Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
- Joined
- Jan 28, 2012
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- Location
- Concord, NH, USA
System Name | Apollo |
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Processor | Intel Core i9 9880H |
Motherboard | Some proprietary Apple thing. |
Memory | 64GB DDR4-2667 |
Video Card(s) | AMD Radeon Pro 5600M, 8GB HBM2 |
Storage | 1TB Apple NVMe, 4TB External |
Display(s) | Laptop @ 3072x1920 + 2x LG 5k Ultrafine TB3 displays |
Case | MacBook Pro (16", 2019) |
Audio Device(s) | AirPods Pro, Sennheiser HD 380s w/ FIIO Alpen 2, or Logitech 2.1 Speakers |
Power Supply | 96w Power Adapter |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 3 |
Keyboard | Logitech G915, GL Clicky |
Software | MacOS 12.1 |
For capability, I love my P9X79 Deluxe. It's everything you could ever want (sans the wireless being crap, but I think it's replaceable with a better adapter that can do at least 5Ghz N.) For a board that's going to be 3 years old from release in December, it's still pretty loaded. You might not notice it by looking at it, but there are 3 USB 3.0 hubs on this board, it is limited by PCI-E 2.0 1x for each hub (250MB/s) but for most purposes, that's a tolerable upper limit for each pair of USB 3.0 ports. Remember, it's almost 3 years old!
For stability, I have a First International Computer motherboard with a 2.4Ghz Celeron in the attic that is so rugged that you can over-volt the crap out of it and it will just take it. It's one of those boards that you can "drag through the mud" so to speak and it will keep on chugging. It was right as SATA was coming out too. It had two 1.5Gbps SATA ports and 1Gbps ethernet. I even tried a drive on the SATA and copied data off of it using gigabit and saw 100MB/s. Not too shabby for a skt478 board and piece of shit CPU. I do have 2GB of DDR memory it could take. I could indeed bring it back to life if I wanted to, along with an AGP 4x Radeon 9200.
For stability, I have a First International Computer motherboard with a 2.4Ghz Celeron in the attic that is so rugged that you can over-volt the crap out of it and it will just take it. It's one of those boards that you can "drag through the mud" so to speak and it will keep on chugging. It was right as SATA was coming out too. It had two 1.5Gbps SATA ports and 1Gbps ethernet. I even tried a drive on the SATA and copied data off of it using gigabit and saw 100MB/s. Not too shabby for a skt478 board and piece of shit CPU. I do have 2GB of DDR memory it could take. I could indeed bring it back to life if I wanted to, along with an AGP 4x Radeon 9200.
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