I have this at home and enjoy it. What will your work use it for?

Resource usage and storage would be the main things to look out for. Octi really does need ssds as hdds will slow it to a crawl, a good amount of ram is nice but not fully a requirement for home use

I think they are more efficient than years ago yes, but some chips are consuming more power overall too. Yes what took up 40u a while ago can now fit in 10u but data centers aren't reducing in size, they'll just fill that 40 with more hardware

You'd be surprised, check out Hardware Heaven on YouTube, they may have something for you

I use a TP Link ER605 and it works well. I had to ciall my ISP to get it enabled but that says easy.

I know you said you haven't got any PCI slots available, do you have any M.2 slots available? You might be able to get a M.2 to ethernet if so.

Fastest ever stock CPU sure. But I believe there was some old AMD CPU that got overclocked to more than 8Ghz!

Guess I'm eating a lot of waffles from now on

Or a calzone, depending on the pie

The whole 1gb is fine sounds like the old "nobody will need more than 64k of ram" is all

I've ran cat 6a in my home as when I'm sure to upgrade the devices I don't want to have to redo all the cabling. I am looking at moving up from 1 Gb/s already as I can easily max out the connection when transferring data over the network, like a backup to a different system.

Hell, I'm pretty sure we have ISPs here in EU thag offer 2Gb WAN.

In terms of significant developments, more and more PCs are currently making the move to 2.5gb networking too

GPU passthrough using Nvidia cards might be a bit tricky. With older cards they would error out when being passed, although this may be different these days.

The invite is dead FYI