Yurei - my first PC - is finally complete, 6 months later!
| Type | Part | Paid / GBP | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motherboard | ASRock B550m-itx/ac | 140 | This one took a while to get ahold of for some reason |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5600G | 100 | Probably the easiest to acquire part of the whole build |
| GPU | AMD Radeon Pro v320 |
160 |
I love this card; single-slot, efficient, YInMn
blue. Unfortunately it's just not powerful enough for
me :( I'll be continuing to look for a wx9100 or a v320 at a reasonable price. 2023-04-29 update: purchased a v320 on Yahoo! Auctions for about 20000 JPY! The JPY is low right now so it was a pretty good price. Now waiting for shipping~
2023-05-05 update: well, ordering something from Japan
during Golden Week was bound to be slow I suppose :/
|
| PSU | Corsair sf750 |
120 |
For some reason the PSU has been the most painful part
of the whole build. The joy of small form-factor I
suppose... Plan to upgrade to a Corsair sf750 at some point
(probably sometime when I'm at uni)
2023-05-12 update: replaced with an EVGA 650GM so that I no longer have to fear my PC exploding or something I guess? 2023-05-23 update: replaced with a Corsair sf750 because the 650GM was making some strange crackling sounds. Also the sf750 has these nice clean cables so that's a plus :) |
| RAM | Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB | 0 | Got this for free from my brother :) |
| Cooler | Noctua NH-L12 Ghost S1 Edition | 35 | Works perfectly. Got this from eBay - I had completely forgotten about the auction and missed it, but the seller was kind enough to offer it to me anyway (all thanks to my boundless charisma and charm) and cancelled the winner's bid :p |
| Case | Louqe Ghost S1 | 190 | It should only have cost 140 really, but then taxes and
customs... Anyway, love this case. Somehow the C13/C14 cable
was faulty and tripped my breaker, so I'm waiting for a
replacement now.
2023-04-29 update: so I cancelled my previous order for a C13/C14 from a store I found, and then they sent me the cable anyway so I got a free cable, alongside the replacement from Louqe that's due to arrive at some point ha |
Total price: £745
/pc-saga/pc/gpu
Details about the V320:
The PCB appears to be the same
as
this engineering sample for the Radeon Pro wx 8200. If it's
anything alike, hopefully it comes with graphite paste for the
die! Well, that's probably being a little too hopeful though. If
temps are bad I may investigate and possibly use a graphite pad
if regular paste is used.
According to my research, the card was custom made for Google Stadia development nodes ( ref.) and are mostly only available from Japan. They seem to have been made with either 8 or 16 GB of HBM2 vram (or maybe even 12 according to some listings), but considering it was made with the same PCB as the wx8200 it will probably be 8GB. This one is the 8GB model, and uses Hynix vram (unfortunately). I believe the models using a 6+8 pin connector are the 8GBs, whereas those using a 8+8 pin connector (though I am starting to doubt their existence) use 16GB.
2023-05-23
Well, I received the card. At first my PC would
refuse to POST with it in - couldn't get to BIOS settings, no
keyboard leds etc.
I fiddled around in the UEFI firmware
settings a bit, and by some magic it began to work. In case I
need this for future reference, my changes were:
So onto the actual GPU features, it's almost silent on idle, drawing very little power and staying below 30°C.
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Currently running GNU Guix System. I love Lisp, and especially the grace and elegance of Scheme, and so an OS where the entire system configuration is defined entirely in Scheme was not something that I could not use and love, of course. Well, it has its quirks, but it's overall really nice to use; occasionally I run into an error with installing a package, but those times are rare and typically resolved in fair time.
2023-05-25
I created a Guix channel to hold my custom
packages and services
here. Currently
it has the
script
I use to set my GPU undervolt values and control its fan speed, and a
service
to start the script on system startup.
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