December 10, 20205 yr Hello! Just putting this in a new post as it looks like the old will get lost and I want to order parts ASAP. I am upgrading a 24 bay server and since my knowledge of hardware is about 8-10 years out of date, I need a little hand-holding here. BIOS chip on old one died, waiting on new chip to limp it along until I can transfer to new hardware. I do not have a set budget, but don't want to be wasteful. Wife said build it without cutting corners. Can someone please have a look over this to make sure everything plays well together and that I am not missing anything that might be important to know. It will be running Plex, the regular media stuff, a VM (MacOS), no gaming, about 8-10 dockers, and a medium around of transcoding (<5 stream max). I will be re-using the modified 24 bay case that has a SATA backplane, the Corsair TX650 PSU. Everything else is new (so not really an upgrade, a new build in an old case) Here is a list of the parts that I will be ordering (plus some 80mm and 120mm fans, haven to decided on any specific ones unless someone has recommendations. Noctua?) https://newegg.io/7fda6c6 Here are the components: - Intel i7-9000 (a little overkill, but would rather not upgrade again for awhile). Decided against the 9000k for energy use. - ASUS Prime Z390-A - any problems with this or other suggestions. - 32GB (2x16GB) CORSAIR Vengeance CMK32GX4M2B3200C16 (not sure if this is adequate, cheap, or?) - Western Digital WD 500GB nvme drive for cache (WDS500G3X0C) - Coolmaster 212 Black edition CPU cooler - LSI 9211 card (IT mode) with SFF-8087 to SATA cables (x2) I will use onboard SATA for parity Cache will be M.2 Data drives will sit on the LSI card. This leave 2 extra PCI slots for GPU and extra LSI card or expander if needed Ready to order (not necessarily all from newegg, there are some other places here that are quicker (same day) or cheaper.
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