A new daily-driver PC (some assembly required):
That photo was taken about six weeks ago, on the dining room table no less! The machine is assembled and running in my office now, which is not camera-ready. I'm loving the new machine! It has:
- Supermicro X13SAE motherboard
- Supermicro 732D4-903B case & PSU (largely because that's what was in stock)
- Core i7-13700K CPU (8P + 8E cores, 24 threads total)
- 2x16GB Micron DDR5-4800 ECC unbuffered RAM (for now)
- 2x256GB Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSDs in RAID-1
- Noctua NH-9US heatsink & fan
I'm just using the on-board graphics for now. So far it seems adequate for my rather minimal needs. (I don't need 3D performance.) It seems on the Core-series CPUs that the ones with onboard graphics support ECC while the ones without graphics do not support ECC. I find that odd, but it did save me the cost of a new graphics card.
Carried over from the old system is a dual-port 8Gb Fibre Channel card to connect to more storage.
It runs Debian/testing primarily. I also have VMs for various Windows versions.
I tend to replace my desktops every six or seven years, so the performance improvement on certain tasks (such as video transcoding or compiling large programs) is noticeable and greatly appreciated.
