Hello all, After a lot of reading (mostly here) I’m realizing I can do a lot better in both my setup (for future growth) as well as in my back-up system. I would to ask you folks to give me some pointers in (to you) obvious improvements. I do have money to spend (hence the upgrade within a year of …

Okay, I have a conclusion on the PSU: be quiet! Dark Power 13 750W With that the setup is: Fractal Design Node 804 be quiet! Dark Power 13 750W AsRock Rack E3C246D4U2-2T Intel Xeon E-2246G with Noctua NH-U12S G.Skill Aegis F4-2133C15D-32GIS (so 2x 16GB) M.2 NVME Western Digital Black SN7100 500 G…

Looking for advice: Hardware check for new build

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Farout October 29, 2025, 1:19pm 6

Another option:
ASRock Rack E3C246D4U2-2T

Xeon E-2246G
= 350 EUR
Xeon E-2246G with iGPU and Quicksync
C246 Chipset allows for PCI passthrought of the IGPU to am VM
Uses UDIMM unfortunatly.

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