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I've been building this thing and having fun with some old games on 32bit XP. I'm running atm Q6600 and 8800GT, 1440x900 19" LCD and all games I've tried run like a dream! Rally Trophy, 1nsane, Stalker, Halo, Soldier of Fortune 2 and so on... Just to point out something like 7970 is not really needed for those pre2010 games. In picture there is SLI setup but that other 8800GT is not working for some reason so I'm only using one.

This is just ridiculous. How is it so freakin hard to stop charging people for tax and then not even tell that for customers in order confirmation that hey btw we screw up all the orders. Instead "please contact us at support@lttstore.com" and then Linus is complaining on wan show how support tickets are endless. I wonder why, when you ask every single EU customer to create support ticket!

I need to control 4 channels of 4pin 12v RGB lights individually. I bought Cooler Master RGB LED Controller which does the job otherwise perfectly, but its LOUD! The controller produces coil whine noise. If all channels are at 0 (off) its silent, but all channels cranked to 255 (white) I can hear it through BeQuiet! case/panels! According to retailer, this is a feature, not a problem. Does anyone know if there is anything that would do the same job but silently?

I just got B350 mobo with 16gb of ram and a R7 1700 for 130e. Its happening! ?

Heheh.. Would need couple more prototypes and then a batch of like 100 cases to make it reasonably priced, fortunately I dont have room for that kind of project. ? So now the upgrade process.. I forgot the hardware specs from the OP, so lets first list the old setup. CPU: AMD A10-5800k (4C/4T Socket FM2 beast APU from 2012, ran 24/7 since new) MoBo: ASUS F2A85-M (ran 24/7 since new) RAM: Kingston HyperX DDR3 2x4Gb (ran 24/7 since new) PSU: Nexus NX-5000 R3 (been running like 10 years 24/7) NIC: Intel i350-T4 4x1GbE (LACP with VLANs) HDD: 2x4Tb Ironwolf mirrored This setup served me well but its getting on the limit with vm's etc. Also PSU started going (BIOS gave sometimes surge protection notifications) so its was time for an upgrade. Old hardware will continue its life as a desktop machine in garage, mainly for internet access and access to 3d-printer controller (OctoPi). New setup: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (8C/16T Socket AM4, pretty cheap from a friend who's upgrading his main rig) MoBo: AsRock Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4 (also bought used, no idea of usage) RAM: Chinese Reeinno DDR4 4x4Gb (never heard of these, came with the motherboard so lets test) PSU: Corsair VS650 (new) NIC: Intel i350-T4 4x1GbE (LACP with VLANs) HDD: 2x4Tb Ironwolf mirrored (2x ssd cache to be added when I find out what size I need) GPU: Asus GT520 Silent Then the case... Took everything out, and put new motherboard tray with ATX support and proper backplate to screw cards on Recycled PSU support from the old HDD holder thingie PSU in for test fitment, also mounting done for HDD cage Put C13 plug thing with switch top the rear panel, still needs some plastic covering so I wont electrocute myself. Second HDD cage ordered so there will be room for 10 disks. Motherboard in, first 4 sata cables in, disks in... waiting for CPU and cooler. New front plate already designed, need to get some time on a laser.

I'm doing an overhaul on my server case atm, so lets first show you the initial building process a year ago... Some extruded aluminum profiles... Used 1mm stainless steel for most of the walls Rev1 internal support thingie Exhaust on the top mobo tray from some old fractal case Support structure 3d printed hdd holders some custom cable routing Up and running front side... 2mm mild steel Deployed Little update, added intel i350-T4 nic with lacp+vlans

I'm interested to see if theres anyone here who has build their PC cases from scratch? Please share, small story and pictures would be nice! :) I'll share two of my most recent ones as an example. First one is a test bench. I designed this myself after I didnt find any dimastech benches in stock in europe. Laser cut from 3mm mild steel. 90degree sata-connectors in front for SSD, HDD's can be screwed in from the side slots, PSU has plenty of room and cpu backplate is available from the rear side if no HDD's are in the way. The thing weighs 4,5kg so even with hardware on it, it will stand steady on the rear side so it can be accessed from the "bottom" like in second picture. Next I have a rack mount 4U case for small home server. Didn't find anything cost effective and short enough here in Finland. I used 20x20 extruded aluminium profiles, and cut most of the sheets from 1mm stainless. Plastic tray under harddisks was 3d-printed. Front panel of the case is 2mm mild steel with 1mm stainless insert where motherboard can be accessed. It will hold ATX motherboard, standard PSU and 8 HDD's with ease. Exhaust of the hot air is on top of hdd's and blowing up. Holes for quad NIC were made later manually, originally NIC was straight in pci-e slot and ethernet cables came through stainless insert.

You should have an offsite backup in any case

What benefits would it have comparef to proxmox or unraid? What nas solution would you run on it for smb shares, plex media storage etc?

