Thanks for the tips. Will look into it.

I thought it might be a good idea to buy something with firmware-support, since I can’t flash coreboot onto it. But the main reason I want to build this PC is that, my current hardware heavily limits what I can do with it.

You are right the build could probably handle more, but I don’t need anything fancy. Anything beats the setup I have now. The monitor is basically just included because I need something with a higher refresh rate, than my current monitor allows.

Thank you for your response. I don’t have many issues on the software side of things. I’m currently using vanilla arch with btrfs and am quite happy with it. I just never build a PC before, so I was asking for some additional tips on the hardware side of things.

Since you have a similar setup. I have a question for you. The motherboard was released in 2023. I’ve read that most suppliers drop the firmware support after 3-5 years.

What I am asking is, is it worth in your opinion to buy this motherboard or should I look for a newer model instead?

There are two reasons why I chose a newer CPU. The first is, that I wanted to future-proof it, that was before I knew of the 13th/14th-gen issues. The second is, that I intend to use this machine for emulation. More specifically PS3-emulation. Because this requires a powerful CPU, I thought newer is better. But I will look, if a 12th generation CPU is enough to get the job done. Which CPU from the 12th gen would you choose?

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There are more, but sadly the selection is still very limited. Another issue is that you have to buy dasharo, since there is no coreboot support from a free distro like libreboot, yet.

That is sort of a surprise. Sort of, because I am not yet sure, if I can make it work. It will be part of a later post, but first I need to make sure the internal parts work. The linked articles and videos, suggest buying Intel 13th/14th generation is like playing lottery and the faulty vender bios configurations do not make things easier.

Thank you for this interesting information. I use systemd-boot with secure-boot. I do not know if it has the same issue, but I hope not. If it does, I might consider switching my boot loader or when nmbl is ready ditch it entirely. Like thingsiplay mentioned though, it still might be a good idea to use an iGPU for debugging purposes.

I have seen that. I am currently reading the article linked by thingsiplay. When I am done absorbing the information, I will edit my post and incorporate the information into it.

Thank you for this information. In my research about these chips I have not stumbled upon this issue, since intel seems to be tight lipped about this issue. The seem to blame the high failure rate on the motherboard manufactures and suggest that they are caused by a wrong voltage configuration.