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.

I’ve had my ultrawide for about 4 years and games that support it look amazing, not had an issue. Games that don’t. I just play in 16:9, the black bars arnt much of an issue given that its no real loss as the alternative is either a stretched out image or use a 16:9 monitor.

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?

Its overkill for the i3 12100, but its on 24/7 so might as well keep it as cool as possible.

The motherboard has what I need for a home server, the case is big enough for all the hard drives. A micro ATX case would not have nearly enough bays.

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

I have 2 cables that came with it (both have an 8pin and a 6pin on the GPU end so I’m just going to use both cables and just use the 8pin connector on each.

It’s been a while since I last build a PC. I should know this shit, I used to be a system builder… But that was also many years ago.

Thanks!