alt Hacker NewsThe RAM is soldered on all Halo Strix platforms because physics is getting in the way. With pluggable DIMMs the memory bandwidth would be halved, at best.
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I wonder if there were similar complaints when cache moved from motherboards to soldered on the cpu package.
Why is that? Why would soldering the connections vs plugging them in affect how much data per second they transfer?
That's fine, but not what I was commenting on so your comment is mostly irrelevant.
I was commenting on a brand based on repairability selling a product that's deliberately not repairable. It's a curious choice to throw away the branding that brought them to where they are, and hopefully not the start of a trend for their other devices.
Why not make a platform with a greater number of channels
He is still right. It is a desktop PC that is less repairable than all other desktop PCs, from a brand that is known to champion repairability. They had a reason for it, but could've chosen to not create more throwaway things.