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COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership - Gamers Nexus (youtu.be)
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[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm convinced that modular PCs are ... at least a flavor of the future.

MiniPC with higher spec laptop or mobile cpu, soldered on to a mobo that has sodimm slots.

Oculink port, external gpu dock with psu.

CPU gets too old? Keep your ssd and sys ram, get a new mini pc, put the ssd and ram into it.

GPU gets too old? Get a new one, new PSU if you need it.

Yeah, you get a slight ding to extreme performance scenarios, but at least at the moment, this seems to be the more cost effective route to get something like a 'ultra graphics at 1440p' capable system.

Also, once you get the GPU dock, you probably don't really need to get a new one... unless like an entirely new PCIe standard comes out, or something like that.

But, you can currently get a bare bones one thats around the cost of all the fans and cpu heatsinks and what not that you'd need for a traditional 'battlestation'.

Also also, when not gaming or doing something graphically or LLM or whatever kind of demanding, you can just boot up the MiniPC alone and have a lower power bill.

If you want more long term storage, set up a NAS, or maybe just some usb external spinny spinny HDDs.

[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

PCs are already modular and have been for decades. My CPU has a heat sink larger than a MiniPC.

That said I have been tempted by a MiniPC for a low power device, and with how good graphics can be on some CPUs you could do some fairly decent gaming on them too. But that is probably more than I would want to spend on one yet.

Currently game on an RTX2070, no plan on upgrading for more performance any time soon as it is plenty. I wonder how many generations we are from CPU graphics being comparable?

Not sure how they manage for the higher end CPUs that are going to put out quite a bit more heat.