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Was thinking the same thing, until I checked the prices on eBay for used i7 880 and realised I could use those 50-80€ for a new Celeron, add a cheap Mobo and have a NAS. Caught me by surprise tbh, didn't think 10 yo HW is that expensive. Thanks anyway

Thanks man, I didn't think of that power draw during the entire day with a NAS (probably because I haven't build one yet). So I guess I'll go the gamin' way, again The motherboard does have 2 GSATA ports so if I understand those correctly, it should have native support for HW RAID, but that comes in handy even if I don't use it for a NAS. How's the compatibility with SATA SSDs? Would they work fine or must I stick to HDD?

Hi So I got an old PC from my dad and was thinking of using it for either a home media NAS or a retro gaming rig, but I'm not sure if any of the components might cause a bottleneck. So the components are: CPU: Intel i5 750 (yes that's the first gen i5 processor) MoBo: GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3 https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-P55A-UD3-rev-20#ov GPU: GIGABYTE GV-R487D5-1GD (Powered by Radeon HD 4870 GPU) https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-R487D5-1GD#ov RAM: 8gb dual channel DDR3 1333MHz As far as the MoBo is concerned it has 8 sata ports (really like that for NAS purposes) so that's cool and I really like the ugliness of the old blue and white combination, but I would like to replace the CPU and here's the problem. Is it even worth it since the only compatible CPUs with the LGA 1156 sockets are Nehalem and Westmere gen processors? If I go the retro gaming way what kind of upgradability am I looking at concerning the GPU (was thinking about something like an used GTX 750 2GB or GTX 960 4GB) before CPU or motherboard become a bottleneck? Thanks in advance