Well it is “semi modular” It’s just semi in the worst way.

16GB of DDR5-6400 BGA RAM soldered to the mainboard, and a SODIMM slot

But why? Just use LPCAMM

Consumer grade mobos with 10 gig onboard nics have some MASSIVE heatsinks for them to keep them passive.

I swear it feels like half the heatsinking on my mobo is for the network card and not the VRM or chipset.

This is for servers, not desktops, so noise isn’t much of an issue.

Buuut I’m curious why it has the fan isntead of a long heatsink. Maybe planning for homelab users in about ~10 years?

Also I’d just like to say: Fuck Broadcom. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Killing the 5800x3d was the dumbest thing. If it was still made it’d be the killer value CPU. I’m so glad I bought mine when I did.

Windows 10 betas didn’t even come out until like 2014 so KDE beats them.

Are there any other cases you can think of where a custom-printed item is better than the myriad of mass-produced plastic items?

None at all. 3D prints are almost always worse than injection moulded plastic. Only if you need a very specific custom thing. Or it’s just convenient/fun to make your own.

No average user is going to do that. If it doesn’t just work it doesn’t work to them.

Yeah do people not remember the pre proton era? Or before the push in the 2010s that got indie games to support Linux?

Linux gaming has seen wild changes in just the last 5 years.

With an AMD FX CPU I probably wouldn’t bother. You can find much newer (used) CPU RAM Mobo combos being sold for dirt cheap that would perform lighters better.

The other day I saw an 8700k system without a GPU at a thrift store for $150. 8th Gen. actually supports many modern instruction sets unlike that old FX system. Put a GTX 970 in there and you’ve got a pretty decent computer.

Even then that process sucks too. If you’re bleeding edge it takes a while for them to support new GPUs. And even when they do, the process can be ass/gives you ancient drivers.

I just do it on fedora 43 and it SUCKED. I ran into so many errors, and even then I still have issues. Distros like mint make it easy, but you’re usually on crusty ass drivers and probably a pretty old kernel.

What conflict? I haven’t had issues like that in probably 10+ years.

Hell my one laptop has all 3 major vendors drivers installed and working simultaneously. Intel iGPU, Nvidia dGPU and AMD eGPU.

Drivers are part of the kernel.

But if you want to manually install your own drivers (say Nvidia proprietary ones) god forbid that’s an obnoxious process. It makes windows driver hell look quaint.

If you’re going from Nvidia to Nvidia for AMD to AMD and you’re on the latest drivers already you probably don’t even have to uninstall them. When I last upgraded my GPU I just took the old one out and put the new one in and it just worked.

7s the exact same. 7 added the ability to combine 2.4 5 and 6ghz bands into one connection. But in my experience the speed difference vs just 6ghz is negligible. Instead of 2gig over WiFi you get closer to 2.4. Woo.

Kids these days….

Well if you want anything over 35 inches a TV is your only option. They don’t really make monitors bigger than that.

Also usually cheaper components.

ITX boards tend to cost more than bigger boards, you’re limited to one slot, and usually the cases are super limited in size for heatsinks or other stuff.

Probably on older hard drives like that hardware raid won’t slow things down too much. But holy shit do hardware raid controllers suck with faster HDDs/SSDs. Also they obscure smart info from your OS so you need special software to talk to the raid controller to know if your drives are failing.

Otherwise they’re fine. If that’s what ya got that’s what ya got. Rung what ya brung.

It’d be really funny if the AI bubble popped before they fully shut down Crucial.