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but I have a bunch of 3.5" drives and one M2 I’ll probably bring over from my current machine as well. Hence the case should support more than two 3.5" disks.
3.5" spinning disks often use quite a bit of power. If you don’t need them all the time I’d buy something to connect them easily over USB.
I usually just buy whatever is a good price vs performance. Buying an overpowered PSU has an effect on the efficiency of that PSU (often it gets worse).
Anyway, maybe one consideration might be sound. I like silent systems so for a system where you’d spend loads of time on I’d rather have it completely silent. That would require drastic changes, but maybe good to check how much noise each component makes while idle, common usage and when stressed.
Cannot easily see, but might also be good to check if your keyboard and mouse are still nice. Though unfortunately the nice keyboards often have RGB.
but there are still a few edge cases for certain higher spec hardware
Or like my experience: I upgraded my AM4 CPU to something newer. This required a BIOS/UEFI upgrade. After that getting out of suspend was unreliable. So even if the hardware seems fine it might have issues later on.
It seems to work again since a recent kernel, but as it only failed to resume in maybe 10% of the cases it’s difficult to say if the problem is gone or not.
I know Reuters is state-affiliated media
Jeez, even the first thing you say can easily be checked. Please check if what you think is true is actually true.
Reuters partly does their own research/reporting, partly it just redistributes reports from other media.
That’s completely different than your first claim.
barbarism and cultural fetishizing of brutal mass murder
This doesn’t make any sense. Are you from Russia? How does anything in your comment make sense? It feels like random words and sentences.