I bought the same computer processor. I would not have bought that if I was a gamer to be honest. This thing doesn't perform like the Xeon Z400 Quad core I had. First of all I knew the 10 core ad was bullcrap from the very start. I bought it just to see what it could do. I got some money back from the seller because I told him it only had 2 cores and 4 threads, which is not 4 physical cores. I have used this thing for my own NAS, and storage, and working with music composition. It is definitely faster than the Mac G3 266 Mhz computer I used to use for music composition. I don't have to wait for sound editing. As you might know, sound editing is not very demanding. I was just glad it came with a working integrated video card R7. I used the PCIE for fast SAS storage, and it is all setup internally. There's 12 hard drives inside. Because of the Mini ITX motherboard I got with it, only one PCI Express 3.0 slot exists. It is fully loaded. It has a PCIE3.0 x16 HighPoint card. I have a small cube shape case I bought and I built the whole thing. I haven't even used 1 SATA port on the motherboard, and there is no reason to use one now as it is. I might be able to glue on or use sticky Velcro and stuff in some tiny drives inside more, but I don't plan to. There is no proper room left inside. It has 12 Terabytes of space. I fit 8 3.5"s in there and 4 2.5"s. That is what the case was made for. I created 2 Volumes with the drives, 1 for the OS and User, and 1 for separate storage. Transfer of large files from point a to point b, virtually fulfills or completely fulfills the 6Gbps limit of the 6Gbps SATA drives I wanted to pay for, and that limit is 750 MB/s in the event that there is nothing else running to cause any bottleneck, but however still can benchmark higher than that.
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