alt Hacker News> Biggest install cost is labour.
Okay? If I had to run cabling through a wall, I'd make sure the guy sets it up so that I can use the cable he installs to pull new later. My time's free when I'm doing something that I don't mind doing, and I don't mind easy cable pulls.
> ...(200Gbps+)...
Don't you need 16x PCIe 4.0 for those guys? With everything other than workstation and server boards having exactly one 16x slot, you're "never" hooking that up to a gaming PC.
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MMF cable is quite a bit more expensive than SMF. The cost savings used to be in optics, but that distinction has fallen away.
Everyone needs a hobby, so if you want to replace the cable later on nobody’s going to stop you.
There was a time when we couldn’t buy a PC that could saturate 1Gbps ethernet, and that time wasn’t that long ago. Your cabling plant will outlive any hardware you buy today.
You can get boards with pci-e 5.0 x8/x8, which might bottleneck your gpu enough to see on benchmarks, but wouldn't bottleneck your nic, if you have a pci-e 5 nic (which might actually be a 400Gbs nic, whoops)
Anyway, priorities. Nic in the cpu slot, gpu in the chipset slot :p