{justice} (Gaming Desktop)
Summary
Main gaming machine. Mini-ITX build.
Notes
Occassional instability after a fresh boot. The machine will just die within a couple minutes of booting. Then it will run great for long sessions.
Machine is a bit of a space heater so I often limit CPU power with Ryzen Master which also keeps the fan noise down.
Hardware
| Make | Custom |
| Year | 2018 |
| Model | Asus ROG STRIX X470-I Gaming |
| Chassis | Fractal Node 304 (Black) |
| Power Supply | Seasonic Focus 550 Gold |
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 5 2600X |
| Heatsink | Cooler Master Hyper 212 LED |
| Memory | 16GB DDR4 3600 Crucial Ballistix BL2K8G36C16U4B |
| Ports | 2x USB A 3.1 gen 2 |
| 4x USB A 3.1 gen 1 | |
| 2x RP-SMA Wifi | |
| 3x Audio Jacks | |
| RJ-45 LAN | |
| HDMI 2.0b (Inactive) | |
| 2x Front USB A 3.1 gen 1 | |
| 2x DisplayPort 1.4a | |
| 2x HDMI 2.0b | |
| DVI | |
| Graphics | - |
| Storage | 250GB M.2 Samsung 970 EVO |
| 1TB SATA Seagate Barracude ST1000LM048 | |
| 240GB SATA Inland SSD | |
| 128GB SATA Kingston SSDNow V SNV425S2128GB | |
| 128GB M.2 SATA Samsung 850 EVO (External USB for Linux) | |
| Display | 25" Dell U2515H 2560x1440 |
| 24" Dell U2414H 1920x1080 | |
| Int. Peripherals | Realtek 8822BE Wireless (a/b/g/n/ac, bluetooth 4.2) |
| Intel I211 Gigabit Ethernet | |
| Ext. Peripherals | HP Mixed Reality VR Headset (VR1000) |
| Dimensions | |
| Length/Depth | 38 cm |
| Width | 25 cm |
| Height/Thickness | 21 cm |
| Weight | TODO kg (lbs oz) |
Software
| Operating System | Windows 10 |
| Unique applications |
Log
Purchase and build
Bought most parts from Microcenter. Case on ebay. A few things elsewhere.
Build uses a small Kingwin 4x2.5" drive cage above the PSU for mounting storage devices. Did not use the drive mounts included with the Node 304.
Memory shuffle
I did some moving and upgrading of dreadnought, and decided to stick the DDR4-3600 sticks in here for a slight speed bump from 3200. I think that bumps memory bandwidth up from about 17 Gbps to 19.6Gbps (according to memtest86+).
Retiring from gaming
This machine was just a Windows gaming desktop, but I've moved most of that to my Linux workstation. I decided to retire it. Haven't decided on a new purpose yet.
The Node 304 case has room for up to six 3.5" hard drives given the right setup. Might be nice to migrate disk arrays out of chaos (Currently 8 disks).
Maybe a test Linux workstation for various things, even gaming. Not sure what I'll do with the digital Win 10 license tied to it.
Some of the parts, an SSD and the graphics card, already moved out to upgrade destroy.
Ideally I would upgrade the CPU in dreadnought, move that into stargazer, and then use the Ryzen 4350G in this machine. That frees up the PCIe slot, and leaves plenty room for hard drives. I think I would need to drop the tower cooler too.
Dismantled
This machine was dismantled. The motherboard, case, and PSU went to chaos. Everything else is spare parts (drives, 16GB DDR4-3600 kit, Ryzen 2600X). I have everything to build another full ATX machine up, but don't really have space to utilize it so I'm just retiring this iteration of justice.