1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
File server, video transcoding, minecraft server. My current server has a Intel C2D conroe e6600. It is maxed out when transcoding and the stream sometimes pauses periodically waiting on the server to transcode. This is with one client accessing video. I want this to be able to transcode two simultaneous streams without issue.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
Should probably keep it under $300
3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.
US, Oregon
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. The word "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
CPU(intel or amd), motherboard, 4gb ram
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Powersupply is an 700w enermax 80+ gold, modular
Reusing case, powersupply, hard drives(2x 500gb, 4x750gb, 6x 1tb, 2x 1.5tb, 2x 2tb)
Radeon 5450 video card(if motherboard doesn't have onboard)
Various SATA cards outlined below
6) Will you be overclocking?
no
7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it?
headless
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
depends on wife approval. Hopefully sooner rather than later. But I need to get her an estimated cost first.
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? eSATA? Onboard video (as a backup or main GPU)? UEFI? etc.
The more SATA ports the better. I don't have any 6Gb/s drives so that's not a priority.
I currently have two PCI sata expansion cards, one PCIe 1x sata expansion card and two 8x expansion cards. All providing ports for up to 20 hard drives.
Whatever board I get will need to support those cards or have enough built in ports so I don't need to use all those cards.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If yes, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
Currently running windows 8 x64 for the drive pooling feature. Before that I was running windows home server. All my drives are of different sizes so RAID is out.
My main desktop is running a first gen Core i7 920. I could move that cpu, board and ram over to the server and then upgrade that desktop instead but i'm guessing a worthy upgrade for that computer would end up costing more than I want to spend. That desktop is primarily used for gaming, bluray ripping and re-encoding.
I've also looked into something like a drobo where I can use drives of any size and just connecting that to my desktop pc and leaving that on to transcode but a drobo or similar device cost too much.
File server, video transcoding, minecraft server. My current server has a Intel C2D conroe e6600. It is maxed out when transcoding and the stream sometimes pauses periodically waiting on the server to transcode. This is with one client accessing video. I want this to be able to transcode two simultaneous streams without issue.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
Should probably keep it under $300
3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.
US, Oregon
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. The word "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
CPU(intel or amd), motherboard, 4gb ram
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Powersupply is an 700w enermax 80+ gold, modular
Reusing case, powersupply, hard drives(2x 500gb, 4x750gb, 6x 1tb, 2x 1.5tb, 2x 2tb)
Radeon 5450 video card(if motherboard doesn't have onboard)
Various SATA cards outlined below
6) Will you be overclocking?
no
7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it?
headless
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
depends on wife approval. Hopefully sooner rather than later. But I need to get her an estimated cost first.
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? eSATA? Onboard video (as a backup or main GPU)? UEFI? etc.
The more SATA ports the better. I don't have any 6Gb/s drives so that's not a priority.
I currently have two PCI sata expansion cards, one PCIe 1x sata expansion card and two 8x expansion cards. All providing ports for up to 20 hard drives.
Whatever board I get will need to support those cards or have enough built in ports so I don't need to use all those cards.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If yes, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
Currently running windows 8 x64 for the drive pooling feature. Before that I was running windows home server. All my drives are of different sizes so RAID is out.
My main desktop is running a first gen Core i7 920. I could move that cpu, board and ram over to the server and then upgrade that desktop instead but i'm guessing a worthy upgrade for that computer would end up costing more than I want to spend. That desktop is primarily used for gaming, bluray ripping and re-encoding.
I've also looked into something like a drobo where I can use drives of any size and just connecting that to my desktop pc and leaving that on to transcode but a drobo or similar device cost too much.
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