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Physical Hardware

Basic Components


Compute

Processor

AMD Ryzen 53 3600X3200G - This processor was purchased to replace a much weaker Ryzen 3. Using the same socket (AM4) it provides the benefits of Zen 2 architecture at very reasonable price.

  • 3.8GHzbase,4.4GHzboost
  • 6-cores
  • Cores / 12-threadsThreads 4 / 4
    Base Frequency3.6 GHz
    Burst Frequency4.0 GHz
    Cache4MB L3 Cache
    TDP65W

    Motherboard

    Asrock B450M Steel Legend - Small form factor mATX board that is being reused from a prototyping project. Being an mATX board it is very limited in expansion.

    • CPU
      • AMD AM4 Socket
    • Chipset
      • AMD Promontory B450
    • Memory
      • 4x DDR4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory
      • Dual channel memory architecture
    • Video
      • 1x HDMI 1.4
      • 1x DisplayPort 1.2
    • LAN
      • 1x Realtek RTL8111H 1GbE LAN
    • PCI
      • 1x PCIe 3.0 x16
      • 1x PCIe 2.0 x16
      • 1x PCIe 2.0 x1
    • Storage
      • 1x M.2 PCIe x4/x2
      • 1x M.2 SATA x4/x2
      • 4x SATA3
    • USB
      • 1x USB 3.1 Gen 2 (Type-C)
      • 1x USB 3.1 Gen 2 (Type-A)
      • 4x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (Type-A)
      • 2x USB 2.0

    Memory