My Computer’s specifications

Wow. Whilst scratching around in the dusty corners of this blog, I realized that I haven’t updated this page since I wrote it back in 2009, a very long 13 years ago now. Things have certainly changed a lot for my hardware wise over the years. I went from the system that used to mentioned on this page on to a Core i7 3700K based computer for a long time, before moving onto my current Ryzen 2700X based system. There have been a lot of movements in the hardware world since I built my 1st PC, though progress isn’t as dramatic as the days of old.

For what’s it worth, the current specs of my PC is as follows:

• AMD Ryzen 2700X CPU
• 32GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 MHz RAM
• Asus ROG Strix X570-F motherboard
• Cooler Master Cosmos II Ultra Tower
• Palit Geforce RTX 2600
• Corsair H115i Platinum AIO cooler
• 512GB Samsung 970 Pro NVME SSD
• 1TB Mushkin Pilot NVME SSD
• 4TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
• LG Blu-ray XL writer
• Lite-On DVD writer
• TP-Link Intel based AX200 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card
• Generic Firewire PCIe card for my Nikon CoolScan 8000 film scanner
• Microsoft Sidewinder keyboard
• Generic USB mouse
• Dell UltraSharp 2015 24″ 1920×1200 60Hz monitor

That being said, I have ordered some upgrades to change things up for this PC:

• Cooler Master CM694 chassis – has a modern front panel with USB-C but still has 2 optical drive bays and has a windowed side panel
• Cooler Master MasterLiquid Illusion 360mm AIO cooler – This is actually compatible with the ASUS Aura RGB system, unlike the Corsair unit which is its own proprietary RGB system
• Cooler Master 120mm RGB fans that are Aura compatible
• Asus ROG keyboard and mouse that are Aura compatible. My beloved Microsoft Sidewinder mouse started acting up a few months ago and the keyboard is now also 15 odd years old. May as well get replacements that tie into the whole RGB ecosystem

A touch more medium to long term, I am going to look at possibly upgrading the Ryzen CPU to a 5000 series chip and also getting a newer Geforce GPU that ties into the Aura RGB system. There’s nothing wrong with my Palit 2060 at the moment, save that its white LED doesn’t fit into the system and the card also struggles a touch in some games giving a rock solid 60 FPS with every single bell and whistle turned to max. A 3060Ti type card should do better.

The Cosmos II tower is going to be reused to house my old Core i7 based system and will be turned into a pseudo server. I’ve ordered a HBA card to help me drive all the various hard drive and SSD units I will be putting into the chassis and I will playing around with Windows Server Storage Spaces as well as TrueNAS and whatever else catches my fancy.