You should probably stick to the threads that don't require knowledge of tech, because whenever you duck into these ones, your suggestions are often just totally orthogonal to reality, and to common sense.
For starters, heat from the PSU is evacuated immediately away from the case, by the absolutely mandatory fan (regardless of how much you think is 'lost' power). There is no additional fan. There is one PSU fan, and it is not 'additional.'
I'm sure that some of the largest cloud companies in the world design their own rack-mounted modular hardware, designed for plug-in 48V DC powered blade-equivalents. But this thread is about one guy at home wanting to have a new PC built from store components, not Google custom-building a new half billion dollar datacentre.
There are rare hobbyist conversions for single-machine DC drive power supply, but they are strictly done for curiosity, are for low power servers or 100% quiet machines (e.g. one exists for the HP Microserver, which goes up to a whopping 30W) and are almost never seen in the real world. Certainly not for anything that would involve current top of the range graphics cards.
Last edited by jgl; 04-09-2022 at 06:53 PM.
If you're not there with cloud, then do it local. Whack a hard drive on to your router and use it as a shared drive*. Run a scheduled copy from the PC to the shared drive.
The idea of RAID in a local PC is often a misguided one- all RAID gives you is disk uptime, it doesn't protect you from the most common forms of data loss (e.g. accidentally overwriting your own files, or deleting something).
There do exist perfectly good reasons to run RAID on a personal machine, but more often than not, the reasons chosen are not sensible ones.
* and please don't make this shared drive accessible over the internet. That's just asking for a world of hurt.
Get an Alienware.
https://www.fortress.com.hk/en/produ.../p/BP_12672111
If you don’t like the case, just buy similar spec’d pc through a a reliable vendor like Hornington. I bought my gaming rig through them. No real point in building yourself unless you have time to spare and you like tinkering (not difficult).
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews...ases,4183.html
Which OS do you prefer? That’s entirely up to you. You could run Win 10 for the next few years (MS will offer support for Win10 up to Oct 2025). You could dual boot and have both OS or you can upgrade at a later date. It’s a free upgrade from 10 to 11.
I had a class assignment for a community college class about computer hardware where we were given a budget and then asked to build a PC having certain specs, forget all the details. Anyway, there were a ton of sites for constructing PCs and I remember this one as being user friendly. Could maybe help you to see compatible components you might want to use (they do ship to HK but sounds like you have found a local place to buy and put it together for you...).
https://www.newegg.com/tools/custom-pc-builder