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Once again thank you for all the insight, it really is helpful. The main reason for going with the AMD processor I am going with is it's not costing me anything. My uncle builds for numbers and literally has a "few" laying around, he tried to push a threadripper on me but I'm not trying to rock one of those, yet. As with the GPU getting lucky on both o those. Intel's 10th gen had my interest and still does, they are great and stable chips. @Maticks neither my brother or I stream our gaming. He talks to much and I got a face for radio . I planned on just running a VM for my bros WoW and keep what transcoding to the CPU.

Thank you guys for the insight it is handy. Tonight my brother asks me if he'd be able to game on it while it's still running plex, mind you one of the most advanced pc games he plays is WoW, and thats actually what he was asking for. So I'm gonna stick with the overkill cpu which will do whatever transcoding needed and stick with a 4g gpu because I'm getting that from a buddy and it's way cheaper that way.

My net is 1Gb down and my up floats around 120Mbps. The people who will be using the plex while may live here aren't always here. 4 adults 3 teenagers, even with everything going on we're always out as most of us have had to work during this whole pandemic. I have a small handful of family that will also have access to my plex. My typical file size is 3gb/hr for br and 1.45gb for dvd. My old plex server was actually a mac mini server '11 quad-core i7 8gb ram (I got it for free) with 2 3tb externals. It could do 2-3 local streams np but when it had to transcode more than one file the cpu and ram maxed out and everything would stall and have a cool 15 second delay for everything including mouse movement. This was also roughly 9 years ago, a lot has changed, last time I built a pc (before my current) was well over a decade ago.

Thank you all for the replies. While I do feel where you're all coming from with the "overkill" this thing is going to be a backup for 7 different computers as well as a Plex server for like 10-12 devices. So I'm going to need storage, why I ended up choosing the Node804. I can fit like 8 3.5" and 2 2.5" and I like a lot of storage. I do plan on putting quite a few more drives in there too. The possibility of 6-8+ active streams on Plex are pretty high. I'd rather have and not need, than need and not have.

So I recently moved and with that, save money. Now I put together a little list for a NAS/Plex server. Please take a look and if you have any advice I'm more than happy to hear it. I plan on having the archive drives be 3.5" and use some 2.5" ssd as buffer with a m.2 as the boot. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rR9rK4

It lives. Thank you for all the help guys I really do appreciate it.

I'm justing going to take it in and have someone else deal with this.

Thanks after following some of those steps I have successfully gotten my computer to not boot at all.... It turns on and just sits there fans spin but zero video.

These are the default sata config

Sorry for the delay, made a new one. Sorry for the glare, I hope they are still legible.

Thank you again for your response. I've also tried Rufus also got the same error.

Thank you for the reply. After I boot into BIOS I go over to boot and it automatically puts the USB in spot no.1 and also switched it to boot from USB.

Thank you for the response. They've all been formatted to FAT32 and the iso was installed on there via the recovery utility you can get through Microsoft.

Hi everyone I recently got back into the PC world and finished my first build in over 20years, a lot sure has changed. My current build is AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Asus ROG B450f Corsair Vengeance LPX 16gb ram WD Black 500gb NVMe SSD EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super XC Ultra Corsair 850w PSU I've searched many forums and have tried every solution but to no avail. Everything boots fine, goes into BIOS just fine. But won't install Windows via USB. I've tried 7 different thumb drives, even went out and bought brand new ones just in case. No matter the port no matter the thumb drive I keep getting the "media drivers missing" error. I've been trying for about a week now and still no progress. I've taken the system completely apart and reassembled it, made sure everything is secure. Tried with one stick of RAM tried with the other stick still nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.