[setq]

This is why I'd rather lose 25% of the performance these days and take a canned pre-built PC. I just can't afford the time to find this out. It was bad enough trying to find a working set of drivers for my T440 and that only took an hour or so.

I lived through the age of self build K6's, Athlons, dual Celerons and SLI Voodoo 2's and heatsinks the size of a can of coke. I'd rather just have a shitty old thinkpad and a box in AWS now. This all happened when I realised a naff old Pentium III 1.4 GHz (Compaq AP230) was actually my goto machine despite having things 3-5x the speed.

I run a fair few high CPU/RAM simulations with LTspice as well for ref.

[michaelmrose]

Wouldn't buying memory on the motherboard makers list also have served to save said time?

[setq]

Not necessarily as on at least two times in the past, it didn't work properly without frigging around with timings.

[michaelmrose]

Been building pcs since 2003. Always bought known to be compatible ram never had an issue with ram. Received a defective motherboard once ever.