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This is my little slice of tech....I haven't had chance to use it much in the last few months due to a new job, but it still does the job for me!
 
Ryzen 2600X Asus Prime X470-Pro Motherboard RTX MSI Armor 2070 8GB 32GB Corsair Vengence RAM Samsung Evo 970 boot NVME DEEPCOOL Captain 240PRO V2 AIO 2 x carbon wrapped 1TB scratch SSDs 3 x S2415H monitors Seasonic SnowSilent 750w PSU NZXT S340 Elite case Generic dual motor standing desk frame (forget the name) Peripherals:
SteelSeries Aerox 3 mouse SteelSeries Apex 7 keyboard SteelSeries Arctic 7 headset  
It still has enough power for me to do most things, but I am considering a chip upgrade to a 5-series Ryzen due to the prices they are available at, and I keep looking at Meshify cases for more airflow.

 

This is my little slice of tech....I haven't had chance to use it much in the last few months due to a new job, but it still does the job for me!
 
Ryzen 2600X Asus Prime X470-Pro Motherboard RTX MSI Armor 2070 8GB 32GB Corsair Vengence RAM Samsung Evo 970 boot NVME DEEPCOOL Captain 240PRO V2 AIO 2 x carbon wrapped 1TB scratch SSDs 3 x S2415H monitors Seasonic SnowSilent 750w PSU NZXT S340 Elite case Generic dual motor standing desk frame (forget the name) Peripherals:
SteelSeries Aerox 3 mouse SteelSeries Apex 7 keyboard SteelSeries Arctic 7 headset  
It still has enough power for me to do most things, but I am considering a chip upgrade to a 5-series Ryzen due to the prices they are available at, and I keep looking at Meshify cases for more airflow.

 

This is my little slice of tech....I haven't had chance to use it much in the last few months due to a new job, but it still does the job for me!
 
Ryzen 2600X Asus Prime X470-Pro Motherboard RTX MSI Armor 2070 8GB 32GB Corsair Vengence RAM Samsung Evo 970 boot NVME DEEPCOOL Captain 240PRO V2 AIO 2 x carbon wrapped 1TB scratch SSDs 3 x S2415H monitors Seasonic SnowSilent 750w PSU NZXT S340 Elite case Generic dual motor standing desk frame (forget the name) Peripherals:
SteelSeries Aerox 3 mouse SteelSeries Apex 7 keyboard SteelSeries Arctic 7 headset  
It still has enough power for me to do most things, but I am considering a chip upgrade to a 5-series Ryzen due to the prices they are available at, and I keep looking at Meshify cases for more airflow.

 

This is my little slice of tech....I haven't had chance to use it much in the last few months due to a new job, but it still does the job for me!
 
Ryzen 2600X Asus Prime X470-Pro Motherboard RTX MSI Armor 2070 8GB 32GB Corsair Vengence RAM Samsung Evo 970 boot NVME DEEPCOOL Captain 240PRO V2 AIO 2 x carbon wrapped 1TB scratch SSDs 3 x S2415H monitors Seasonic SnowSilent 750w PSU NZXT S340 Elite case Generic dual motor standing desk frame (forget the name) Peripherals:
SteelSeries Aerox 3 mouse SteelSeries Apex 7 keyboard SteelSeries Arctic 7 headset  
It still has enough power for me to do most things, but I am considering a chip upgrade to a 5-series Ryzen due to the prices they are available at, and I keep looking at Meshify cases for more airflow.

 

This is my little slice of tech....I haven't had chance to use it much in the last few months due to a new job, but it still does the job for me!
 
Ryzen 2600X Asus Prime X470-Pro Motherboard RTX MSI Armor 2070 8GB 32GB Corsair Vengence RAM Samsung Evo 970 boot NVME DEEPCOOL Captain 240PRO V2 AIO 2 x carbon wrapped 1TB scratch SSDs 3 x S2415H monitors Seasonic SnowSilent 750w PSU NZXT S340 Elite case Generic dual motor standing desk frame (forget the name) Peripherals:
SteelSeries Aerox 3 mouse SteelSeries Apex 7 keyboard SteelSeries Arctic 7 headset  
It still has enough power for me to do most things, but I am considering a chip upgrade to a 5-series Ryzen due to the prices they are available at, and I keep looking at Meshify cases for more airflow.

