For an SDD, it kinda depends on what your priorities are. I personally went for a 990 Pro 2tb for speed and space, but it was a bit pricey and isn’t the most power efficient drive out there, which may be a concern for you as you have the 55wh battery. This would be my choice for pure power efficiency, but a better all-rounder might be this. It really just comes down to what your workload is and if you value more capacity over speed, or power efficiency over capacity.
For memory, it’s a little bit easier. The option I personally went with and what I’ve seen most people go with is this kit from Crucial (CT2K16G56C46S5). You really want 5600mhz for Ryzen 7000, and dual channel 32GB is, in my opinion, the sweet spot for most things now (plus it’s a great deal right now)
Beyond just hardware, there’s lots of awesome community projects out right now, especially 3d printed stuff like expansion cards (and even this awesome expansion card holder), and plenty of cool ways to decorate your Framework that I mentioned in an earlier post on this thread.
I went with that exact memory kit. Couldn’t beat it for the price. For storage I decided to take a cheaper path than the Samsun SSDs and went with a Crucial P3 Plus 2TB ( CT2000P3PSSD8), mostly because it was the least expensive 2TB SSD that Micro Center had to offer that wasn’t their store brand.
For SSD’s I recommend people check out TechPowerUp SSD database: TechPowerUp
They have really in depth analysis about the components that make up the SSD (ie TLC or QLC for the flash storage, whether it comes with DRAM or SLC cache and how much, performance figures including power consumption and actual read and write performance).
I went Lexar NM790 mainly for power consumption as I want the battery to last as long as possible but still give really decent performance. It has a really large HBM3 based SLC based cache which uses a lot less power than DRAM but at a slight performance cost but definitely not slow.
Ayyyyy, batch 8 seems to be getting charged, looks like we’ll be charged around the weekend of the 9th if the graph is correct! Can’t wait to get my hands on this thing (hopefully before the new year?).
I ended up going for Kingston 64gb of 5600MT/s CL40 ram and managed to find the 4tb NM790 for £10 cheaper than Amazon. The ran arrived a couple of hours ago and the SSD arrives ok a few hours. All ready for when the laptop hopefully turns up next month!
Ordered my Framework 13 DIY with Ryzen 5 7640 to replace my macbook pro M1. For memory I have Kingston FURY Impact 32GB (2x16GB) waiting here and a Seagate Firecuda 530 NVMe SSD Gen 4 2TB as SSD. The powersupply is an Anker 737 GaNPrime 120W. Will be good to have on holidays since I can charge booth the laptop and the phone on the same time. For expansion cards I have take 3x USB-C, 3x USB-A, HDMI, DP, microSD and Ethernet. Will install Windows 11 Pro perhaps a Dual boot with some Linux distro.
Upgrading from my i5 11th gen mainboard. When FW goes through a good number of generations, I’d be interested to see what people would consider the best upgrade cadence for best upgrade paths. I definitely don’t need the best newest all the time.
Also been wanting to replace my macbook pro M1, wife ordered me a DIY 13 Ryzen 5 7640u as an early Christmas present. I ordered a Crucial 32gb DDR5 kit and a WD_Black 2tb SSD to pair. Il probably be running Debian with i3 since that is my go-to. The wife is keeping the macbook, you could say she bought it for the price of the framework
Yep, I’m interested in this as well and also coming from a gen 11. Prior to the Framework I’d been upgrading my personal/dev laptop about every 2-3 years. I anticipate my next upgrade will happen when PCIe-5 is more mainstream/stable (maybe in about 2 years??).
I’m definitely getting excited for this upgrade… the increased battery life over the gen 11, which looks pretty significant, while improving performance is going to be amazeballs.
is going to be amazeballs.
