Recent content by zak riddington

Hi All, I am in the process of building a home server and so far i have the following components: 16gb of kingston ECCmemory, Intel Xeon e3 1220 v3, 5x2TB WDred and a corsair 450w psu. Apart from the case, I'm only missing the motherboard and im kinda stuck on which to get. Does anyone have...

Hi All, I'll start with explaining what i'm aiming for, then i'll try and word my my questions accordingly. So as you can tell by the thread name im looking at building a home server, but in an ideal world id like to end up with a NAS that i can backup my media from the phones and PC's in my...

yo G, im having the same problems in game as you and ive been looking at ways of sorting it out because a lot of people have the same problem, your hardware is more than ok to get dank results but it is most likely your drivers, reinstall your gpu drivers with a clean install option then it...

hello all, i have bought some new hdds and want to put them in raid 5, i have looked into which raid i am happy with so dont need help with that, what i need help with weather or not i want a raid card, so i have a few questions to ask, can i add drives easily into a raid 5 array with software...

And I want raid to allow for drive failure, don't want to spend the money for a more expensive array in terms of the secureness to pound to gigabyte ratio I'm happy with what raid 5 offers

Thanks for the responses people, so that's cool I'll do it with my mobo, so if I start running out space how do add a new drive?

I have 4 1tb WD black's and I'm going to hit up raid 5 on my Asus z97 pro gamer mobo and I think I need a raid card, any suggestions or can someone teach me them Any help appreciated!

Get a 27" or 25" dell display and make sure its an IPS panel NOT TN and you all good, TN panels are old tech and have worse viewing angles and color output. I have a dell 25" 1440p IPS monitor with s tiny bezel, its sickkk

The more expensive card is just a better version of the one bellow, AMD use an 'X' where Nvidea use 'Ti' in terms of naming cards. The top card has slightly higher spec ie more stream processes etc, I'd go for the 280X if I were you as its only a tiny bit more expensive.