DrunkenPanda

This is what I'd do with $1600... https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BfHXXy lots of upgrade paths and games at ultra with no struggles... case should be great on air flow... might splurge on a couple extra fans

.... That Samsung corrected quickly.... because customer support

I don't trust random unknown Chinese manufacturers to provide the hardware they sent out for benchmarking. They could disappear tomorrow and rebrand to something else nobody's heard of and no harm, no foul for screwing their customer base. I don't say this as some blind talking point either, because they do just that on a regular basis... I also don't agree with the working conditions, worker pay, and politics of the country in general... which is a whole other issue. Samsung can't just disappear and refuse to support their products because they have an established brand and a reputation to uphold. So if there's a choice and one's $10 more, but has been a mainstay in the industry for 20-30 years... I'll gladly pay that $10 premium for peace of mind knowing I'm not about to get screwed. You can call that fanboyism or whatever you want to call it... but I get what I pay for every time. I'm also 37 and have been building enthusiast computers since I was 12. I have a good job and can afford to splurge an extra couple hundred across a system for established manufacturers that I have experience with. I know they will stand behind and support their products, and have customer service beyond "we already have your money, sucks for you". If none of that matters to you, and all you care about is raw benchmark price/performance, then we are different customers that value different things. I'll agree to disagree here Edit: I've got a 1TB 970 evo... tell me what benchmark to run and we can live test it vs ur kyo

This is a little bit silly... different brands source different materials to make particular sku's with... there is also country of manufacture to consider, quality standards associated with those countries, and benchmark data. So... maybe recently the pack caught up with Samsung and Intel, but for a LONG time, those were the only two brands that made top-tier 2.5" SSDs. That transferred thru when PCIE and NVME flash first came out... and when I say top-tier, I mean some of the other brands were half their read/write speed... or worse. You are correct, you are never "completely safe"... even with a reputable brand... but you've got a lot better odds with a reputable brand vs random Chinese one... or even a targeted Chinese one... and even if it were on par, or better, even, I'd pay more to avoid supporting Chinese manufacturing for multiple reasons. There are some Chinese products that are unavoidable, but yea... There was 1 version of firmware that was present on 2TB 980 Pro drives in 2021 that I recall that was bad. It was addressed quickly. It's correctable by doing the thing you should do regardless of an actual issue... using the latest firmware for your newly purchased hardware that's been sitting on a shelf for X months... I'm not aware of anything with the 990 Pro? What's the issue there?

yea, wasn't talking about hardware raid... and this isn't an enterprise server... drive integrity isn't a concern... I don't want to use AMD RAID for the boot drive, so it's more of a question of whether it's worth anything to use the other 3 drives in software RAID over JBoD

Rebuilding my custom loop... https://pcpartpicker.com/list/t4NhsL 2TB Samsung 980 Pro NVME drives were on sale... and the motherboard has 4 slots... so we filled her up! I should have everything in the next week or so (waiting on the case direct from Fractal and the Bitspower Cuboid 150 res / D5 pump) Doing a dual 180mm rad in the front and dual 140mm rad in the bottom So... the question... what to do with 4x 2TB m.2 drives?

was mostly looking for cost efficiency/expandability... RAM is cheap, CPU also fairly cheap... motherboard is on the expensive side, but I'll need the SATA ports for future drive additions... probably running Rockstor for NAS and some sort of Ubuntu flavor for the Plex Media Server... there's ~20 people that use the Plex server in RAID1 config... VM sandbox will run a Windows text-based MMO with ~80 users

