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I'm not sure why mITX was chosen - in my experience it's almost always more expensive and leaves no room for additional GPU expansion (Or network adapters/whate
by PascLeRasc 10y ago
I'm not sure why mITX was chosen - in my experience it's almost always more expensive and leaves no room for additional GPU expansion (Or network adapters/whatever card you might need) in the future. You can get 1151 mATX motherboards for more like $60-70 on Amazon instead of the $125 they paid.
Also, paying $125 for 16GB of ram but not spending the extra $20 to have your CPU be able to overclock? I'm not sure where OP is building but I can find that much RAM for $20 less than they paid, and overclocking isn't really that difficult or unreliable these days.
- coroxout 10y agoI was wondering that too. For something like this maximum room for future expansion seems good. In the past I've used mITX to build low-power, low-noise machines, rather than building a high-powered processing beast. On the other hand, it made the article more interesting for me. I can't really justify a home machine learning rig, but I was thinking I might soon replace that old mITX machine. (edit - just reached the pics - really not sure why you'd go with a mini form factor and then add a 6" heatsink/fan!)
- PascLeRasc 10y agoI also prefer mITX and I have one I've tried to optimize for low noise and efficiency. Just seems ill-suited for this purpose.
- pdog 10y agoMost people don't want a giant box under their desk. If you're building a machine learning rig for under $1,000, you don't need room for expansion because additional $200, $400 or even $700 cards are a useless expense at that price range.
- gens 10y agoYou don't need a powerful cpu for gpu loads.