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I just hope the MSI is able to run like the asrock did! first 3 years of its life gaming with the CPU overclocked to 4.7GHz, then after that retired in this unraid box, back at 4Ghz but running 24/7 except for powercuts since 2014.

So I found a guy locally selling his 3950x and an MSI MEG X570 Godlike board selling for €500 and was on the verge of actually purchasing it for my unraid box. The guy sold the ram, so I was thinking of picking up a set of 3600Mhz CL16 32GB (2x16gb) kit. I also never had NVME storage on my current platform, So I'm thinking of buying a 2x Seagate firecuda 530 1TB, All In, this upgrade would cost me €850 Currently I run my unraid box on an Intel I7-4790K, Noctua NH-D15, 16GB DDR3 ASRock Z97 Pro4, GTX980, Coolermaster 850W PSU, 6 SATA HDDs, 2 Sata 2.5" SSDs and 1 SATA M.2 SSD (with a PCI-E sata adapter since I ran out of onboard sata ports). Getting it out of the way, I'm not going to use it for gaming, like at all. I have a steamdeck and a series X, and my main computer is a 14" macbook pro w/32GB ram. My Unraid box has a bunch of docker containers running (wireguard, pihole, homeassistant,nextcloud,photoprism etc), Plex with a bunch of HDR/4K films and tv shows (currently I keep getting a "server cpu not powerful enough" error message on certain higher bitrate movies), CentOS VM running mysql, MS Server 2016 running an important IIS site for my wife's shop and a windows 10 VM that I use as a crutch for whenever I need windows and/or an X86 device. Sharing a measly 4 cores and 16gb on the above sorta gets the job done, but it struggles. So is it worth jumping to another dead platform?

So I'm looking to replace my unmatched monitors at home which is a 27" 1080p, 24" 1080p and the 1080P screen of my laptop. My work is nothing special but involves a lot of documents, chrome tabs and slack/skype/teams. The reason I'm looking into a 43" UHD monitor is the flexibility of being able to have 4x21.5" @ 1080p res, or maybe 2 1080p windows on one side and one long window on the right for those long excel sheets. Either way I need to increase the amount of information density onscreen at once without switching tabs/windows/desktops so often. I also want to avoid windows scaling at all costs, so keep to 100% all the time. Would a UHD monitor be a good solution for this? everyone keeps saying get an ultrawide, but I dont see how getting a 21:9 or a 32:9 is going to help? Other than office work, and maybe some off hours photo editing/media consumption, it won't get any gaming done on it so I don't need any fancy 4K 120HZ ultra low latency monitors. color accuracy and some form of HDR would be nice though. and PIP support is a must. Anyone have any recommendations or experience with such a setup?

Thanks for all the suggestions! I had not actually thought of any of these. I will try to source a 5.25 internal hub to keep things clean, Failing that, I'll get a PCI-E addion as I dont really have any free usb ports round back.

i want to add a couple of usb-c ports to my desktop, ideally without having to reach around the back to plug in cable since the port is becoming more ubiquitous and my devices are almost all usb-C, apart from my iphone which still connects via usb-C anyway. I was trying to find something like a USB-C hub that takes a USB-A slot and provides one or many USB-C so that I can put it on top of my case for easy access. It doesn't seem like this exists. My motherboard also has "thunderbolt AIC" although reading the manual does not say which version it is or where the port is. It's certainly not on the IO panel. I have an intel 4790K processor and Asrock Z97 Pro 4 motherboard (Mobo page here: https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97 Pro4/#BIOS Manual also mentions nothing apart from enabling it: http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/Z97 Pro4.pdf Is there any solution for this? even just 1 usb-c port will do really. All I want is not to have to plug/unplug cables round the back of the case as its not easy to reach.

Just had a secret santa event and put the yule log video on. No one realized who the people on the video are as they don't watch the channel. One family member was intrigued though:

Thanks for that! very insightful. As for the GPU and memory choice any thoughts? Here's a curveball: If I get an AMD 5700XT card I can step up to any of these motherboards with the money saved: That said the only AMD GPU I've had in my life was a 4870X2 which had a lot of driver issues and eventually killed itself due to heat. The 5700XTs on the market are all reference cards with 1 blower fan so Its not that ideal. So to recap we're talking either: - Asus X570-P mobo - Ryzen 3900X - 32GB Ballistix sport LT - Gigabyte GTX 2070 SUPER triple fan design OR - one of the above mobos - Ryzen 3900X - 32GB Ballistix sport LT - Asus Radeon RX5700 XT GPU

out of curiosity, where are you basing this off of? I can't find any clear reviews or comparisons on this.

