Thanks, I might go with what I listed tho I still ahve no clue about intel motherboards

Thanks for being the only one here that is actually commenting on hardware choices, everyone else is trying to convince me to try stuff I already tried haha

I might just splurge and get one of those drives afterall, hopefully they go on sale at some point

yeah, might look into that after I ahve it up and running thanks

Not an option, a friend sent me a box with a few snacks and even that got taxed

Man, 7200 version of those drives are all over 400 USD here, my poor bank account

I live in a developing country, when libraries/business and other places get rid of hardware its because its literally useless, Im talking single core 32bit cpus useless. I made this thread so I hopefully wont make any mistakes hahaha

No need to think, I mention in another comment that we have 50% tariff on all imported stuff. And I’m not buying 10 year old stuff for that price lol

What would be some options for NAS drives? The ones I found were quite expensive to the point I think it would be cheaper to just replace damaged drives and run them in RAID. Was also thinking about using a M.2 drive to run programs on and HDDs for file storage, I wonder how beneficial and how hard it is to do that

yeah, dont think the dedicated GPU will be necessary, most posts Ive seen clain that intel’s igpu can handle multiple 4k streams, tho I could try to find a cpu with the 770 instead of the 730? Not sure how much of a diff it would make tho

Its my first server but not my first pc, so I know I can use a 700W PSU with no issue except most of them have the highest efficiency at around 50% so less potent PSU would be ideal in the long run, if not only to save money on electricity bills but also for the enviroment

Does matter what you write unfortunately, they checking everything now. I plan on buy new so I can get longer warranty

a laptop would extremely limiting as far as storage goes, I prefer not having to add a NAS later. Thanks for the info tho

Eh, sadly not an option otherwise I wouldve gone for it right away, most of my family would never buy desktop pc hardware for anything

Government started taxing imports by 50% a few years back, buying from other countries is expensive and means I get no warranty, worst of both worlds sadly

I ran some terminal cmd (sry dont remember what it was) that gave me a weird UI inside the terminal that actually showed my onboard sound so I think my pc recognizes it somehow somewhere

Yeah, mostly fixed stuff but now Im not getting audio. It defaults to my GPU’s hdmi audio instead of my onboard sound

It probably got moved when I reinstalled windows after trying nobora years ago. I managed to fix everything but tbh it was way more stressful than it should have been

Turns out my boot partition was on my other drive somehow (the drive I installed Linux) , am I completely fucked now?

I would need to dismantle almost everything and would lose the heatsink past on my nvme too, I will just try disabling it since I dont really see how that would be different from removing, not like the fedora installer can mess with my bios settings no?

but if I can remove my windows drive then it would be 100% safe right? Its an NVME drive and I think I can disable it in my BIOS, removing it would be a massive pain