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This isn't an amazing custom built case or fully custom hard tube watercooling greatness, but it's mine... I've built the majority of this setup in the past 2 months and I'm proud of it (more upgrades to be done... which I will note in this thread).
 
I'll go through the past 2 months and include some pictures I've managed to grab along the way but my plans are to potentially purchase a new case, get better/more RAM, upgrade to the 3xxx series when they arrive and potentially start my first custom water cooled project... (along with custom sleeving my cables, I was tempted to just purchase the pre-sleeved bundles, but my last build I custom sleeved the cables, it took a few hours but the outcome was fantastic...)
 
Current part list for those who don't like reading:
Case: Corsair 760T V2 White
CPU: Ryzen 7 1800X
Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER Gaming Titanium
RAM: Corsair Vengenance LPX 16GB @ 3000Mhz
Cooler: Corsair H150i Pro XT RGB
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1080 Gaming RGB
Storage: Samsung 1TB 970 M.2, Samsung 500GB 850 Evo, Samsung 250GB 960 M.2
PSU: EVGA Supernova 750 G2 (First time I've ever used anything other than Corsair...)
Monitors: 3 x MSI MAG272CQR
Mouse/Keyboard: Corsair K95 Platinum RGB/Logitec G703 Mouse
Headphones: Sennheiser GSP 550
 
Where do I start... technically I built this computer a while back when the GTX 1000 series came out and have just been upgrading it along the way. Firstly, I actually gave away my i7 6700k and gigabyte motherboard to a friend because I wasn't playing games and I was saving for a motorbike... I was mainly using my laptop for work (a lot of the time I was travelling around the UK) and so the first thing I purchased after having the base of a computer to work from (psu, case, etc...) I went and tried the new Ryzen chips, I've never owned an AMD chip before but wanted to see what Ryzen was all about... I don't have any pictures of the installation but that was the initial click in my head that urged me to keep spending more and more money.. 🤣
 
Anyway, I'll skip a few upgrades/purchases until I have some pictures... (I managed to snag a brand new K95 and the mouse from a colleague at work for less than £100 and he had used it once or twice... it was in top condition with 0 visible marks and literally looked brand new...)
 
What a heck of a year it's been, I started working remotely at the start of the year and needed an upgrade to my desk. My desk was extremely tatty and worn and I had a cheap Acer 1080p monitor so I went ahead and order a fairly large desk along with a new monitor.. The MAG27CQR (more to come on this...)
 

 
(I would decorate the room, but I'm on the brink of finally putting a deposit down for my own home so not too bothered about the walls and flooring)
 
Here is my temporary work space while I wait for another order before I start cleaning up a little bit...
 

 
I instantly started noticing that soon, the cable management behind the desk is going to start becoming a mess... But again not too bothered until I move out in a few months...
 
These bloody games are taking up all of my storage on my SSDs and I refuse to put them on my 2TB hdd that I store useless data on... So I went ahead with the 1TB M2 since it was like £30 off... I installed it and thought, ewww... I haven't cleaned out my case for some time... Just look at the dust....
 

 
I then started looking at my cable management... it was horrible since I didn't care but since I'm buying more and more stuff, I better start taking care of my cable management... I don't have any before and after pictures to compare but just know I am planning on custom sleeving all my cables black/white or even trying to find a nice colour that pops out in a black and white build... Look at the awful cable management... It isn't too bad but I need a PSU shroud to hide those hideous cables... And what idiot installed the Hyper evo 212 like that lol... Whoooops I swear I've had like 3 PCs with this cooler and have never installed it that way before... Look at all the room at the top for a 360 Rad in the future....!!!
 

 
Let's come back to the monitors... Knock knock... delivery......
 
You would of thought I'd be able to purchase a better camera for less than the cost of 1 of these monitors lol... But the whole choice of having a triple monitor setup was really for my work flow (I'm a network/netdevops engineer and we all know the more monitors, productivity is only increased... 😂)


 
About 5/6 years ago, I had a triple monitor setup with Alienware monitors and I rarely played games on all 3, I just love the aesthetics (beware, I still haven't found a nice looking triple monitor stand that I like)... The feeling of having 3 monitors all the same brand/model is pleasing... I was running the single MSI monitor along with the small TV in the picture above for a week or so. The problem is that I haven't still made the time to get the monitor positioning fluent across all 3 monitors and fix the gaps/heights between monitors... Shame on me.... I will get round to it...
 
