You’re right, although I’d be considering narrower cards and maybe blowers. This is a server build, not a main rig. So I’d get a GPU that’s as close as possible to a glorified encoder ad possible and pocket the power savings. I don’t have ac where I live…
If going m-atx, there’d be enough pcie slots to get a cheap SFP+ 10G nic or better, tho…
I’ll look at the jonsbo stuff tho, thanks !
I doubt it’s BS. Those people really care about numbers.
The current tech scape is depressing.
If OP need compactness, maybe micro atx or mini itx could help.
Although I’ve been thinking about doing like that I haven’t found a good cheap compact case for mass HDD storage, pcie expansion for network upgrades and GPU installs…
Yeah, I’m not sure too many mitigations have been backported.
But the attack surface might also be smaller due to simpler pipelines…
Regardless, I’m too much of a perf junkie to give up my modern hardware.
It’s possible with an old enough CPU and a libre BIOS.
That doesn’t mean I’d do it but it’s possible.
I think they host wine/proton releases at least, maybe more