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I've moved my gaming PC into my living room to live the big picture life and am thinking of building a Plex server/occasional office PC to put on the empty desk in my spare room. I have an old Node 304 to build in but I'm not entirely sure what I should fill it with. I would have thought an i3 would be the logical starting point, but the new quad core ones seem like they might be overkill? And AMD is good now? Please help (I'm in the UK)
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I picked up a Noctua NH-L9i for an ITX plex server recently, and it's basically silent
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Jan 13, 2018 01:08
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Beemo posted:CPU: Intel Core i7 8700 Coffee Lake (£311.99) The 8700k is available for less than £20 more than this. Seems more than worth it for the 0.5GHz boost in stock clock speed alone, and even if you're not intending to OC out of the box, it could be a nice option to have down the road if you need to squeeze a bit more life out of the system
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Jan 30, 2018 23:55
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I thought 3TB and 1.5TB drives from Seagate were the only problematic ones? I just bought 3 4TB Barracudas, so I definitely hope that's the case!
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Nov 30, 2018 15:23
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tank is raid leader O.K. posted:So uh, due to an unfortunate accident, my ~5 year old gaming PC took a dive off a bench. Having tried to get it up and working again to no avail, I've decided to look at building my first PC unaided. (Last one was a "get a mate who Knows Things to build it for you for a case of beer" kind of thing.) 750w seems like overkill for that build, you might want to get a higher quality PSU with lower wattage. The site you're using have a 550w seasonic focus plus gold for $10 more, and it's gold rated and comes with 10 year warranty, twice that of the CXM.
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Dec 15, 2018 16:47
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Am I missing anything? Is that version of Windows the kind that you can only install to one motherboard ever? Microsoft started associating Windows licenses with Microsoft accounts instead of hardware a couple of years ago. I've had no trouble transferring my (originally windows 8.1) OEM license over 3 motherboard swaps. I actually managed to save a bit of money by upgrading an ancient windows 7 laptop to 10 and associating it with my dad's MS account which I then transferred to a new PC I built for him. Was very surprised it worked.
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Dec 19, 2018 08:19
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Edmond Dantes posted:The 2060 EVGAs are the EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC Gaming and the EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC Black Edition Gaming which seem to be... exactly the same thing? The black has a lower boost clock (1680 MHz vs 1755 MHz).
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Feb 22, 2019 21:26
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asmallrabbit posted:How legit are the windows keys through SA-mart? $25 seems a little too good to be true, is it gonna get deactivated down the road for fraud or something? I doubt it. I bought a similarly priced grey market windows 7 key like 5 years ago and it has been fine. I don't think people would recommend SA mart keys if they were any different.
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Feb 25, 2019 20:04
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VelociBacon posted:Extremely legit, I've never heard of any goon having a problem with it. I've reinstalled windows 10 on a new build (almost entirely new components) with the same key and it worked fine also. I think it's now possible to change as many components as you want as often as you want without ever requiring a new license (so long as you only have one active installation) because licenses are tied to Microsoft accounts rather than hardware.
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Feb 26, 2019 02:51
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5436 posted:Sounds like a hassle, I'll just get the meshify or something. It's literally just buying a differently sized PSU with a bracket, there's really no more hassle involved than installing an ATX PSU.
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Feb 27, 2019 18:57
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Yeah I only have a small Noctua cooler (U12S afair) and it's barely noticeable at load. I don't know how much quieter water cooling would be but it doesn't really matter given that it's already totally drowned out by my GPU fan.
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Mar 12, 2019 20:09
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It only compares two cards so maybe this isn't universally true, but this comparison has the blower design running quieter for the same GPU temp and lower case temps.
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Mar 26, 2019 20:48
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tuyop posted:I, too, weep for enormous software companies with effective monopolies and more revenue than most countries. I think the point is less "why are you not paying poor old Microsoft?" and more "if you have no compunctions about not paying MS, why are you instead paying some rando for something you can get for free?"
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Mar 31, 2019 21:41
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Butt Discussin posted:If you use a valid key, you download the software directly from Microsoft and get updates and can be pretty sure it's not pre-virused. There's no such guarantee for a cracked copy of Windows. You can download the software directly from microsoft and activate it with a key from a key generator and get updates. Actually you can just download the software directly from microsoft and never activate it and still get updates.
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Mar 31, 2019 23:45
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mfny posted:So, am in need of an overhaul to my 5 year old AM3 platform based setup, budget is around £300 or so. By changing your cooling in the case do you mean you intend to install the NF-P12s in your wishlist as case fans? If so you might want to get a pair of NF-S12Bs instead, the P12 is a higher pressure fan optimised for heat sinks and radiators, the S12B is better for airflow.
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Mu Zeta posted:I like the look of it but the video card is right next to the psu shroud area and the air has nowhere to go. It's choked. Same problem as the NZXT h200. I have a Nano S and my 2070 Super (with an ATX PSU right against one of the fans) rarely breaks 70C.
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