After years of using an Apple Macbook Pro, it was time for something new. As Apple did not offer a computer to my needs, I decided to build one myself again in 2016.
| CPU | Intel Xeon E5-2680 V4 (14 cores, 28 threads @ 3.3GHz) |
| Motherboard | Asus X99 Deluxe-II |
| Graphics card | Sapphire AMD R9 390 |
| Memory | 64GB Corsair Dominator DDR4 2400MHz |
| Internal Storage | Samsung 950Pro 512GB M.2 nvme SSD Western Digital Blue SN550 500GB M.2 nvme SSD Crucial M4 1TB SATA SSD |
| Cooling | Full Custom loop watercooling by EK |
| Operating System | OpenSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Case | Phanteks Evolv ATX |
For backups and data storage, a Synology DS1815+ with 8x 4TB Seagate hard drives totaling 25TB usable storage, is setup in the network as well.
Now, in 2022 this machine is still more than capable for anything thrown at it.