Right now I was using my mechanical one to just store the games,
The games I am playing right now always get moved to my nvme drive,
but I got sick and tired of constantly moving install folders between drives.
(and with game sizes of 100+ gb, a 500GB nvme fills up rather quickly)
Now I’ll just keep all my games on the sata SSD and get rid of my steam folder on the NVME
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Nice! Have only had big spinning disks. Should speed up loading time of games too.
laptop memory and a desktop apu… i bet those vega cores are peppy.
If I find the time I’ll look for a stable overclock of the memory to help the gpu a bit.
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What no water cooler?
It can be done, but in the long run air cooling is more reliable.
Have not seen any “external closed loop watercoolers”.
Edit:
There is one: https://www.newegg.com/p/2YM-006S-000T3
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You have room inside?
Check this out on @Newegg: EVGA CLC 120mm All-In-One CPU Liquid Cooler, 1x 120mm Fan, Intel, 400-HY-CL11-V1
No, there is no room for a liquid cooling solution.
Check the specs of the deskmini:
http://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20X300%20Series/index.asp
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That is what I am doing right now as well.
The same plan that I have. Hopefully I can get it in the next couple of months. I just upgraded my monitor.
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nothing a return policy couldn’t undo 
(now there’s your intervention)
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I really love your little machine.
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I have a 1Tb nvme drive for my linux and it’s never enough.
Just bought and installed a monitor arm:
might have to try Ikaragua with the screen rotated.
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That 4750g is a monster!
Amazing Nuc’ish built.
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if i had it to do over again, i would buy this case instead and spend the extra 10$
Thermaltake Core V1 SPCC Mini ITX Cube Gaming Computer Case Chassis, Interchangeable Side Panels, Black Edition, CA-1B8-00S1WN-00
it’s more square 2-4 inches larger that the one i bought and has the power supply on the bottom where it belongs, plus there’s easily room for a water cooler if you want one. the power supply i bought was 700w and to long and ran into the mounting bracket for the ssds. Though my motherboard has room for 2 nvme drives so if i fill those i dont need the ssd mounting bracket in th case i bought.
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Monitor arm was a game changer for me…
cleaned up my desk a lot.
I could never go back to a stock monitor foot
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I must be tired today because my first thought was what is this MONITOR distro and why is it ARM architecture and not x86. 
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Got myself a new firewall box from Protectli. Gonna put pfSense on it and stop all the ads.
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you could have always just mounted it to the wall to clear the desk space. prolly not as convenient though but considering the price between wall and desk mounts…?
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I opted for the arm because I didn’t want to damage my wall with extra holes.
Having a monitor stuck to my wall would’ve also been a bit too far away for comfort.
With the arm I got a whole range of movement to position my monitor.
When it’s in use I pull it a bit closer, when I want to play a game from the couch with a controller I pull it all the way to the edge of the desk, and when the pc is turned off, I push the monitor all the way back against the wall.
An arm also has the benefit you can route your cables along the back of it
I think I paid about 40 or 50 euro’s for my arm…
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As per the intel website, the i5 8250u takes a max memory is 32GB.
So Im guessing you put in a 32GB single dimm somewhere in there. So I suppose it should not give any problem because I want to upgrade my laptop too… 
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