No that’s the SL2, I’ve had this open to reapply the thermal paste its held down with 4 screws and magnets.

Depends on the model, this can be opened up and lightly serviced, the CPU and ram are all soldered, but it can be dismantled and the ssd and battery can be replaced.

I got this for image editing on the go, so Lightroom and Photoshop are a must.

This is the SL3. So I can upgrade the SSD and if I absolutely need to. The battery.

Its a Fractal Pop

I didn’t notice any breakdown of the paste. It typically dries out over time once applied, this was still the same consistency throughout its life (in the tube)

Yep, I had the side panel off as I just replaced the thermal paste on the GPU and had to snap a pic.

I bought one for a new PC I was going to build, that didn’t happen so I installed it in my server, then I got this and the obvious choice was to pick up another.

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Windowless side panels also help with what LEDs are forced onto me.

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I’ve gone with Unraid and consumer level hardware (intel i3 12100 and 16gb of standard ddr4 ram) the only “server hardware” I have, is an LSI HBA card that’s in IT mode so I can connect more HDDs.

I’m even used SMR drives in my array, just use a good CMR drive for parity and the biggest SSD you can get for your cache drive and you will be good to go.

In use an i3 12100 with whatever cheep motherboard from a good brand and 16gb of ram (it would be fine with 8gb, but DDR4 ram is cheep so more the better) if you look at ZFS and a real raid, it gets expensive quick, I use Unraid which is ideal if you have SMR drives and/or different sized HDDs. You can get cheep LSI HBM cards off eBay in IT mode which is perfect to connect HDDs to (my mobo only has 4 sata ports)

That’s how I started, when I upgraded my PC my old PC became a dedicated Plex server running Linux, then the CPU gave up after 8 years (3 years as a 24/7 sever) then bought a PC to run unraid. Its a slippery slope, I started on 16tb of media 6 months ago, I’m now on 24tb…

December 2023 update… Now 30tb

That looks incredible! what is that cooler? Did you 3D print the case yourself?

So for the past 9 years I’ve been using the 8pin (from PSU) to 8pin + 6pin (to graphics card) this was wrong?

What graphics card are you going for? I’m in the process of specing out my next PC but the graphics card is causing me a headache

Just get an IPS with as high of a refresh rate as you can.

I went from a 24" 1080p display to a 32" 1440p ultrawide and quickly discovered that my aging PC can’t do 1440p on anything other than low in most games. Something to keep in mind.

I have a flat panel ultrawide, for me, curved was a pain in the ass when your dealing with straight lines, you need to be in the hot spot where the viewing angle is perfect. Excel can be a headache with a curved monitor, as can photo and video editing as things can look warped and shit when your not sat in the ideal position.

The speed increase over Regular SSD and NVME is justified, but not requited just yet, I will use the SSDs I have until I fancy grabbing a 2tb NVME at a later date.

I do plan on using the 1tb 2.5" ssd in my server as cache drive.