A bonus upgrade (with no pictures...) was that my hyper-x cloud 2 headphones were broke (mic stopped working) so I opted to purchase a new pair of headphones. After reading many reviews, I gave the Sennhiser GSP550 a go, I hate the green/black combo in the picture but they also provide you with black cover that you can swap out the green. I wanted to mention these because they are extremely good quality... I still need to purchase a connector so I can hook them up to my piano and try them out on it...
 
Also, silly me... The cables that come with the monitors did not reach my PC on the floor, so I opt'd to put my PC on the desk... They still didn't reach... So I went ahead and bought some nice DP cables... Mmmm very nice...
 

 
P.s I've started to notice that my desk gets dirty within a week of cleaning it so I've tried to make it no food/sticky drinks at my desk which also helps me to get away from the PC during my working hours for lunchtime...
 
So remember me mentioning about the cooler? My temps on the 1800x were shocking.... I not recently cleaned my PC since I let it build up with quite a lot of dust (you can probably see some dust in these pics I took some time ago)... Let's pop off this chunk of metal...

 
(Anyone notice that dust? I didn't... and I've cleaned it since the picture was taken! 😆

It wasn't time to build a full custom loop yet and I thought the h150i wasn't expensive so went ahead and.....

 
made a quick cheeky purchase last week....!

I watched a review on the new Lian fans along with the fan controller starter kit (3 fans + controller?), not sure how long it's been out but I really like how slick they look but they're all out of stock. I will be purchasing that soon along with changing out my current fans (front and back) with the Lian 120 rgb fans (can't remember the model...)... Anyway I haven't showed my full setup with the 3 monitors yet because the picture would of gave it away... Apologies with the picture quality, you can even see some of the awful cable management routes that I done and I was too lazy during the h150i install that I just told myself, I'll wait until I get that new case... Who knows what case... 🤷‍♂️ (p.s I've noticed in the picture the h150i looks like an extremely tight bend but I can assure you, it isn't as bad as it looks in the picture, there is some slack, I did rotate them slightly to get more slack but it looked ugly and made them more straight)
 

 
So, with all of that... Here is a half-decent quality picture showing my full setup. The monitors look better in the picture than in person (with the gaps etc..) but I'm enjoying them... I still have a few items to arrive (Saitek rudder pedals and yoke for my FS2020 needs but I'll be upgrading to the 3xxx series when we can pre-order them because I need the most I can squeeze out... Thankfully, you don't see too much of the mess behind my desk with cables at the bottom in this next picture...
 
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Triple 1440p 100+hz monitors with a 1080 pftttt? Yeah it struggles... Only game I've tried so far on surround was modern warfare... I won't really need these monitors during my FS2020 gaming when they release VR compatibility 😅
 
While I'm at it... Here is a little surprise..... I wanted to see how the Ryzen 3900x performs so.... yeah

 
That bad boi is ready to be installed since it arrived today... It's listed as a compatible CPU for my motherboard (probably needs a bios update?) but my plan is to take my 1800x, mobo and old ram and build a docker server/dev server for personal projects since I just currently do personal projects in a vm on my current system (hence why potentially I wanted to change my ram out, maybe a 64gb kit)...
 
I'm currently looking around to purchase all the needed tools to depin the modular cables and sleeve them myself but trying to figure out if I should just go black/white or add an extra colour... Open to suggestions on that one...
 
Other plans as previously mentioned is to rip out the 1080 and replace it with a 3080 or 3090.... Potentially introduce a custom loop (rip money I wasted on a h150i... lol), maybe upgrade the PSU to a 1000w, purchase a new case and also get some RGB fans... Buying new memory would force me to go RGB because we all know that is the rules in 2020, RGB everything...
 
I'm also debating to perform benchmarks on my most played games to compare the 1800x to the 3900x but I just don't really have time to be faffing around with stuff like that... Maybe I'll try over the next few weekends if I'm not eager to install the 3900x.

