Ryzen 9 SFF PC

06 October 2019

This was a lot harder than planned but it’s done and working. pic.twitter.com/JL19s40GDt
— Wesley Moore (@wezm) July 20, 2019

I built this machine for work use. I started a new job in March 2019 that involves working with two compiled languages: Mercury and Rust. I wanted a machine with lots of cores/threads to keep the edit-compile-test cycle as short as possible.

Specifications

Component	Description
CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (Base: 3.80GHz, Boost: 4.60GHz, Cores: 12, Threads: 24)
CPU Cooling	Noctua NH-U9S
Case Cooling	Noctua NF-A14-PWM Noctua NF-A9-PWM
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X570 I Aorus Pro WiFi
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB), PC4-25600 (3200MHz) DDR4, 16-18-18-36
Storage	Samsung 500GB SSD, 970 EVO Plus, M.2 NVMe 3 × 250 Gb Samsung 850 SSDs in ZRAID ZFS pool
Case	Streacom DA2
Power Supply	Corsair 450W SF450 High Performance SFX
Graphics Card	Gigabyte Radeon RX 560 16CU Gaming OC
Display	2 × Dell P2415Q 23.8inch 4K (3840 × 2160) LCD