GabeThePCHelper

Personally, I'd stick with a monitor to just be safe on the points of having better latency and what not.

As its a laptop, all you'll be able to upgrade is the RAM and SSD.

https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Acer/aspire-a515-51g

https://www.newegg.com/black-phanteks-enthoo-pro-atx-full-tower/p/N82E16811854003?Description=ssi eeb case&cm_re=ssi_eeb_case-_-11-854-003-_-Product

This has 6 3.5 inch bays, 7 2.5 inch bays, and 3 5.25 inch bays, also can fit SSI EEB boards, and it's decently priced as well.

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

What is SSI EEB? Never heard of it.

SSI EEB is a motherboard form factor.

This will surely take some digging to find. I modded an large ATX case the Deepcool Matrexx 55 to fit a large board.

I agree with @5x5 Look for something a little newer like the i5 8400 used, the i3 8100 is an awesome chip imo. 

18 hours ago, Alice951 said:

Yeah, i had to buy used due to cost, i just wish more people were more honest though, what's strange though is that those ports work perfectly fine with anything else i plug into them except the microphone

Now that you say that, it possibly could be your microphone, not your motherboard, what's interesting is how it works for any other motherboard but not your own.

1 minute ago, Stormseeker9 said:

No that’s not true. They don’t require a x570 board.

My mistake, whoops. I meant to say that to avoid a lot of these bios updating problems for the new 3rd gen you need to use a x570 board.

Just now, 5x5 said:

Even brand names you do recognize sell garbage - EVGA sell the W series power supplies and they're marginally better than the fire cracker here.

Truth to that. Even sometimes their 'better' quality stuff fails, I bought a 750w 80+ Gold PSU and it just up and failed about a day after finally getting it working.

Do what @fasauceomerecommended, ancient bios for a modern chip just doesn't work out.

Use your old CPU to update the bios.

This is only really happening because of the new Ryzen CPU's requiring that you're running x570.

Little I can offer here, but it just sounds like you have some junk USB ports. Buying used motherboards can always have hidden problems that the seller didn't tell you about.

jeez... Why are these things even being sold, that thing would just go poof and you've destroyed your entire build.

I recommend at least 450w+ and maybe 80+ Bronze at the minimum and stay away from brand names you don't recognize.

Theres little to no chance that you'll get removed/scrubbed from the internet like @jstudrawasaid. Sadly that's just how the internet works, once it's out there it's pretty much permanent.

LTT Official, first thread there.

19 hours ago, Riley Flynn said:

Multi fan

70C is acceptable for running benchmarks, what are your temps when you're just gaming?

Idle temp is high, I'd adjust your fans to have a harsher curve.

Just get an IBM Model M. 

I'm joking, keyboards, mice, and headsets are all super subjective on what you desire, like wireless, open back, on-ear/over-ear, etc.

I personally prefer Corsair.

2 minutes ago, MiniMike DK said:

Hi Guys.

 

Here is my first real attempt at water cooling with hard tubing.

Took a long time to finish and a lot of tries to get a point where I was satisfied with the result. Precision bends are pretty hard...

 

My build:

Cooler Master H500M Case

Intel I9 9900K

Asus Dual RTX 2080 OC8G

Asus Z390-H gaming motherboard

32GB g-Skill 3200Mhz Ram

Samsung 960 Evo boot drive

Kingston 480GB SSD

Samsung 120GB SSD

2 x 280mm radiators.

XSPC Photon 270 reservoir

Phobia DC12-220 pump

EKWB blocks on CPU and GPU.

Awesome! I like it.

possibly change your fan curve, is your card a blower style design or multi fan?

And all of this time we thought Epic would pull ahead with their store.. seems not and they've lost probably some of the best deals they could have ever gotten.

Division 2 and Borderlands 3 are most likely going to be very good games, Division 2 in my opinion already is.

Not an expert, but I remember something like this in an LTT video where Linus looked at that 4k monitor that did 120HZ and it needed two Displayport inputs to function.

My biggest fear about this would probably be someone using the information and getting LTT punished because they're giving this information.

Also what's to stop some people just coming onto this forum and using the info that people would give on the subforum with malicious intent? <500 posts is just a status and it really can't be verified to someone's good natured-ness.

2 minutes ago, Mdgtman91 said:

If you are familiar with virtualization stuff, you could install XenServer and then you could have your one server to many things. 

Its not all that complicated to set up but gives you the freedom to try out all of your server ideas.

Heck you can make a vm for each game server and turn them on and off as needed.

Sounds like a good idea, i'll have to try it out sometime

If you really need 2gb extra VRAM. Go AMD. 

My personal recommendation is the 1660, good card and will last you.

31 minutes ago, Alexsolo said:

FreeNAS is an open source NAS operating system. https://freenas.org

With which you can make  a media storage server, backup of data, you can also use it to download torrents.

 

I wouldn't recommend this, use a professional platform like wix or squarespace since they have the dedicated power and networking capabilities for this sort of thing.

 

What kind of games? Minecraft, for example, is easy to setup in this kind of environment!

I was thinking Minecraft, Unturned, or other rather simple games to set up servers for. 

46 minutes ago, FlappyBoobs said:

You can run a NAS or Website using a RasberryPi, and not even the latest one, one of the originals. 

 

You need to tell us what specs you have and what you intend to do with it before you can have a relevant answer. 

Here is the specs list. I have it saved on a google doc.

2x Intel Xeon E5-4620. 

(8c/16th)

4x8GB ECC Registered 1333MHZ Server Memory

The board had gotten deleted from it, but these are the two main specs.

I have a small 1GB Galaxy GPU in the system. I just was thinking for the time being it would serve as a display output.