The Intel 285K CPU in my high-end 2025 Linux PC died again! 😡 Notably, this was the replacement CPU for the original 285K that died in March, and after reading through the reviews of Intel CPUs on my electronics store of choice, many of which (!) mention CPU replacements, I am getting the impression that Intel’s current CPUs just are not stable 😞. Therefore, I am giving up on Intel for the coming years and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D CPU instead.| Michael Stapelberg
Turns out my previous attempt at this build had a faulty CPU! With the CPU replaced, the machine now is stable and fast! 🚀 In this article, I’ll go into a lot more detail about the component selection, but in a nutshell, I picked an Intel 285K CPU for low idle power, chose a 4TB SSD so I don’t have to worry about running out of storage quickly, and a capable nvidia graphics card to drive my Dell UP3218K 8K monitor.| Michael Stapelberg
Update (2025-05-15): Turns out the CPU was faulty! See My 2025 high-end Linux PC for a new article on this build, now with a working CPU. In January I ordered the components for a new PC and expected that I would publish a successor to my 2022 high-end Linux PC 🐧 article. Instead, I am now sitting on a PC which regularly encounters crashes of the worst-to-debug kind, so I am publishing this article as a warning for others in case you wanted to buy the same hardware.| Michael Stapelberg
Let’s say you created a Go program that stores data in PostgreSQL — you installed PostgreSQL, wrote the Go code, and everything works; great! But after writing a test for your code, you wonder: how do you best provide PostgreSQL to your automated tests? Do you start a separate PostgreSQL in a Docker container, for example, or do you maybe reuse your development PostgreSQL instance?| Michael Stapelberg
When I saw the first reviews of the ASRock DeskMini X600 barebone, I was immediately interested in building a home-lab hypervisor (VM host) with it. Apparently, the DeskMini X600 uses less than 10W of power but supports latest-generation AMD CPUs like the Ryzen 7 8700G!| Michael Stapelberg
