My Equipment: Home Office Computer 2022

Computer Unit (assembled in August 2022)
ComponentManufacturer / ImporterModelComment
Case Lian-Li Industrial PC-B25F
  • 3 x external 5,25" device bay
  • 1 x external 5,25" device bay can be converted to an external 3,5" device bay
  • 6 x internal 3,5" device bay
  • 2 x 120 mm system fan in front
  • 1 x 120 mm system fan in rear
  • 2 x 140 mm system fan on the top
  • 2 x USB 2.0 I/O port
  • 1 x e-SATA I/O port
  • HD and AC97 audio I/O ports
  • Removable top cover
  • Removable front panel
  • Cable management
  • ...

The case was already in use by my previous Home Office Computer 2014.

A special front panel has additionally been mounted to provide some USB 3.0 ports now (see below).

Front Panel Ganz Einfach GmbH (Importer) CSL USB 3.2 Gen 1 Front Panel
  • 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A port
  • 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type C port
  • 1 x SD slot
  • 1 x Micro SD slot

CSL is one of the brands owned by the company Ganz Einfach GmbH .


Power Supply Sea Sonic Electronics FOCUS PX-550
  • 80 PLUS Platinum Certified
    • 92% efficiency at 50% system load
    • ...
  • 550 W Total continuous power
  • Multiple 12 V output
  • Tight voltage regulation (12 V, 5 V and 3,3 V) [±3%]
  • Multi-GPU technology support (6-Pin and 8-Pin PCI-E connectors)
  • 120 mm fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) fan
  • Hybrid silent fan control
    • Fanless mode if load less than 30%
    • Silent mode if load between 30% and 50%
    • Cooling mode if load more than 50%
  • Highly reliable Japanese 105 °C Aluminum electrolytic capacitors
  • OCP - Over current protection
  • OPP - Over power protection
  • OTP - Over temperature protection
  • OVP - Over voltage protection
  • SCP - Short circuit protection
  • UVP - Under voltage protection
  • Fully modular cabling design
  • Compact size (L x W x H): 140 mm x 150 mm x 86 mm
  • ...
Mainboard ASUSTek Computer ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING
  • AMD socket AM4 supporting AMD Ryzen™, AMD Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega™ Graphics, and AMD Athlon™ with Radeon™ Vega™ Graphics processors (list of supported CPUs)
  • AMD socket AM4 chipset B450
  • Supports (Dual Channel) DDR4 non-ECC memory up to 128 GByte (depending on the processor used) and
    • up to 2666 MHz without overclocking
    • up to 3200 MHz with overclocking
  • 2 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slot for AMD Ryzen™ processors (either one runs in x16 mode and the other one is disabled or both run in x8/x4 modes)
  • Multi-GPU support for AMD Ryzen™ processors
  • 1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slot for AMD Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics processors (supports x8 mode)
  • 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (max. at x4 mode)
  • 3 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slot
  • M.2_1 socket 3 with M Key, Type 2242/2260/2280 (PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA modes) storage devices support
  • M.2_2 socket 3 with M Key, Type 2242/2260/2280/22110 (PCIe 3.0 x4 mode) storage devices support (only functional for AMD Ryzen™ processors)
  • 6 x SATA 6 Gbit/s connector (the first four connectors support Raid 0, 1, and 10)
  • Intel® Ethernet Controller I211-AT
  • SupremeFX™ S1220A audio codec (see below section "Audio (onboard)" for detailed information)
  • HDMI and DisplayPort output support for AMD Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega™ Graphics processors
    • Supports HDMI 2.0b with maximum resolution of 4096 x 2160 at 60 Hz
    • Supports DisplayPort 1.2 with maximum resolution of 4096 x 2160 at 60 Hz
  • 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 port at the back panel (red-colored)
  • 6 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 port
    • 4 connectors at the back panel (3 x type A and 1 x type C)
    • 2 connectors on the mainboard
  • 6 x USB 2.0 port
    • 2 connectors at the back panel
    • 4 connectors on the mainboard
  • ATX form factor 30,5 cm x 24,4 cm
  • ...
There are some limitations (as usual):
  • The PCIe 2.0 slot named "x16_3" shares bandwidth with the PCIe 2.0 slots named "x1_2" and "x1_3".
  • When the M.2_1 socket 3 is operating in SATA or PCIe mode, the SATA 6 Gbit/s ports named "SATA6G_5" and "SATA6G_6" will be disabled.
  • When the M.2_2 socket 3 is occupied by an M.2 device, the PCIe 3.0 slot named "x16_1" will run at x8 mode.
