card to keep up with playing on max settings and got a deal on a used CPU maxing out the available CPU’s I could put in the system other then the $1000 extreme edition at the time. In 2010 I realized that it was time to start thinking new build as parts compatibility wasn’t really there anymore for upgrades but at the time though I was working a low income job although but liked my work (Ever find a job you liked doing). In 2012 the company I worked for started downsizing stores and hours. Not wanting a cut in my hours as it would effect me to the point that I wouldn’t be able to live within my means, I went to work for a trucking company. Pay was better, hours were very long (put a lot of tension on family life) due to the long hours I worked I given up on my gaming life as I didn’t get to play as much. I did buy an SSD to replace my failed Raptor hard drive and upgraded my RAM at some point to 8GB of DDR2 from the 4GB it used to be just to try and have a bit of performance boost for them days that I could relax to some gaming. The ram and SSD help, video card was a gen 3 on a gen 2 pci-e slot with a cpu that was bottlenecking it. So I gonna around it to about $400 in upgrades. Now after a couple years working 14 - 16 hours a day for the trucking company, I got ill and was taken off work for a year, my family was happy to have me home with them and when my doctor started telling me that I’ll soon be able to return to work, my partner, asked me not to return. Family very important to me so I went to work doing night shifts for a company I’m still with today. I still work long hours of 12 hours a night but I work less days, works out to be 7 days on and 7 days off but spread out in a 2 week period. The pay is 2x better as well and has allowed me to buy a used HP Z420 workstation to use for now to play all my games but again preformence is lacking.
 
sorry again for the long post but your reply came off a bit trolly to my financial situations which my post was really along the lines that this service seems like a more practical solution in the long run then to take a financial risk on a luxury item.
 
so back to the figures:
 
$3400 for my original gaming rig and it’s upgrades (and it now pointless for gaming today)
 
So it got its use for what it was meant to do from 2006 to 2010 but to be fair we’ll give it till 2014.
 
So $3400 / 8 years = $425 with the last 3 - 4 years being crap for gaming with many games being min or below requirements.
 
vs
 
$420 a year for top of the line hardware and the best experience for gaming (if the system works as advertised)
 
no mater what, I’m always going to want a gaming PC, I’m always gonna want it to be the best. In the long run this solution works best for me over building and upgrading all the time and the major up front costs for a luxury. Yes I could buy someone used stuff but that also has unnecessary risks.
 
by the way, if you want to buy my rig for $300 be my guess. I wouldn’t advise it given the age of the hardware, seen my $600 video card on eBay the other day going for $45 lol. Like my buddy always said, a computer is not an investment, it something that depreciates a lot in value over a short period of time. And that old rig is used for storage now. If you meant $300 for my HP Z420 then sorry but that a good number cruncher and even if I had a new gaming rig, I wouldn’t part with it. My misses can take it as an upgrade for her office. If your interested I got a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server you can buy, it has out lived it use / replaced by an IBM server and hasn’t been on now for about 2 years. Cost more to ship it then what it be worth today, heck cost more for me to drive it up to the recycling depot or the scrap metal yard then what they go for today.
 

I get what your saying. For me I got 5 to 6 good years out of my gaming rig before it needed an upgrade (and continue down hill in preformance)
 
I agree 100% that the cost of this service could go up enough to make it not worth it to me. But the fees may not go up by much or at all in the 5 years of use.
 
example, I rented a server for 4 years (as of Dec 06, 2018 this month and year) in the 4 years of renting, I had one hard drive replaced after it failed and I had hardware upgrades done to my server (mostly small things like adding extra drives for the value, upgrading my bandwidth, a new watchdog firewall, etc...) last year was the first year they billed me more, 90 cents more a month.
 
So cost may be reasonable, and if I buy a good system, let’s even knock down the price to a $2000 rig, this service will be less or about on par if price increases reasonably. And should be always up to date on hardware and upgrades so I by pass that added step. With the added benefit of taking my gaming with me as you mentioned.
 
