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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hey Evan,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">If you are doing a lot of multimedia
editing NUC form factor might not be the best as the CPU may run
into cooling issues and thermal throttle under load.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">About a year ago I've built this Ryzen
5-based system on which I run the latest Debian and I'm pretty
happy with it.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Description and photos<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/2018-April/006154.html">https://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/2018-April/006154.html</a></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Discussion</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/2018-February/005948.html">https://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/2018-February/005948.html</a></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">There was some initial instability with
it, but updating BIOS fixed that.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The biggest limitation of this build
that the system is limited to 32GB of RAM, as chip supports 64GB.
It can also be build for much cheaper if you forgo small
form-factor (miniITX) and use microATX or ATX cases -- the
motherboard would cost about half as much.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Alex.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-05-17 5:05 a.m., Evan
Leibovitch via talk wrote:<br>
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looking to upgrade my PC that's served me well for about 8
years, but it's starting to be unreliable and I can't upgrade
the RAM beyond 4GB. So I'm looking at a new desktop system
that will be used mainly for many-tabs-open browsing and
multimedia editing using openshot, audacity, etc. Of course
must run Linux well.</div>
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currently looking at two NUC-form-factor barebones systems
that use the 8th gen Intel i7, an <a
href="https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=570_7_1203_1157&item_id=130569"
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and a <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B079H24SWZ/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Zotac model available from Amazon</a>.
Both are about the same price. I would be installing 16GB RAM,
an SSD and two screens.<br clear="all">
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go with one, the other, or neither? Are there better places
to buy?<br>
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