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I manage a small companies IT network and it's time for an upgrade, I'm looking for suggestions. Business is a Sign Shop with 3 Employees and 7 Workstations, only the accounting files are off limits to 2 of the employees. Currently they've got 1x SBS 2011 running ADS for user logins and serving files (Currently 1 TB). Each workstation has Windows 10 Pro, FlexiDesign, Corel Draw, Adobe Suite, MS Office 2016 Retail Pro Plus Full backups are done every Thursday, with a daily differential every other day to a removable hard drive. Manual full server backups are performed to Amazon Glacier every other week. Using PowerToys, each users files are synced to the file server each day, before being sent to Glacier. Ideally I'd like the owners (limited IT ability) to be able to administrate adding users, removing users, copying data from former users to new ones. I want users to just save their data a folder that'll I'll sync to the cloud. I'm thinking of replacing the SBS server with a new PC that'll just serve files locally and will backup daily to the cloud. So, I need to choose a cloud suite. I'm leaning toward Google, but I've never used either before, as I'm an old MCSE 2000 that never upgraded. What do you recommend? For a file server, I'm also debating what to go with. I'll probably build the server (obviously) and can put on SBS 2019, although this seems like overkill for serving files that everyone has access to. The new server will probably just be a Ryzen 5/16GB/NVME Boot/RAID 5 for storage/RAID 5 for local backup.

Alright, the i3 is $170 and fits well into my budget. Almost, low enough to get that 500GB 860 Pro, but not quite.

Yes I thought about it. I was going to put in a 4790K, an additional 16GB, and then get the monitor. However the Z87 doesn't support M2 or NVM PCIE hard drives, and I've been wanting to get one of those. So when the neighbor asked about upgrading their XPS with a Phenom II, I offered mine at a discounted price to get rid of it, although it flawlessly Overclocks to 5 GHz at 35 C, so its been very good to me.

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WinToUSB I haven't tried Windows 10 although its supposedly supported. I ran 8.1 off a USB stick 2 years ago.

Actually you can...

Weird.

I like the PSU tester mainly because it'll show if any of the voltages are out of spec and they jumper the psu too.

Also does anyone know if a Water cooler that works on a 1150 board should work on an 1151 board?

I'd recommend a power supply tester, it's a good thing to keep around because you just never know... Sparks are never good, do you smell smoke? Most solid state devices won't spark without letting the smoke out. You may try testing it in another outlet as well. Sometimes the receptacles can wear out and cause sparking.

I've sold my "old" i5-4670k, Asus Z87-Expert, 16GB PC3-17000, and a R9-280X to a friends kid for a couple hundred Canuckistanian pesos. Now while eventually i'd like to go with a i7-7700K+, I need to have a running PC in the mean time and can't afford to more than $800 of the aforementioned currency. I'm currently looking at a few options for CPU and wonder what you'd suggest, as I will likely only keep the current one for a year? I don't want much of a drop in performance from the 4670K I had previously. I mostly play single player games like Fallout 4, Skyrim EE, Dying Light, Ashes, Doom, etc. Hardware I'm keeping: Antec P180 Case Corsair RM850 R9 Fury X Sandisk Extreme Pro 480GB SATAIII LG 22" 1080P 3D Monitor Hardware I'm looking at getting tomorrow: MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 2666 MHz >i3-7100 >i5-7500 >i5-7600K Future Hardware: Samsung M2 NVME 860 Pro i7-7700K or whatever is the best i7 I can get at for this board at that time. Acer 34" UltraWide 3K Monitor

That Ark looks good, I'll chat with them when they open.

For the industrial cabinets we've done, they just have an air valve like a tire, which you use to pressure. It's worth considering a fanless unit no doubt, that's why i'm looking for input. I was still thinking sealed because what inevitably happens is it gets neglected until it lets the smoke out in a "oh you mean we had to spray off the heatsink on the outside of the case" moment.

Actually its only 5 psi over ambient, seems how normal air pressure is 101.2 kPA or 14.5 PSI.

I'm looking to build a completely sealed case for a friend that I'd like to positively pressure to 136 kPA as the environment it's working in extremely dusty. It's in a coal heated welding shop. So as you can imagine, there's fine coal dust, steel, aluminum, and other metals in the air which make short work of every filtration system I've tried. As an electrician that works in various industrial settings, we sometimes do use positively pressured junction boxes in areas where explosive gas or dust can get into sensitive electronics, however these are usually engineered and UL Listed. Most recently I completely lined the CNC computer with twin layers of micro-filters, and while it reduced the amount of dust inside, when I went to clean them out the particulates had clogged the filters enough I had to use an air compressor at over 60 psi to get the filters clean. In so doing, it ripped the filters which I had expoxied into the case. Purpose: CNC AutoCAD computer that does do basic 3D drawings, mostly engineered drawings that parts are extrapolated and cut on plasma or waterjet. Current Core2Duo works fine for this. Build: i3-7100, 8GB DDR4, iGPU, Wireless Mouse and Keyboard I wonder about the cooling. While the ambient temperature is around 20C, with no fresh air and no exhaust the only air moving has to be what's inside the case. I wonder if positive pressure may create havoc with fans?