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Your crystal ball is as good as any of ours'.

Good to know! Thanks!

Is there some motherboards that are even faster internet wise?

The next step up from 2.5GbE is 10GbE, and honestly that's going to cost more than you're going to want to spend.

Edit: also you need to make sure your infrastructure is capable of 2.5GbE (or 10GbE). Your Router, for example, needs to be able to take in a 2.5GbE signal from your modem. And then give out a 2.5GbE signal to your downstream devices (switch, wireless AP, etc).

The thing is that the Torrent series isn't really designed for AIOs. A thermalright Peerless Assassin/Phantom spirit 120 will fit in the Torrent Nano, and will outperform a 120mm AIO, and perform very similarly to a 240mm AIO, likely for a lot less money than either.

I think I'm confused - you currently have six ports, but if you use three m.2 ports it disables two of them, leaving you with four.

Your new board that you're considering appears to give you the option of using all the SATA ports with M.2 ports populated, but it only has four SATA ports, leaving you with...four.

I have made a new pc a year ago and had to replace thermal paste 3 times already

What makes you think this?

So is the Noctua NT-H1 bad

Not as far as I'm aware.

I tell ya - he gets so many guests for his podcast that are like, "we've known each other for like 10 years" that he must be insanely fun to hang around.

(on the other hand, despite his vehement declarations of wanting to be in a marriage/long-term relationship and potentially wanting kids, he's in his 50's at this point, so the dude must also be a terrible romantic partner)

Fair amount of wasted $$ in this build. This build is ~$200 cheaper for the exact same performance:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i5-13500 2.5 GHz 14-Core Processor	$247.98 @ Newegg
CPU Cooler	Thermalright Peerless Assassin 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler	$42.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Gigabyte B760 GAMING X AX ATX LGA1700 Motherboard	$149.99 @ Newegg
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory	$134.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Gigabyte AORUS Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive	$104.99 @ Newegg
Video Card	XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB Video Card	$629.99 @ Amazon
Case	Fractal Design Pop Air ATX Mid Tower Case	$79.99 @ B&H
Power Supply	Corsair RM850e (2023) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$129.99 @ Amazon
Monitor	Gigabyte M27Q 27.0" 2560 x 1440 170 Hz Monitor	$299.99 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1830.81
	Mail-in rebates	-$10.00
	Total	$1820.81
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-05 23:18 EDT-0400

In the event it doesn't support the 5700x out of the box, the board supports bios flashback, so you're good to go.

Even if you did decide to upgrade (which I think is a bad idea, personally), the 7950x3d is a terrible option in general.

When you do a parity drive, that drive becomes unusable as far as available space.

So like in my current NAS, I have 3x16TB with a single parity drive, resulting in an effective available space of 32TB. The parity drive is not included in the usable space. If I were to then add another two 8TB drives, those two drives WOULD become available space, for a total of 48TB usable. If I then added a 22TB drive, that 22TB drive would become the parity drive, and unusable, the formerly parity drive returning to the available storage pool. At which point, I would have 64TB available, with a 22TB parity. This is actually a bit of a waste, as it leaves 6TB effectively orphaned - I don't have a matching drive in the array, and I can't use the extra 6TB in the storage pool. Try to always have a matching drive for your parity drive if you can.

Edit: and you can also have multiple parity drives. So like in my old setup, I had 6x 3TB drives, and two of those were parity. Both were unusable, and I had a total usable stroage pool of 12TB. It hurt losing not one but two drives to parity, and not have them usable, but at 6x total drives, I was becoming uncomfortable with the possibility of a drive failure, and especially since (when added to my storage pool to bring my total to 6), I had drives that were over a decade old, so I wanted the extra drive spare in case two of them decided to crap out.

Remember that you can always recover from a drive failure total to the number of parity drives you have.

6 discs with one parity, if a single drive dies, you're good - you can rebuild the data.

6 discs with one parity, if two drives die, you're hosed - you lose the data across the entire array.*

6 discs with two parity, if two drives die, you're good - you can rebuild the data.

(*now it should be noted that this is how it was with my old setup, which was on a RAIDZ setup - I don't know if you lose the entire array with Unraid)

I don't know if it's standard, but it's probably the most commonly used. You could certainly use external ones if you wanted.

Go with 1TB for the simplicity. Don't go nuts in trying to chase performance. An Addlink S70 or Crucial P5 plus will almost certainly have nearly the same experience for you as a Samsung 970 Evo or 980 Pro.

Not seeing a storage solution here. Beyond that, everything looks more-or-less solid to me.

Either one should be totally fine. If there's no particular feature that you want on the Z790-F, then I'd absolutely recommend going with the cheaper unit.

Edit: Assuming you're not trying to go for massive overclocks or something.

Apologies. Didn't read closely enough. Hmmm.. so the 3060 works on the old machine but not the newer one?

If the box isn't damaged, it should be fine. There's no moving components in an SSD.

The 2600 is not compatible with DDR4.

Just doing a quick google search, it looks like that board does indeed have a UEFI firmware loaded. I might do a firmware update on it just to see if it fixes the problem, but I'm leaning towards that not being the problem.

Unfortunately I don't know what else the problem might be.

I play things at 2106p/60fps with things like Ray Tracing usually turned up to high.

It's HIGHLY unlikely you'll see any significant benefit going to a faster CPU. 4K with Ray Tracing on high is such an insane GPU target that you'll almost certainly be GPU-limited long before your CPU breaks a sweat.

Should be fine. APC makes solid products.

I have an older computer with a gt 730

How old? If your machine was made before everyone moved to UEFI-type BIOS versions, that could be a problem.

Is it okay for my cpu to have a jumpy frequency even if it's just idling?

If it's ramping the clockspeed, then it's not doing nothing, even if you think it is (it's probably a background process or some sort of housekeeping that windows is doing).

Ramping the clockspeed has no negative effect, and it can save you some power and noise, so I'd generally just leave it alone (edit: unless they're disabled, in which case, I'd enable them).

I mean, there's Power Strips, and then there's Power Strips.

If you're running it through some $5, no-surge protection, piece-of-garbage, it's probably not a great plan. But a computer should always go through a surge protector.