In all seriousness, is that cable management alright?

First time building a machine with somewhat modern parts.

it doesnt look bad but the bottem part is almost too blurry to tell

near the psu

>cable management

what are those seagates

dead

No

Seagate, Toshiba, hgst

@nitrokojote looks fine you could maybe hide that sata cable by looping it behind the case backplate

Other than that it's good

I was thinking about that, but it put too much stress on the cable, so I left it be

It's not s long cable

Thanks though. It's an okay machine, it's better than what I used to rock

i5-2400, 8GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, GTX 650 2 GB OC, Biostar TH61A, and a Thermaltake Smart 500W

I've seen people curl sata cables around screwdrivers which helped with keeping a tidy look when plugged in

Don't know if that's any good on the cable though

,my friend its 2019

correct solut ion is no sata

all m.2 nvme

you can do nvme over a sata cable

with some SAS adapters <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

you used to get thin sata connectors but I think they're not offered anymore

https://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Lateral-Low-Profile-Connectors-CP11/dp/B00HDEBGSQ

nvm

Eh, oh well, it's only one SATA cable.

that cable management looks alright

easier to work with a modern case with cable management features, than a huge tower from 2007 that hardly has anything

Or just sprawling a BTX motherboard, two power supplies, and all that fun stuff on one side of a desk

really though it's just a Rosewill, you could tell by the cheap rivets on the plexiglass panel

will you fall for the SFF meme one day?

I did and haven't regretted a single thing

maybe

I'm stuck with ATX because the motherboard I have is that.

I ain't paying another $70 CAD to get a Chinese board of questionable quality

Thought my TH61A was doomed when it started acting up thanks to the lane bug

But I figured out how to save it

my next build will legit be Mini-ITX or even smaller if I can

welp he's right

smol computers are pretty neat

nowadays there is little reason to go bigger than matx

You can get a GPU more powerful than the one in my case around the same size

And this is a short card.

MSI GeForce GTX 650 2GB OC.

rate my smol computer frens

nice nas

based multimonitor.

about to order a Xeon E3-1245 v6 to put in it

already have 4x 8TB drives

>formatted windows/SSD
>made a txt file on the HDD with names of programs I use
>I forgot to save the txt file

made an oopsie there man

Oh yeah, when I was going through my stuff to find one of my heatsinks, I came accross a massive DVI cable

this thing is thicc.

The back of it looks like a rat's nest because I have a shitty d-link router with dd-wrt in bridged mode

Pretty sure I got that DVI cable at a liquidation store brand new like

5 years ago

And I just, used it once, packed it away, and forgot about it

after the format and linked my steam library map in steam settings literally every game needs a 500mb update?

wtf

some files get into appdata or something?

workshop/steam cloud content?

nah, its indie games/single player games

oh ok seems like its only some games

@porco can you recommend a small and cheap NUC or PC with 2 RJ45 connectors? i wanna build a small VPN server.

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h2/

@futuremoe

not sure if this counts as "cheap" though

cheap for a small business

up to 150 is fine

thanks

you're not going to get a NUC for 150

go for the odroid

kk

do I really need 2 rj45s?

it depends on what you want to do

you might need 2 RJ45

^

or you might not

Internet -> Router w/ modem -> VPN Server and everything else

people would connect to router over internet and access files inside the network

yes 2 x RJ45 might be more comfortable but you could do it with only one and use a switch in front

it would be a lot more work and shit to maintain though

VLANning etc

I would go for 2 x RJ45

ok. it has to go behind router, though, right?

cause the vpn server doesn't have means to connect to internet

not necessarily, you can put something in front of the router depending on your ISP

what do you put that little nuc into? dont you need some eclosure?

for example I have multiple WAN to my fiber, so I can put a switch in front of the router, the computers are behind the router, and the servers connect to the internet over the other WANs, without a router

maybe take a look at this guy: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Cheap-New-Hystou-Nano-ITX-Intel-NUC-N3160-J3160-Fanless-Mini-PC-Windows-10-Dual-NIC/32876219502.html

also has 2 x RJ45

but since it's Chinese New Year next week, it might take a month to arrive

Estimated Delivery Time: 8-17days

CNY fren

yes but CNY

don't believe their lies

`Due to Chinese Lunar New Year holidays, orders placed during Jan 29th - Feb 12th, will ship out after Feb 13th, please kindly note it, thanks.`