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If by "Ikea rack" you mean the standard little Lackrack setup, then this is going to hang out the back a fair way, you'll probably also be wanting to mount it at the bottom of the legs.

Nah, I don't use the lackrack, I'm using a Lerberg atm :)
 
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Speaking of IKEA I was looking through some of their desk accessories and came across this lol. WTAF

 

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Speaking of IKEA I was looking through some of their desk accessories and came across this lol. WTAF

Yeah they've got some weird stuff, I'm thinking of grabbing one of these for work for a headset stand and to indicate how busy I am
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Build is done!

Had a hiccup when it wouldn't post, CPU not recognised but a flash BIOS update fixed that. Also 4TB HDD not recognised, SATA cable had come unplugged.

Now just installing software and have made the jump to Win11.

Specs
5600X
XFX 6900XT Black Merc
MSI B550 Carbon Gaming wifi
32 GB 3600 CL16 RAM
2TB Kingston KC2500 m.2 SSD
4TB WD Black HDD (from old rig)
1000 watt Silverstone PSU
Lian Li Dynamic mini case
Noctua DH15S chromax black
9 Lian Li AL120 Uni Fans

Pretty happy with the way it's come together. Very satisfying to get it done.


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Build is done!

Had a hiccup when it wouldn't post, CPU not recognised but a flash BIOS update fixed that. Also 4TB HDD not recognised, SATA cable had come unplugged.

Now just installing software and have made the jump to Win11.

Specs
5600X
XFX 6900XT Black Merc
MSI B550 Carbon Gaming wifi
32 GB 3600 CL16 RAM
2TB Kingston KC2500 m.2 SSD
4TB WD Black HDD (from old rig)
1000 watt Silverstone PSU
Lian Li Dynamic mini case
Noctua DH15S chromax black
9 Lian Li AL120 Uni Fans

Pretty happy with the way it's come together. Very satisfying to get it done.


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Looks awesome mate. That Chromax tower is huge haha.
 
Build is done!

Had a hiccup when it wouldn't post, CPU not recognised but a flash BIOS update fixed that. Also 4TB HDD not recognised, SATA cable had come unplugged.

Now just installing software and have made the jump to Win11.

Specs
5600X
XFX 6900XT Black Merc
MSI B550 Carbon Gaming wifi
32 GB 3600 CL16 RAM
2TB Kingston KC2500 m.2 SSD
4TB WD Black HDD (from old rig)
1000 watt Silverstone PSU
Lian Li Dynamic mini case
Noctua DH15S chromax black
9 Lian Li AL120 Uni Fans

Pretty happy with the way it's come together. Very satisfying to get it done.


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You're probably going to need these

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Looks awesome mate. That Chromax tower is huge haha.
It's a monster and overkill. I decided to go with it instead of an AIO.

Just running a couple of benchmarks.

CPU humming along nicely in cinebench at 71C under 100% load and clock speeds steady at 4524 Mhz.
 
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It's a monster and overkill. I decided to go with it instead of an AIO.

Just running a couple of benchmarks.

CPU humming along nicely in cinebench at 71C under 100% load and clock speeds steady at 4524 Mhz.

My number one reason for going with an AIO is so I can show off more bling lol
 
Show us your big boy!

I'd take a pic, but with where it is now, it's a pita to get it out again.

But..

3950X
Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360mm
X570M Pro
Adaptec 7160 SAS Card (for connecting 16 hdds)
7xHDD for total 33TB Storage

Replaced the 3 x 120mm molex fans that came with the case with 3x 120mm kaze flex fans (These seem to be the best case fans)

Replaced the 2x 80mm molex fans that came with the case with 2x 80mm arctci F8 fans

Taped a 40mm Noctua onto the Adaptec heatsink, because that thing will hit 90c and let off a loud ass alarm.

Started this build at 7pm and ended at 3am, but it's all working now :)
 
Not sure how much experience you have with unraid, but let me know if you want any help!
I appreciate it.

