LaughingHyena

Glad to hear you are okay, and that you still plan to work on this monstrosity! The Gods would not be please if you abandoned their offering!

The armor cards have always been mediocre at best... I agree the gigabyte option would be better (as well as looking nicer)
 
Edit: the msi gaming x does seem pretty nice though. Main thing is just don’t buy an armor card

Hello!!!!
 
I know its been a while sorry for that.
 
Updates
- The GTX 295 works (on its own without any other card in the system)
- The ATI HD 5970 has arrived and been cleaned
 
What's gone wrong?
- turns out that if you install Nvidia drives in the wrong order it can brick you're windows install.
- i didn't learn this lesson the first time, or the second time, and i mucked up the third time. (i did it right fourth time)
 
Have you got it working yet?
- no
 
Why?, i thought you just said you got the drivers installed right on the fourth time.
- this is an unfortunate story. I was out for a ride on my Yamaha, and developed a puncture in the rear tyre, this lead to a small crash. now i had to be taken to hospital, survey say's i'm fine, I've escaped with only some mild bruising. there is some good news, being in Britain i don't have to pay for my health care (YAY NHS when it works). however getting to the important part this project (the meme machine) is a somewhat expensive and time intensive project and my free time and money is more focused on getting my bike back to a fully working state. however i will keep working on the meme machine in the background.
 
Summary
- updates and other things are going to be thin on the ground sorry.
- however this is not the end of this project!!!

Synology DSM is for Synology devices. There is an open version called XPEnology which can be used on custom built devices for those that like DSM but it has limited hardware support so you need to check their compatibility list if you go that way. 
 
 
Freenas is a powerful system great for pure storage. Its very scalably from a few disks up to cross-datacenter sized deployments with ZFS synchronization or Gluster.
Its downside is it can be more complex to get your head around, you need to make your investment in disks upfront as expanding is complicated, and being based on FreeBSD it has more limited hardware support than Linux and its built in Virtual Machine system (bhyve) is limited. 
 
Unraid is a good option for smaller cases (can only use 24 devices in an array), but it is easily expandable as its array isnt striped. 
Its downside is its speed due to not having traditional RAID, you are limited to disk speed for Reads (e.g about 150-180MB/s), but its positive is that it has extensive Plugin support, it has very wide hardware support being Linux and it uses QEMU/KVM for Virtual Machines, as well as Docker support. Its an easy choice if you dont need the fastest performance but want to be able to do virtualisation. 
 
Some other NAS specific OS to look at are Rockstor (BTRFS Raid solution), OMV (Uses Linux RAID MDADM which is very robust) and XigmaNAS (Believe this supports ZFS & MD). 
 
There are also several solutions such as OpenZFS, GlusterFS and MDADM which you can run on any distribution of Linux you want as long as you have the proficient knowhow of using the command line in Linux. If you're into running VM's then one of the ultimate boxes you can build is Proxmox VE on Debian, using ZFSonLinux. This gives you a strong virtualization platform with the best software storage solution. This can even be expanded with GlusterFS by doing Gluster on ZFS, which means you can have multiple boxes with ZFS and cluster their storage together. 
 
You can of course also go Windows and use Storage Spaces to create a Windows based fileshare. The advantage of this is that it natively supports NTFS permissions, so easy to configure your security, and security can be configured granulary. 
 
Lastly theres also hardware RAID which is quite affordable these days with controllers such as the LSI 9260-8i being less than $50. You can then have a robust storage solution on hardware controller, and run any Windows or Linux OS you want. 

Haha! From what I have been able to find, it looks like the Synology software is free with synology drive systems, but you can't get it separately.

I have no idea about that, I didn't set up the NAS myself.

It should still work even if it's not on the supported RAM list, as long as the frequency and total GB is accepted by the MB. Being on the list does ensure that it will work at it's best, though.

While RAM is not chipset-specific, I would make sure your motherboard supports the RAM you would like to buy, to ensure maximum compatibility.

I avoid AMD GPUs like the plague. Team Green FTW.

Once the 30 series is announced/launched, the 20 series should have some pretty decent price drops. I have a 2060 Super, and you probably don't need anything more than a 2070 Super to play most if not all games at max settings.

30 series is supposed to launch this year, might as well wait for that.

Okay thanks.

