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  • Well I’m not planning on doing another mini-ITX this time, and I don’t really need that many expansion slots.

    I’m willing to spend the money on the Fractal case. I like the company, I like their build quality, I like how they handled the fan hub issue with the Torrent cases, they did their customers right on that one, they’ve earned my business. I’ve also built in a Meshify 2 Mini before, I like it, I’m familiar with it, if I go to another case it’ll be another model of Fractal’s. There is room for a 240mm rad in the top bay in this case, I might go that way.

    totally fair, just thought I’d mention the alt option for better pricing and all of the points that you made are ones that I also fully agree on👍

    I went with the Peerless Assassin because I was looking at a Noctua DH-15 or whatever the hell their nomenclature is but I saw the Thermalright cooler actually outperformed the Noctua for less cost. If the Noctua was the better cooler I’d spring for it. My current machine in a Node 202 has very little room for cooling, so I’m kinda looking forward to having proper case fans. I’m not opposed to an AIO but I have no experience with them at all. I remember an old LTT video where they demonstrated that AIOs didn’t cool that much better but go ahead for aesthetics, nowhere near as effective as a custom loop. This may have changed in the meantime?

    ah unfortunately Linus from LTT is known as more of an entertainer than trusted reviewer, they’ve had known issues to their testing suite so it’s best to cross check with Gamers Nexus, KitGuruTech, Hardware Unboxed, der8auer, Paul’s Hardware, Jayz2Cents

    I remember an old LTT video where they demonstrated that AIOs didn’t cool that much better but go ahead for aesthetics, nowhere near as effective as a custom loop.

    Rereading this and what the fuck, if Linus said this he is an actual dumbass, he’s gotta stop giving people false and incorrect information. If this was truely the case then the AIO market for PC consumers would not exist FFS

    For the Thermalright Elite it absolutely crushes other AIOs due to their above average cooling(in comparison to other AIOs and insanely aggressive pricing

    • btw AIOs tend to be leaps and bounds better in cooling performance in comparison to Air-based coolers, so Thermalright here is selling a killer deal
      • the one caveat/con is that the long term endurance is questionable however when searching online with [Google, Duckduckgo, and SearxNG] I’ve yet to see any complaints (as of Aug 21, 2024) which is pretty good👍


    lmao

    Thermalright: “cash is cash”


  • oh hey your build and my friend’s is almost the same: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/bDzZh3

    just a question are you set on a Micro ATX build?
    Reason I’m asking is cause:

    • you could upgrade the Air CPU cooler with an All-In-One (AIO) liquid cooler like the Thermalright Aqua Elite [$44.99 USD as of Aug 21, 2024]
    • you could save a significant amount of money on the case with like Be Quiet’s 500DX [$56.90 USD as of Aug 21, 2024]
      • it’s kinda crazy that the white variant is even cheaper than the black case as there’s usually a ‘white tax’ for white colored cases

    Word on the street is AMD is less of a pain in the head to deal with on Linux and Wayland stands a chance of running, so…

    Yep, NVIDIA’s gpus can cause inexplicably weird issues with Linux, they’ve gotten a better but honestly you’ll have a better time with AMD rather than NVIDIA.

    • even tho NVIDIA’s previously announced open sourcing their drivers it’s only kernel space code which is still barely better than not open sourcing at all

    besides the suggestions made above, I see nothing wrong with your build. Even with your current selection of parts, Wayland should just work no matter which distro you go with👍


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  • A barchart might be better as the comparison of instances with the most subscribed accounts doesn’t mean much I feel

    we have some users that register but are inactive and/or are infrequently active which could be a sign of lurkers or bots but empty accounts don’t mean much when it comes to the health of an instance.

    However; if we look at each community’s active monthly and daily users it can tell another story and that data compared against Reddit’s could be useful for anyone seeking alternatives

    I’m rambling with little sleep but hopefully what I’ve said make a little bit of sense