Recently, I built a new PC. Now, before I get into this I know what you're thinking. "Nick, don't you already have a Mac Studio and a nice Dell Precision workstation?" I did, but the Precision is getting older, and the Mac just couldn't run many games (because it's a Mac, duh). Instead, I wanted something that could run games pretty well without breaking the bank too much, and also be able to handle some AI projects I'd like to try out. So, I sold the Mac Studio to a friend in my Discord server (Nerd0017) and set out to build a new rig.

Sounds good, right? Well, this was the longest, most annoying build I've ever done. I've been out of the game for a while when it comes to modern PCs, so I enlisted the help of my friend Lyra to help design it. I had just been gifted a case from someone at work, so that was the starting point. If you want to read more about the pain, suffering, and eventual joy of building this machine, please take a look at Lyra's blog post here: https://lyranovaheart.neocities.org/nick99nack-amd-build. It's a great story.

For now, here are a couple pics and the specs!

HORIZON

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OS: Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC x86_64 (going to dual boot with Debian 12)

Host: X870 Pro RS

Display (DELL U3415W): 3440x1440 @ 60 Hz (as 2752x1152) in 34" [External]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (16) @ 5.25 GHz

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 9070 (15.38 GiB) [Discrete]

GPU 2: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (1.95 GiB) [Discrete]

Memory: 12.00 GiB / 61.59 GiB (19%)

Swap: 0 B / 9.00 GiB (0%)

Disk (C:\): 170.12 GiB / 1.20 TiB (14%) - NTFS

Thanks again to Lyra for all the help, from the planning, through all the setbacks, and finally to the testing and completion of the project!

May the 4th be with you!

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Bonus screenshot from Futureport '82, one of the reasons I wanted to build this thing in the first place:

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Many people don't know this, but Windows 2000 also had the compatibility mode feature that was in Windows XP, but it wasn't enabled by default.

To enable it, run the following command:

regsvr32 %windir%\apppatch\slayerui.dll

This will give you a compatibility tab on application shortcuts like this:

This is the funniest guestbook entry so far, sent from a dude who was banned from my Slingo chat last year for being a creep.