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Bank Holiday PC Build For Dad

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Little bit of a show off post. Dad had seen a HP Pavillion All-In-One on PC world website and spoke to me about getting an updated PC, I told him not to be silly and I can build significantly better for similar money. So I did. The Pavillion was built on older Gen hardware with a 27″ screen, 7700T i7 CPU, 16GB RAM and a 2TB HDD. That was the benchmark to beat so ended up with the following build;

i5 8600, MSI GTX1050Ti Graphics card, 16GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM, 500GB SSD boot drive, 2TB HDD for data storage, Seasonic 550W Gold rated PSU, Corsair Carbide 275R case and a Dell P2717H monitor. I ordered up a new keyboard and mouse from Asus as well just because it’s nice to have a new everything.

Pics of the build are below, it was a dream to put together.

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CHR build pushes forwards again

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The RB3011 is starting to aggravate with it’s high CPU usage under VPN and the ports flapping, a major network change around is due I think and I’m hoping the CHR is going to be the start of it.

iDrac express and enterprise have been ordered to try and rein in some of the fan noise further.

Today I’ve managed to get the CPU re-pasted as the old stuff was just genuinely crusty and also manage to strip out a load of not needed bulk in the case.

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After:

The CHR is fully installed an so far I’ve managed to push a very strong 7Gb through it internally testing so I’m relatively confident it will handle my 100/50 connection even when I do start using VPN.

Small upgrade on the colo server

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So a small one but very worthwhile. I’ve today upgraded the RAM from 24GB up to 48GB. It was a really simple swap out job replacing the 6 DIMMS with 4GB in each to 6 sticks containing 8GB each.

Booted up and worked straight away and now I have a lot more RAM to throw around between my VM’s.

Home Router Update

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Quick update on the state of play with the router.

After the Dell server was phenomenally loud when running I had decided not to make the move over however some deep googling and checking through the Dell forums turned up that there were BIOS releases that addressed this problem. With the combination of the new BIOS and turning all the power settings onto custom and opting for power saver the server has quietened down now to what I would class as below acceptable levels.

Project CHR is back on track! I’m hoping that this weekend I can get the copper to fibre converter in so I can get the CHR spun up and routing as my main router.