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Do NOT get an Athlon.

I've always seen those old i5s and i7s go for horribly overpriced money used. That being said, none of the AM3 chips were great^^
 
How much are they selling for used where you're at? Also, for those generations it can make sense to look at Xeon E3s (1230v2 f.e.), they're often a much better value because, well, they're not labeled i7^^

It's usually a passthrough where audio comes through the HDMI cable and you can use it as an audio out. It should work with your speaker system.
I've used it once on my BenQ though and the quality was properly bad in comparison to the normal audio ports on my PC, not sure if that's a general thing though.

It's usually a passthrough where audio comes through the HDMI cable and you can use it as an audio out. It should work with your speaker system.
I've used it once on my BenQ though and the quality was properly bad in comparison to the normal audio ports on my PC, not sure if that's a general thing though.

We need more info. What kind of PC are you going to put it in? Exact specs please. If you don't know them download a program like HWMonitor and send us a screenshot
Edit: And please don't tell me you paid 50$ for that thing

Probably because noone would buy it... 
There's not much market for such a thing, very few high-end builds are trying to be very compact. And even in small cases you can almost always fit larger GPUs

What you have is Registered ECC memory which only works with EPYC.
Ryzen supports Unbuffered ECC.

Just in case it's not clear or obvious... the UPS rating in VA is NOT the same thing as the maximum power it can supply.
 
A 1000 VA UPS can not output 1000 watts continuously, or is not supposed to - the internals may be oversized, or if you're lucky they use the same components as bigger models and just label it with a lower rating.
That's why you'll see some UPS models say stuff like 1500 VA  true sine power output max 900 watts or something like that. 
 
You're looking at peaks of 320 watts for the 3080 without overclocking, let's say it peaks at 350 watts when overclocked. 
A processor like the one mentioned will peak at around 150-200 watts, if you overclock it heavily it may go to around 250 watts.
You're looking at around 20 watts for the fans and water cooling and maybe 20-40 watts in 3.3v and 5v for everything else in your computer (rgb strips, onboard audio, lan, ssds, keyboard, mouse, other usb devices etc)
 
So let's say the components pull peaks of 650-700w.  A platinum efficiency psu will produce these 700 watts with around 92-94% efficiency... let's be conservative and say 92%... that means the 700w were 92% of what pulled from mains... so the psu actually pulls around 750-760 watts and around 50-60 watts are lost as heat in the psu.
 
When power is lost, the UPS has to take 10.8...13.8v from lead acid battery and uses an inverter to produce 110v AC or 230v AC... that's done with around 80-90% efficiency. So that 750w becomes around 800-850 watts of DC power pulled from battery. 
So you can easily do the math ... 850 watts / 10.8..13.8v = 62..78 A of current pulled from a 12v lead acid battery... the current increases from that 60-ish Amps and goes up as the battery voltage goes down. 
 
The cheap 500-750 VA UPSes use a single 7-9Ah lead acid battery... let's say a 1500 VA UPS uses a bigger 20Ah battery, here's a standard UPS battery : https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/zeus-battery-products/PC20-12NB/12570398
 
Here's datasheet: https://www.zeusbatteryproducts.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/ZEUS_SPEC_SHEET_PC20-12_RevV2.pdf
 
you'll see there :
 

 
So with such 20Ah battery, pulling 800w or so, you'll get maybe 10 minutes of running on UPS ( looking at around 50A because I assume as soon as the power goes off, you'll minimize the game or have Windows "power management" to throttle the cpu and reduce power consumption ... so you'll have that peak current when gaming for let's say half a minute to 1 minute until you realize the power failed and pause game and then the power consumption should drop to whatever's idle, average power consumption of 200-300w
 
The above battery charges at up to 6A but it's not a good idea to use such high current, a ups most likely charges at around 2-3A ... you'd be looking at around 8..10h to charge this battery when fully discharged. Says at the top in datasheet.
 
So the reason I suggested an UPS that uses two batteries, is because most likely such UPS will have two 9Ah..12Ah standard mass produced batteries, easy to replace when dying, and if the power fails when you're gaming and your PC pulls a lot, the two batteries share the load, so each battery sees half the current, or only around 20-30A instead of one battery being abused with a sudden 800w pull (around 60A)
 
Even better choice would be one of those rackable UPSes which use up to 4 lead acid batteries as they're designed to work either from datacenter 48v DC or from mains. 
 
