Power cord, Logitech K400 Plus and F170 wireless controller, and a wireless antenna included with purchase.Specifications: Computer Name: "Nanoha-01" (Mini-ITX Steam Machine Killer)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
Cores – 16 Threads – 32 Base Clock Speed – 3.50 GHz Turbo Clock Speed –4.73 GHz TDP - 105W GPU- NVIDIA Titan Xp Thermal Paste: Honeywell PTM7950
Thermal Putty: Upsiren UTP-6 and UTP-8 (GPU only)
System RAM: 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3200 SDRAM UDIMM (XMP profile is active) CAS Latency: 16-18-18-36 Max. System RAM per Official Documentation - 64 GB DDR4-5300 SODIMM
Storage:1.1 TB Western Digital Black2 Dual Drive (120 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD)
Four SATA 3.0 ports One M.2 NVMe slot
Motherboard:GIGABYTE Ultra Durable A520I AC Revision 1.4 Chipset: AMD A520 (Promontory PROM19 A) PCIe Version:3.0 BIOS: American Megatrends F23a TPM: 2.0
Expansion Slots: One PCIe x16 slot
Networking: Ethernet Controller: RealTek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC Max. Wired Ethernet Speed:1GbE WLAN Module: Realtek RTL8821CE (Wi-Fi 5 + Bluetooth 4.3) Case - Fractal Design Node 202 Black
System Fans - Two120mm Noctua Chromax NF-A12x15 PWM chromax.black.swap fans
Front I/O: One microphone jack One headphone jack Two USB 3.0 ports
Rear I/O (video outputs on motherboard unusable due the CPU lacking an iGPU): Four DisplayPort outputs
Three HDMI ports Two USB 2.0 ports
Four USB 3.1 ports One RJ45 Ethernet port One line-out audio jack
One line-in audio jack One microphone jack Operating System: CachyOS (Arch Linux) w/ KDE Plasma
Bootloader - GRUB
Filesystem - BTRFS
Power Input: 100-240V 4.5-9A 50/60 Hz Power Supply: EVGA Supernova 650 GM 650W SFX power supplyCapabilities: General Productivity (office work, programming, etc.) - Excellent Web Browsing – Excellent Video Playback:
Local Storage - 4K 60 FPS and videos play smoothly with no issues when VLC's hardware-accelerated decoding is disabled. Lower resolutions don't need to have that setting disabled for smooth playback.
YouTube - 1080p 60 FPS and 1440p 30 FPS content playback is smooth with no issues. Higher resolutions experience moderate hitching. 8K 60FPS content doesn't play well at all. Gaming – 1080p 60 FPS gameplay at high-max settings is easily possible with the Titan Xp with games such as Batman: Arkham Knight, GRID 2, X-Morph: Defense, and Vanquish. More demanding titles like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II struggle to run smoothly at 1080p 60 FPS without lowering graphics settings from the high and medium presets. Higher resolutions not tested. Emulation (tested in CachyOS) – PlayStation 1 games can easily be played at 16x the console's native resolution (Duckstation's max internal resolution). PS2 games, such as Ape Escape 3, Black, and Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, can be played up to 8K UHD (12x the console's native resolution) without any slowdowns, depending on the level of blending accuracy. Xbox 360 games and newer should run with no performance issues given her specs.BIOS Configuration:
BIOS has been updated to the latest version as of the time this listing went live. TPM has been cleared and is enabled.
All remote management features are disabled.
Secure Boot has been updated with the latest keys and is enabled.
PCIEX16 Bifurcation and Re-Size BAR Support has been enabled.
Gigabyte's APP Center download (Windows only) has been disabled.
CachyOS will come with the following configuration:
Absolutely no AI BS nor nagging ads, unlike Windows 11 All software that comes out-of-the-box with CachyOS Anything related to OS telemetry (if any) is disabled Blu-ray playback support (refer to Notes & Observations below for details)
Firewall is enabled and the profile is set to "Home"
Kernel scheduler set to scx_flash Some Windows wallpapers from the Frutiger Aero Archive Audacity - A free and open-source (FOSS) cross-platform audio editor
BibleTime - A Bible study program. Bottles – A program that allows you to run Windows programs in Linux via the Wine or Soda compatibility layers. Be aware that some Windows applications do not play nice with Wine or Soda unless they are running directly in the OS they were designed for via a virtual machine. Brave Web Browser – Several active blocklists, disabled telemetry, hidden Brave garbage such as Brave Rewards, and memory saver set to "Balanced". btop - A visually pleasing derivative of top. Useful for monitoring resource usage directly in the terminal. Cameractrls - An advanced camera control program for Linux. cachyos-gaming-meta and cachyos-gaming-applications - Contains various dependencies and programs for gaming purposes. Includes Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, and Steam. CPU-X - The Linux and FreeBSD equivalent to CPU-Z.
Flatpak and Flatseal - Adds Flatpak support along with a separate program for managing permissions for Flatpak programs.
hunspell and sonnet - Spell check libraries. American English set as default language.
LibreOffice (still) - A FOSS alternative to Microsoft Office. The particular version installed onto this system is from the stable branch.
OBS Studio - A FOSS screencasting and livestream program. ttf-mscorefonts-installer (e.g. Times New Roman) and a few other font packages - Installs some fonts commonly used in Microsoft Office. Said fonts are supported by LibreOffice. Strawberry Music Player - It does exactly what its name says. It supports Internet radio streaming as well (comes with various channels by Radio Paradise and SomaFM out-of-the-box). VLC Media Player – Disabled telemetry. Games: SuperTuxKart – Mario Kart, but with Linux project mascots.
Various KDE programs:
Kamoso - A simple webcam program.
Kdenlive - A video editor.
KMyMoney - A FOSS alternative to mainstream finance managers such as Quicken.
KolourPaint - A simple painting program similar to Microsoft Paint.
KWeather - A weather app.
Okular - A universal document viewer for Linux.
SomaFM as a bookmark in Brave. It is an independent, commercial-free Internet radio station that plays some great music, particularly their Groove Salad channel. It can also be accessed via the Strawberry Music Player.All of the above mentioned software has been obtained from their official repositories. I have nothing to gain in installing malware onto the computers I work on as I do not want to ruin your life nor spy on your distasteful browsing history.
Notes & Observations:
- For some reason, Steam and its games are limited to utilizing four CPU cores on this system, crippling gaming performance on any game that is slightly CPU-intensive. I don't know what causes this. The only fix for this problem to is to use the taskset command to allow Steam games to utilize more than four cores.
- Emulation performance is significantly better on CachyOS than Batocera. This is definitely related to the drivers the latter uses.
- Due to a recent influx of malicious packages in the AUR repository, AUR package managers such as yay has been omitted for better security. Use the AUR repo at your own risk.
- Blu-ray playback on PC without resorting to ripping the disc with MakeMKV or purchasing a license for a video player with Blu-ray support is somewhat difficult due to the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption nonsense that format uses. Several libraries and a key database are needed for video players such as VLC, which omit those files for legal purposes, to playback those discs. For your convenience, those files have been installed by yours truly and VLC has been set to skip the interactive menus due to compatibility problems with newer versions of Java (it’s used for making the fancy interactive menus on that format). Yes, Java is still a thing.Return Policy – 60 day return window. If a HARDWARE problem arises, DM me via messages first before creating a return request. If the problem(s) cannot be resolved, you can return the computer with ALL of its included hardware intact. Said hardware must be returned in its original condition. Please wipe the included storage device(s) beforehand as I do not want to know what you are up to.
This listing was written entirely with no assistance from AI.
