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The forum now sits on this thing.
The ChangWang 58. No I did not just make up that name.
It’s got a Ryzen 7 5825U mobile chip that runs @ 25W (it can run from 15-35 via BIOS toggle).
It also packs 64GB of RAM, 2x 2TB NVMe drives, and 4x Intel I226-V NICs.
This is SUPER useful for VMWare ESXi 8. I use 1 port for management, 1 port for VM traffic, 1 for VM traffic failover, and the final port for vMotion.

I plan to use two of these, 1 for my linux VMs and the 2nd for my Windows VMs.
40 watts total (on average) is so much better than what its predecessor was pulling. Selling the mobo and CPU from that build funded both of the CW58s. Hooray for no new money spent. :pepesaber:

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