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Looking for a cpu for my Elitedesk 800 g3, currently has i3-7100 cpu and I want more cores/threads for a small VM server Would prefer an i7- let me know what you have and price. Hoping I can find cheaper than fleabay.. dont want to buy from china and wait...

So I am building a classic gaming machine, and during the time the athlon 64's were the hot technology, the best thing I could afford was a single core 3500+. I picked up a motherboard off eBay, Asus M2NPV-VM, and I am wondering what is the best CPU option for it? Whats going to give me better...

Yes.. you read that right- I need help with an intel pentium 2 CPU. Ive installed and removed hundreds of slot 1 cpus over the years, but ive never had to remove a cooler. Im attaching a picture- the CPU with the cooler is a p3-500 hopefully the donor cooler on the left is the P2 350- i need...

Looking for PCI (Not PCIe) video card for an older build. Thinking like Geforce FX 5200/5500 maybe 6200 or something similar. Lmk what you have!

Hey folks, I need a little help. Installed ESXi 6.5 on my ryzen system, and im trying to update it with some drivers for my onboard network card, and I get this error and I dont know whats wrong [root@localhost:~] esxcli software vib update -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/net55-...

Im mainly interested to know hardware wise, but software too. I can install and run Vmware esxi (Who cant?) and thats fine, ive had trouble figureing out other hypervisor replacements. I need low power, ideally an ok thread count for cpus, and good ammount of ram. any ideas that wont break...

Its not possible to run a standard atx motherboard in a 2u supermicro chassis is it? I was hoping to replace the server motherboard with an Ryzen system and use the case since it has the drive bays in front... Seems possible so far with an adapter cable for the front panel pins, but theres...

Im running a supermicro server, its got dual E5-2650's 8c/16t This is the version im running 6.5.0 Update 3 (Build 17477841) The issue im having is I cannot add more than 1 cpu per VM. it allows me to add 1cpu socket the selector for core count is greyed out at 1 I cannot figure out how to...

Kyle can we make a mandatory rule that for items priced above 100$ that pictures of the item along with serial number must be provided? or something like that? Also maybe require like written time stamp with account name or something? I know some memebers used to do that.

Do such blocks exist? also How big of a radiator do you think the card needs on its own?

I have a Radeon 6700XT i bought during the shortage from a friend My oldest brother has an RTX 2060 Super He has been mining on his card, mine has been mined on some, but much less than his. What do the rest of you think on trading? my big thing is I was never a radeon fan, just got a better...

I don't have a whole lot of money, but before I succumb to the eBay trolls from china, I was hoping someone here would help a guy out. I want to make a nice older gaming rig because I dont really play many new titles. I have an old I7-920 here and a memory kit from back in the day, if I...

Does anyone around here have good knowledge of Supermicro 2u servers? My virtualization host is showing a higher temperature on cpu2, and I feel like its because warm air from cpu1 is flowing into it, but I want to see if I am right and also what I can do about it

Would it be possible to have the perpetual freebie thread like, locked to the top of the FS/FT forum? Would be nice to always have it in one place rather than having to search for it or sit and scroll the pages to find it.

I am setting up a computer for my son to use for ABC Mouse (its a kids learning site) Basically- I need advice on a simple way to control what he can do so he logs on the computer and cant do anything but what hes supposed to. Any thoughts?

So to make a long story short. a while back i got a Ryzen 2700X 8c/16t great gaming cpu. running it in a gigabyte aorus m w/ b450 chipset. I hate this board. lots of random blue screen crashed when gaming. I need advice on a new mobo, case and video card maybe PSU as well. I need to make this...

i got new tubing, and new XSPC coolant for a build im doing. the old coolant was some nasty thermaltake glycol crap. how do i best clean out and prep the pump and everything for new coolant? The colors will be drastically different sdo I dont want any green left over to mess up my new stuff...

Ill keep this as simple as i can. I am liquid cooling an old socket 478 Pentium 4 build. I am trying to reuse as much as i can from an old Thermaltake big water 735 kit. pump/res in good shape, currently using them to clean out water block and rad. rad is in poor shape. lots of bent fins not...

I am looking to do a retro build, I have a nice northwood pentium 4 on the 800mhz FSB w/ HT that I want to run. I have memory and CPU, I need a decent board to run it, obviously not looking to spend a fortune. hoping like 30 bucks or close to that. a few preferences but not exact requirements...

Can i put my video card in my 2nd PCIe slot and a sound card in the one closes to the CPU? would like to feed sold air directly to my video card but my sound card is getting in the way!

