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Without raytracing benchmarks, turn off FSR and DLSS, it is not showing the full performance difference.

It looks good. I will be building a 14th Gen i3 system with 6 cores to use as a pfSense router.

Since money is a concern, look at buying AM4 with a higher priced B550 motherboard, 5800x3D processor, for RAM look at 3600Mhz, you can keep everything else.

That patform is end of life but will be a real jump in performance, more cores and more cache. You could then upgrade in 2 years to an X770 board, DDR5 will be much lower priced, and AM5 will be a lot more ironed out with better graphics built into processors.

Pine64 is an open hardware ARM chip. It can BSD, Linux, maybe Windows On ARM, I see no point in using it for Android, but you can run the Arm version of any BSD or Linux.

There is no Pine version like Pi, anything that works on ARM will run natively on Pine64.

I have only seen 2.5Gb on ATX boards, is it available on SoC? Does a Pine64 board work for you?

Are you not uo to building a PC to have lots of storage connections, 2.5Gb LAN, running TrueNAS?

Would a Pine64 board not work for you? The ROCKPro64?