Those are links that helped me to take my decisions; I guess they could be useful to anybody who thinks about building a new computer, or to upgrade some of the actual hardware. Read more

Human beings have long term, and short term memory – and I had problems with the latter… well, where was I? Oh, yes, human beings have long term, and short term memory… 😀 Computers are the same, with HDDs/SSDs for long term memory, and RAM for short term; so, let’s discover what I needed.

First, long term: I had quite some HDDs, full of previous projects, many in various progress from barely started to almost finished; the bigger ones will be used for the new workstation – one 2TB and two 4TB Seagate Barracuda. For the SSD, I got a small S3+ 120GB, and it will be used temporarily to store OS and programs.

Next step will be Read more

The heart is the most important “stuff”: without this, even well functioning brain, lungs, kidneys etc. could not be alive… and, in a computer, the heart is the PSU – power supply unit. A quite underrated component, often chosen mostly by the remains of the budget. But I had a bad experience with one of them, so I was ready to give it more importance than before – because, well.. it IS important, very much!

First of all: do you know how much power do you need? It is not a simple question, but luckily there is a very simple tool to find the right answer: a power calculator! Read more

Must decide which organ is a GPU… first, both lungs and kidneys are (usually) coupled in human beings (and other mammals), so, maybe, I must be forced to use two GPUs… Read more

I had a body (the case) and the brain (CPU); then, I needed a nervous system (the motherboard). ThreadRipper socket is called TR4, and it is NOT compatible with Ryzen AM4 socket, so I needed a, guess what? more expensive, dedicated motherboard, an x399.

There are not so many models available, in comparison to other sockets, but yet there are enough to be undecided… Read more

Let’s start with the kind of computer I wanted – or needed?
I thought about pre-built one, possibly a workstation – big, tough, durable, with selected hardware… all good things, but at premium price – a lot more of the sum of the parts prices… yes, I know that they should earn some bucks to put all the pieces together, but hey, a grand (sometimes), really?

It seemed I was forced to build my first custom made computer – pardon me, my first HEDT (High End DeskTop) – that is, a nice acronym to call a powerful (and usually expensive) computer… Read more

So, after decided I badly needed a new computer – a workstation, perhaps? Or a not-yet-identified “thing” that lately I knew be an HEDT (High End DeskTop)? I had to decide what I actually needed!

Let’s start with the CPU: it must be powerful, big, fast, with a lot of cores and threads, and be power hungry! 🙂 But mostly, it should be FAST… Read more

…after quite some time, the ultimate fan restoration workstation is alive! 😀

P.S. this is not an April’s Fool, and, if someone thought that… well, it’s understandable, because it was published on April 1st, so… but beware, do not joke with The ResolveR; it has a bad attitude! 😉