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Since I have an old 1000VA UPS, I'm "downgrading" to a "power-saving" 850VA 
since I only run an old thin client as my Linux box now(, no Windows Server at home anymore), and my main (which will be the following).
1) i7-9700k (8-core) - BX80684I79700K (couldn't find Retail 9700k on their site)
2) MSI PRO B360M PRO-VDH LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel B360 SATA 6Gb/s Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
3) Thermaltake silent up to 150Watt cooler CL-P039-AL12BL-A (no OC, so this should be $25 of overkill?)
4) SAMSUNG 970 PRO M.2 2280 512GB PCIe Gen3. X4, NVMe 1.3 64L V-NAND 2-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V7P512BW
5) CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) Desktop Memory Model CMK16GX4M2A2666C16
(Will double, if 32GB needed for VMs)
6) New 19" deep 4U rackmount case (I don't use towers anymore, and this will be the perfect height on the rack to get to the guts, even after mounted, and I can get rid of an old dead 3u unit too!)
7) Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G
8) Win 10 Pro x64 Key purchased (grey-market)
I only play TF2 on the PC so the AMD Radeon R9 200, pulled from my current rig is fine.
Ran me a smidge over $1000 (including UPS) w/tax, w/out GPU, but hopefully this last a good-long-time, like the dead-rig did (>10 years).
The Samsung m.2 should let me milk it, as I only have a Sandisk 256GB as my primary Win drive right now, running into 4 years I think now at about 50% capacity.
I think I am going to pull parts out of the dead rig, and use them for a Frankenstein tower for my daughter to do homework on, and maybe a steam game, or two... instead of her laptop, which I can't see the screen of from a distance.
since I only run an old thin client as my Linux box now(, no Windows Server at home anymore), and my main (which will be the following). 1) i7-9700k (8-core) - BX80684I79700K (couldn't find Retail 9700k on their site)
2) MSI PRO B360M PRO-VDH LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel B360 SATA 6Gb/s Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
3) Thermaltake silent up to 150Watt cooler CL-P039-AL12BL-A (no OC, so this should be $25 of overkill?)
4) SAMSUNG 970 PRO M.2 2280 512GB PCIe Gen3. X4, NVMe 1.3 64L V-NAND 2-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V7P512BW
5) CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) Desktop Memory Model CMK16GX4M2A2666C16
(Will double, if 32GB needed for VMs)
6) New 19" deep 4U rackmount case (I don't use towers anymore, and this will be the perfect height on the rack to get to the guts, even after mounted, and I can get rid of an old dead 3u unit too!)
7) Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G
8) Win 10 Pro x64 Key purchased (grey-market)
I only play TF2 on the PC so the AMD Radeon R9 200, pulled from my current rig is fine.
Ran me a smidge over $1000 (including UPS) w/tax, w/out GPU, but hopefully this last a good-long-time, like the dead-rig did (>10 years).
The Samsung m.2 should let me milk it, as I only have a Sandisk 256GB as my primary Win drive right now, running into 4 years I think now at about 50% capacity.
I think I am going to pull parts out of the dead rig, and use them for a Frankenstein tower for my daughter to do homework on, and maybe a steam game, or two... instead of her laptop, which I can't see the screen of from a distance.
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