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Ok lol I got a lot of answers at once lawl. Read all of them. Good. Might get the extra sata slots, since the case I'm thinking on has ENORMOUS space for expansion. Though that means I won't have USB C slots unless one of those pci-e USB cards can fit into a full sized slot, because the budget board I got doesn't have it. Decisions lol. But in any case, I should have enough Sata slots, 3 with a M.2 inserted, to get my drives in, plus the bluray drive because I like my blu rays and want to back some of that shit up
The thing is with my PC build, I'm halfway there, got too many parts to stop now and buy a pre-built lol.
You can stick any PCIe card into any PCIe slot (or an M.2 slot with an adapter). What you need to consider is that sticking a full size card into a small slot may be physically impossible (requiring you to cut away a plastic tab on the motherboard) and that you will get less GB/s than the card may require. Sometimes that’s not an issue (GPUs only lose a few percent if you go from x16 to x
, sometimes it’s severe (M.2 SSD in an x1 slot will still have great latency and IOPS, but bandwidth will suffer). In your case, a shorter card in a larger slot is never an issue.
I was talking needing another small slot, but it's interesting to know you can even do that. This is the board btwYou can stick any PCIe card into any PCIe slot (or an M.2 slot with an adapter). What you need to consider is that sticking a full size card into a small slot may be physically impossible (requiring you to cut away a plastic tab on the motherboard) and that you will get less GB/s than the card may require. Sometimes that’s not an issue (GPUs only lose a few percent if you go from x16 to x
If you look closely, you’ll see that not all pins of the bottom slot are soldered. This is pretty common. What you have is an x16 slot, an x1 slot, and an x16 slot (x4 electrical). So you’d put your USB controller in the x1, the HBA in the bottom x16, and your GPU in the top x16. Chances are the M.2 slots also share lanes with the PCIe ones, so check the manual to make sure you’re not installing cards in slots that would deactivate if something is installed in a specific other slot.
Yeah good point. I'll check that when I get it so I don't buy extra crap. In any case, I think I can get by on 3 sata cables if I'm careful
Allegedly Windows 12 is supposed to be more intelligent at using wake timers to suspend background tasks which gives it 50% more battery life, but I'd have to see if that actually plays out. Seems that Microsoft is continuing the tick-tock schedule of one really good OS followed by a really bad one
I will never trust Win 11 after the multiple shit they have done to OSes in general. Fool me once, shame on you, Fool me twice, shame on me (as a customer).
Windows 95: good
1: Bad
Just move to America and enjoy a $300 6700 XT. Maybe someone in the thread will agree to a green card marriage.
As an example, I have two cases serving as NAS devices with x8 8tb drives. Obviously that's more drives than most motherboards can support, so I use two of the Dell H310 host bus adapters mentioned in the unraid link to connect them all.
I have a server running some 2650v4s, and those are getting long in the tooth. I wouldn't go any older than that, personally.
If you're building a file server, even with transcoding, assuming that's offloaded to the GPU, pretty much anything will work. Even the E5 you mentioned is likely overkill.
It's also nice to have more RAM if you deal with tons of small files, but 32GB is likely fine for the size of your array.
I've had my el cheapo Gateway running ECU diagnostic software in a windows 10 VM for 2+ hours before the battery crapped out. For normal use like web browsing and document editing on the go, I haven't had to plug it in until I arrived at my destination.
