I see nothing wrong with the CX750M PSU [0]. What do you consider good guts? Compared to the macbook charger, which gets fairly hot under load, I see it as more capable.
2. Cooler cost has very little to do with performance. Thermalright units compete with liquid coolers for a fraction of the cost[1].
3. What does a macbook case offer? Holes for ports and the keyboard, hinge for the LCD. The components themselves do the work. What does a ~$50 case [2] not do? Plenty of cooling, mounts all your components.
4. For llama.cpp text generation, an M3 pro does ~31 tokens per sec with the Q4_0 profile[3]. A 3070 does ~34 tokens per second [4].
WRT the motherboard, I'm not sure what did I suggest upgrading? I recommended cheaper parts than the original post.
2. Cooler cost has very little to do with performance. Thermalright units compete with liquid coolers for a fraction of the cost[1].
3. What does a macbook case offer? Holes for ports and the keyboard, hinge for the LCD. The components themselves do the work. What does a ~$50 case [2] not do? Plenty of cooling, mounts all your components.
4. For llama.cpp text generation, an M3 pro does ~31 tokens per sec with the Q4_0 profile[3]. A 3070 does ~34 tokens per second [4].
WRT the motherboard, I'm not sure what did I suggest upgrading? I recommended cheaper parts than the original post.
[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-cx750m-2021-pow... [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermalright-peerless-a... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Zalman-Computer-Workstation-Preinstal... [3] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4167 [4] https://kubito.dev/posts/llama-nvidia-3070-ti-benchmarks/#pe...