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Well, see that's the problem I've ran into is powering it while it's inside of the case. If they made a standalone board that only had the SATA data connector on it, and out to USB 3 header, then I could just plug in a SATA power right beside it, as one normally would when installing a SATA drive.

External hard drive adapters are quite common that allow one to connect an HDD or SSD to an adapter that plugs into USB 3.0 for an easy way to access an otherwise internal drive. However, I'm looking for something quite different. I'm dealing with a motherboard with only two SATA ports and I'm looking to add an SSD with the HDD and ODD that are already in the computer. I'm also dealing with limited PCI-e slots, so PCI-e based SATA cards are a no-go. However, what I've thought of is, if it exists, is an adapter somewhat like I described previously, except with a USB 3.0 header adapter and molex or SATA for supplementary power, because I have the power cables, just not the SATA data ports. Now it would need this supplementary power to run an ODD because I wouldn't want to bottleneck the SSD or HDD anymore than I have to. Now, I'm aware of the 5.25 drive enclosures, however I prefer keeping the ODD in the case if at all possible. Has anyone heard of an adapter like I've mentioned? Or have another possible solution?

If you set up port forwarding you can get access to your NAS from anywhere with a password, however your speeds will be limited to the slowest internet connection between your house and wherever you are.

I'm looking at possibly purchasing an old pre-built system (don't judge me too hard), but I'm trying to figure out what CPU upgrade options there may be. Here is the product specs page from HP: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03141285 I'm thinking maybe a i5 2500 or i7 2600 might work in this, but I read some stuff about h61 and h61 express chipsets, and I don't think they're cross compatible. I'm am out of the loop on these older chipsets and boards, so any help would be appreciated. What I'd like to do with a system like this is upgrade to at least a quad core processor, bump up to 8 gb ram, add a cheap ssd, and maybe throw in a cheap video card, like a GTX 750ti or 1050(no additional pci-e power), even though it's pci-e 2 on this older chipset. Are there any issues I may face or considerations I may need to make if I were to go about doing this? Ultimately, I'd like to give it to my nephew to do some light gaming on if I can get these upgrades. Any help would be much appreciated.

I've got the same drive but in an x99 build and it takes about 25-30s; but I honestly think that's just x99's thing. Does anyone else have experience with this?

Here's a cheap x-370 board: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132986&cm_re=asus_prime_x370_a-_-13-132-986-_-Product

Should be fine, the r7-1700 comes with AMD's wraith cooler (air) that some have been able to get modest overclock on, so when you go liquid cooling you should have even more headroom.

You could potentially save on the board too, z-270 boards for the 7700k do not come too cheap, while the x-370 and b-350 are a bit less expensive.

The 7700k is a 4 core, 8 thread CPU with a base frequency of 4.2, boost to 4.5 ghz. 1800x is overkill. 1700 & 1700x are both 8 core, 16 thread processors, with lower clock speeds. The single-threaded performance of the 7700k will give it an advantage in just gaming alone, however when you add streaming in the mix, the added cores of the Ryzen chip will benefit you. If you can get a good overclock on the Ryzen chip you can close the gap in single-threaded performance. r7 1700 base: 3.0, boost: 3.7 r7 1700x base: 3.4, boost: 3.8

Only because it sounds like you may be confusing the two, Ryzen is a processor, whereas the GTX 10 series is Nvidia's current lineup of consumer graphics cards. An 8-core ryzen cpu starts out at around $280, https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113428 and should be great for streaming gameplay as you will be benefitting from those extra cores. The GTX 1080 or 1080 TI would be a great graphics card to pair with this CPU as it will handle demanding games at high details and high resolutions

Are there parental settings on the router restricting his access at a certain time each night?

I skipped using the tool entirely, just another way to complicate what should be otherwise relatively easy.

I guess you mean one of these.. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158411&cm_re=usb_3.0_PCI_FRONT_PANEL-_-15-158-411-_-Product

HDMI cable into capture card. Capture card into computer over USB or pci-e for internal capture cards. Then you usually use a software that comes with the device to display the output of the HDMI in the program in Windows. You can either record this, stream, or do nothing and simply see the output. However, due to the bandwidth limitations of USB and older version of PCI-e, there could be a significant amount of input lag, like a few seconds. However, if you use something like the Elgato HD60 pro, there should be very little to no discernable input lag because it uses the latest revision of PCI-e, gen 3. And it's software, Game Capture HD, works quite well too. Edit: Elgato's HDMI capture products feature an HDMI pass-through that allow pass through of the HDMI signal to your TV or other monitor, but you don't have to use this feature if you choose.

Are you looking for a capture card? Something to record Nintendo switch gameplay? If so, try one of elgato's. https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming

While this platform is quite powerful, where will it be in two years? The 6950x is the end of the road for x-99, and while it is an exceptionally powerful platform, who knows what new technology, standards and software will be released that the aging platform will not be able to handle?

You're right. Core count is irrelevant if your single-threaded performance is no good, especially considering that today's triple A games only utilize 4 cores at most.

It's been mentioned by several YouTubers and others in the Tech world that Ryzen CPUs benefit greatly from faster RAM.

The two skylake based tiers will include 28 & 44 lane; which honestly sounds like plenty for the OP. x16 for 1 gpu, maybe x4 for pcie based nvme storage, and 8 more on the lowest end for whatever else. PCI-e raids are a different story, however with drives like the 960 pro that can reach 3.5 GB/S sequential reads, I just don't see a need to raid these type of drives. Keep raiding SATA if you must for backups, etc.

As far as "upgrade-ability," I think X-299 may be the better bet. X-99 received two generations of CPUs (Haswell & Broadwell). If Intel continues with this trend on their HEDT platform, we may see a new generation of chips for the platform, even after the 16 & 18-core i9s come out later this year. However, the other side of this is, who knows what AMD might do with their platform? Good luck, but I say X-299.

You want file access to the second drive right from the desktop of your second monitor on your one computer? Right? So, I'm not sure about that, but to my knowledge you can only have one hard drive set to hold the contents of your desktop, regardless of the number of monitors you have connected to your computer.

Never used it, but maybe this... https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-AC1200-WiFi-USB-Adapter/dp/B00MRVJY1G?th=1

I'd really like to see 6-8+ core chips become more affordable. I don't think it's much longer until a 6 or 8 core chip will have to fill the role that a 7700k (a 4c 8t chip) does now. The PCIe lanes are kind of garbage too. On the current x99 platform, you can get a 40 lane CPU, like the 6850k, for around $600. Whereas here, you'll have to pay double that to get those lanes.

I'd plug all those parts into PC part picker, get a total, then maybe knock off 15-20% of the cost (depending how fast you need to sell it) and roll with that. I would think selling it all together would be best.

I have a 4460 & gtx 970 pairing on my secondary system. It works great, they pair well together. I'm not sure how the 970 compares to the 1060 or the RX 480/580.