But if the service can’t do what it says then it’s a complete waste. I have the network speeds to support it but does their servers, network, and software deliver on what it says it can do. I’d love to see some Canadian servers as well. It really to bad they don’t offer a trial of the service just to test it. As for the Remote Desktop aspect, $35 for a server with a 1080 in it isn’t to bad either. My server host was renting out servers with GTX 1080’s for close to $200/month. They were geared towards bitcoin mining(don’t think they rent out anymore servers with high end video cards)
 
 

Never once said I was living paycheck to paycheck. I said that life tends to toss situations that are unknown towards me recently and that have required me to dip into money I have saved up and put it elsewhere that’s more important. This is life, things happen. Other words priorities over luxuries. I could of built the computer I wanted a number of times if I just bought part for part each time I saved a bit, but that’s a bad approach for building a PC. So I rather lose $420 right now for a year then $3000 for one year. In just one month due to unseen events I had to use about $1500 of my savings for priorities. $1500 I can save back up but if I had spent that amount on a luxury then I would be paying back more then $1500 as I wouldn’t of had the full amount and would of had no choice but to use a credit card to sloved the situation at that moment. So do you have a crystal ball? Can you foresee the future? No didn’t think so, so I still like the idea that I don’t need to pop out a huge amount of money for something all at once that is like a car in value of  depreciation although your under the impression that it’s not. I rather pay a small about over time and always have the best of the best (again assuming the service works).
 
cars lose their value over time, so does hardware. And yes hardware does fail. You don’t have to be rough with your stuff for them to ware over time and fail. I also wouldn’t recommend you buying a car by financing it, just like I wouldn’t recommend anyone to buy a computer on a credit card. But people often do these things for luxuries yet they don’t know when something will happen financially to them.
 
So yes leasing / renting a luxury item that will always be upgraded and took care of for less then an overrated upfront cost does sound better to me for a disposable item that can have shorter terms then something that could hang over your head in the event of a financial issue.
 
Now let’s do some simple math, I built my 1st gaming rig in 2006, I bought all parts from NCIX. I went for the best of the pretty much and it total a little over $3000 back then (I am one of them people who do things “go big or go home” that’s my joy and my pride), in 2008 I upgraded the video card to keep up with playing on max settings and got a deal on a used CPU maxing out the available CPU’s I could put in the system other then the $1000 extreme edition at the time. In 2010 I realized that it was time to start thinking new build as parts compatibility wasn’t really there anymore for upgrades but at the time though I was working a low income job although but liked my work (Ever find a job you liked doing). In 2012 the company I worked for started downsizing stores and hours. Not wanting a cut in my hours as it would effect me to the point that I wouldn’t be able to live within my means, I went to work for a trucking company. Pay was better, hours were very long (put a lot of tension on family life) due to the long hours I worked I given up on my gaming life as I didn’t get to play as much. I did buy an SSD to replace my failed Raptor hard drive and upgraded my RAM at some point to 8GB of DDR2 from the 4GB it used to be just to try and have a bit of performance boost for them days that I could relax to some gaming. The ram and SSD help, video card was a gen 3 on a gen 2 pci-e slot with a cpu that was bottlenecking it. So I gonna around it to about $400 in upgrades. Now after a couple years working 14 - 16 hours a day for the trucking company, I got ill and was taken off work for a year, my family was happy to have me home with them and when my doctor started telling me that I’ll soon be able to return to work, my partner, asked me not to return. Family very important to me so I went to work doing night shifts for a company I’m still with today. I still work long hours of 12 hours a night but I work less days, works out to be 7 days on and 7 days off but spread out in a 2 week period. The pay is 2x better as well and has allowed me to buy a used HP Z420 workstation to use for now to play all my games but again preformence is lacking.
 
sorry again for the long post but your reply came off a bit trolly to my financial situations which my post was really along the lines that this service seems like a more practical solution in the long run then to take a financial risk on a luxury item.
 
so back to the figures:
 
$3400 for my original gaming rig and it’s upgrades (and it now pointless for gaming today)
 
So it got its use for what it was meant to do from 2006 to 2010 but to be fair we’ll give it till 2014.
 
So $3400 / 8 years = $425 with the last 3 - 4 years being crap for gaming with many games being min or below requirements.
 
vs
 
$420 a year for top of the line hardware and the best experience for gaming (if the system works as advertised)
 
no mater what, I’m always going to want a gaming PC, I’m always gonna want it to be the best. In the long run this solution works best for me over building and upgrading all the time and the major up front costs for a luxury. Yes I could buy someone used stuff but that also has unnecessary risks.
 
by the way, if you want to buy my rig for $300 be my guess. I wouldn’t advise it given the age of the hardware, seen my $600 video card on eBay the other day going for $45 lol. Like my buddy always said, a computer is not an investment, it something that depreciates a lot in value over a short period of time. And that old rig is used for storage now. If you meant $300 for my HP Z420 then sorry but that a good number cruncher and even if I had a new gaming rig, I wouldn’t part with it. My misses can take it as an upgrade for her office. If your interested I got a Dell PowerEdge 1750 server you can buy, it has out lived it use / replaced by an IBM server and hasn’t been on now for about 2 years. Cost more to ship it then what it be worth today, heck cost more for me to drive it up to the recycling depot or the scrap metal yard then what they go for today.