I'm probably going to go all out and get the 3090 and not worry about price to performance etc... But my opinion may change when we get to see some benchmarks between the 3080 and 3090

Nice! I thought I was cool with my 2 1080p monitors... Might have missed it but which RTX 3000 card are you upgrading to?

This isn't an amazing custom built case or fully custom hard tube watercooling greatness, but it's mine... I've built the majority of this setup in the past 2 months and I'm proud of it (more upgrades to be done... which I will note in this thread).
 
I'll go through the past 2 months and include some pictures I've managed to grab along the way but my plans are to potentially purchase a new case, get better/more RAM, upgrade to the 3xxx series when they arrive and potentially start my first custom water cooled project... (along with custom sleeving my cables, I was tempted to just purchase the pre-sleeved bundles, but my last build I custom sleeved the cables, it took a few hours but the outcome was fantastic...)
 
Current part list for those who don't like reading:
Case: Corsair 760T V2 White
CPU: Ryzen 7 1800X
Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER Gaming Titanium
RAM: Corsair Vengenance LPX 16GB @ 3000Mhz
Cooler: Corsair H150i Pro XT RGB
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1080 Gaming RGB
Storage: Samsung 1TB 970 M.2, Samsung 500GB 850 Evo, Samsung 250GB 960 M.2
PSU: EVGA Supernova 750 G2 (First time I've ever used anything other than Corsair...)
Monitors: 3 x MSI MAG272CQR
Mouse/Keyboard: Corsair K95 Platinum RGB/Logitec G703 Mouse
Headphones: Sennheiser GSP 550
 
Where do I start... technically I built this computer a while back when the GTX 1000 series came out and have just been upgrading it along the way. Firstly, I actually gave away my i7 6700k and gigabyte motherboard to a friend because I wasn't playing games and I was saving for a motorbike... I was mainly using my laptop for work (a lot of the time I was travelling around the UK) and so the first thing I purchased after having the base of a computer to work from (psu, case, etc...) I went and tried the new Ryzen chips, I've never owned an AMD chip before but wanted to see what Ryzen was all about... I don't have any pictures of the installation but that was the initial click in my head that urged me to keep spending more and more money.. 🤣
 
Anyway, I'll skip a few upgrades/purchases until I have some pictures... (I managed to snag a brand new K95 and the mouse from a colleague at work for less than £100 and he had used it once or twice... it was in top condition with 0 visible marks and literally looked brand new...)
 
What a heck of a year it's been, I started working remotely at the start of the year and needed an upgrade to my desk. My desk was extremely tatty and worn and I had a cheap Acer 1080p monitor so I went ahead and order a fairly large desk along with a new monitor.. The MAG27CQR (more to come on this...)
 

 
(I would decorate the room, but I'm on the brink of finally putting a deposit down for my own home so not too bothered about the walls and flooring)
 
Here is my temporary work space while I wait for another order before I start cleaning up a little bit...
 

 
I instantly started noticing that soon, the cable management behind the desk is going to start becoming a mess... But again not too bothered until I move out in a few months...
 
These bloody games are taking up all of my storage on my SSDs and I refuse to put them on my 2TB hdd that I store useless data on... So I went ahead with the 1TB M2 since it was like £30 off... I installed it and thought, ewww... I haven't cleaned out my case for some time... Just look at the dust....
 

 
I then started looking at my cable management... it was horrible since I didn't care but since I'm buying more and more stuff, I better start taking care of my cable management... I don't have any before and after pictures to compare but just know I am planning on custom sleeving all my cables black/white or even trying to find a nice colour that pops out in a black and white build... Look at the awful cable management... It isn't too bad but I need a PSU shroud to hide those hideous cables... And what idiot installed the Hyper evo 212 like that lol... Whoooops I swear I've had like 3 PCs with this cooler and have never installed it that way before... Look at all the room at the top for a 360 Rad in the future....!!!
 

 
Let's come back to the monitors... Knock knock... delivery......
 
