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Mobo is great (as far as consumer boards go).
Still don’t understand the rationale behind speccing those SSDs tho…
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I'm always going to want to play games more than actually do work so won't be going down the threadripper route any time soon.
Meaning if I went with that mobo, I'd prefer to use the four M2 slots rather than pcie things for an easier built / moar space inside?
Am assuming enough lanes on that mobo to get four m2 + a 5090 next year playing well together.
4 ssds because I kind of like the idea of making a raid out of them but as I typed that I realised it's not possible without another drive to act as OS for a softraid option?
So maybe just 2 drives in the m2 slots, 2 empty and then somewhere else in the case stick a stack of those data centre SSDs you mentioned the other week and build a raid somehow?
Looks like you can get 8 x 2.5" stuck in there:
But maybe something like this is more appropriate plus a single 8tb in an m2 slot:
End goal is:
very fast gaming and resolve/after effects PC with tons (8tb+8tb+maybe another of 32tb raid) fast (quieter than my external spinning raid) internal storage. raid in 6 or 10 (probably 6 for high read performance).
CYOA
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cws8BL
semi troll post for @ectoplasmosis with that many not that good, expensive nvmes
Also would probably just stick with 3090 until 50 series out (along with current ram/psu/cooler etc), so more like this list:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Bjr3dH