I really like how it turned out. Looks retro, but modern at the same time if that makes any sense lol. I feel like it could transform and walk away. Sucks about the water heater, but at least now you can bump this and annoy the neighbors!
Others work, you just can't boot from them. I had to boot from a USB stick bootloader to then boot off another NVMe. Did that for awhile because I needed the extra storage. When I gave it to my son though I put the original NVMe back in.
I have an Asus laptop that only works with one specific model of NVMe. Contacted their support about it and they confirmed it. Offered no help except to recommend buying a new laptop. I'll never buy another Asus laptop personally or professionally again.
I think WYP is referring to the motherboard they also released when he mentions the cables. It has the BTF slot for the card to hide the graphics power cables, but all the other connectors are on the visible side of the motherboard. So you hide one cable, but all the rest are still visible.
I have no faith in ASRock. Every board I've purchased from them or worked with on customer systems has been junk. From entry level to their high-end boards, always had issues.
Linux does the same crap. /looks at Centos.
I may be bitter because every time we roll out new PCs at work we get the same users complaining that the new systems are so much slower than the old. If that were the case the current i5 systems with 20 cores and 32GB of ram would be slower than...