You would of thought I'd be able to purchase a better camera for less than the cost of 1 of these monitors lol... But the whole choice of having a triple monitor setup was really for my work flow (I'm a network/netdevops engineer and we all know the more monitors, productivity is only increased... 😂)


 
About 5/6 years ago, I had a triple monitor setup with Alienware monitors and I rarely played games on all 3, I just love the aesthetics (beware, I still haven't found a nice looking triple monitor stand that I like)... The feeling of having 3 monitors all the same brand/model is pleasing... I was running the single MSI monitor along with the small TV in the picture above for a week or so. The problem is that I haven't still made the time to get the monitor positioning fluent across all 3 monitors and fix the gaps/heights between monitors... Shame on me.... I will get round to it...
 
A bonus upgrade (with no pictures...) was that my hyper-x cloud 2 headphones were broke (mic stopped working) so I opted to purchase a new pair of headphones. After reading many reviews, I gave the Sennhiser GSP550 a go, I hate the green/black combo in the picture but they also provide you with black cover that you can swap out the green. I wanted to mention these because they are extremely good quality... I still need to purchase a connector so I can hook them up to my piano and try them out on it...
 
Also, silly me... The cables that come with the monitors did not reach my PC on the floor, so I opt'd to put my PC on the desk... They still didn't reach... So I went ahead and bought some nice DP cables... Mmmm very nice...
 

 
P.s I've started to notice that my desk gets dirty within a week of cleaning it so I've tried to make it no food/sticky drinks at my desk which also helps me to get away from the PC during my working hours for lunchtime...
 
So remember me mentioning about the cooler? My temps on the 1800x were shocking.... I not recently cleaned my PC since I let it build up with quite a lot of dust (you can probably see some dust in these pics I took some time ago)... Let's pop off this chunk of metal...

 
(Anyone notice that dust? I didn't... and I've cleaned it since the picture was taken! 😆

It wasn't time to build a full custom loop yet and I thought the h150i wasn't expensive so went ahead and.....

 
made a quick cheeky purchase last week....!

I watched a review on the new Lian fans along with the fan controller starter kit (3 fans + controller?), not sure how long it's been out but I really like how slick they look but they're all out of stock. I will be purchasing that soon along with changing out my current fans (front and back) with the Lian 120 rgb fans (can't remember the model...)... Anyway I haven't showed my full setup with the 3 monitors yet because the picture would of gave it away... Apologies with the picture quality, you can even see some of the awful cable management routes that I done and I was too lazy during the h150i install that I just told myself, I'll wait until I get that new case... Who knows what case... 🤷‍♂️ (p.s I've noticed in the picture the h150i looks like an extremely tight bend but I can assure you, it isn't as bad as it looks in the picture, there is some slack, I did rotate them slightly to get more slack but it looked ugly and made them more straight)
 

 
So, with all of that... Here is a half-decent quality picture showing my full setup. The monitors look better in the picture than in person (with the gaps etc..) but I'm enjoying them... I still have a few items to arrive (Saitek rudder pedals and yoke for my FS2020 needs but I'll be upgrading to the 3xxx series when we can pre-order them because I need the most I can squeeze out... Thankfully, you don't see too much of the mess behind my desk with cables at the bottom in this next picture...
 
T
 
Triple 1440p 100+hz monitors with a 1080 pftttt? Yeah it struggles... Only game I've tried so far on surround was modern warfare... I won't really need these monitors during my FS2020 gaming when they release VR compatibility 😅
 
While I'm at it... Here is a little surprise..... I wanted to see how the Ryzen 3900x performs so.... yeah

 
That bad boi is ready to be installed since it arrived today... It's listed as a compatible CPU for my motherboard (probably needs a bios update?) but my plan is to take my 1800x, mobo and old ram and build a docker server/dev server for personal projects since I just currently do personal projects in a vm on my current system (hence why potentially I wanted to change my ram out, maybe a 64gb kit)...
 
I'm currently looking around to purchase all the needed tools to depin the modular cables and sleeve them myself but trying to figure out if I should just go black/white or add an extra colour... Open to suggestions on that one...
 
