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.