Most slicers work natively on Linux. I’ve used orca slicer and lychee in just past 24h.
As for modeling software freecad, blender obviously; onshape is browser based, so it should work; fusion360 is hard to get running, but from what I’ve heard it’s doable;
SOLIDWORKS can run in wine, but just barely - I’ve found it easier and more pleasant to run it in a windows vm
I meant in the context of the post where primary focus seemed to be using up the leftover bits of filament
Bambu allows you to automatically switch to a different spool from ams when you run out and continue printing, so this becomes unnecessary.
Do you have good brand for RAM in mind
I usually go with Crucial for desktop RAM, but that’s not a strong preference, but rather good price to performance ratio for the faster memory kits they have. Might not translate to ECC memory.
7600 has >90% of 7600x performance with a 65W TDP instead of 105W and it’s cheaper. 7900 non-x also has a 65W TDP despite having twice the cores. Both x and non-x can be pushed down to 45W by enabling eco mode in bios. Performance difference between 65W and 45W is less than 5%.
If X variant is very close price-wise to non-X go with X obviously, but otherwise don’t stress about getting the slower one, because for server workloads the difference is very small.
I mention that in the 3rd paragraph of my comment along with info that G CPUs don’t support ECC.
The only AM4 and AM5 motherboards I’m aware of that officially claim to fully support ECC are made by Asrock as their server sub-brand Asrock Rack. They are pricey AF - 500-600 euro for the motherboard alone. As a bonus you get 2x10Gb ethernet + separate ethernet port for remote management, including bios access and a bunch of other goodies.
I used one of those (Asrock Rack X570D4I-2T) for my NAS - it comes with 2 oculink ports, each of which provides 4x SATA.
Unofficially ECC works on many (possibly all) B an X chipset series motherboards as long as you are not using G-series CPU. If you google around you’ll find a bunch of unofficial confirmations from users of specific motherboards that it does work.
E.g. Asus PRIME B650M-R + Ryzen 7600 (non-x) is a good start and will cost you 250-300 euro total. LSI 9300 16I will add 16 SATA ports for another 50-60 euro. 200-250 euro for a 2x16GB ecc kit.
How many drives do you want to use?
To be fair it doesn’t run that great on Windows either.