All the parts they added in their December update:
Cases
Open Benchtable OBT-BC1 (9)
Silverstone RL08 (10)
Silverstone LD03 (10)
Lian Li TU150 (28)
CORSAIR Carbide Series 175R RGB Tempered Glass Mid-Tower ATX (21)

Case Fans
Mortoni RGB Fan (10)
Lian Li Bora Digital ARGB (15)

PSUs
Cooler Master V850 Gold (25)
Cooler Master MWE 700 Bronze V2 (22)
Cooler Master MWE 750 White V2 (22)
CORSAIR RM Series™ RM850 (21)
CORSAIR RMx Series™ RM650x (21)

Motherboards
GIGABYTE X570 AORUS MASTER (30)
GIGABYTE X570 AORUS XTREME (30)
MSI MEG Z390 ACE (26)
MSI MAG Z390 TOMAHAWK (26)
MSI MPG Z390 GAMING EDGE AC (26)

RAM
GIGABYTE Memory 8GB 2666MHz (14)
Patriot Viper Steel Series DDR4 (26)
ADATA Spectrix D60G (19)

Graphics Cards
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER™ WATERFORCE WB 8G (29)
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER™ 8G (28)
GIGABYTE GeForce® RTX 2070 SUPER™ GAMING OC WHITE 8G (28)
ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ArcticStorm (27)
ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 2080 Ti AMP Extreme (27)
ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 Ti AMP (29)
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce® RTX 2060 SUPER series (28)
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce® RTX 2070 SUPER series (28)
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce® RTX 2080 SUPER series (28)

Storage
GIGABYTE UD PRO SSD (13)
GIGABYTE SSD (13)
GIGABYTE GIGABYTE M.2 PCIe SSD (22)
GIGABYTE AORUS NVMe Gen4 SSD (22)
GIGABYTE AORUS RGB M.2 NVMe SSD (22)
Patriot Viper VPR100 series (M.2 RGB PCIe Gen 3 x4SSD) (17)
Patriot Viper VP4100 series (M.2 PCIe Gen 4 x4 SSD) (17)
Patriot Viper VPN100 series (M.2 PCIe Gen 3 x4 SSD) (17)
ADATA Spectrix S40G RGB M.2 SSD (18)
CORSAIR MP600 Force Series Gen.4 PCIe MP600 NVMe M.2 SSD (20)

Liquid Cooler
SilverStone PF360-ARGB (25)
SilverStone PF240-ARGB (25)
SilverStone PF120-ARGB (25)

CPU
AMD Ryzen™ 9 3950X (30)

Mousemat
ADATA XPG Battleground XL Prime (20)

Monitor
ASUS ROG Swift PG279QE (26)

Keyboard
ADATA XPG Summoner (20)

Headset
ADATA XPG Precog (20)

SLI Bridges
ZOTAC GAMING NVLink Bridge (4 slot)
ZOTAC GAMING NVLink Bridge (3 slot)
ROG SLI Bridges

They constantly are. They just recently added the 3950X and a couple new parts in the newest update. I think they just added the Linus Test Bench™

I love this game because I can build the ridiculous things that I would never be able to afford in real life. 

Oh nice, thanks for that. I totally missed it. Probably going to get this one.

I see, thank you very much

I started with a 980, then went to a 1660 Ti, and now a 2060 Super. My only complaint was some heating issues I had with the 1660, but that was due to MSI applying the thermal paste horribly. I have only heard bad things about AMD cards, and I have no plans to try any in the future. 
Their CPU game is on point, but then again, Intel has stagnated for a while now. Nvidia with their '30% minimum improvement' per generation has made it so AMD has no chance, at least not for several years.

https://www.amazon.it/Corsair-CX550M-Alimentatore-Modulare-Bronze/dp/B019NWRUXK/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&keywords=CX550M&qid=1581600674&s=pc&sr=1-1
 
https://www.amazon.it/Corsair-CX550-Alimentatore-Plus-Bronze/dp/B06X15NZ2X/ref=sr_1_2?__mk_it_IT=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&keywords=CX550M&qid=1581600674&s=pc&sr=1-2

thank you very much

Seems like it! Best of luck!

It really depends on the game. For a GPU-heavy game like Apex, x264 might be best, but it really depends on your build. With a 9900K, it probably wouldn't hurt to try. That said, there are no 'Best Settings'. You can try to find a guide online, but your PC might need different settings. It took me trial and error to find good settings for my stream.

well I'll try it later and tell you how that went, thank you all for your help

The 1070 is about a 30% improvement in benchmark performance over the 580. The non-Ti versions usually sell for about 350+ USD right now.

You can still get a pair of 16GB sticks in a kit. 3600MHz CL16 or 17 would be the best without going bad value, 3600 CL18 and 19 are not as impressive, budget option will be 3200MHz CL16 and 3000MHz CL15 or CL16