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newby_investor said:
Do you have pictures? From what I could see of the inwin, you'd struggle to fit anything in the PCIE slot, because the case is so slim.
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I don't have any pics, but you will see it a lot in this video I made when I upgraded back in December. It is a low profile adapter.

My new B550 ITX board supports one M.2 on the back and one on the front however I am only using the one on the back and the riser card. My plan is to put an 8TB on the front of the board if one day they become affordable and then do away with that 5TB HDD I got earlier this week.
 
Morpheos said:
Hi guys.

Need some direction please.
I have around R10K to spend on a home/work Laptop. We will not be doing any gaming on it, mostly using Office but will need to open numerous pages over 2 monitors. So a huge HDD/SSD is not critical. Would prefer SSD for obvious reasons so 500gig should be plenty. Looking for 15.5", full keyboard, Full HD monitor, not the 720 HD nonsense.

Don't want to buy from Incredible Corruption and buying off Takeallot, well who knows what your going to get and so the list goes on.

Thanking you in advance.
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I checked within that budget earlier this week - under R10k it is all 1366x768. To think a few years ago I picked up a EZbook Jumper 3 with Full HD, 6GB RAM and 256GB SSD for cheap...
 
Morpheos said:
Hi guys.

Need some direction please.
I have around R10K to spend on a home/work Laptop. We will not be doing any gaming on it, mostly using Office but will need to open numerous pages over 2 monitors. So a huge HDD/SSD is not critical. Would prefer SSD for obvious reasons so 500gig should be plenty. Looking for 15.5", full keyboard, Full HD monitor, not the 720 HD nonsense.

Don't want to buy from Incredible Corruption and buying off Takeallot, well who knows what your going to get and so the list goes on.

Thanking you in advance.
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www.nucleustech.co.za

If you happy to stretch your budget a bit higher. Well worth it in my opinion. Bought a couple laptops from them over the years and they have not skipped a beat.
 
Rouxenator said:
I checked within that budget earlier this week - under R10k it is all 1366x768. To think a few years ago I picked up a EZbook Jumper 3 with Full HD, 6GB RAM and 256GB SSD for cheap...
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Good to know about the screen Res. Thank you.

To be honest I don't want to do second hand, but thank you.
 
Stickfigure said:
Looking at building the below PC.

https://www.wootware.co.za/amd-100-...6ghz-4-4ghz-boost-socket-am4-desktop-cpu.html

Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO AMD AM4 X570 ATX Desktop Motherboard - Wootware

Buy Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO AMD AM4 X570 ATX Desktop Motherboard at Wootware with fast shipping & superb service.
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G.Skill F4-3600C16D-32GVKC Ripjaws V 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4-3600MHz CL16 1.35V Black Desktop Memory - Wootware

Buy G.Skill F4-3600C16D-32GVKC Ripjaws V 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4-3600MHz CL16 1.35V Black Desktop Memory at Wootware with fast shipping & superb service.
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XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra RX-57XT8TBD8 8GB GDDR6 256-bit PCI-E 4.0 Desktop Graphics Card - Wootware

Buy XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra RX-57XT8TBD8 8GB GDDR6 256-bit PCI-E 4.0 Desktop Graphics Card at Wootware with fast shipping & superb service.
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Super Flower SF-750F14HG(BK) Leadex III Gold 750W 80 Plus Gold Fully Modular Black Desktop Power Supply - Wootware

Buy Super Flower SF-750F14HG(BK) Leadex III Gold 750W 80 Plus Gold Fully Modular Black Desktop Power Supply at Wootware with fast shipping & superb service.
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Providing Wootware has all in stock. Thought, comments and suggestions?
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So I've finally built my PC, just not with the above parts. Thankfully I waited for the Ryzen 5000 and AMD 6000 series. Specs below

Ryzen 5 5600
XFX 6800XT
Gigabyte Aorus Pro
Corsair 32GB DDR4 3600
Corsair RM750
Corsair H150i
Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus

Only built her yesterday so haven't done much gaming but overall happy with the build.
 

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Not technically a PC build, but upgrading my storage finally. picking up 4 x Exos 14TB enterprise SAS drives.

Replacing a 4x8TB RaidZ1 pool to 4x14TB RaidZ1 pool and moving the 4 8TB drives to an additional vdev on my other 4x8TB pool. Should last me a while hopefully before I need to upgrade again.

I have literally only 30GB left out of 23TB on the pool, don't try this at home :p
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Not technically a PC build, but upgrading my storage finally. picking up 4 x Exos 14TB enterprise SAS drives.

Replacing a 4x8TB RaidZ1 pool to 4x14TB RaidZ1 pool and moving the 4 8TB drives to an additional vdev on my other 4x8TB pool. Should last me a while hopefully before I need to upgrade again.

I have literally only 30GB left out of 23TB on the pool, don't try this at home :p
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Are you going to replace one-by-one and resilver?

See you next year!
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Not technically a PC build, but upgrading my storage finally. picking up 4 x Exos 14TB enterprise SAS drives.

Replacing a 4x8TB RaidZ1 pool to 4x14TB RaidZ1 pool and moving the 4 8TB drives to an additional vdev on my other 4x8TB pool. Should last me a while hopefully before I need to upgrade again.

I have literally only 30GB left out of 23TB on the pool, don't try this at home :p
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Wtf you doing with all that storage?
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Nope, building the new pool, then moving all the files from the old pool to the new one. That will take a while, but it's something I can just start and leave.
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This seems like a rational approach.

I never got to the limit of my ZFS pool before I broke it up and moved to Gluster. In some ways I miss ZFS's elegance, but I like having stuff spread over multiple hosts, it alleviates the single point of failure somewhat.
 
newby_investor said:
This seems like a rational approach.

I never got to the limit of my ZFS pool before I broke it up and moved to Gluster. In some ways I miss ZFS's elegance, but I like having stuff spread over multiple hosts, it alleviates the single point of failure somewhat.
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I started down the Free/TrueNAS route and now it's too much effort honestly to change. I do still like it though as it's super resilient and it's never let me down. I've got a separate Unraid box that just backs up the TrueNAS box but writing to Unraid is soo sllooow.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
I started down the Free/TrueNAS route and now it's too much effort honestly to change. I do still like it though as it's super resilient and it's never let me down. I've got a separate Unraid box that just backs up the TrueNAS box but writing to Unraid is soo sllooow.
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I used FreeNAS for the longest time, it was great, but it got to the point where I was a bit uncomfortable about everything being on a single box.

I also wanted to self-host other things, which mostly ran on Linux, so in the end I just bit the bullet and switched. I haven't looked back.
 
I'm amazed that you can actually buy graphics cards in South Africa. Wootware lists several 3070s in stock, for instance.
 
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