Current setup: - FreeNAS server where I run smb shares, plex server, pihole vm on ubuntu, some other plugins like syncthing. Planning to add zoneminder or similar nvr feature in future. AMD A10-5800k, 16Gb ram, 2x4Tb ironwolf mirror, 4x1GbE lacp - Windows 10 gaming pc. Ryzen 2600, 24Gb ram, RX580 8Gb, 144hz 1080p, 1Tb nvme 1. Budget & Location No budget, but dont wanna spend when theres no apparent benefit for my use case. Living in Finland so prices are about +25% to US. 2. Aim I want to incorporate current gaming rig and server to one box, because woman. 3. Monitors 2x 1080p currently, one is 144hz for gaming and second is old 60hz, windows desktop is extended. If I cant run 2 monitors in vm enviroment, I can upgrade to ultrawide. 5. Why are you upgrading? Main reason is that my server is in garage behind 50 meters of single cat6. I can only get 1GbE there. Room where I have gaming setup, has no approval from wife to have multiple pc`s so I cant just put them side by side with 10GbE in between. One enclosure to run 24/7, and booting a vm for gaming would be nice thing to try, and tinker with. The question: Unraid, or Proxmox with something like Freenas running in VM? Freenas as host is not good as it doesnt support hardware passthru. Requirements: - I'd like to run 2x1GbE lacp with Vlans, so I have gigabit internet, and I can put plex server and ip cameras to separate networks away from gaming vm and nas side. Hardware Im planning to use: - Ryzen 5 2600 from current rig, possibly upgrade to 3800x if I need more cores later. - Gigabyte X470 Aorus ultra gaming from current rig - 24Gb of ram, from current rig - RX580 8Gb from current rig as deficated graphics for gaming vm. Enough for current setup but need to upgrade if I change to one bigger monitor. - Adding another gpu for host os, may need some grunt too because of plex server? - Intel Pro1000 dual port nic - 2x120Gb kingston a400 ssd in raid 1 for host os - 1Tb intel 660p nvme ssd for vm's - 2x4Tb mirror for storage Any ideas? Unraid sounds pretty easy solution but will it be good for bunch of linux vms etc?

Oooohh FFS... Figured out the problem. I assumed freesync would be automatic in the menu of display.. like resolution, refresh rate and kinda all other stuff too that you just set from the pc side. But nah, Freesync was off, and turning it on seems to have fixed the problem for now.

Returned GPU in warranty, got new one, same model.. and still the same problem. Tried different PCI-E slots, no luck there...

I tried couple games for troubleshooting sake... - Shred!; really old and funny mountainbiking game from Steam. Should run like 10000fps. It runs ok but even there if I combo multiple tricks at once, or get to really high speed where the GPU gets some load (didnt log how much usage was), I get sometimes black screens but game keeps running and picture comes back when GPU load is lower (when I crash the bike due to black screen). - World of Tanks HD; Even in login screen where video is playing on the background and there is quite some action, image comes and goes, sometimes ok sometimes black. I think it must be defective GPU, but maybe it could also be power supply not providing enough amps? edit: I logged sensors with HWiNFO64. opened wot main menu to fullscreen, screen went black after about 1 second. Wait few seconds then alt-tab to desktop and I get image back with about 1sec delay. Then back to wot and again after small delay I loose image, then back to windows and stop logging. - 3.3v, 5v and 12v all stay above spec. 12v drops from 12.17 to 12.10 when I alt-tab to windows but goes immediately back up. - Combined CPU+GPU power usage is about 120 watts max. Ofc this is not the whole power consumption, but I think psu is not the problem here. edit2: I took similar log file from complete Fire strike benchmark run. - I think interesting here to note is GPU usage, it shows little 20% usage spikes in loading screens where I also loose image for little time. However when opening 3dmark in windows and going through menu to launch the benchmark, gpu usage goes also up but that time I dont loose the image. In case anyone gets really interested about this problem... Here is the log file of the 3dmark run: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5h3386rhqow5b1q/3dmark_log.CSV?dl=0 And here you can find the LogViewer: https://www.hwinfo.com/forum/Thread-LogViewer-for-HWINFO-is-available Cheers!

So the problem is, when I run 3dmark Fire strike; screen goes black during all the tests but nothing crashes. I get image on screen during loading screens, but with a little blackout in middle of each loading screen. I can still stop the test with ESC key, and if I wait all the tests to run through with black screen, I still get valid result like there was no problem. Here is little video where you see load screen of first graphics test, and then black screen as the test starts: https://youtu.be/sRB_y0vofaU I have built most of this pc earlier in the summer, all parts bought new: - AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (Aro-M14 cooler) - Gigabyte X470 Aorus Ultra Gaming - Kingston HyperX Fury 2x4Gb DDR4 - Seasonic Focus+ 550W Gold - Samsung 860 EVO 500Gb Sata SSD - MSI Optix G27C2 (27" 1080p 144hz curved freesync monitor) At first I used the pc with old HD7950, the card had some pre-known problems but it was ok, so I assume my other hardware is fine. Now I got new MSI Armor RX 580 8Gb OC and I'm really struggling with this problem. Everything is with stock clocks, MoBo firmware updated to F3g (5/18). What I have tried so far: - When I had 7950 in my pc, I had Windows 7 installed. I changed card to RX 580 and installed newest drivers (18.8.something) and I chose clean install - After discovering the problem, I used DDU in safe mode to clean drivers and installed newest stable release which was 18.5.1, no help there... - I tried to run heaven benchmark and there was similar problem. - I changed GPU scaling in radeon settings from "Preserve aspect ratio" to "Full panel", and this fixed the problem for Heaven, but not Fire strike. - I then formatted whole drive, and installed Windows 10 as I have read lots of complaints about Ryzen not being stable and supported on 7, but with clean 10 install I still have the same problem. - I tried to google but most people have proper crashes, bsod, etc but I didn't find anything with similar problem to mine. Display settings: Radeon settings overview: Radeon settings software: Radeon settings display: Max GPU temps in 3dmark with black screen (Graphics test 1): Max CPU temps in 3dmark with black screen (Physics test): Overall 3DMark Fire Strike score:

Here is the same V2.1 as in previous post, but quickly painted.