Budget (including currency): Under $1500 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Home Server / NAS / Media Streamer for family members Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I'd like to get my media server out of my desktop and into a standalone system. Will also use for VM sandboxing https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qcpZtn CPU: Intel i5-13500 Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 MB: ASRock Z790 Pro RAM: 64GB DDR4-4000 Storage: 500GB m.2 2x 10TB Hitachi Ultrastar 10He*** Already purchased and in use / almost full 2x 14TB WD DC HC530 Case: Fractal Design Define R7 PSU: Seasonic Focus Plus Platinum 650w Anything incredibly overkill there? Open to recommendations

if anyone was wondering, or if this comes up in the search... I took it to the computer shop to try the CPU on their test bench and it didn't work. We put in a different CPU and it fired right up. We put the CPU back in the original motherboard and it fired right up. As it turns out, Lenovo prebuilts have recently started vendor-locking their CPUs to the motherboard https://www.servethehome.com/amd-psb-vendor-locks-epyc-cpus-for-enhanced-security-at-a-cost/ ...... because anybody needed that... in a desktop... ever... .... ...

I installed 3 RTX 5000s in different systems and upgraded the PSUs to support them... this one I had to change the case on as the one it was in wasn't big enough to house it. I ditched the motherboard it was on to circumvent having to look up Lenovo documentation to connect to the case etc... I suppose I could open that route back up and return the motherboard if it works cause the current config does not I can't check VGA or DVI on my monitors here, I'm sure work has some shitty ones that would take those connections but I'm fairly certain that isn't the issue

didn't opt for the fancy mobo.... just wanted something that wasn't going to alarm out cause I didn't connect some random button from the original case... I've tried other ports for the quadro... I just installed three other ones and they all went very smoothly. I can't imagine it's the quadro that is the problem but I could find out fairly quickly tomorrow. I'm fairly convinced its the CPU causing the issue... it's just weird cause it had no bent or missing pins

If it's not heat-related crashing, it's probably a corrupted core file.... there are ways of trying to find that corruption, but they are more of a pain in the ass than the nuclear option imo... so while it's kind of the nuclear option, reformatting and reinstalling windows would likely fix the issue

I tried integrated when I removed everything except the CPU, 1 stick of RAM... There's only 1 port on the motherboard for it.... but yea... no display

what's your GPU max temp?

I rebuilt a work system today from a Lenovo prebuilt. Reused CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 4750G Reused Ram: 4x 8GB New MB: Asus Prime B450m-A II (have already flashed the BIOS at this point) New PSU: EVGA 80-bronze 750 watt fully modular New GPU: Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000 New CPU Cooler: Hyper X Evo 212 Reused Storage: 256GB M.2 New Case: Be Quiet something or nother Full ATX Step by step: - took the motherboard out of the box and placed it on top of the box - transferred the CPU, fairly carefully, with the arrow pointed properly, wiggled it lightly to seat it, and clamped the clip - connected the CPU fan, thermal pasted the CPU, and installed the cooler - installed the RAM, with audible clicks heard on each - installed the m.2 drive - reset the standoffs for mATX and screwed the motherboard into the case. - installed the power supply, clicked in the Motherboard, CPU, and VGA cables - routed the Motherboard and CPU power supply cables and clicked them into the motherboard - installed the fans and connected them to the motherboard - connected the USB 3.0, HD Audio, Power Switch and Power LED +/- - routed the VGA cable, connected it to the GPU, and installed the GPU - cable management, and took it down to the shop - hooked it up, no display - changed monitors and got a HDMI > DisplayPort cable that was working on a similar system, no display - took out the RAM sans 1 stick, no display - decided to take it home... reseated the GPU and checked all the PSU connections, no display - cleared CMOS, no display - reseated the CPU and checked the pins, no problem with pins or socket, reinstalled CPU cooler, no display - flashed the BIOS on the motherboard, no display - took everything out except the CPU, 1 stick of RAM, no display yes, the cables I'm using work with my main system. it is not the cables. I've been building computers since I was 15. I'm 37 now.... I have no idea what to even try at this point. I thought about replacing components from my current system but it's a custom loop and that would be a massive pain in the ass... All I can figure is something happened to the CPU? I have no idea what, but I'm open to ideas? My current track is to take it to the computer shop 10 minutes from work and ask if I can use their test bench