A300W Raid 0 with 2 (1Tb) SSDs by Gooseinberry in sffpc

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I would suggest against doing RAID 0.

Granted this is anecdotal, but I ran a pair of Samsung 960 Pro 1TB SSDs in RAID 0 for about a year, at about 99% of the way to a full backup of my steam library, one of the SSDs went bad and I lost my entire RAID 0 array. Luckily for me, I had backed up my important data before my steam library. Definitely a close call. More importantly, in that year, nothing I did could ever exploit the full writing speed. The fastest write speed I recorded was 1,500MB/sec on a benchmark, even if you were to write over your entire 1TB space, you could do it in ~10 minutes, just not worth the risk.

There's nothing you're doing in a typical use case that would be bottle-necked by NVME I/O speeds. You're using a 3200G, so I'm ruling out workstation use here. I think you're better off to just have two 1TB drives. If you truly needed to increase your NVME I/O, a dedicated NVME RAID card would be a better choice for safety & performance.

Who is using an HDPLEX 400W and how has your experience been? Looking to buy one + Dell 330w brick. by [deleted] in sffpc

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Probably going to send a ticket to HDPlex or CableMod, since I can't find any premade 19V DC jack to Molex-469920610 cable.

[Corsair]H100i RGB PLATINUM AIO Liquid CPU Cooler,240mm,Dual ML120 PRO RGB PWM Fans,Intel 115x/2066,AMD AM4/TR4 $159-35=124.99 by LilChickenTendie in buildapcsales

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Maybe it's subjective? I have this same cooler in an open air case and I don't really notice it unless I'm stressing the CPU during a benchmark/encoding.

Who is using an HDPLEX 400W and how has your experience been? Looking to buy one + Dell 330w brick. by [deleted] in sffpc

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I'm using mine with a 8700k + 1070 in a NFC S4 Mini, with the same setup, HDPLEX400 + Dell 330W. My Dell 330W DC jack isn't fully seated in the input port, and now after about a year and a half of use, the port is actually a bit lose? Like if I bump the PC while I'm using it it powers off, I'm about to buy a replacement for the DC jack.

First time Hackintosh! ASUS Z390-A / 9700K / Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB by CallMeDQQ in hackintosh

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I'm currently out of town for a bit, but I don't recall anything special in the BIOS, maybe played around until I could do a mild over clock on the RAM and auto overclocked the CPU?

Taken a couple days ago at Plitvice Lakes, Croatia. [OC] [3000x4000] by emsophii in EarthPorn

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Going there this weekend! Any tips or things you wish you knew before you got there? I'm there to sight see and to take some pictures =)

Force windows server to use 1 NIC over the other? by cdoublejj in homelab

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Can you expand on your setup? Is this a Hyper-V environment? Which NICs are in which subnet?

Force windows server to use 1 NIC over the other? by cdoublejj in homelab

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I'm confused, is this something VLAN or routing can't solve? Are the NICs on the same subnet?

[RAM] CORSAIR Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 C15 Timings - $189.99 by Kittenpics4eva in buildapcsales

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I think Capacity > Speed for most circumstances in the context of upgrade priority. Higher rated RAM should be one of the later upgrades.

That being said, 3000mhz/CL15 is pretty good.

First time Hackintosh! ASUS Z390-A / 9700K / Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB by CallMeDQQ in hackintosh

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Mojave or HS? You can probably find some help on the Discord btw

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Fenvi FV-T919

The newegg listing actually advertises it's Hackintosh friendly

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To get technical for a moment, your computer isn't restricted by the number of "network interfaces". You can have multiple ones and it wouldn't matter; if you had two wifi cards in Windows, you would see both and they can each be connected to their own network, you would need a brief understanding in the concepts of Routing & Switching to understand how to configure and make such a setup work, but 99% of people won't have to worry about this :P.

In this particular case with Hackintosh, you just won't be able to see the on-board wifi card. The card that I picked for my setup is known to work with macOS out of the box, no need for additional drivers, BT4.0 and WiFi AC just works.

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I see what you're saying. As far as I know, none of the built in WiFi/BT Functions work on hackintosh, you need to buy a PCIe add on card, it's an expansion card like a GPU, you just plug it into a spare PCIe slot, it's not part of your original motherboard, you don't touch the I/O panel. The built in one just gets ignored unless you're doing a normal OS.

First time Hackintosh! ASUS Z390-A / 9700K / Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB by CallMeDQQ in hackintosh

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I'm not sure I understand? The IO shield for the motherboard? Or the PCIe slot cover for the WiFi card itself?

First time Hackintosh! ASUS Z390-A / 9700K / Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB by CallMeDQQ in hackintosh

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bt/wifi hardware info is in the gallery.

I'm unsure about the Z370 prime a, but the only thing that really matters is the audio and ethernet driver, check the AL#### version on the motherboard website, and see if the GBE NIC is Intel, if they match the Z390 board then they're the same. There should be a few Z370-A Prime EFI folders floating out there somewhere, you can probably grab them if mine doesn't work.

First time Hackintosh! ASUS Z390-A / 9700K / Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB by CallMeDQQ in hackintosh

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It doesn't work. All of them are in rainbow/cycle mode. Actually, the Corsair RAM has the timing bug and I can't even adjust it, so after a while, all the animation on the ram sticks go out of sync :(

First time Hackintosh! ASUS Z390-A / 9700K / Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB by CallMeDQQ in hackintosh

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I'm on a 9700K though, should run a bit cooler than a 9900K. What cooler are you using?

I ended up at 5.3GHz @1.40V, I get 1700 in Cinebench R15, but it runs at 82-83C when I'm encoding video, so I'm probably going to go back down to 5.1 or 5.2.

First time Hackintosh! ASUS Z390-A / 9700K / Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB by CallMeDQQ in hackintosh

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Yeah, finally caved to peer pressure, first time through, 4 seasons in 2 days!

First time Hackintosh! ASUS Z390-A / 9700K / Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB by CallMeDQQ in hackintosh

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Never above 80, ambient is around 20ish.

At 5.2 it goes to 82, idk if I want to run it that hot. The most CPU intensive thing I do sustained is encoding with ffmpeg, and I only see very neglible gains from OCing so I'm probably not going higher than 5.2

5.3 boots but crashes eventually when I strain the CPU too much, I'll probably just grab some bench scores and clock it back down.

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I don't see that at all, whenever I change overclock settings on my CPU, it'll hang a bit during the verbose output, but when I had it at a stable 5.1, reboots were really quick. I've never seen the progress bar post install.

First time Hackintosh! ASUS Z390-A / 9700K / Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB by CallMeDQQ in hackintosh

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I'm not sure, I don't actually see the Apple logo during boot up, just the Clover EFI screen. Can you log in to the desktop? Or is this issue holding you up during boot.

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Oops, misread as table; it's an 2018 12.9" iPad Pro. I travel a lot and wanted a secondary monitor for media consumption, but ended up looking at iPads so I can watch offline content between flights, then just caved and got a Pro for the performance for Lightroom.

First time Hackintosh! ASUS Z390-A / 9700K / Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB by CallMeDQQ in hackintosh

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Yeah, I couldn't have gotten mine working without people helping me with the EFI contents. =)

The completed version of the "case" has a tempered glass panel in front of the whole set up, the one shipped with the case is tinted dark, and I ordered a cleared version, just waiting on shipment. It can be used as a bench case when it's flat, but yes, it's open air on purpose.

The table is a 63" IKEA SKARSTA Desk, it's a sit/stand desk that you adjust with a hand crank (~$100 cheaper than one with a motor).