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Put your hands on the disk when you connect it, does it spin up and down constantly? If so look at this https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Fix-the-33V-Pin-Issue-in-White-Label-Disks-/ I had heard some of the Reds act like white labels.

SuperNT / Pi / and emulation are cool but ... the MiSTer FPGA project needs some love. Dig Luke out from FP for this pixel perfect retro gaming evolution. Open source, open hardware, ~$130 for an FPGA retro console.

I did something similar not to long ago, ended up not liking it and going with a network attached tuner as it's super simple to use with Plex. For your issue look here https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/8w8dzx/hauppauge_wintv_quadhd_4xtv_tuner_unraid/ I had to do similar and played around with different drivers until it worked in plex.

Kotatsu type computer desk heated by i9-7980xe on some kind of radiator. Potential for best winter pc desk imo. https://www.ebay.com/p/Square-Kotatsu-Table-Heater-Top-Reversible-White-60x60cm-From-Japan/2130111045? iid=153085467840

If your only doing gigabit go with whatever it's all irrelevant unless your running cable directly over power cables and lights etc. I'm still running el-cheapo Cat5e in my walls for my home gigabit, no issues here. I only see a 10gigabit upgrade for a single connection from my NAS to my computer, the rest of the house is fine on gigabit for the next 10 years or so. Speed is mostly irrelevant, enjoy 1ms through fiber, Cat5e or Cat6 over a distance of whatever you pull in your house to whatever in your house. Throughput is limited anyway to your network adapter. Side note: Save yourself some time on the project and pick up a $30 magnet puller. Getting wires to go down walls is a pain, this works a ton better than fiberglass rods. Best thing in the world for your insulated walls. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-Magnetic-Wire-Pulling-System-SRS56037/206826202

Instead of full on VM why not docker?

All I did was change out the bad kit pump from the A240g for this new D5 one and take out the 240 rad. Turns out I was wrong, temps were in the same range of ~58-60c before (dug out an old picture https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_p1t2IspE0QNVZrR0d2bFRrQTQ/view) Not bad I guess when nuking the GPU and CPU at the same time. Edit the temp is both GPU/CPU on same loop maxed out CPU alone is ~50-53C

Coollaboratory Liquid Pro, just bought everything Rockit Cool had in the store to delid / relid. Generic arctic silver for IHS to CPU block.

My loop is hitting the CPU second tho, not sure if that factors in. I swear it was around 54c before all this with the A240g kit's pump. I did have a second radiator tho a 240 and a 360. I cut the 240 out to free up some space figuring the 360 would be fine with the 1080 and 7700k. I only really play WoW, transcode with handbreak, and play whatever's on sale on steam.

No that was with the powersuppply jummpered, pump at 100%. The sound went away over night (trapped air i guess?) With everything leak tested I connected everything up, temps seem ok but the CPU is a bit warmer than normal 63C under CPU burner (7700k delided at stock boosting to 4.5). Probably going to tear down and check the CPU block might be some blockage.

May have spoken too soon, dosn't seem like the pump is pushing correctly. Sound is 90% solved but water dosn't look like it's moving right.

Got it after taking it apart one more time and just doing a loop back it's working. Thanks all

https://imgur.com/a/aHR2g don't see any large issues. The ring holding the pump on was a bit loose. noticed some serious fluid movment after putting it back together. Still makes that same sound. Seemed to drown out a bit as I tilted the case this time. But returned again quickly.

Since this is pump #2 for me and Raid night is tomorrow I'll go ahead and tear it down to see what I get. Back in a few.

it's at 100% the power supply is jumppered right now and the pump is hooked up with no PWM control. I'm at the leak testing point and just trying to get thing sorted. I've spun this thing on all ends that don't let the pump run dry it still makes that sound and water dosn't seem to move. I was under the impression that the D5 was about 3x the flow rate of my old ddc pump.