I'm considering to build a new machine for personal use, but it's been a while since I've upgraded, so I'm looking for some thoughs about this one.
Currently I'm running Linux about 98% of the time, with some occasional gaming on Windows. Mostly normal desktop browsing and software dev work, hence plenty of RAM and CPU to keep dev feedback loops tight (Rust, JVM languages, web stuff, containers, VMs, the usual). One new SSD so far, but I have a bunch of 3.5" drives and one M2 I'll probably bring over from my current machine as well. Hence the case should support more than two 3.5" disks.
I'm not looking to upgrade the GPU at this point, I think my current 2080 will still be good enough to power the occasional game and my two 1440p 144hz displays for desktop usage. But I want to prep the system for an upgrade in a gen or two without major changes (meaning the PSU should have enough headroom and reasonably future proof connectors).
I don't care about RGB. Its acceptable if it can be configured to a dim white or single color as ambient light, but no LEDs are preferred if two parts are equal in all other regards.
Looks a bit overpowered to me, honestly. Unless you're planning on running a whole ass kubernetes cluster in there, or multiple VMs at once, or big full stack monolith solutions, you can probably tone down the CPU, RAM, and PSU. If cost is a consideration, you might be able to get better value on storage by dropping down to 1TB too.
But you know, if this is what you want and you have the money, then enjoy!
Thanks for the input. Budget is not a problem, PCP estimates this at about 1700€ which is ok. I could spend more if it brings any significant gains, but I'm not inclined to spend hundreds more for a few percents performance.
Budget is the upside of being an adult, the downside is time. I tend to build machines and keep them for about five years without major change nowadays. I have neither time nor inclination to fiddle anymore. Hence I do think it's rather beefy as well, but it should hold out for a while without handholding (e.g. for LLMs, if there is ever a local github copilot alternative I'd like to try that. But it's too early to tell right now). Thus I'm also not about to downsize the SSD, more storage is better. Games are getting larger and larger and I'm tired of redownloading them when I do decide to play after a month (currently on a 240GB SSD for games, last played RDR2 and Forza Horizon, both over 100 gigs each).
Though I'm not sure on the PSU. New GPUs do seem to use a lot of power, but this machine runs for a lot of hours. Energy efficiency would definitely be a plus, I'll look at that again.
You might also want to do a quick check to ensure your Linux disto can handle this mobo and CPU too. Linux is a lot better with that kind of thing these days so it's probably fine, but there are still a few edge cases for certain higher spec hardware or certain less popular distros.
True, I think the 3D cache won't be supported well by the Linux scheduler for a while, if ever. But it's ok considering that the 3D version is more power efficient in benchmarks and the CPU will crush everything regardless for a while.
I've looked for linux support of the board around the web, seems ok with some potential wildcard aspects (wifi, sound). I'm on Ubuntu, so nothing exotic in terms of linux. However if the board turns out to be a major problem in the first 10 days I'll return it (14 days no questions asked returns in EU), but I don't want to create waste so I did my due dilligence.
Generally my experience with Linux in the last 10 years was good, 9 of 10 problems I had in that time came from the proprietary NVidia drivers messing things up again and again about once a year. Hence I'll be strongly looking at AMD whenever I get around to upgrading the GPU.