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<b>32 overclocked cores. 252TB spinning disk. 6TB NVMe. 256GB DDR4. And a Geiger counter.</b>
<b>32 overclocked cores. 252TB spinning disk. 6TB NVMe. 256GB DDR4. And a Geiger counter.</b>


My 2020 rebuild, [[Schwarzgerät_II|Schwarzgerät II]], was a beast of a machine. Like the Hubble or LHC, however, I had to give it more powah. The 2022 upgrade, Schwarzgerät III, does just that despite scrotumtightening supply chain madness. This rebuild focused on cooling, power, and aesthetics. I require that the machine produce sub-ambient noise (I live in the middle of [[Atlanta|Midtown Atlanta]]) when weakly loaded—I ought not hear the machine unless seriously engaged in active computation.
My 2020 rebuild, [[Schwarzgerät_II|Schwarzgerät II]], was a beast of a machine. Like the Hubble or LHC, however, I had to give it more powah. The 2022 upgrade, Schwarzgerät III, does just that despite scrotumtightening supply chain madness. This rebuild focused on cooling, power, and aesthetics. I require that the machine produce sub-ambient noise (I live in the middle of [[Atlanta|Midtown Atlanta]]) when weakly loaded—I ought not hear the machine unless seriously engaged in active computation. At the same time, I wanted to overclock my 3970X as far as she could (reasonably) go.


<blockquote>“But out here, down here among the people, the truer currencies come into being.”―<i>''Gravity's Rainbow''</i> (1973)</blockquote>
<blockquote>“But out here, down here among the people, the truer currencies come into being.”―<i>''Gravity's Rainbow''</i> (1973)</blockquote>