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From what I understood, you want to create a bunch of virtual machines. As your hypervisor, you could use unraid. If you do, your current build will be limited by your Graphics Card, because you have to assign one physical graphics card to each VM, so you would need to add some more in order to be able to create more VMs. Your friends will then have to remotely access these VMs with a software of your choice.

A couple of days ago, my friend told me there is a problem with his Computer. Every time he would open up a game, his GPU Fans would turn up all the way and his pc would crash, blackscreen. I informed myself a little bit here, and a couple of years ago, someone had this problem, but it was because of his GPU overheating. So I asked him to log his temperatures via GPU-Z and then reproduce the issue, which he did. However, when crashing, the GPU only reached a temperature of 52 degrees, meaning overheating shouldn't be the issue. When blackscreening, the audio, including discord, would still work. Thus I thought it is a graphics card problem. Could it be that it is a driver issue?

Thanks everyone. The fan i am currently using is some avc from a lenovo prebuilt I no longer use (for proof of concept). If everything works fine, I am planning to get a couple of Arctic F8 SIlents. I will have a look into a 12V power supply.

I would probably do that if my PC wasn't a little too far away and if my cheap motherboard would have more than one fan header. Would a fan controller also work without connecting it to a PC?

I don't know if this is the right place to post, tell me if not. In order to create some airflow in a cabinet, I want to use a couple of old unused computer fans. They have 4 pin connectors, therefore PWM fans, and I want to use them connected to a phone charger via usb. The problem is: I modded a usb cable and connected the ground wire to the fan ground wire and the +5V to the corresponding fan wire. However, now the fan is ramping up and going to 0, then ramping up again instead of delivering a constant airflow. I believe it might have something to do with the other two wires that are not connected to anything. Is there anything I can do about it?

That's how it's set up right now (see sketch). Does it maybe have to do something with DNS settings or is that irrelevant? Mind you the powerline although it can be a powerline is connected to the router via WiFi

(Not very experienced when it comes to networking) I have my PC, a WD mycloud mirror nas (2tb raid1) and a fritz! powerline (for internet because my PC doesn't have WiFi, no possibility for LAN) When I try to move files from my PC's SSD to the NAS I get speeds in the kb/s range, and sometime it just stops, not paused or anything but just displaying 0 bytes/s. I thought it might be routing all the traffic through the router and then back to the switch instead of directly moving it (which then should be a lot faster?) Anyone got any ideas as to how I can fix that because having to import hundreds of GBs of Files is quite annoying to do with that speed Thanks in advance

I wonder if the R5 2600, which here in Germany is really cheap now that Ryzen 3 launched, would be good for my Home NAS that's running 24/7? The NAS acts as a File Server for multiple users, hosts a cloud and web stuff and will have some VMs running on it (maximum 2 at a time, no intense workloads). Do you think this CPU will do for my purpose?

I have always worked with pfSense and I really like it, never had any issues.

Thank you very much! That's perfect!

I have a Microsoft Surface Pro from 2017 and I am mostly happy with it. However, now that I have started using USB-C I am realizing how much I am missing out not being able to charge it with USB-C. So, I had this idea to get a Surface Pro charging cable or rather connector and a USB-C cable and put those together so that I have USB-C on one and the proprietary Surface Charging Connector on the other end. My question: does something like this already exist and where do I find a Surface Pro Charging Connector/Third Party cable/connector as I am not willing to pay the price for the original cable? BTW I am open to any better suggestions. It literally just was an idea.

As of personal preference, I like both the G.Skill Trident Z and the Vengeance RGB Pro. But as @Findiculous said, it depends on what other components you have in your system, just to match them.

I happen to have a Lenovo Prebuilt around here with an Intel Core i5-650 (Clarkdale) and a Q57 Motherboard. My question is, as I don't know about hardware from that time, if this CPU is overclockable with the Q57 Chipset. If it's not with that particular Q57 Chipset or it's locked by Lenovo, would it work with another Chipset? Which one? Thanks in advance

Sorry I had overlooked that. If you want it to last probably the Ryzen 2600 is the way to go. i5-8400 is similarily priced but probably won‘t hold the performance as long.

Probably Intel is the way to go since if you‘re not gonna stream, Intel has a slight advantage over AMD. The absoluetly best is the i9-9900K though to build a balanced system it‘s going to be very very expensive. Otherwise go for an 8700K, a 7700K is OK but then consider the i5-8400 if you want to game now or, as others mentioned before the Ryzen 5 2600.