Thanks a lot for the help! Now when you mentioned the fans I suddenly got uncertain about getting the ATX supermicro board and was considering the AsRock EP2C602-4L/D16 but started reading a lot about peoples problems with the FAN control and temperatures. It seems really difficult to find the optim...

Thanks a lot for all the great advices, I took a look at a Threadripper 1950k and I agree - seems very difficult to cool and rather pricey. I found a good deal for a server motherboard with dual Xeon E5-2680 v2: CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2680 v2 Motherboard: Supermicro X9DRL-EF RAM: IBM 4x16gb PC3-12800R DD...

Thank you very much for all the advice, this is super useful and will definitely take a bit of time to sift through all the great advice here. I have had a look through and trying to reconcile, in the I am starting to think about a setup like this: CPU: Ryzen Threadripper 1920X Motherboard: MSI X399...

Hello, I am looking to purchase a 24/7 on server that will stand in our guest room. I would prefer to not have to turn this off when we have guests, so I am trying to make it as quiet as possible. The usage of the server would be: Plex media server, where I would like to have 4k on the fly transcodi...