I was actually going to suggest the X570 Aorus Gaming X as it's only 40 euros more. :edit: the MSI MPG X570 Gaming plus is also in the same price range so not sure which one to choose. What should I be looking out for in terms of power delivery? Both seem like they have all the bases covered for my needs.

AM4 bracket should be on it's way. Also what's wrong with the VRMS on asrock? I currently have an ASrock Z97 Pro 4 mobo running near 24/7 since 2014 which has been rock solid. Never had luck with asus products - had mobos & phones die so I don't trust them much. Any other brand/board you'd recommend?

I'm thinking of upgrading my rig with the target of driving an ultrawide 1440p 100hz or better screen (which I don't have yet). I mostly play Single player games with the occasional pubg/apex/overwatch match here and there. I also run linux as a main os and only use windows for gaming so I intend on having a virtual machine with a GPU passthrough. I am looking at the below hardware, thrown in a pci-e 4.0 SSD not because I really need it but just for fun: I will be reusing the following; Fractal Define XL Case Noctua NH-D15 cooler Cooler Master V850 PSU 256GB Samsung 850 Evo 1tb WD Blue M.2 (sata) SSD 3x 1TB Hard disks from various manufacturers Palit GTX960 for Main Linux OS (RTX 2070Super will be passthrough for windows) Any opinions on this? Especially on the choice of memory in relation to Ryzen. Not sure if I should have 2x16GB modules or 4x8Gb. I don't have much time to tinker with settings, benchmarking and overclocking so I need something to perform out of the box.

Background: I run linux mint as my main OS on a 1TB WD Blue SSD. I have some free time to kill so decided to install W10 on a secondary 256 SSD. I downloaded the official W10 ISO and made it a bootable USB disk and boot from it. All good so far until it loads the windows logo and hangs there. Fair enough, may be a bad drive or a bad image. I go back to linux mint and suddenly I get "No boot device found, Please insert or replace media". So now I can't get into my main OS either. I made a linux mint live drive to boot from and that is working fine. Once booted I can see all my drives and from Gparted, my main EXT4 partition has the "boot" flag selected. I can mount all my hard disks just fine but no way of getting into my main OS. Moreover, going into the boot menu of my bios, I was first able to see all my 5 drives as an option to boot from. Now I see nothing except for the live image as per below: TL:DR I need to solve 2 problems: 1. (Most important) being able to boot my linux mint OS again 2. Finding out why a windows installation is hanging on boot. PC specs: - i7 4790k, Asrock z97 pro 4, 16GB ram, GTX980, 3x 1tb HDDs, 1x 256gb Samsung 860 evo, 1TB WD Blue M.2 thanks!

Where you going to post a video there? also thanks for the other pointers! So far I've had my hiccups with unraid but it seems to be going well. The process of switching over from synology to something unraid is definitely taking longer than I expected - many things that DSM did behind the scenes is now something I have to manually take care of. Not a big deal as I'm learning a lot. My setup is as follows so far: 1x Cache drive ( which I installed after configuring everything due to lack of SATA ports - now got a SATA PCI-E card) 1x parity drive and 3 storage drives for a total of ~6TB storage. What I'm not sure about is data reliability specifically for these points: 1. What happens if my cache drive (Samsung 850 Evo 250GB) goes bust 2. What happens if my parity drive dies and how to prevent (apart from adding another parity drive) 3. What happens if my USB drive with unraid dies and how to prevent this Also been having trouble setting up nextcloud docker - seems to have trouble connecting to mysql docker set on the same virtual network. and NGINX reverse proxying for external access to my dockers and VMS. I got duckdns docker running and updating IPS to all my domains, I purchased my own domain and did CNAME pointers to duckdns and installed NGINX reverse proxy docker since I couldn't get letsencrypt docker to connect to the net for some reason despite ports being forwarded on my router (following spaceinvader's guides on YT). So far I got domain1.mydomain.com to show the default NGINX page as below setup the reverse proxies on nginx proxy manager but for some reason I get a 502 bad gateway there as well. Despite actually monitoring networks and servers for ages for a living, actually _setting up and configuring_ is completely new to me. there's so much to learn! but I digress.

Thanks all! I finally made the move to unraid and loving it so far although I now have the monumental task of setting it all up how I want it and moving the data back to the disks again.

Yes I'm aware of that, what I wanted to know is which one would suit my needs best