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So if you're on a tight budget and wanting to upgrade that platform first, it is absolutely not worth it to spend good hard earned money on your current platform. A 7700K is just not worth $400(u.s) give or take that scrubs sell it for on Ebay, period. The 10100 and the 10400 are the best kept secrets in PC gaming. At $114(u.s)  the 10100 brings 7700K like performance (minus overclocking obviously) and like 5 less frames but i will say it again...... $114 CPU, NEW. If you can swing $50 more, the 10400 is a badass CPU my friend.

I have one in my sons build with a FTW3 3070 and he pulls down 90-120 FPS in Cold War with a $150 6 core 12 thread CPU @ 1440p 144Hz. Sure frames depend on the title he plays but we are talking a budget upgrade right, Yeah the 5600 is awesome, but its also a $300 MSRP CPU that you cant find at MSRP right now and even if you could, (using AMD logic) why spend $140-$190 more for a Ryzen 5600 for like 10 more frames....

You can make it out with a 10100, new MB & RAM and still be cheaper than going with a used 7700K and not to mention still getting about the same performance.

 

By new platform, @jaslion means a whole new socket/chipset. 

Just leave it as is. A 7700k costs as much as moving to a new platform and getting a better new cpu. You already have plenty of ram for games. It is simply your cpu being the problem here and upgrading to a 7700k is throwing money down the drain basically. Might as well prepare yourself to a new platform that you then use for when you fully upgrade your system and put a new cpu in the board instead of having to buy everything again.

Very important disclaimer:
RAID is not a replacement for a backup.
 
RAID1 has really, one specific purpose: To protect your system from a catastrophic drive failure, and to ensure uptime during said failure.
 
It will not protect against malware, accidental file deletions, accidentally overwriting that really important document with some fanfic he's writing, etc.
 
So while I don't have any problems with you doing a RAID1 on his Data drive, you had best make sure that any important data is backed up elsewhere.
 
If that data is not being backed up, I would actually recommend using the two drives separately. Configure the first drive as the "Data" drive, and label it as such. Configure the 2nd drive as the backup drive (labeled as such). Then, using your preferred backup software (Built-in Windows or third party), have regular backups of the Data drive sent to the Backup drive. Also turn on shadow-copy/file versioning, if it isn't already.
 
However, you can combine this with RAID1 as well, if you have another drive you can use as backup (or enough cloud storage, etc). This gives you the best of both worlds - in the case of a drive failure, you simply replace the drive and rebuild the array (resync the data to the replacement drive). If you have malware or file corruption/deleted file, etc, you restore from the backup. This is ideal, but I recognize it's more expensive to implement.
 
If I had to choose between using the two drives in RAID1 vs using one to backup the other, I would without question choose backup over RAID.

Looks like a "3D mode", lol. Look in settings to see if you can find a toggle for it.
 
Oh, and by 3D, I mean this:

With your help and this I've found what I need.  thanks a lot. 

Yes, 100 series boards work with 6000 and (with a BIOS update) 7000 series chips.
They don't however work with the 8000 or 9000 series chips.

IPv6 is an addressing schema. It doesn't do anything more than allow more devices on a network (or in this case, the internet). There would be no benefit being IPv6 only and could limit your internet access since most of the world still talks using IPv4 addresses.

Noctua NF-F12 is about the best you can get. There are options if you don't want the dirty tan/brown ones.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Bearing-NF-F12-iPPC-2000-PWM/dp/B00KFCR5BA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1478864563&sr=8-3&keywords=noctua+NF-f12