Building my childhood dream PC

Post by wdfx » Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 10:04 AM UTC

scns wrote: post #38

Even though it's off-topic, my favourite case in a build by the same guy. Nowadays it would work with just a Ryzen 9700X: https://fabiensanglard.net/the_beautiful_machine/index.html [Edit] Maybe not completly off-topic since it would be my dream PC.

Post by wdfx » Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 10:12 AM UTC

rkomorn wrote: post #42

wdfx wrote: post #41

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I bought this case a couple of years ago after this article was linked here. I love it. It's beautifully engineered. Top quality. It sits at the corner of my desk proudly silent. I'm likely about to upgrade the pc within but the case will remain a strong feature of my desk.

Do you use it as a gaming PC (or for other high GPU load activities)? And if so, what's your take on noise under load? Edit: I guess this is a senseless question if the case really only uses passive cooling. I was assuming there would still be fans somewhere. I despise my current PC's fan noise and I'm always on the lookout for a quieter solution.

Post by KeplerBoy » Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 10:21 AM UTC

zokier wrote: post #34

whatever1 wrote: post #26

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The only market for desktops is gaming. Hence nvidia will just slap a cpu on their board and use the unified memory model to sell you an all in one solution. Essentially a desktop console. Maybe some modularization will survive for slow storage. But other than that demand for modular desktops is dead. Cases will probably survive since gamers love flashy rigs.

There is still lot of productivity stuff that benefits from power of desktops. Engineering (Ansys etc), local AI development, 3D modeling, working with large C++/Rust codebases, scientific computing, etc etc. And related to gaming there is of course the huge game developer market too. There is a reason why nvidia and amd still make workstation class GPUs for big bucks.

Post by navigate8310 » Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 10:38 AM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #23

blackoil wrote: post #14

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If the processor comes with builtin GPU, NPU and RAM will you be really building the system

Sure. Building a PC already is barely building anything. You buy a handful of components and click them into each other.

Post by tekne » Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 11:08 AM UTC

whatever1 wrote: post #40

barrkel wrote: post #33

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There are a handful of professional uses for a workstation that are hard to beat with a laptop. If you're compiling code, you generally want as much concurrency as you can get, as well as great single core speed when the task parallelism runs out. There aren't really any laptops with high core counts, and even when you have something with horsepower, you run into thermal limits. You can try and make do with remoting…

All of these can be done much better on the cloud (I can spawn as big of a machine as my pocket can afford). And with today’s tooling (vs code & jetbrains remote development) you don’t even notice that you develop on a remote machine and not your local. So the desktop developer market is for those who are not willing to use cloud. And this is a very small minority. (FYI I am not endorsing cloud over local development…