CPU Advanced Micro Devices Ryzen™ 5 5600G "Cezanne"
  • 6 CPU cores
  • 12 threads
  • AM4 Socket
  • Zen 3 processor architecture
  • TSMC 7nm FinFET processor technology for CPU Cores
  • 3.900 MHz base clock (average effective base frequency of all cores)
  • Up to 4.400 MHz boost clock (for a single core)
  • 64 KB 1st level cache per core
    • 32 KB data
    • 32 KB instructions
  • 512 KB 2nd level cache per core
  • 16 MB 3rd level cache
  • Up to 3200 MT/s system bus (memory)
  • Integrated AMD Radeon Vega Graphics capabilities (see the below section "GPU" for more details)
  • 65 W Default TDP
  • 45 W / 65 W Configurable TDP (cTDP)
  • ...
RAM Corsair Memory VENGEANCE® LPX CMK32GX4M2A2666C16W
  • 32 GB capacity (2 x 16 GB memory modules)
  • DDR4 SDRAM memory type
  • 2.133 MT/s (PC4-17000) SPD speed
  • 15-15-15-36 SPD timing
    CAS Latency (CL) = 15
    RAS-to-CAS-Delay (tRCD) = 15
    RAS-Precharge-Time (tRP) = 15
    Row-Active-Time (tRAS) = 36
  • XMP 2.0 support
  • 2.666 MT/s (PC4-21300) tested speed
  • 16-18-18-35 tested timing
    CAS Latency (CL) = 16
    RAS-to-CAS-Delay (tRCD) = 18
    RAS-Precharge-Time (tRP) = 18
    Row-Active-Time (tRAS) = 35
  • 1,2 V working voltage
  • Aluminium head spreader (white-colored)
  • ...
GPU (integrated) Advanced Micro Devices Ryzen™ 5 5600G "Cezanne" (see also above section "CPU")
  • Integrated AMD Radeon™ Vega™ Graphics capabilities based on the GCN 5.1 architecture
    • 7 graphics cores
    • 1.900 MHz graphics core frequency
    • 448 unified shaders
    • 28 texture mapping units (TMU)
    • 8 render output units (ROP)
    • 7 compute units (CU) - each of them consisting of
      • 64 shader processors
      • 4 texture mapping units
    • 1,7024 TFLOPS processing power
    • Maximum 16 GB GPU memory support
    • Vulkan Graphics API support (successor of AMD's revolutionary Mantle API)
    • DirectX 12.1 support
    • OpenGL 4.5 support (Note that this API has been superseded by the aforementioned Vulkan Graphics API)
    • DisplayPort 1.4 (3840x2160@60Hz) support
    • HDMI 2.0b (3840x2160@60Hz) support
    • AMD FreeSync 2 support
    • H.265 encoding & decoding support
    • VP9 decoding support
    • AMD Eyefinity support
    • ...
Audio (onboard) Realtek Semiconductor SupremeFX S1220A
  • 7.1-channel HD audio codec
  • Simultaneous 7.1-channel playback
  • Up to 32-bit/192 kHz playback (due to limitations in HDA bandwidth, 32-bit/192 kHz is not supported for 7.1-channel audio)
  • High quality 120 dB SNR stereo playback output and 113 dB SNR recording input
  • 10 DAC channels
  • SupremeFX shielding technology
  • Dual operational amplifiers
  • Independent 2.0-channel output
  • Impedance sense for front and rear headphone outputs
  • Multi-stream stereo to the front-panel outputs
  • Jack detection
  • Front panel jack retasking
  • A customized version of the Realtek ALC1220 codec (according to the Google KI "Gemini")
  • ...
SATA Controller SYBA Multimedia IOCrest PCIe to SATA Controller SI-PEX40156
  • ASMedia ASM1064 chipset
    • PCIe 3.0 x1 interface
    • Automatic detection of lane configuration on boot-up
    • Supports transfer rate of 2,5 Gbit/s (320 MB/s), 5 Gbit/s (640 MB/s) or 8 Gbit/s (1 GB/s) per lane
    • 4 x SATA 6 Gbit/s port (bootable)
    • AHCI SPEC Rev. 1.4
    • Supports NCQ
    • Supports port multiplier command-based switching
    • Supports port multiplier FIS-based switching
    • ...
SSD #1 Corsair Memory Force Series™ MP510 240GB M.2 SSD
  • 240 GB capacity
  • 3D TLC technology
  • PCIe 3.0 x4 interface
  • Up to 3100 MB/s sequential read
  • Up to 1050 MB/s sequential write
  • Up to 180.000 IOPS for 4KB random read
  • Up to 240.000 IOPS for 4KB random write
  • 400 TBW warranty
  • M.2 2280 form factor
  • ...
SSD #2 - #3 Samsung Electronics MZ-76E250B/EU (860 EVO 250GB)
  • 250 GB capacity
  • Samsung V-NAND TLC technology
  • Samsung MGX controller
  • SATA 6 Gbit/s interface
  • Up to 550 MB/s sequential read
  • Up to 520 MB/s sequential write
  • Up to 10.000 IOPS for 4KB random read(QD1)
  • Up to 42.000 IOPS for 4KB random write(QD1)
  • Up to 98.000 IOPS for 4KB random read(QD32)
  • Up to 90.000 IOPS for 4KB random write(QD32)
  • 1.500.000 hours MTBF (reliability)
  • 150 TBW warranty
  • 2,5" form factor
  • ...
HDD #1 - #2 Western Digital WD10EZEX (WD Blue)
  • 1 TB capacity
  • CMR technology
  • SATA 6 Gbit/s interface
  • 64 MB cache
  • 7.200 RPM performance class
  • 3,5" form factor
  • ...

