Will anyone use the desktop a self-hosting machine?

If so, what are you going to run on it?

Seems like a bit of a waste to use the thing as a server as it’s main perk is the gpu, unless you are going to do server gpu stuff of course.

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If you care about GPU all you see is GPU. If you care about server you see a smaller and more power-efficient near-9950x with 128GB of high speed RAM, which no Ryzen (last time I checked) can possibly match. I assure you for a subset of users that is significantly more relevant than the GPU. All of that in a tiny box, ready to go.

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Cpu power efficiency wise on the cpu side the laptop zen4 chips on mini itx boards/mini pcs should get pretty close.

I don’t doubt it’ll perform great as a server platform, it’s just taking a chip that uses like 80% of it’s die area for gpu just for it’s cpu seems kind of wasteful.

If it’s the best fit, it’s the best fit :man_shrugging:

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