You can find refurbished / used ones with or without batteries for cheap, like 100-300$ 
 
Here's an example : https://www.apc.com/shop/my/en/products/APC-Smart-UPS-C-1500VA-LCD-RM-2U-230V/P-SMC1500I-2U
 
$139  without batteries : https://www.ebay.com/itm/APC-UPS-SMC1500-2U-1500VA-LCD-Smart-Uninterruptible-Power-Supply-No-Batteries/254755515197
 
$280 WITH new batteries (184 sold, 8 still available, looks like someone cleared a datacenter or something) : https://www.ebay.com/itm/APC-SMT1500RM2U-Smart-UPS-1500VA-RM-2U-LCD-New-Batteries-1Yr-Wrnty-FreeShip/113361095725
 
$299 WITH new batteries (130+ sold, >10 available) : https://www.ebay.com/itm/APC-SMT1500RM2U-Smart-UPS-Power-Backup-LCD-1500VA-1000W-120V-Rackmount-New-Batt/223987326330
 
 
 

That's like a 500$ CPU + 500$ GPU, just please don't try to save extra bucks on something as important as the PSU. You have the money if you've spent that kind of money already

i5-10600 or 10600K offers top tier gaming experience at a fraction of the cost of an i9. Gives you the spare funds to upgrade the PSU to a higher quality unit.

That's like a 500$ CPU + 500$ GPU, just please don't try to save extra bucks on something as important as the PSU. You have the money if you've spent that kind of money already

Long - maybe.
if your putting it into a older system with sata 1 or 2 and the card is pcie4x sata 3. Like say in a x58 system.
Its also useful if you don’t have any drive bays or want to clear up cables.

Excellent! That did indeed fix it. Mainly had issues with BigBlueButton before (we use that at university) that just told me it simply won't run, lol

That's odd. We're usually only a few weeks behind at most. And we also identify as Chrome in our User agent string, so websites should detect you as a Chrome user.
There's a new release today (just now!), please update and see if you have any further issues.

You're right in the new one will be faster. It might just be a wiser and more intelligent choice for your life to invest 10k into your future (stocks or whatever) (and the future of your kids) and the rest into a new pc, which would still be plenty for what you want to achieve simply through listening to the advice the people give you.
 
The threadripper and amount of ram is the most brutal waste of money I've seen in years for this application, not to speak of trying to make quad SLI work in more than one game. 
Why? Mainly playing a game that is brutally single-core dependant on a processor that... Is known for many threads, not good single-core performance... It's Threadripper, not Singlethreadripper.
128gb of ram that will give you less performance in your game just to be able to put it onto a ramdrive that makes the game... Load a few milliseconds faster than a fast NVME drive would.
Quad SLI that... If you find one game that scales the third card somewhat okay I'm surprised, let alone the 4th one. Also that won't be long lasted. As others have stated, SLI and Crossfire will die out. Why?
It made sense back in a day. Buy two cheap cards, throw them together and get almost linear scaling. Many did it, many could afford it. Well supported because of many users.
Today: SLI isn't a thing on lower end cards, only on top of the shelf products that run the games at high resolution with perfectly playable fps already. Basically noone will put two of them together, let alone 4. Noone will support it because of a few hundred users in the world using it on that game.
 
Conclusion: Better invest the money you're saving by following the tips the people give you and spend them on some AMD stock and be happy while playing your game

You're right in the new one will be faster. It might just be a wiser and more intelligent choice for your life to invest 10k into your future (stocks or whatever) (and the future of your kids) and the rest into a new pc, which would still be plenty for what you want to achieve simply through listening to the advice the people give you.
 
The threadripper and amount of ram is the most brutal waste of money I've seen in years for this application, not to speak of trying to make quad SLI work in more than one game. 
Why? Mainly playing a game that is brutally single-core dependant on a processor that... Is known for many threads, not good single-core performance... It's Threadripper, not Singlethreadripper.
128gb of ram that will give you less performance in your game just to be able to put it onto a ramdrive that makes the game... Load a few milliseconds faster than a fast NVME drive would.
Quad SLI that... If you find one game that scales the third card somewhat okay I'm surprised, let alone the 4th one. Also that won't be long lasted. As others have stated, SLI and Crossfire will die out. Why?
It made sense back in a day. Buy two cheap cards, throw them together and get almost linear scaling. Many did it, many could afford it. Well supported because of many users.
Today: SLI isn't a thing on lower end cards, only on top of the shelf products that run the games at high resolution with perfectly playable fps already. Basically noone will put two of them together, let alone 4. Noone will support it because of a few hundred users in the world using it on that game.
 