Running an Athlon 64 x2 with the following config Athlon 64 x2 3800+ 2gb (4x512mb) DDR400 ram (Kingston hyper x i think) GTX465 1gb graphics card 120gb SSD OS drive 240gb SSD Games/programs drive Having a weird issue where im getting graphical slowdowns and a loss of FPS playing Diablo 2...

Im looking for one of those older soundblaster cards with the 5.25 bay full of connections. Looking to setup a simple media desktop for my home office and need a sound card that supports optical audio for my receiver. Hoping I could find one for 50 or less, but lmk what you have!

Im bored. Show me pictures of your older Athlon 64 rigs! I am going to be building out an athlon 64 gaming rig in my Thermaltake Xaser III case. I feel like having a cool nostalgic build from my earlier gaming days! I want to see what set ups people had and find some cool things I can do with...

Need to find some good 80mm fans that move a lot of air. No noctuas, the price is just outrageous

Need to get my hands on an 8TB internal HD Not sure on brand preference, would like a WD Red maybe. Used is OK hoping for low hours or still in warranty. Only need 1 drive. Let me know what u have and asking price.

Tell me about your PLEX VM setups, also, any tips tricks or things I should add? Currently my VM is: 4x CPU 4GB ram OS like 60gb on SSD datastore Media storage is being set as a 3tb VHD on a 7.2tb setup (4x 2tb 6gb/sec i think raid 0) OS is Windows 2008 R2 Standard I should add that this is...

I feel dumb asking, but simply I need help. I have never had issues installing windows on systems before, but when I tried to install Server 2008 R2 on my poweredge R710 it kept saying something like it couldn't install on a selected disk, I tried making an ISO with drivers for my H700 but it...

Tripplite sucks, most companies offer a pre-made VM i can deploy but they apparently dont. How do I tell my VM server to shutdown when the power fails? Tripplite gives a serial and a usb connection, was hoping to use serial for VM server as usb will be set to my synology nas to tell it to shut...

After years I finally snagged a Thermaltake Xaser III off eBay! so tell me folks, is it possible to run a more modern system in these older cases? I currently run an i7-4790 thats liquid cooled, long story short I have been planning to dump the liquid cooler and go back to air fro a long time...

Looking for an i7 cpu for my 1150 socket board, hoping for a non-k version, im not planning to overclock. Hoping to find one around 100 as this is definitely an old socket

Need a new switch, must be gigabit, rackmount, and managed. quiet and non power hungry is a plus, Needs SFp's I want to do fiber for my media server, 10gb is a possibility if someone can help me figure it out cheap. Thoughts?

Found this deal on Facebook. thinking it would be nice to replace the short depth rack I have currently. I cant seem to get the link to work nice. its a startech 36u 4 post open rack, 3 4u rackmount cases, dell 15" console, and a rackmount pdu all for 250 bucks I would be adding a Poweredge...

Want to add a tv tuner card to my pc, needs to be low profile, will be connected to digital cable via coax. Just want to be able to watch a channel or two. Recording would be nice but not required Must be 30 bucks or less as I gotta fly under the wifes radar on this.

I have a Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC lite, the cheap 50$ edgerouter, and a 3com 4500g switch. I want to limit how much internet bandwith the wifi can use at a time (Im lagging out when gaming) How do I do this?

This is sort of an odd case, This machine was laying on its side with an open case at my dads, it was a system my brother was going to put up for working on cars. long story short, dad spilled a large cup of coffee that was just right with creamer and sugar all over the motherboard. Nobody...

Currently own an HP DL380 G6, 2x 6core xeons and 32gb of ram A good server dont get me wrong. but I am stuck because it is out of warranty and locked down by HP. My thought was to pick up a Dell R610 and swap in CPU and ram (May have to change disks not sure) Is it possible? am I out of line...

I made installation thumb drives for freenas, now no matter what computer I put them in they cause it to crash. Windows PC the drive causes instant BSOD and a reset ok i thought put it in a linux box to kill it, setup a ubuntu box, it cant mount it. Am I dumb? How do I erase these drives back...

Had bought two 4tb ironwolf drives for my synology, worked great for 8 months, then one of the drives all the sudden started reallocating sectors like crazy. Thoughts? Happen to anyone else? I cant afford WD reds or I would have done that to begin with.

Have a Toxic edition R9 270x. Wont fit in my new Fractal Node 804 chassis. Need help finding a short replacement, something the same era, I dont want a new expensive card. just something nvidia flavor that will fit in my case nicely and play Battlefield 4

I just picked up an Asus Q87M-E board off newegg to rebuild my gaming rig into a smaller footprint. Cannot get it to post. Talked to asus support they think my ram is the issue as its not in the supported list. I was feeding it a 16gig kit of Gskill Trident X DDR3-2400 and I get No video/no...