I didn’t notice any breakdown of the paste. It typically dries out over time once applied, this was still the same consistency throughout its life (in the tube)
I like to tinker with anything tech related.
I didn’t notice any breakdown of the paste. It typically dries out over time once applied, this was still the same consistency throughout its life (in the tube)
Yep, I had the side panel off as I just replaced the thermal paste on the GPU and had to snap a pic.
I bought one for a new PC I was going to build, that didn’t happen so I installed it in my server, then I got this and the obvious choice was to pick up another.
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Windowless side panels also help with what LEDs are forced onto me.
I’ve gone with Unraid and consumer level hardware (intel i3 12100 and 16gb of standard ddr4 ram) the only “server hardware” I have, is an LSI HBA card that’s in IT mode so I can connect more HDDs.
I’m even used SMR drives in my array, just use a good CMR drive for parity and the biggest SSD you can get for your cache drive and you will be good to go.
In use an i3 12100 with whatever cheep motherboard from a good brand and 16gb of ram (it would be fine with 8gb, but DDR4 ram is cheep so more the better) if you look at ZFS and a real raid, it gets expensive quick, I use Unraid which is ideal if you have SMR drives and/or different sized HDDs. You can get cheep LSI HBM cards off eBay in IT mode which is perfect to connect HDDs to (my mobo only has 4 sata ports)
That’s how I started, when I upgraded my PC my old PC became a dedicated Plex server running Linux, then the CPU gave up after 8 years (3 years as a 24/7 sever) then bought a PC to run unraid. Its a slippery slope, I started on 16tb of media 6 months ago, I’m now on 24tb…
Windows 10 IoT enterprise LTSC and disable telemetry. Don’t bother with 3rd party apps for privacy unless you are 100% sure they are safe.
And never install from an ISO that’s been tampered with. Get directly from Microsoft.
That looks incredible! what is that cooler? Did you 3D print the case yourself?
Log on to your router, that will show what’s connected.
You’ve forgotten all those extensions which look for discount codes at checkout on online stores, in think “Honey” was one of them.
Its overkill for the i3 12100, but its on 24/7 so might as well keep it as cool as possible.
The motherboard has what I need for a home server, the case is big enough for all the hard drives. A micro ATX case would not have nearly enough bays.
Vice Admiral Stirling, please can you explain why you have been tormenting over 1000 episodes of a cartoon called “the one price” and from a Russian website? You understand that you are on a Vanguard class submarine and are commander of the fleet?
THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!
So for the past 9 years I’ve been using the 8pin (from PSU) to 8pin + 6pin (to graphics card) this was wrong?
I have 2 cables that came with it (both have an 8pin and a 6pin on the GPU end so I’m just going to use both cables and just use the 8pin connector on each.
It’s been a while since I last build a PC. I should know this shit, I used to be a system builder… But that was also many years ago.
Thanks!
What graphics card are you going for? I’m in the process of specing out my next PC but the graphics card is causing me a headache
Its a Fractal Pop