Other plans as previously mentioned is to rip out the 1080 and replace it with a 3080 or 3090.... Potentially introduce a custom loop (rip money I wasted on a h150i... lol), maybe upgrade the PSU to a 1000w, purchase a new case and also get some RGB fans... Buying new memory would force me to go RGB because we all know that is the rules in 2020, RGB everything...
 
I'm also debating to perform benchmarks on my most played games to compare the 1800x to the 3900x but I just don't really have time to be faffing around with stuff like that... Maybe I'll try over the next few weekends if I'm not eager to install the 3900x.

This isn't an amazing custom built case or fully custom hard tube watercooling greatness, but it's mine... I've built the majority of this setup in the past 2 months and I'm proud of it (more upgrades to be done... which I will note in this thread).
 
I'll go through the past 2 months and include some pictures I've managed to grab along the way but my plans are to potentially purchase a new case, get better/more RAM, upgrade to the 3xxx series when they arrive and potentially start my first custom water cooled project... (along with custom sleeving my cables, I was tempted to just purchase the pre-sleeved bundles, but my last build I custom sleeved the cables, it took a few hours but the outcome was fantastic...)
 
Current part list for those who don't like reading:
Case: Corsair 760T V2 White
CPU: Ryzen 7 1800X
Motherboard: MSI X370 XPOWER Gaming Titanium
RAM: Corsair Vengenance LPX 16GB @ 3000Mhz
Cooler: Corsair H150i Pro XT RGB
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1080 Gaming RGB
Storage: Samsung 1TB 970 M.2, Samsung 500GB 850 Evo, Samsung 250GB 960 M.2
PSU: EVGA Supernova 750 G2 (First time I've ever used anything other than Corsair...)
Monitors: 3 x MSI MAG272CQR
Mouse/Keyboard: Corsair K95 Platinum RGB/Logitec G703 Mouse
Headphones: Sennheiser GSP 550
 
Where do I start... technically I built this computer a while back when the GTX 1000 series came out and have just been upgrading it along the way. Firstly, I actually gave away my i7 6700k and gigabyte motherboard to a friend because I wasn't playing games and I was saving for a motorbike... I was mainly using my laptop for work (a lot of the time I was travelling around the UK) and so the first thing I purchased after having the base of a computer to work from (psu, case, etc...) I went and tried the new Ryzen chips, I've never owned an AMD chip before but wanted to see what Ryzen was all about... I don't have any pictures of the installation but that was the initial click in my head that urged me to keep spending more and more money.. 🤣
 
Anyway, I'll skip a few upgrades/purchases until I have some pictures... (I managed to snag a brand new K95 and the mouse from a colleague at work for less than £100 and he had used it once or twice... it was in top condition with 0 visible marks and literally looked brand new...)
 
What a heck of a year it's been, I started working remotely at the start of the year and needed an upgrade to my desk. My desk was extremely tatty and worn and I had a cheap Acer 1080p monitor so I went ahead and order a fairly large desk along with a new monitor.. The MAG27CQR (more to come on this...)
 

 
(I would decorate the room, but I'm on the brink of finally putting a deposit down for my own home so not too bothered about the walls and flooring)
 
Here is my temporary work space while I wait for another order before I start cleaning up a little bit...
 

 
I instantly started noticing that soon, the cable management behind the desk is going to start becoming a mess... But again not too bothered until I move out in a few months...
 
These bloody games are taking up all of my storage on my SSDs and I refuse to put them on my 2TB hdd that I store useless data on... So I went ahead with the 1TB M2 since it was like £30 off... I installed it and thought, ewww... I haven't cleaned out my case for some time... Just look at the dust....
 

 
I then started looking at my cable management... it was horrible since I didn't care but since I'm buying more and more stuff, I better start taking care of my cable management... I don't have any before and after pictures to compare but just know I am planning on custom sleeving all my cables black/white or even trying to find a nice colour that pops out in a black and white build... Look at the awful cable management... It isn't too bad but I need a PSU shroud to hide those hideous cables... And what idiot installed the Hyper evo 212 like that lol... Whoooops I swear I've had like 3 PCs with this cooler and have never installed it that way before... Look at all the room at the top for a 360 Rad in the future....!!!
 

 
Let's come back to the monitors... Knock knock... delivery......
 
