Skitzafreak

Okay, I don't know what changed, but the monitor suddenly started working. So yay...? Hopefully it keeps working lol

So I just recently finished putting a new computer together for myself with a Zotac Tirinty OC 3080 Ti graphics card. Went with watercooling, the whole shebang. Well the video card has 3x Display Port and 1x HDMI for output and no matter what I do, I can't seem to get the Display Port outputs to work at all. I have two monitors I would like set up, but only the HDMI connection is actually able to be picked up by the computer. I've tried getting a new cable because I thought maybe that was the issue, and I even went and bought an HDMI to Display Port cable in case it was the Display Port port on my monitor that had the issue. No matter what I do, I can't seem to get these three output to recognize a signal. Has anyone seen anything like this before and have any ideas on what I could do to try to fix the situation?

That might actually work. I have 42MM of clearance under the GPU. The Noctua Slim fans take up 15MM, leaving me with 27MM. And that rad is only 20.5MM =/- 0.5MM You may have fixed my problem Now for the issue of how long do I have to wait for it to get delivered Know anywhere in Canada I could order it from? lol

Yeah, the 3080Ti with the waterblock ends up being about a slot and a half. That was where my measurements went awry lol. I was expecting it to be a single slot after putting the block on like in your picture with the 1080Ti, but this one is just a bit thicker sadly

So, I cannot just watercool the CPU, since the GPU itself will not fit the case without with waterblock as the stock cooler on it is too big. I might take a look at the 90mm slim fans, as that may be my best solution here. I am so angry at my measurements being off lol. I thought I had like 1cm of clearance, where in fact I have like -2cm EDIT: Also, I'll mainly be using this system for streaming. I don't do any super heavy duty stuff, so I don't know if I would frequently be putting the PC under a full load or not. The whole point of this build is for me to watercool it. I've been doing PC builds for almost 2 decades, and liquid cooling is something I've never actually ventured into, so I wanted to give it a spin this time around. And I also prefer small form factor cases, so me changing the case is a no go as well lol. But thank you for the suggestions regardless

So the measurements for my NCase M1 build were off by about a few centimetres. Because of this, I can't properly fit everything I wanted in the build. I am watercooling an AMD 5800x and a 3080Ti. I have an EK PE 240 rad which I am able to fit in for the loop. However, the slim rad + slim fans I also had for underneath the GPU will not fit because of the incorrect measurements I had initially made. I am planning on undervolting the GPU, and won't be overclocking the CPU. Should I be fine just throwing the fans in the bottom and going off the one rad? Or should I include the second rad without fans instead? Unsure if it'll get enough ambient air flow to matter, but looking for some opinions. Thanks all

I was unaware of that. Thank you for letting me know.

So after hearing stuff from everyone here, and doing a bit more research myself, I through my idea for the build together on PCPartPicker: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $419.00 @ Canada Computers Motherboard ASRock X570 Taichi ATX AM4 Motherboard $368.95 @ Vuugo Memory Kingston HyperX Predator 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $398.95 @ Amazon Canada Storage Western Digital Green 240 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $49.74 @ Vuugo Storage Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive $169.50 @ Vuugo Storage Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive $169.50 @ Vuugo Storage Seagate IronWolf NAS 10 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $340.99 @ Vuugo Storage Seagate IronWolf NAS 10 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $340.99 @ Vuugo Storage Seagate IronWolf NAS 10 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $340.99 @ Vuugo Storage Seagate IronWolf NAS 10 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $340.99 @ Vuugo Case Antec VSK4000E U3 ATX Mid Tower Case $43.31 @ Vuugo Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $3032.91 Mail-in rebates -$50.00 Total $2982.91 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-20 08:59 EST-0500 I still haven't decided on a CPU Cooler or a PSU, but other than this is mostly what I think I'd be looking at for my setup. Going to go through some thoughts on things and if anyone could give their own opinions on this that would be greatly appreciated. I chose the Ryzen 7 3700X as my CPU because from the information I could find online, it does a better job than Intel CPUs that are at the same price point, and it is only slightly above the $400 budget I'd have for my CPU. And the reason I paired it with the AsRock Taichi is because I like a lot of the features the motherboard provides, again without completely breaking the bank. Only going to start with 32 GB of RAM, but I've kept it to only being 2 sticks, so that in the future if I want to upgrade to 64GB, that's an easy thing to do. Now then, why this case? Simply put, it has a lot of great spaces for hard drives. Internally, I can easily put the 4 HDDs and 2 SSDs that I have in the PCPartPicker List, and in the future I have the option to remove the 5.25" panels on the front of the case to install a hot-swap drive bay which will allow for me to add another 4 drives to the system. This case basically has what I was looking for, but if anyone has a better suggestion feel free to throw it at me. Now for the actually drive setup. My thought process is to have UnRAID (or whatever I decide to use) installed on an M.2 drive. Surprisingly, I can't seem to find small ones anymore. I swear I remember seeing like 64GB M.2s years ago for like $150 lol. After that, I have two 1TB SSDs for the cache, and 4 10TB drives for storage. I don't know 100% if I need specifically NAS drives, but I've heard in some cases they are recommended. But my god, they're expensive.

Is there more than one video? Because for 2 gamers 1 cpu I only really found one thing. However I assume their attempts with the 7 gamers 1 machine thing work along the same lines? And I had another question come to mind. Watching the 2 gamers 1 cpu video, Linus mentioned having essentially a dummy GPU for UNRAID to use. Even if I am not using UNRAID, will I need some sort of GPU/graphics component in the system? Or will whatever graphics devices are in the machine I am accessing the VM with be used when I am accessing it? Again, I have no plans of using a VM for gaming or anything, but I am wondering if I might want to include a low end GPU or maybe see if I should get a CPU with integrated graphics. That could change the overall build since I'd need to make sure there is room for a GPU if I should be grabbing one.

Appreciate the suggestions So it is good to know I do need a good CPU for the NAS if I was decent performance on the VM. Is there a rule for how much RAM I should have for how large the storage on the VM is?

I am looking into creating a NAS for home and work use. This is something I haven't done before, so I have a couple questions I was hoping to get answered on a few things I would like to have the system do, and what I would need in order to do that. 1) I'll ask my biggest question first, which concerns potential work use for the machine. I work as a programmer and I'd like to (if possible) set up a VM on the NAS for me to use remotely as my work environment. The goal would be to have the VM set up on the NAS, make it so I can access it both from home and while in the office. The whole reason I'd want to do everything on a VM would be so that I can set up a script that every night creates a backup of the VM in case something goes wrong somewhere and things explode, to put it simply. The question for this area I guess is, would the performance of this VM be determined by the CPU/RAM that are in the NAS, or the CPU/RAM of whatever I am connecting to the VM with? Essentially trying to figure out whether I need to go out and get a new powerful and expensive CPU, or if i'd be able to do with something cheaper. 2) Does anyone have any good components to recommend for this? I'd like for the system to not be huge, so I'd like to put things together in a Mini ITX, or Micro ATX sized case. I'd also like to if possible have it setup with hot-swappable bays for the NAS drives, 6-8 preferably. At the moment kind of wandering in the dark on what sort of components I should be looking for. 3) Does anyone have any suggestions for someone setting up a NAS for the first time? It's always nice to learn from your own mistakes, but also nice when you don't have to stick your hand in a fire to find out what can burn you lol Thanks to anyone who offers me some help with this, I really appreciate it.