Citation from the data sheet:

Western Digital WD Blue 3.5-inch PC hard drives deliver solid reliability for office and web applications, and they are perfect for extra storage for desktop PC computing.


Keep in mind, that a computer scientist calculates as follows:

  • 1 KB = 1024 bytes
  • 1 MB = 1024 x 1024 bytes
  • 1 GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes

Whereas an HDD manufacturer calculates the capacity of a harddisk as follows:

  • 1 KB = 1000 bytes
  • 1 MB = 1000 x 1000 bytes
  • 1 GB = 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes

As a result, HDD maintenance software often shows a lower capacity than specified by the HDD manufacturer.

HDD #3 - #4 Western Digital WD7500AARS (WD Caviar Green):
  • 750 GB capacity
  • CMR technology
  • SATA 3 Gbit/s interface
  • 64 MB cache
  • 5400 RPM performance class
  • 3,5" form factor
  • ...

Citation from the datasheet:

WD Caviar Green drives make it possible for energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.


Keep in mind, that a computer scientist calculates as follows:

  • 1 KB = 1024 bytes
  • 1 MB = 1024 x 1024 bytes
  • 1 GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes

Whereas an HDD manufacturer calculates the capacity of a harddisk as follows:

  • 1 KB = 1000 bytes
  • 1 MB = 1000 x 1000 bytes
  • 1 GB = 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes

Therefore software for the maintenance of HDDs often displays a lower capacity than specified by the HDD manufacturer.


The HDDs were already in use by my previous Home Office Computer 2014.

DVD Writer ASUSTek Computer DRW-24D5MT
  • SATA interface
  • M-DISC support
  • Read speed
    DVD±R 16X
    DVD+RW 13X
    DVD-RW 8X
    DVD-ROM 16X
    DVD±R(DL) 12X
    DVD+R(SL, M-DISC) 12X
    DVD-ROM(DL) 12X
    DVD-RAM 5X
    CD-R 48X
    CD-ROM 48X
    CD-RW 40X
    DVD-Video Playback 6X
    Audio-CD Playback 10X
  • Write speed
    DVD±R 24X
    DVD+RW 8X
    DVD-RW 6X
    DVD±R(DL) 8X
    DVD+R(SL, M-DISC) 4X
    DVD-RAM 5X
    CD-R 48X
    CD-RW 24X
  • Size (L x W x H) 170 mm x 146 mm x 41 mm
  • 600 g weight (± 50 g)
  • ...
Software
CategoryManufacturerSoftwareComment
Operating system The Fedora Project Fedora Linux 36

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