From: skybuckflying@gmail.com   
      
   Hey People,   
      
   Designing a new (super) personal computer in 2023 is hard !    
      
   Lot's of junk out there that need to be side stepped.   
      
   It costs a lot time and energy to review/research and dive into the latest and   
   greatest technologies for personal computers/desktop computers.   
      
   I have given it my best shot... the last thing I need to do is find a good   
   solid state disk. I have no experience with SSD or very little. Lately there   
   has been some rumor about samsung SSD's losing their health fast ?! What is   
   that all about ? So I    
   could use some suggestions for good SSD's which will last a long time, speed   
   is less important.   
      
   If you want to comment on any of the other components be my guest. However   
   make sure to google them and mention if they have any issues or driver issues   
   etc or design issues.   
      
   For example many keyboards out there have very strange keyboard layouts. They   
   keyboard which I selected is one of the few which actually has a normal   
   keyboard layout where the { is above the [ this is very important for   
   programming, in case I have any    
   doubt if the shift key is to be used or not.   
   I don't like the keyboard where the { and [ is next to each other.   
      
   Furthermore all motherboards with an intel ethernet controller are to be   
   avoided, because the intel ethernet controller chip does not work well in 2.5   
   gigabite mode, it can work in 1 gigabit mode but will be slow like 500 megabit.   
      
   Furthermore care must be taken when selecting a DDR5 kit for AMD processors,   
   to fast and it might not even boot/work.   
      
   The PC case that selected, I am a bit worried about it, it can only mount 2   
   harddisk and 2 solid state disks on the chassis, and m2 slots in the   
   motherboard. This PC case worries me a little bit, it looks very cool/nice,   
   but maybe I should pick one with    
   more harddisk support. Most motherboards support 4 sata connections, some   
   might support 6. So basically even if a bigger case was available, the   
   motherboard would not have enough sata connections, so it might be pointless,   
   unless there is some SATA    
   extended board available or other options ? Maybe connect harddisk to USB ?   
   but that might take away USB ports for other purposes.   
      
   The case has nice USB ports on the front which will be usefull for connecting   
   external drives to it, nice and fast ports.   
      
   I am still waiting for the CPU to come out. Having 3D/V-Cache on one of the   
   core compute complexes sounds like a dream come true, or will it be a   
   stuttering nightmare in gaming ?! Time will tell, waiting for reviews to come   
   out on it ! ;) =D   
      
   The memory kit I selected seems very cool with the light, it's not the   
   fastest, might have to be replaced with G-Skill, the selected DDR5 kit might   
   also be too high for the air cpu cooler, I am not sure yet.   
      
   I am also not sure yet if I want to go with EK water cooling for the CPU and   
   GPU, this PC case is suited for it though with an EK water block.   
      
   The ASUS monitor is very dangerous, and very big, if it's firmware is upgraded   
   it might be bricked/unusuable, but the panel seems to be one the best 4k   
   panels out there similiar to LG C2 panel. However the asus has active cooling   
   more suited for gaming    
   to prevent OLED burn in.   
      
   The ASRock steel legend motherboard is the only ATX motherboard with a PCI   
   Express 5.0 slot which can truely do PCI Express 5.0 x16 the rest of the   
   motherboards mostly have PCI Express 4.0 x16 capability which can be reduced   
   to x8 if in bifornication...    
   so that is only 1/4 of the speed of this port of the steel legend as long as   
   no other pci express port is used.   
   There are no graphics cards on the market yet which have pci express 5.0 x16,   
   but in the future they might and therefore this motherboard should be "future   
   proof" if it works ! ;)    
      
   The bios is nice and simple and has many options, including being able to   
   disable/enable TPM and also SMT and other things which might be missing in   
   other bioses ! ;)   
      
   The harddisks I am not sure yet, seems similiar model, one is for data center,   
   the other is for server/enterprise like quality. One is cheaper the other more   
   expensive... The expensive one is bigger and does give true 20 terrabytes of   
   space while the    
   other only gives 18 terrabyte of space.   
   It might be smarter to only buy one harddisk and then wait till bigger become   
   available, however with the looming war between china and taiwan this might be   
   very risky and buying it now might be smarter/better in case war breaks out...   
   one harddisk could    
   be replaced in future with bigger one.   
   The more expensive harddisks seem to be more vibrating resistent, not sure how   
   much thruth is in there, these newer harddisk use a new technology with energy   
   assisted heating to write to harddisks, not sure how reliability that is,   
   seems to be reliable    
   and the future, but not sure/no experience with it...   
      
   The power supply is tiny, but the first ATX 3.0 power standard available on   
   the market, apperently designed by a well respected power supply designer in   
   taiwan I believe in collobration with MSI/MPG(?). Perhaps this tinier model   
   might actually push out    
   the heat better, because less room for heat to en-masse in corners/back   
   pockets of bigger power supplies.   
      
   The ATX 3.0 power standard is necessary for 100% 24 hour gaming/personal   
   computing otherwise the high transient/power spikes of RTX 3000 and 4000   
   series might shut down the computer because they trip wire breaker/power   
   breakers of older power supplies.   
   Shame I cannot safely pick my favorite brand Seasonic :(   
      
   So selecting a good power supply is a gotcha ! with these new graphics cards !   
   ) Basically it was like that in 2006 as well, had to make sure power supplies   
   had good power on the rails, older power supplies couldn't  do it and I can   
   confirm that myself !   
    ;)   
      
   I already mentioned the keyboard, it's amazing how many few good keyboards   
   there are out there with the proper keyboard layout, just good old   
   cherry/qwerty keyboard. I do want a keyboard with lights on it. I type a lot   
   so I would prefer a keyboard which    
   is somewhat more quiet but also easy to type on, I have some doubt about this   
   keyboard because they mention it types a bit "mushy"... not sure what that is   
   supposed to me, this keyboard is very configurable though, the reaction time   
   of the keys can be    
   adjusted, which sounds kinda cool and interesting to try out, it also has LED   
   display... not sure what it's for, probably to configure the speed of the keys.   
      
      
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