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The cards in your post have a 2 port sata controller on them (from AsMedia usually)  and then use 2 or 3 port multiplier chips (that convert 1 port to 5 ports) so basically 5 sata ports all share the bandwidth of a single port ( 6 gbps or 600 MB/s spread across 5 sata ports) 
I don't like such tricks and I don't think it's worth paying $60 for such cards. 
Also, another worthy note is that those cards are pci-e x1 which means you get 500 MB/s max if you plug the card into a pci-e 2.0 slot, or maximum 985 MB/s if you plug it in a pci-e 3.0 slot -  the controller should be capable of pci-e 3.0.
 
You should buy proper 8 port controller cards, there's lots of 8 port SAS controllers which have 2 SAS connectors on them and you can get the cables which convert the SAS connectors into 4 sata ports, to connect 8 drives.  There's even IT / HBA firmwares for these cards, making them just pass through the 8 drives to the operating system.
 
Here's an example of such card : https://www.ebay.com/itm/403649844674
The "IT Mode" in title and the HBA keyword tell you it's configured to just show the 8 sata ports, to have 8 independent sata drives, and skip the raid and other gimmicks.
 
Another example, a LSI card rebranded by Fujitsu but it's still LSI, still in IT mode etc etc : https://www.ebay.com/itm/133410481066
Or an INSPUR branded model, still same LSI 9211-81 in HBA, IT mode : https://www.ebay.com/itm/194584436310
 
Another example but you need to buy the cables separately : https://www.ebay.com/itm/313924649846
 
The cables are SFF-8087 to 4xsata : https://www.ebay.com/itm/374108875609
 
Another alternative would be these older Areca 16 x sata3 cards (only 300MB/s per port)  : https://unixsurplus.com/areca-arc-1260-raid-controller/
It does hardware raid but also supports JBOD (no raid mode, just bunch of drives) and has a proper intel controller chip and proper marvel sata controllers, no port multipliers. 
Yes, it's almost 2-3 times more expensive than the ebay models, but you do get 16 ports so more dense. 
It may also be worth emailing that company Unixsurplus or using chat on page to ask them what controllers they have in stock, as they don't list everything they have on the website.
 
All these controller cards are pci-e x4 ... up to 2 GB/s for pci-e 2.0  or ~3.7 GB/s for pci-e 3.0  but they'll also run in a pci-e x1 slot (some motherboards don't have a wall at the end of pci-e x1 connectors precisely so you can insert x4 or x8 cards into x1 slot)  or you can use a riser cable to plug the card into a x1 slot.
 
 

Depends what you connect to it, it should be able to run 5xHDDs before bottlenecking too badly for sequential access, random access you're probably going to be hitting the IO limits on the drives so never reach 1GB/s total throughput anyway.
 
Now for SSDs, yeah, its going to suck.
 
I see a few HBA adapters on Amazon (though with a lot less ports), they're priced accordingly.  So it really depends how important the speed is to you.

I just want to say thank you for this post. I was looking for this exact situation this morning and I just thought to check here and it was the first post!

For someone with 12,000 posts I would hope you'd know better than that. A lower resolution takes the pressure off of the GPU and places it on the CPU.

That is so hawt. Omg

@HunterAP it can be even shorter  like this
 
^F1::send {esc}{click}  

#q:: send {esc} click return this is the whole script, put it into a .ahk file (ordinary text file with ahk extension) and you're good to go
 
you activate it by windows key+q

You can make a function that does what you want, then map a key to that function. This example maps the F1 key to the function that does as you ask:
myFunction() { Send {Esc} Send {Click} } ^F1::myFunction() This SHOULD work, but I would read up on the Autohotkey docs. The ones I used just now are Send and Functions.
Hope this helped!

i get 4 fps on cs go i def need a new pc 

Okay, thanks for the cooler links.
I got my account terminated and IP banned by adding a 300$ dildo to a $189K random pc build

Perfectly normal. Once you've used 144hz you are cursed for life, you can't ever use 60hz again.

Or just buy some electric toothbrush heads and put them in your ears.. they sound, look, and compress noise about the same. And if you lose one because of the design, you don't need to fret about losing $200.

I reached that with a CM Seidon 240m, haven't tried higher with the h100i yet, stay tuned

Yeah, maybe he got them on sale too. But yeah it is kinda a waste of money. Speaking waste of money cough..... coughh...... Airpods.... couch.... couch...

Yee, i know. But he'll get better at it. After some upgrades or even just taking it apart while cleaning.
(Just dont look behind the mobotray in my pc ahaha, other than that im a pro)
 

Hello everyone, 
 
My first post here, so be gentle if I sound a bit dumb or foreign lol. 
 
Anyways my PC I've built is a mix of new parts in a cheap case. Not my choice for case, but I'll upgrade that later, probably. 
 
The spec sheet is as follows:
CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 1700x (OC to 3.8ghz)
Cooling - Corsair H100i V2
MOBO - Gigabyte AB350N-WiFi
RAM - 16gb of GeIL EVO X DDR4 3000mhz (not compatible, runs and 2133, RIP)
Graphics - GTX 1070 FE
PSU - Silverstone 750w modular
Case - Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX
Storage - 2x 250gb SSD (Intel and Samsung), and 1tb WD disk drive
 
I also use a FUNC KB-460 and Logitech G502. And I'm hooked on my Logitech G430 headset. 
 
Additionally, I added an RGB can cover because I got it for free and why not? Lol
 
 
 

You might suffer in games with single-threaded calculations like BF1, but the quantity of cores, if used, will hopefully make up for it by allowing those single-threads to use a core each.

in 720p low or settings yes

You can achieve the same overclocks as since the TDP is very low, you have more headroom for overvolting and overclocking so really no unless you want to impress you friends with the "X" at the end of it.

I think it looks good, but here are a few modifications that I made:
 
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FbMYqk

I just realized what the second item is...You sacrificed you're amazon recommendations for some good laughs. Good job

Some games yes. 

Yea a 1080ti will be best yes but your DONT need a 7700k lol. 

@tp95112 @Droidbot @mineturte83 @deXxterlab97
 
I just went on amazon and look what I found..
 
 

I apologize if this has been asked or discussed in the past but, does anyone know if LMG will release another batch of Noctua LTT Fans?