Chalkywoods

Thanks, didn't notice the ram was registered! 8gb unbuffered is a similar price so ill go with that. The non t is slightly cheaper, I'm not sure how I missed the higher clock. the main concern is power at idle so ill probably go with that and the stock cooler Thanks for your suggestions!

I have a 1050ti and honestly, the only game I have not been able to run well is PUBG. I can get close to 60 fps but it looks like ass and the view distance is terrible

I'm looking to build a NAS for family pictures, videos etc, as well as backups of our individual PCs. I want it to be as reliable as possible but it will probably only be accessed a few times a week so it won't be doing work 24/7. In the future I'd also like to run a plex server on it but that's not the main focus. So far I've been looking at a freeNAS machine with 4x4tb drives in RAID-Z1, so 12tb available storage. I've found the MSI MS-S0891 new for around £80 on ebay. It's got dual Gbe, which should be all we need, supports 16gb ddr3 ECC memory (1gb per tb as freenas suggests) and has 5 sata connectors, enough for this configuration. It also has a PCIe x16 slot in case we want to add more sata ports later. Going with current generation parts is probably over our budget, are there any massive downsides with using ddr3? The RAM would be second hand on ebay but I'd stress test before, and it comes with lifetime warranty. Some of the sata ports are only 3gb/s but I gather that's fine for mechanical drives? The i3-4130T 2.9Ghz Dual-Core is listed as compatible on the motherboard page, is available for as low as £40 on ebay and has a tdp of only 35w. I'm hoping with a decent cooler it can run passive most of the time and therefore silent. The Plex page suggests a CPU with passmark score of 2000 for a 1080p stream so this should be sufficient. The case will be a Norco ITX-S4, small and inconspicuous and fits the perfect number of drives. It has a 6gb/s backplane, and this might be a stupid question, but will that work fine with the 3gb/s ports on the motherboard? As the server will probably go a few days at a time without use I want to spin all the drives down after a few hours. This forum post says you can't spin down the volume with the system dataset on, so I want to include an SSD for this purpose. Can I run the OS from this as well? I've tried to do my research and I'm quite happy with the system, is there anything I've missed or should be worried about? Provided it doesn't fill up, is this build likely to last a while? Thanks in advance!

Ill keep it in mind, cheers

Interesting... This opens up a lot more options, thanks!

This looks better in terms of price, but screen resolution suffers... Ill probably revisit when I have more budget

Can Lightroom be run on a chromebook?

Still out of my budget, I think I'm being optimistic

Half that? Is that realistic at all? Lightroom runs fast enough on my 1.8GHz dual core so an i3 or maybe even a Celeron might do. The constraint seems to be screen quality

My old inspiron is too heavy, loud and generally crap for uni. I'm looking for a cheap laptop that doesn't have to be powerful. I have literally 3 criteria: Light and not too big Powerful enough to run Lightroom (Doesn't have to do it fast) At least 1080p with decent colour reproduction (green=yellow on my dell) I'm in the UK and cant find anything that fits within my budget, what's the cheapest I'll be able to get these specs for? Its also difficult to find data on screen quality. Any suggestions?

Ah ok, I assumed that a hard drive would fail after quite a while or be DOA, guess ill send it back. Thanks!

I built my first pc about 2 weeks ago and it has been running smoothly until yesterday. I booted it up in the morning, didn't use it for anything, and returned after a couple of hours to find it sleeping as usual. When I logged in the screen was black with only the cursor visible and nothing else responsive. The hard drive (installed and working for about 4 days) was making a grating sound 3 times in a row, followed by a click, repeating over and over. I restarted and everything was very slow, it let me log in but there were no desktop icons, explorer would open but didn't show any files on either drive. After pressing start once the whole thing returned to the black screen from earlier. I restarted, reset BIOS to default and the same thing happened. Windows is stored on a separate SSD, so I disconnected the hard drive data cable and everything booted easily as it had that morning, nothing out of the ordinary. I connected only the hard drive power cable on the next reboot and the drive span up without any of the earlier sounds. At one point during these reboots a message popped up in the windows splash screen very briefly saying it was attempting to fix the drive, not exactly sure what it said as it was so fast and I haven't been able to replicate it. Components: i5 6600 CPU 2x8 corsair vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 RAM Gigabyte GA B150M DS3H MicroATX Motherboard Sandisk SSD plus 120GB (For Windows) Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB Hard drive (This is the offending drive, contains photos, videos, and programs) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB G1 Gaming Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze PSU My PSU fan developed a clicking noise a week or so ago and I was ready to send it back, whilst googling this I found that the corsair CX line was pretty unreliable (something I overlooked when buying), and that I probably should have bought a more powerful one than 450W I have seen suggestions that the hard drive issue could result from a bad or underpowered PSU, is this likely? Thanks in advance!

My worry was a really small case would be hard to build into, do you think it would be too difficult for a first time?

Yeah I get the incompatibility issues and thanks for fixing that up, but I noticed you swapped the 7500 for the 6400, instead of the 6500, is that you saying that it was more than I needed? I went with kaby lake because it was only a tiny bit more expensive but it doesn't seem worth the incompatibilities, so skylake it is

Cheers, did you go for a lesser CPU and less RAM so that the 480 fit in my budget or was it overkill to start with?