You would of thought I'd be able to purchase a better camera for less than the cost of 1 of these monitors lol... But the whole choice of having a triple monitor setup was really for my work flow (I'm a network/netdevops engineer and we all know the more monitors, productivity is only increased... 😂)


 
About 5/6 years ago, I had a triple monitor setup with Alienware monitors and I rarely played games on all 3, I just love the aesthetics (beware, I still haven't found a nice looking triple monitor stand that I like)... The feeling of having 3 monitors all the same brand/model is pleasing... I was running the single MSI monitor along with the small TV in the picture above for a week or so. The problem is that I haven't still made the time to get the monitor positioning fluent across all 3 monitors and fix the gaps/heights between monitors... Shame on me.... I will get round to it...
 
A bonus upgrade (with no pictures...) was that my hyper-x cloud 2 headphones were broke (mic stopped working) so I opted to purchase a new pair of headphones. After reading many reviews, I gave the Sennhiser GSP550 a go, I hate the green/black combo in the picture but they also provide you with black cover that you can swap out the green. I wanted to mention these because they are extremely good quality... I still need to purchase a connector so I can hook them up to my piano and try them out on it...
 
Also, silly me... The cables that come with the monitors did not reach my PC on the floor, so I opt'd to put my PC on the desk... They still didn't reach... So I went ahead and bought some nice DP cables... Mmmm very nice...
 

 
P.s I've started to notice that my desk gets dirty within a week of cleaning it so I've tried to make it no food/sticky drinks at my desk which also helps me to get away from the PC during my working hours for lunchtime...
 
So remember me mentioning about the cooler? My temps on the 1800x were shocking.... I not recently cleaned my PC since I let it build up with quite a lot of dust (you can probably see some dust in these pics I took some time ago)... Let's pop off this chunk of metal...

 
(Anyone notice that dust? I didn't... and I've cleaned it since the picture was taken! 😆

It wasn't time to build a full custom loop yet and I thought the h150i wasn't expensive so went ahead and.....

 
made a quick cheeky purchase last week....!

I watched a review on the new Lian fans along with the fan controller starter kit (3 fans + controller?), not sure how long it's been out but I really like how slick they look but they're all out of stock. I will be purchasing that soon along with changing out my current fans (front and back) with the Lian 120 rgb fans (can't remember the model...)... Anyway I haven't showed my full setup with the 3 monitors yet because the picture would of gave it away... Apologies with the picture quality, you can even see some of the awful cable management routes that I done and I was too lazy during the h150i install that I just told myself, I'll wait until I get that new case... Who knows what case... 🤷‍♂️ (p.s I've noticed in the picture the h150i looks like an extremely tight bend but I can assure you, it isn't as bad as it looks in the picture, there is some slack, I did rotate them slightly to get more slack but it looked ugly and made them more straight)
 

 
So, with all of that... Here is a half-decent quality picture showing my full setup. The monitors look better in the picture than in person (with the gaps etc..) but I'm enjoying them... I still have a few items to arrive (Saitek rudder pedals and yoke for my FS2020 needs but I'll be upgrading to the 3xxx series when we can pre-order them because I need the most I can squeeze out... Thankfully, you don't see too much of the mess behind my desk with cables at the bottom in this next picture...
 
T
 
Triple 1440p 100+hz monitors with a 1080 pftttt? Yeah it struggles... Only game I've tried so far on surround was modern warfare... I won't really need these monitors during my FS2020 gaming when they release VR compatibility 😅
 
While I'm at it... Here is a little surprise..... I wanted to see how the Ryzen 3900x performs so.... yeah

 
That bad boi is ready to be installed since it arrived today... It's listed as a compatible CPU for my motherboard (probably needs a bios update?) but my plan is to take my 1800x, mobo and old ram and build a docker server/dev server for personal projects since I just currently do personal projects in a vm on my current system (hence why potentially I wanted to change my ram out, maybe a 64gb kit)...
 
I'm currently looking around to purchase all the needed tools to depin the modular cables and sleeve them myself but trying to figure out if I should just go black/white or add an extra colour... Open to suggestions on that one...
 
