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I feel like nowadays you pay extra for your board not to have Gamer-RGB

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It is the same for cases. Often the model with a solid side panel (no window) now costs more.

IME it’s more that the ugly ones with a window or mesh go on sale all the time :/

That's why I still use a ~15 year old Supermicro server chassis with desktop foot kit on it lol. I've upgraded the innards 2 or 3 times so far. Has 8 hotswap bays, tons of room. no fucking RGB or "windows" or any of that bullshit.

I just built an i9-13900K replaced the LGA1366 2P board in it. It's an astounding performance bump, to mildly put it lol. I plan on using this chassis with this setup for probably another 5-10 years before upgrading again.

> Has 8 hotswap bays, tons of room

refs?

going forward I will either be using ReFS or ZFS. It will depend on what OS I decide to leave on this new build.

No I mean, thanks for the brand, but what's the precise model? Supermicro what?

OH! Omg. I read that as ReFS and not “reference” lol.

Case I’m using is a SC743TQ-1200B-SQ

I love it. I have 6 more of them that I use for various things (3 are dedicated to my plex cluster).

The board having Gamer-RGB should not be a problem as long as you can disable it on the BIOS. It would be like any other "extra" hardware your board has that you don't use (for instance, extra headers for front panel USB ports you don't have, or more SATA ports than you need).

The case having a transparent side panel, on the other hand...

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