It should be noted, starting several years ago AYB started using names of celestial objects in naming PCs instead of those that studied celestial objects. It just seems right to do so.
With the recent passing of Arcturus from motherboard failure, some parts were recycled, money spent and I now bring you this:
So, all the storage and memory were harvested from Arcturus. Sadly, the most defining thing about Arcturus was the chassis, which like the star, was a nice, happy orange will be sold as I have no further use for it. I found the ITX factor too small, expensive and limiting for a main PC. As a media PC having only one optical drive bay is insufficient.
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Posted on: 2022-07-30 12:07:11.000
one update, Arcturus had mixed memory speeds. Being ITX factored, it only had two memory slots, as such it was initially purchased with one 8 gig stick of DDR4 2400 and later an additional 8 gigs was paired with it at 3000. These low end, mismatched DIMMs now reside in Mizar.
While these worked fine for a Skylake i3, they are inevitably holding a high-end rocket lake i5 back, as is the RX460 which was the "bargain pick" of five years ago. Mizar has the CPU of an upper/middle rig, which is the first time AYB has gone to that level since he had a dual Athlon MP rig back in the late 90s.
DCS here AYB comes!.....maybe. Its going to be interesting how the GPU market plays out. I am hoping we see sub $200 3060's. One of these will require a PS upgrade. The existing one too was wed to a system that was intended to be low-powered.
Mizar exists on the corner of an L-shaped desk on top, while Alcor is on the right underneath, right against my knee. Both are attached to one old Dell monitory via KVM. Alcor's primary purpose is a media server running PLEX. Alcor is built upon the chassis and power supply of my old Core2 system, Ptolemy, with a much newer 4th gen i5 on a Lenovo motherboard purchased (cheap) second hand.
Alcor has nearly 8000 audio tracks, over 1100 films, and 46 TV series. Both run Windows 10, which I don't particularly enjoy....