I'm not sure about what you meant, BTW current PCIe SSDs usually use M.2 or PCIe 2.0 x4 interfaces I am by no no means an expert: I am a self proclaimed moron. That the current mobo is limited to 5 SATA drives, is a given. From the limited research that I partook before this venture, I was convince...

Thanks Luca for replying yet again. Thank you for your detailed answers. Not sure what any of them mean, but hopefully you've put me on the right track. I will search. "5 PCIe SSDs? Are you that rich? And do your next mobo have 5 PCIe connectors?" These SSDs will be way cheaper than HDDs are today i...

Thanks for the info. The deal was so cheap, that the mobo, case, power supply, DVD and RAM were effectively free. The chip - Intel Xeon E3-1226 V3 (3.3GHz 8MB L3 Cache 1600MHz) was more expensive than the system. UK only I'm afraid http://www.serversplus.com/servers/tower_servers/lenovo_tower_server...

Hello Girls and Guys, Wanting a silent PC, I bought an Antec P182 and an Enermax Gold 450?w power supply about seven years ago, being cash rich and not wanting to buy CPU, MB and RAM until I needed them. Sadly, through illness, they stayed unopened in their boxes, until now. Having now bought a (sup...