Other plans as previously mentioned is to rip out the 1080 and replace it with a 3080 or 3090.... Potentially introduce a custom loop (rip money I wasted on a h150i... lol), maybe upgrade the PSU to a 1000w, purchase a new case and also get some RGB fans... Buying new memory would force me to go RGB because we all know that is the rules in 2020, RGB everything...
 
I'm also debating to perform benchmarks on my most played games to compare the 1800x to the 3900x but I just don't really have time to be faffing around with stuff like that... Maybe I'll try over the next few weekends if I'm not eager to install the 3900x.

That 100mb is just coming from the routers 100mbps switching capability, essentially any router than can go up to 1gbps on the switching side would give you what you need. 
 
 

I've passed 200-125 (the old one) and I can strongly agree, HW stuff isn't needed at all.
Although I'm working in networking field for 7+ years, I started with non-Cisco gear (now stick mostly to Cisco), I would say certifications are about 50-75% about the experience, 20-40% about theoretical stuff and 5-10% of old stuff, that I think you will probably never see again in real world (ATM...) (I know that % doesn't match to 100 , cuz ranges... depends on your mix of questions).
 
Lab, lab, lab. Practice, trying new things, HW will not save you. You can buy the newest stuff, but that will not solve, that you don't understand the basics of L1-L3 networking. Try to get some troubleshooting labs, they are the most valuable thing, that you can get. Let someone break it for you, and then try to fix it. We learn by making and fixing mistakes.
 
Newer certifications will not make your old knowledge obsolete, they usually just contain wider range of knowledge in another fields (e.g. last refresh in Feb mostly added network automation, programmability etc...) it will not change what VLAN or IP address is.
 
If you really want to spend some money and buy hw, old stuff isn't really worth it. If you can mess with your home network, great, buy it for real world use, not just lab - replace your home network. I would recommend ISR 1921 / 2901 or something like that + (E)HWIC switch module / small dedicated switch (if you care about power consumption, try to avoid large L3 switches, they could be really power hungry - try to start with what most fits you, e.g. L2 2960C or CG etc. or L3 variant of those small compact switches 3560C or CG). And also agree ebay instead of amazon...
 
For setups, where you want to use multiple routers / multiple switches labbing, just use packet tracer (it is prety much all you need for CCNA and most of CCNP stuff) or for more real-world simulation use GNS3 or VIRL/VIRL2 (if you can access it). (remember: routing only!! not L2/L3 switches as their asics could not be simulated in same way as GNS3/VIRL does -> back to PT)

Gns3/eveng/VIRL works perfectly fine for the majority of layer 2 concepts, some have a few bugs or plain don't work like ether channels and private vlans but not being able to simulate asics isn't a problem with labbing, it's perfectly fine as I said for majority (90-95%) of layer 2 concepts with vlans, stp, layer 2 security, etc.. 

If ForceBindIP isn't working, then you could create a linux VM just with the minimum specs to support a base install to use it as a SOCKS5 proxy.
Assign the virtual network only to the adapter you want that bound to. Then create a PAC file for your browser to target that VM as a socks proxy

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If you want help torenting, you should consult another forum.
Refer to what @Arika S said.

Actually you got that reversed, NAT loopback is actually the "hacky" way as its extremely CPU intensive on the router, having a DNS entry that directs the traffic to the correct internal IP is the proper way.

I know the question has already been answered, but fun fact, all gigabit network interfaces support Auto-MDIX (unless specifically disabled via software). The switching technology to make that feature work is required for a 1000BASE-T, so they all can. Some high-end 100 mbs interfaces (which hasn't been a thing in decades) had the feature, but considering 100BASE-T used discrete send and receive paths, adding Auto-MDIX required functionality not otherwise needed, so it was typically not included.

I had completely forgotten those stupid "child-safe" filters. Typical UK-idiocy.

If all he’s trying to do is really reach the nas, why even nat. Just go to the private IP

Yeah if everything is working, I wouldnt worry too much. Cns you specifically see that is 100% is a member of the stack within the management/cli? 

That's not correct.
Just disconnect the strands at the end and swap them around. It's not damaging.

