Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC

Re:Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini IT... by h14h on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @04:07PM (#43177412)

This isn't competing with normal desktops.

Better to think of it as a competitor to Mac Studio & Nvidia Digits, which are much less repairable by comparison. The soldered memory is an unfortunate reality of these "unified" memory systems.

The only way to get a traditional desktop with 96GB of VRAM is to spend upwards of $10K loading it up with 2-4 GPUs.

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Re:Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini IT... by pzo on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:50AM (#43288056)

I just wish they could provide additional options:

1) have ram soldered but provide also extra 1 slot for LPCAMM/LPDIMM ram. Soldered RAM would be used for GPU but external slower ram still could be used for non GPU related stuff (software) that doesn't require high bandwidth/latency.

2) I think motherboard will have 4 pads for ram and if you buy less 1-3 pads will be just having pins without chip. If they would sell memory chips and provide some tooling/documentations for specialised/certified shop they could solder those. You could still upgrade just not by yourself.

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