I have been wanting to build a desktop for a while now, but I held back because I plan to move overseas in near future, and build it there, which I know is the right thing to do.

But I have spent ~24 hours in last 3 days researching specs and right build for me. I “need” to know :p. If I act on it, I’ll have to sell the new monitor, tower case, power supply (the bulky items) just after few months of use, once I move overseas, only taking remaining parts with me.

This sudden hyperfixation is crazy. Have slept just 3 hours today (when my body just gave up and shut down). Just thought I’ll share.

  • witchergeraltofrivia@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 days ago

    Luckily, I got really exhausted and frustated, so hopefully it ended for now.
    I’ll do mostly browsing, programming, some servers always running in the background like jellyfin.
    Then I’ll be playing single player games on 2k ultrawide. Thinking all AMD for now, I’ll consider nvidia for path tracing for the next upgrade, but don’t need ray tracing for now.
    Would like to reasonably futureproof it.

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      5 days ago

      Just as a sidenote: I would consider getting a used mini-PC with proxmox for the servers. The energy saving alone will pay for this.

      Gaming PCs are incredibly energy consuming compared to a mini PC and Jellyfin,etc. doesn’t need much resources.

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        5 days ago

        I just got a new completely unused nuc 7 off eBay for about £110. Ill be running running quite a few services off of it, all at under 20 watts.