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| System Name | Bragging Rights |
|---|---|
| Processor | Atom Z3735F 1.33GHz |
| Motherboard | It has no markings but it's green |
| Cooling | No, it's a 2.2W processor |
| Memory | 2GB DDR3L-1333 |
| Video Card(s) | Gen7 Intel HD (4EU @ 311MHz) |
| Storage | 32GB eMMC and 128GB Sandisk Extreme U3 |
| Display(s) | 10" IPS 1280x800 60Hz |
| Case | Veddha T2 |
| Audio Device(s) | Apparently, yes |
| Power Supply | Samsung 18W 5V fast-charger |
| Mouse | MX Anywhere 2 |
| Keyboard | Logitech MX Keys (not Cherry MX at all) |
| VR HMD | Samsung Oddyssey, not that I'd plug it into this though.... |
| Software | W10 21H1, barely |
| Benchmark Scores | I once clocked a Celeron-300A to 564MHz on an Abit BE6 and it scored over 9000. |
If you don't have a specific use case that's desperate for more storage throughput then you don't need it
I deal with a bunch of storage servers at work where PCIe lanes for storage are the limiting factor, but even in the enterprise space, storage throughput becomes meaningless beyond a certain point for many applications.
Even when scrubbing through GoPro 4K30 footage at home (and that is by far the most throughput-intensive job I do at home) I'm not hitting any storage bottlenecks using the secondary NVMe slot which limits my SSD to PCIe 3.0 x2. Obviosuly the poor old MX300 SATA drive I also have can't keep up with the average data rate of about 850MB/s but it's still close in terms of user experience. In blind testing I'm not sure I'd know which once was which, I'd have to see the same footage on both machines side-by-side to reliably identify it as running on SATA or NVMe.
Maybe if you work with 4K60 video at home you'd want faster storage, but other than that I'm struggling to think of other use cases where PCIe 3.0 is a bottleneck outside of enterprise storage servers. 95% of the time, SATA SSDs are waiting on some other bottleneck - and outside of copying files from one PCIe 4.0 storage to another identical one, you are probably in the market for Optane at the point which you require meaningfully faster storage than the NVMe drives, simply because it'll be controller IOPS and read latencies that limit you, not the peak bandwidth for huge sequential streaming.
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