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Good points made on both sides. I myself like physical media. My only internet option is Comcast and they're down occasionally (lol) so it's nice to have some physical media laying around to pop on and watch.

Looks like I have a NETGEAR ReadyNAS 102. I am NOT sure if it will do what you want, but if you're interested let me know.

I have something that I think will fit the bill. Let me check at home after work and I'll reply again.

It actually did, which was a nice surprise (the packaging is significantly smaller than the previous generation). Nonetheless I used my own torque wrench and verified with the AMD key. It also came with an adapter bracket that would fit many of the Asetek type AIO water coolers that are out...

Update: Build completed this morning. 7975WX, 256GB DDR-5, 2TB Gen5 nvme SSD, nVidia RTX A4000, 1300W Seasonic PS Build went too easy - so I'm expecting problems down the road (posted first try - albeit needing ~5 minutes to train memory/etc.) Will enter life as a 24/7/360 dedicated CFD...

Hey guys - doing a 7975WX build. Not sure if AMD includes a torque screwdriver like they did with previous ThreadRipper generations. Anyone know the torque spec for the sTR5 socket? I googled and looked in a few motherboard manuals but can't seem to find anything. edit: Found it in the...

HTPC as well. I have a 5600g and two 2400g boxes attached to my 3 TVs at the house.

I have this one. Highly recommended. I also have 3 HTPCs connected to my TVs using these. Also highly recommended.

Tell me about it.

I've actually done 5 workstation builds for our office for the purpose of running computational fluid dynamics (CFD). CFD is unique in that it scales almost perfectly by core count (e.g. 32 cores is faster than 28 is faster than 12 etc.) CFD also does NOT benefit from multi-threadding (actually...

Radeon 9800 XT purchased direct from, built by, and shipped from ATI Canada. edit: In fact my card looked *identical* to the one shown in the link.

As a combo I have a 2400G with box cooler, an ASRock mini ITX B350 motherboard, and a 16GB kit (2x8) of XPG DDR4-3000 memory. Also has a Windows 10 key tied to the BIOS. $150 shipped to you. Let me know.

Corsair RM850x should be plenty good enough. If it were me I'd probably run the new PS with the new CPU going forward. Unfortunately in that case you'll never know whether it was the PS or the CPU - but at least you should be safe, which is all that matters. Good luck!

I think you said you replaced your Power Supply. I would make sure to use the replacement with your new 5950x (and hopefully the PS is decent quality). I'm worried that your old PS was bad-->failed your CPU-->you replaced the PS and ruled that out as a root cause-->but it was already too late...

I think your system is fine, and you don't need to upgrade. That said, we all have our hobbies. If yours is building new systems (as mine used to be) and the income allocated to the cost of the components is completely disposable, then go for it.