This post is a bit borderline, so I can take it down if you think it’s inappropriate for this community (tag @otter@lemmy.ca for a faster response). These computers are often suggested by various selfhosting tutorials so it might be interesting to see how they’re made.
I bought one of the extremely generic ones with the heatsink build into the top and it lasted a single month.
Id have expected thousands of cheap ARM boards with 8 core cpu’s by now for cheap, instead raspberry pi’s are now over 100$.
Minisforum are pretty well regarded.