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Cannibalising old components

I have some components lying around I’d like to reuse. I would like to consider utilising some or all of the following components: a Rocketfish RF-Fulltwr Aluminum Full-Tower Case (huge, great reviews and mod-able), a barely used 700-watt OCZGXS700 PSU, and a new A8-7670k CPU I bought as an impulse buy four years ago (along with a motherboard I can no longer find).

Alternatively, I have a new Asrock 775Dual-Vista 775 MB motherboard I could build a system around, but my first thought is to use the A8 CPU, case, and PSU for a server build. I also have an Asus U3S6 PCIe4 x4 card that offers USB 3.0 ports.

I found a review from 2016 where the processor was purchased for a small home virtualisation server and was capable of handling Plex in conjunction with a repurposed Radeon gaming card, making it capable of handling simultaneous playback and transcoding to multiple devices in HD. It was also very quiet and capable of

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