 

This is my little slice of tech....I haven't had chance to use it much in the last few months due to a new job, but it still does the job for me!
 
Ryzen 2600X Asus Prime X470-Pro Motherboard RTX MSI Armor 2070 8GB 32GB Corsair Vengence RAM Samsung Evo 970 boot NVME DEEPCOOL Captain 240PRO V2 AIO 2 x carbon wrapped 1TB scratch SSDs 3 x S2415H monitors Seasonic SnowSilent 750w PSU NZXT S340 Elite case Generic dual motor standing desk frame (forget the name) Peripherals:
SteelSeries Aerox 3 mouse SteelSeries Apex 7 keyboard SteelSeries Arctic 7 headset  
It still has enough power for me to do most things, but I am considering a chip upgrade to a 5-series Ryzen due to the prices they are available at, and I keep looking at Meshify cases for more airflow.

 

Here's my take. If you're going to test a product, it's because you are evaluating it against the competition. That wasn't the original plan for SC as I remember it. SC was a return to the old-style unboxing, where the product itself was judged on its own merit.
 
Taking into consideration the quote above, that's like saying you shouldn't take into consideration how good AC is on a car because it comes with it turned off. If you're going to evaluate, then you need to evaluate the features that are sold as is to consumers. But that's where we get into "review" territory for me.
 
I just wanna see somebody unbox a product, and say how it works and what they like or don't like about it. If I want to gauge whether it's a good product or not in the wider market, I'll check out a review.

Set higher goals. There is so much more to life than meeting an internet celebrity.

I just wanted to show off my 2k gaming system running Windows 98SE. Sitting on top of an old ass ugly metal office desk. This baby rips. Lol. 

Hi all, thanks for the replies. Turns out it was Adobe Flash requiring an update after my new build...works fine now with Hardware Acceleration off.

Hi all,
 
I dabbled with unRAID in the last 6 months on an old N54L Microserver and I was blown away with it's versatility. I ended up moving all of my docs, photos, and personal videos to it, delivering music and photo media servers from it with only Plex being used on an old I7 Win10 machine I have.
 
Fast forward and I'm ready to consolidate it and a few other services, into a new unRAID build. There is so much choice, I'm enlisting your expert help (hopefully). have a few pre-requisites:
up to 5 concurrent Plex stream, but mostly Direct Play (1080p), however I want to dabble in 4K streams shortly (storage dependant) I will have around 20 or so dockers doing various other stuff, but nothing too taxing - the N54L manages it perfectly right now aside from Nextcloud (which is a dog) I want the new setup to be power efficient. I'm using the N54L, as well as the aforementioned Windows 10 machine which is sitting on an I7 2600k I want this in a small case (MicroATX perhaps) but I want a bunch of 3.5" caddies - I was looking at the Node 804 but it is pricey Noise is a bit of a factor so the less the better - I'm sure it'll be less than the N54L I'm dealing with in my office right now though (Win10 machine is in my loft/attic)  
So, the ask is what components I should be looking for to give me the above and some headroom? I was looking at I5 10400, with the Plex requirements (iGPU, etc) in mind and headroom, but I'm after options. Budget wise, I'm trying to get all of this done and dusted for £1000 all in. This might include a couple more drives than I have now, but we'll see. I have 3 4TB Seagate drives sitting in my N54L, and a couple of mirrored Toshy N300 6TB drives in my Win10 machine so between all that I should have enough.
 
Thoughts, notes, assistance? Thanks!

It's been a while since I added a drive on unraid, but from memory it will have to "clear" the new drive. Since the data on the new drive is unknown, it would mess up the parity data, so the fix to that is unraid will zero the drive for you when it is added. This should be faster than having to recalculate the same amount of parity data.

Just FYI all worked smoothly. When I thought about it logically, it's just the controller that governs what the OS sees....so thanks for confirming all!

Sorry I mis-read your point. I thought you were saying Cooler Master are bad, buy a new Cooler Master product
 
Okay, thanks for the update - which AIO do you recommend then? H100i SE? Something else?

Yeah, fans generally push air out the side that has the frame. However there should be arrows on the side indicating the direction

I went and purchased a Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming as per the recommendations.  If it heats my CPU up I'll just rearrange the fans...by christ I've got like 3 Noctua's and 6 Corsair SPs lying about....I now just wish I could find an optimum mounting position for my H60...
 
Cheers for the help, I'll post about H60 elsewhere - cheers