Conclusion: Better invest the money you're saving by following the tips the people give you and spend them on some AMD stock and be happy while playing your game

You're right in the new one will be faster. It might just be a wiser and more intelligent choice for your life to invest 10k into your future (stocks or whatever) (and the future of your kids) and the rest into a new pc, which would still be plenty for what you want to achieve simply through listening to the advice the people give you.
 
The threadripper and amount of ram is the most brutal waste of money I've seen in years for this application, not to speak of trying to make quad SLI work in more than one game. 
Why? Mainly playing a game that is brutally single-core dependant on a processor that... Is known for many threads, not good single-core performance... It's Threadripper, not Singlethreadripper.
128gb of ram that will give you less performance in your game just to be able to put it onto a ramdrive that makes the game... Load a few milliseconds faster than a fast NVME drive would.
Quad SLI that... If you find one game that scales the third card somewhat okay I'm surprised, let alone the 4th one. Also that won't be long lasted. As others have stated, SLI and Crossfire will die out. Why?
It made sense back in a day. Buy two cheap cards, throw them together and get almost linear scaling. Many did it, many could afford it. Well supported because of many users.
Today: SLI isn't a thing on lower end cards, only on top of the shelf products that run the games at high resolution with perfectly playable fps already. Basically noone will put two of them together, let alone 4. Noone will support it because of a few hundred users in the world using it on that game.
 
Conclusion: Better invest the money you're saving by following the tips the people give you and spend them on some AMD stock and be happy while playing your game

You're right in the new one will be faster. It might just be a wiser and more intelligent choice for your life to invest 10k into your future (stocks or whatever) (and the future of your kids) and the rest into a new pc, which would still be plenty for what you want to achieve simply through listening to the advice the people give you.
 
The threadripper and amount of ram is the most brutal waste of money I've seen in years for this application, not to speak of trying to make quad SLI work in more than one game. 
Why? Mainly playing a game that is brutally single-core dependant on a processor that... Is known for many threads, not good single-core performance... It's Threadripper, not Singlethreadripper.
128gb of ram that will give you less performance in your game just to be able to put it onto a ramdrive that makes the game... Load a few milliseconds faster than a fast NVME drive would.
Quad SLI that... If you find one game that scales the third card somewhat okay I'm surprised, let alone the 4th one. Also that won't be long lasted. As others have stated, SLI and Crossfire will die out. Why?
It made sense back in a day. Buy two cheap cards, throw them together and get almost linear scaling. Many did it, many could afford it. Well supported because of many users.
Today: SLI isn't a thing on lower end cards, only on top of the shelf products that run the games at high resolution with perfectly playable fps already. Basically noone will put two of them together, let alone 4. Noone will support it because of a few hundred users in the world using it on that game.
 
Conclusion: Better invest the money you're saving by following the tips the people give you and spend them on some AMD stock and be happy while playing your game

Well you certainly don't need a Threadripper like a Poster who shall go unnamed...

Mate sell it all and get a nice car or smth, your son will appreciate that I'm sure. There's better things to spend things on than 8k WOW... Renovate your bathroom or smth, just my two cts though...
Edit: I'm open to give more suggestions 

Mate sell it all and get a nice car or smth, your son will appreciate that I'm sure. There's better things to spend things on than 8k WOW... Renovate your bathroom or smth, just my two cts though...
Edit: I'm open to give more suggestions 

Uhh the 2600 doesn't have an iGPU if I'm not completely mistaking... 
From my experience running Windows on an HDD isn't only slow but basically impossible by now, any time I've tried it it's just pegged at 100% not even doing anything, idling... That might affect your server-performance too, but maybe others have more expertise there...
 
Running the server on the hardware itself shouldn't be a problem. You have plenty of RAM and the CPU will be fine as well. (It will probably hurt your performance more than benefiting it installing that one 4GB stick of RAM though, keep that in mind)
 
Make sure your internet is good and stable enough to run a server reasonably.

You do realise that 144p is 256x144.

650ti, radeon hd 7870 or something along those lines. Buying something new would be a waste of money imho.

This'll sound a little archaic but did wiggling the thumb drives change their behavior?