QoS wont solve your issue. Your problem is ADSL, 
 
I ran into this constantly at work with tickets getting escalated to me. ADSL when hit with a load begins to buckle with interleaved, even with a good pair. Crosstalk and random interference are always an issue with DSL and with load channels begin to drop as HEC fails and packets being re transmitted. This is where your latency is coming from. This is due to the built in delay combined with no shielding. 
 
Call you ISP and ask if you can have your connection changed from interleaved to fast. Youll get occasional packet loss but your spikes will be gone. Trust me, I had to resolve hundreds of these calls, fixed it every time. 

Huh? I'll make sure not to get any advice from you ever again. Thanks.

You don't. You buy server-level hardware, rack mount it, and don't touch it (physically) until it dies, or hits it's EOL.
You maintain it via RDP, console, VM whathaveyou.
A network architect design wide area networks, SANs, multi-building communications, etc.
A network engineer sets up servers and maintains the network to keep them talking with the PCs.
A network admin runs and maintains the software in use on the servers.

That's alright,
 
Yeah R&S for sure, it's always been a goal, wasn't too keen on pursuing it this soon because of my previous jobs but now employer is paying for it and is really pushing me to go get it. I'm trying to look through my old resources but never put everything in a single document/location, some other resources I found useful were:
 
Rob Riker - Youtube (Has training online but has posted snippets of his courses on youtube)
Kevin Wallace - Youtube (also does a ton of books including one of the OCGs)
Packetlife - Nice blogs for a wide range of CCNA/CCNP topics
NetworkLessons - Very good style blogs I find
TheLanTamer - Streams literally every day of his CCIE journey but can pick up a ton of stuff for the CCNP
Cisco Community Forums
 
If you are also one of those guys who likes reading, I recommend highly to get a Safari books online subscription since you will be cushioned with knowledge and technical books 
 

Don't worry too much, the jump between CCNA and CCNP is very friendly and isn't a massive gap (for R&S) anyway. There are a few things you get introduced to but it just recapping knowledge and ensuring you do know all your basics about things like OSPF, EIGRP, how packets are actually routed from a technical perspective with the RIB/FIB/CEF/etc.., Spanning Tree, a bit of security like securing your routing protocols, securing the management plane of a cisco device, route filtering, route summurization, ensuring you fully understand VLANs (literally the very little details with STP/RSTP/PVLANS etc..). You already learn how to setup neighborships and exchange routes between different routing protocols but the CCNP tries to introduce you into the more detailed theory with OSPF and how the protocol works under the hood with LSAs, the ospf database (LSDB), how the metric formula works in EIGRP, how to filter routes when doing redistribution between 2 routing protocols, again, it's just expanding your current knowledge while introducing into some other basic rules/operations)
 
 
For Route, I found the OCG, Udemy, INE and a ton of blogs online to be the best resource. Switch I only used the OCG and 3750X documentation from cisco. Tshoot, I just recapped over everything from previous and they have the topology released online that you can study and make in GNS3/real lab and do a ton of config/break/fix repeat...
 
CBT Nuggets was alright but a very simple overview of each topic, doesn't go into much depth with Route/Switch. Udemy (Chris Bryant) was also the same, like a high level overview.
 
I also read a few other books along with the CCNP and still re-reading them for the ccie such as TCP/IP Volume 1/2, OSPF: Anatomy, Cisco design guides, Internet Routing Architectures 2nd edition, and more.
 
I personally wouldn't rely on just the OCGs for all the exams (unless you're literally doing it to just pass the exam, I always express my opinion that you should try to learn for the knowledge and not just to get a piece of paper that says 'Pass')
 
I tried putting my CCNP Switch notes into gdrive and haven't had the time to do route:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2kaqHUWZdXxM3dfRWF5d3NWNGM
 
Hit me up if you want to join a discord, I've been talking to a guy over the past year that is studying for his CCNP right now and we try to get on voice quite a bit and always lab together/share ideas.

mobaxterm is better then putty.

POE in a switch is extremely expensive last I checked, especially for 19 connections.
You would be better off with POE injectors for the lines you need powered.
 
QoS is also going to be a tough ask, especially if you want QoS that does not suck.

why do you need 10gb switch tho? 10gb over ethernet isn't really good