Ah yeah this is going to perform more like a 4060 and indeed does not have good upgrade options. Maybe have a look at the minisforum motherboards, like the
minisforum ar900i S. Those come with soldered on laptop CPUs. So you get the power efficiency of a laptop but with full desktop connectivity.
I also just did some web searches to find my power numbers. It probably varies a bit on which card, which vendor and if they measure wall power or directly from the connectors. An iGPU does consume some power but if you look at the 12W total system power of the framework desktop, only a few of those watts can be the iGPU.
Oh actually, the Ryzen AI max PCs like the Framework Desktop just about fit in your budget. Those should outperform the 8700G on every front AND use less idle power because they are often used on mobile.
Have you considered an APU like the AMD 8700G? Not having a dedicated GPU at all will save you about 20-30W of idle power. It will play the games you listed at 1080 low. Gives you some more budget for a platinum or titanium rated PSU as well.
Go for a slightly slower SSD that doesn't need a heat sink. Those things can use a lot of power too.
Too bad ATX12VO never took off in the DIY space because that standard is specifically designed to have less concersion losses. Maybe there are some business PCs that do use it.
I tend to agree. But in the same way as hard drives have been on the way out for like a decade now, and I'd expect them to still have use cases decades in the future.
I just saw the part 2 has a distro comparison at the end. Thry claim different distros don't matter, which is not what I've read in other publications. Anyone have an idea what might be going on here?
Ubuntu 24.04? If you were to try to pick the worst, still supported distro for gaming that might be it. Maybe RHEL could be worse? If they chose it for stability like they claim they did they should have also used an LTSC version of Windows and the Pro drivers to compare to.
Americans always act like you need to pick between capitalism and communism. There's a whole spectrum inbetween you know. I live in one of the most taxed countries of Europe and while we all still complain, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else right now.
There is no international standard on what should be counted as suicide
Even if there was, reporting quality would be very different between cultures and rural vs urban environments
I think statistics coming fron authoritarian regimes are not trustworthy (I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to categorize which states are authoritarian)
So far, the Lemmy devs being Marxist doesnt seem to affect the quality of the software. And since it's the fediverse you can just go to a server that doesn't clash with your own world view.
Well on one hand yes, GPUs are expensive because of the AI hype. But also, iGPUs are way more powerful than they used to be. AMD supplies APUs for the PS5 and Xbox. So basically the only GPU that is a worthwhile upgrade from an iGPU is the RX 9060 XT 16GB, at around 380 euros.
With that budget I would suggest getting an APU instead of a dedicated GPU. It'll also leave open thr option of adding a GPU later. I think the 8700G has the best graphics performance available on an AM5 socket. It'll play CS2 on 1080p without issue
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