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Valve Claims Steam Machine Outperforms 70% of Current Gaming PCs (www.techpowerup.com)
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[–] 1 point 11 months ago* (4 children)

I was looking more towards something that can use my spare CPU and have enough SATA ports to last a long time.
And while USB to SATA is expected to be inherently unreliable, all PCIe SATA devices I see seem to be problematic in their own right^[doesn't make sense to have a SATA adapter that goes around corrupting the data in a way that it is hard to detect] (from the reviews). The only one that seemed fine was the PCIe SCSI device, for which, I would be very careful, making sure I don't get a fake.

Then the available motherboards having >6 SATA ports seem to all be high end ones, which doesn't make sense considering I am trying to save some money.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (3 children)

    What's the spare CPU?

    Maybe an old mobo with 6 sata can be found for cheap.

    I totally agree with the sata (or raid) cards.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The spare one is a 5600X which was previously in the same motherboard before I switched to a 5800X.

    I am considering getting a B550 motherboard once I have the funds, but the number of SATA ports is kinda low. My current one is X570 with 6 ports.

    I am not planning on RAID for now, as I don't really plan on ever having enough for redundancy, but I definitely want to be able to use the system for any and every task I can program to control via a local SSH. So definitely going with a full distro, like Debian or sth, and not a NAS specific thingy.
    I can even make use of my old Radeon 4650 for a display while setting it up.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    The 5600X is a beast IMO, I had a 2600X IIRC that my kid now has, very good CPU, I understand why you'd like to compile with it 😁.

    I also remember mobos were kind of bad, like 2 RAM lanes and few connectics compared to how it usually was "before".

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I made sure to get one with 4 slots (still haven't managed to use them all though) and good component cooling.
    Thinking back, getting the G version would have done better, but I didn't intend on swapping with a 5800X back then.

    Now it's just about getting the right parts to accompany the CPU and RAM I have lying around. And the HDDs of course. The Toshiba one ended up having an undesirable delay, meaning I would have to go with the Seagate ones priced 50% higher.

    And then a router not having a backdoor.
    Hopefully I can find one with OpenWRT without having to choose ASUS.

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