Twenty years ago I'd have been excited to be buying a new pair of monitors. We've never had more than one screen on a home computer Actually... I really can't be bothered battling the dust bunnies round the back of the computer, grovelling around under the desk not being able to see properly to plug stuff in, with my glasses repeatedly falling off while trying to take a photo to see where I'm aiming. That's not to mention yet another mountain of cardboard to dispose of! And it's grotty weather too
The last time I built a computer was about...15-20 years ago. By 'eck things have changed with a much bigger focus on cooling whatever red-hot high speed multi-core multi-thread turbo chip you've indulged in. Crikey, I remember my 386 (?) had a turbo button...that made it run even slower lol. It did have a whopping 40mb hard drive though. So now I have a 6" x 6" x 6" dual radiator twin fan cooler (overkill bargain from Gumtree) to clamp on a CPU the size of a postage stamp that could consume 125-200w. Madness. And that is a fairly conservative chip. I'm going to squeeze it onto an ITX board and it will half fill the mini ITX case which should be delivered later. I'll be so glad when I can forget about ram latency, z490, m.2 pcle gah!!
15w40 mineral. It is quite amusing actually that one can air cool or water cool CPUs these days, air cooled has it's limits, watercooled is a bit better. Some things never change!
I must have built 100s of PCs and servers over the years. It used to be my job. These days I'd rather pick one off the shelf (with a warranty) than faff about Having said that, it is a bit easier now that you don't have to set the jumpers on the motherboard for your particular CPU
Of course! I have this...same size motherboard (or mobo as we kool kids say). Do you think it'll be up to it?
