Welp, I kind of redid my whole computer again. Replaced a few parts and the case to better suite the color theme with the GPU.
Asus TUF Z590-Plus WiFi mobo
64gb DDR4-3200 Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL
DeepCool AK620 tower cooler
Fractal Torrent Compact
All fans except the two stock Fractal 180mm front fans were replaced with Be Quiet! Silent Wings 4 Pro 140mm on the bottom, 120mm on the rear, and 120mm mounted to the CPU tower cooler
White Antec power cable extensions and cable combs
Built myself a very small (11 liters) NAS after getting a great deal on 123TB (8x 15.36TB) of SSDs. It’s built in the Silverstone CS280 and is powered by a 5700G. Full build log/pics.
I dig the awesome photography in the log! As for the NAS, I really wish there was something like this but way more compact. I did build one years ago but also ended up with quite a clunky thing. Rn I’m eyeing at something like the TS-i410X but that is able to run TrueNAS. Haven’t found anything yet though.
Fractal just introduced the North last week and I had to move everything over to this beauty of a case. This is so far, my favorite case…great thermals, super good Scandinavian looks!
Water: Hardware Labs GTS 280mm, Barrow CPU Pump/Block/Res, EK & Koolance Micro 90s, Corsair & Koolance T-Splitters, Alphacool 90° 10/13 fittings and EPDM tubing, EK Drain valves, Noctua NF-A14 PWM chromax.Blacks.
A lot more photos/details:
Inwin H-Frame (Pretty custom, left the acrylic window out of the second photo due to glare)
Ryzen 5800x
MSI Meg X570 Unify Motherboard
G Skill Ripjaws 128GB DDR4 3200
2x 2TB Firecuda Gen 4 drives
RTX 3080
Corsair RM850
Now that shes 2 1/2 years old, it might be time for a new build soon
I switched to Linux as a daily driver, so I built an all-AMD PC to go along with that move. Going the de-lid route was a bit on the unnecessary side, but why not. No custom loop this time, but that may change when time allows.
I switch between Debian and Fedora a decent amount for my Linux boxes. Between tiling window manager (Sway) pretty much always being set up the same for me and Flatpaks I don’t feel left behind not running a rolling release except for when I want to run brand new hardware.
Yeah, my homelab stuff is either Ubuntu or Debain. It’s just rooooooooock solid for that. I need to revisit tiling. I really enjoyed it when I used Manjaro i3 a ways back, but all my muscle memory is gone now lol.
Yeah, I’m pretty much all Debian for my homelab. Well… Proxmox and a bunch of Debian VMs.
TWMs are such a pain to setup the first time, but then kinda just fade into the background as something you never really need to think about, which is nice.