No experience with Unraid but pretty tech savvy so should be able to muddle my way through most of it. I'll just be methodical and take it a step at a time.

It's going to be a very tight budget basically re-purposing stuff I already have. May look at a case and PSU before adding extra storage (and controller card) further down the track.

Will bed down my new rig and try to get a bit of gaming in before I launch into the Unraid experience.
 
It's going to be a very tight budget basically re-purposing stuff I already have. May look at a case and PSU before adding extra storage (and controller card) further down the track.


This is basically what I did as well, and then it sort of snowballed from there....

Controller cards are ******* expensive... that adaptect was $130USD :O
 
This is basically what I did as well, and then it sort of snowballed from there....

Controller cards are ******* expensive... that adaptect was $130USD :O
I've seen ones on ebay that are flashed for unraid at around the $100 mark for 8 port (SAS to SATA)

My mobo (MSI Z370-A Pro) has 6 SATA slots which will be enough to get started - 1 cache SSD, 1 SSD for docker stuff, 1 parity and 3 pool drives. I've got everything I need to get it up and running except time lol.

i5-8400 CPU and 16GB RAM.

Should be plenty to get me up and running.
 
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Just did the Steam hardware survey. GTX 1060 the most popular graphics card at 7.58%. 3080 only 1.08% but it's ahead of the 1080 TI which is below 1%. I was surprised at that figure for the 1080 TI considering how many on various boards claiming to be still holding onto theirs. 1080p still taking the bulk of the gaming resolutions at 67% but I wouldn't be surprised if this is heavily blown out by 15-20% due to casuals, laptops etc. Anecdotally 1440p is the most popular among gamers/enthusiasts and it's only sitting at 9%.

 

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Just did the Steam hardware survey. GTX 1060 the most popular graphics card at 7.58%. 3080 only 1.08% but it's ahead of the 1080 TI which is below 1%. I was surprised at that figure for the 1080 TI considering how many on various boards claiming to be still holding onto theirs. 1080p still taking the bulk of the gaming resolutions at 67% but I wouldn't be surprised if this is heavily blown out by 15-20% due to casuals, laptops etc. Anecdotally 1440p is the most popular among gamers/enthusiasts and it's only sitting at 9%.


jeez I didn't realise I was that far behind. gtx980 at 0.26%

and at this rate I'll probably use it until 2023 lol
 
Show us your big boy!

Took it out to install an internal usb port for Unraid, but here you go

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Coin for scale

and with the lid off

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Case comes with 6 molex 120 fans, 3 are in front of the hard drives at the front of the case for intake, replaced the fire hazards with Kaze Flex 120 ARGB's , These seem to be the best case fans according to this guy ( Better than the noctua's.

My hdd temps dropped about 10-11c btw. Much of that would be the case design rather than the fans I think

Behind the hard drives was a 'fan wall' with another 3x120 molex fan/fire hazards, so removed them and replaced it with the 360mm Arctic Liquid Freezer II.

Had to move the fans from one side of the radiator to the other, so I could still get my hands near the hard drives.

Everything else is pretty standard,

The exhaust fans are also molex fire hazards, so replaced them as well with 2 80mm Arctic F8 fans.

Probably the most interesting things are the HBA card (Adaptec 17605 16 port internal card), jerry rigged a 40mm fan onto the heatsink, just in case

The rainbow cable on the left is my favourite thing, it connects to a PiKVM box, and it splits the motherboard connectors for PLED,Power, Reset etc and sends them over ethernet to a KVM box.

So I can actually press the power/reset buttons etc over the network, instead of waddling all the way over to it and pressing the button on the front.

And I have got room for another 9 hard drives....
 
Dunno about the AMD drivers but am very impressed with my 6900 XT so far.
Have they ever NOT been dogshit? I reckon every AMD/ATI card I've had over the last 20 year has had random crashes and issues that didn't happen when using Nvidia cards.

My 6900XT lasts between 20-60 minutes in bf 2042 before shitting themselves and crashing.

Insanity.
 
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