My B580 works fine on Linux. Graphics perf is a bit worse than under Windows, but supposedly compute is pretty much the same.

I'm using a B580 for a windows 10 media pc and it's fine even for moderate gaming when I drop down to 1080p on my 4k tv, although I did notice a little stuttering from time to time.

To be fair, that might be due to still running Windows 10 or due to not having reset the PC in 4 years. It's going to be moved over to Linux soon, I'm just being lazy.

Over the last two years I bought 2 4TB SSDs, 64GB DDR5 ECC UDIMM and 4 14TB HDDs.

I couldn't justify buying any of them today.

I would love to have some way to configure the USW Flex Minis without the controller software. I can't find any other small PoE powered switches for a similar cost.

You can definitely get PCIe on some micro PCs. I have a Lenovo m920q that I use with a Mellanox NIC as my router.

You could certainly install a SAS or SATA controller, the issue would be having somewhere to mount the drives, and a way to power them. External SAS enclosures are not cheap.

> External SAS enclosures are not cheap.

Sadly this is what I discovered.

I'd hoped there would be cheap external drive bays to mount HDDs in and connect to the mini PC over SATA.

But alas there isnt really.

It makes more sense to just use a PC Case and mount the drives that way.

I run it on my RK3588 based MNT Pocket Reform. I have to force the GL ES 2 backend because of, presumably, Panfrost bugs, but otherwise it runs well despite the fairly weak CPU and GPU.

They did improve this in more recent generations, but you need a W series chipset to use it.

There are 16" laptops with ECC, you can get a ThinkPad P16 with it for example. I've yet to find any 14" devices with ECC though.

Interesting, I actually have a thinkpad p16s, surprised I didn’t notice ECC availability.

Similar experience. I played with overclocking the DDR5 ECC memory I have on my system, it would appear to be stable and for quite a while it would be. But after a few days I'd notice a handful of correctable errors.

I now just run at the standard 5600MHz timing, I really don't find the potential stability trade off worth it. We already have enough bugs.

I believe caches and maybe registers often have ECC too though I'm sure there are still gaps.

50W average doesn't seem absurd, peak power is going to be an order of magnitude higher, but computers are often running pretty close to idle...