Pawelr98

The question would be, is the digital transmission actually required for running the hardware. If not, why bother really ? Worst case scenario I can make my own adapter for any connector released in the future.

That's the power of the new architecture, those two cores have about the same performance as an old quadcore sandy i5's (matches a stock i5 2300). This thing when benchmarking (cinebench) draws something like 40-42W from the wall with a 80+ Gold 300W FSP unit (230V mains). Intel Claims 46W TDP. Asrock H610M-HDV/M2 with a Samsung PM991a 256GB NVME and 4GB 2400MHz ram, keyboard + mouse. At the same time, idles at 16-17W.

Lowest tier Alder Lake, the allmighty G6900 at stock speed with a single stick of 4GB 2400MHz DDR4 ram. And then my daily driver, Core i7 6950X clocked at 4.2GHz with 2x16GB 2666MHz DDR4 ram. By single core score, you can tell how much has improved over the years IPC wise.

OS: Debian 10 x64 in text mode Case: Gutted AeroCool sixth element CPU: Athlon II X2 250 @1.6GHz Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3 Memory: Single 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 PSU: FSP300-60ega (80+ gold OEM for 20USD new) OS SSD : Microcenter 120GB Storage Mediums(s): 6x2TB Hitachi 2TB in RAID6 (HP P400 SAS controller) + Standalone Seagate st4000dm000 4TB It serves a NAS. The case was gutted since all the plastics in the case were garbage and cracking. Wheels added for better mobility, HDD's are mounted using just standard steel brackets from a hardware store. When it comes to interesting stuff. This machine does not have any GPU, integrated or external. Motherboard Bios has been modded so the machine posts and boots the OS without any GPU present. 1986 IBM VGA ROM inserted into the bios. POST only requires any VGA rom present, no actual GPU is needed to pass the POST procedure.