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Projector black levels are even worse than LCD in my experience. You can also see it in LTT's newest video. I have no idea how they can say "impressive black levels" with a straight face while seeing this; it just looks washed out.

Congratulations, you just learned one of the reasons why BIOS RAID is bad and one should use software - RAID from the OS - side instead.

Thanks Playing around is half the fun of second equipment. 

So, you want to take the midi output from any of 3 computers and route it to and of 6 synths. Then take the output from those 6 synths and send them to a single pair of speakers?
 
There are midi matrixes which allow you to route a number of inputs to a number of output, however these rely on a host device (pc) to configure and manage the routing. For example this 8 channel interface, or this 10 channel interface. Each allows routing any channel to be output from any other channel. (but make sure the device will do exactly what you're trying to do before you buy it). But to change the routing you need it connected to a host device.
 
For the output from the synths any mixer would be fine, so long as you've got enough channels to handle the number of stereo (or mono) sources you've got.

Thanks I thought the CPU and Board might be the problem. Strong for a 1080p plex server but not high speed file transfers or 4k video. End goal to switch to a 1st gen TR now that the prices are falling massively. (50% of retail). Which 32 cores at 4,0GHz will handle no problem. Mean time found some compatible ram on ebay for now going to go from 28g to 64g for $16 no real risk. 
 
Side note no kernel panics on 1g but only on 10 gig for now which does sound like a ram issue. 

ZFS is not designed for speed by any stretch of the imagination. They have workarounds to help with speed, but their focus is data integrity. I would reflash your HBA, throw in a BBU and some RAM, and use it for RAID if you want speed.
 
Well right off the bat your HBA is probably plugged into a x4 slot (or will be if you buy an infiniband) which means you're capped out around 8Gbt/s. So no configuration of disks (even with an SSD on the SATA 2 port on your motherboard) is going to break 10Gbit/s.
 
Your next solution as already mentioned would be RAM disks. You may want to do some performance tests, as I "feel" like you might not hit 40gbit/s with DDR2 / your CPU.
 
Final note is SMB - it is horrible. It will definitely put some strain on your CPU which is already choking. It's certainly a very supported protocol, but it is not easy on your CPU. 
 
*not trying to be a debbie downer, just hoping you don't buy these infiniband cards only to see 0 gain.

You break the HDD bottleneck, By second hand SSD’s

You are mistaken about the processor limit.
XP Home is limited to one physical CPU unlimited cores
XP Pro is limited to 2 physical CPU's and unlimited cores

ASUS website has the drivers for the the hardware and the ACHI drivers. The all Nvidia GPUs have XP drivers up till to 900 series. 

Squid was the issue. I am not using quid now but have my vpn.

its was a bad plex setting fixed. 
But to answer questions
Lan is full duplex gigabit to all machines, running through a 48port netgear prosafe switch with a pfsense router on a i5 hp computer.
Ubuntu 16.01lts server distro
 
The video was droppong frames like crazy and shuddering.