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True. That’s gonna be a lot of maintenance just to keep dust out. But before even get to the design part. I still need to know what is require to maintain the water blocks.

Oh, I’m not married to specific parts yet. This is more of planning and research. The parts are generalize as this is the direction it’ll go towards. Also a waterchiller not really the eye candy for me. I’m thinking about extending tubes out and possibly open case the thing. Or a built in wall with the tubes coming out. Maybe I’ll just go boring and keep everything in a case.

Yes and it’s also for eye candy show off.

Budget (including currency): ~$3000 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Work/VM/Networking/Games/Programming 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): Basically I'm going to need everything except for my 1000w evga psu but I pretty much know what I'm gonna get for all my computer hardware. I don't really need any peripherals and my dual monitors currently 27" 144hz 1080. My plan is to purchase sometime October or at least by the end of the year. Though, given the GPU situation that time frame may or may not move. I am looking to build a new rig that is going to be custom water cooled with hard tubing. I need a bit of info for UV lighting and hard tubing. UV lighting and custom water cooling is the only thing I haven't done before. I'm not sure what are some of the pros and cons when it comes to UV dyes type or what I should and should not use. So far I've read opaque is not worth it because it requires a lot of maintenance. I don't really want something that requires a lot of maintenance. Also from what I've read algae, bacteria and fungus might grow what type of preventative that I may or may not need. Like would plain distilled water need preventative?

So, I've been attempting to put a firewall in front of windows server and have access to DFS. I am using a pfsense box from some old hardware and it's the same for windows server. I've confirmed that my setup for windows server works and I can access DFS externally. Once I put pfsense in front things, it just gets weird. I am currently attempting to port forward some ports to give access to DFS but it doesn't seem to connect through the namespace. So the current problem I am facing is that I can access the domain and I see the shares but I cannot access the namespace. I can access the shares if I enter the IP directly (ip/share), the namespace still does not work. This is confusing me because I'm not sure if this is a windows server setup issue or pfsense setup issue.

So, I have an i7-5930k cpu, and it's been a good 6 years since its release. Is there anything in 2020 that will justify from making the change? If I were to change I think I would have to change 3, 4 or 5 things including the cpu.

Their the 3.5". The 2 250GB are the 2.5 I think. Edit: I was thinking more on the line of barebone stuff like SUPERMICRO SYS-6019P-WT8 would work. The only thing I would need is a CPU

I say server, but it's really just a desktop running a server OS. So, keep that in mind. Here's the situation. I had a server using a MSI x99s ack 9 and both bios failed. Now I am unable to access the bios. I have tried clearing the cmos and that doesn't help. It seems like it is a common issue for this board to have bios issue since I had another board in the past that did the same thing. It was also things that were laying around in the house. All other parts are working fine just the board bios died. I could replace the motherboard but after looking at available motherboard it might be a better choice to pick a new CPU and motherboard all together. The things that's transferable is a m.2 sata, 8 HDD total 4x 4TB nas drive / 2x 6TB nas drive / 2 250 sata hdd, 750W evga gold psu (maybe change?), and possibly 16 gb ram (might not be usable on new board?). The CPU I had used before is an I7-5820k. The things I used the server for was for virtualization, voip host, nas/media host, networking, streaming and variety of things that over time I do on and off. I was thinking of around $1000 ~ $1500 give or take as the budget. Maybe Intel Xeon Silver 4208 and SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SPA-TF-O? Or maybe an Intel Xeon E processors?

Some of these are quite a nice build, but I talked with him and he wants to keep it within $800. Also to settle something about the 970's, he wants to keep that until he can save up for an RTX 2080 or 2080Ti. It also free up about $100 to $300 of budget he can use on other things. So I5 9600k might be a good idea or ryzen 5 2600.

True could use a more up to date and better cpu. $300 for the cpu was a bit on the expensive side for him. I would push for $900 for him as well but he's already kind of squirming at the price tag.

PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel - Core i7-6700K 4 GHz Quad-Core Processor $297.99 @ SuperBiiz CPU Cooler ARCTIC - Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 45 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler $23.90 @ OutletPC Motherboard Gigabyte - GA-Z270X-UD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $163.46 @ Walmart Memory G.Skill - NT Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2133 Memory $55.99 @ Newegg Storage Intel - 660p Series 1.02 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $99.85 @ OutletPC Case Cougar - MX330 ATX Mid Tower Case $39.90 @ Amazon Power Supply Corsair - Vengeance 750 W 80+ Silver Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $69.98 @ Newegg Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $751.07 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-06-21 18:12 EDT-0400 So far this is what I have selected for my friend. He wants to build a gaming/entertainment computer but he doesn't know how to do much besides turning on the computer and install stuff. He often compares to my build and wants something similar to it, but my build is built to be powerful because I use it for other outrageous things. So I want to make things a bit full proof for as little as possible in a decent starting build. I plan of giving him my 2 gtx 970 to sli so he can save up to buy a better card. I'm a bit unsure, if I should suggest him a full atx tower in case he decides to change the mb? Some things he will upgrade in the future: MB, CPU Cooler, Graphic Card. I told him it would cost around $750 usd to $900 usd. I'm thinking since he have a decent cpu there isn't anything much for him to change besides the MB and graphic cards if he really wants to upgrade it. I probably could save more by getting a core without the overclock but I sort of want to have the ability to amp up the core down the line for him if he decides to upgrade the cooler. He hasn't decided on a monitor yet and might stick to a tv until he can get one. Not much to decide for peripherals since I will also give him a windows 10 pro because I have one laying around. The reason I chose a 1tb m.2 is to make it simple for him because he won't understand how to install and access a game in another drive.