For a while I’ve been toying with building a new computer, to take advantage of advances in GPUs and disks. I finally sat down and picked out all the parts I needed. I laid them all out on my desk and went to work.
These mini-ATX motherboards are so incredibly compact. They squeeze a lot of stuff in about 64 square inches.
It took a while to plug everything in and route the various wires around the chassis. When it was ready, I plugged it in and hit the power button. Fans whirred and LEDs glowed green. I was in business!
After installing the operating system and copying all my data across, I was ready to roll. Wow, everything is snappier! With my fancy new GPU, my photo processing in DarkTable is 10x faster and I’m able to play around with Stable Diffusion. My new machine-learning hobby is about to begin…