About Me
I'm a computer hardware and software enthusiast.
Professionally a software developer, in my free time I toy with hardware and write even more software, such as GPUPerfTests. Sometimes I also play some video games... sometimes.
I also do microprocessor annotations, trying to figure out and (mostly) guess what specific parts of the chip do. And I really like any form of parallel computing and virtualization, no idea why.
As for my tangible skills - yes this partly serves as a quick resume - I can program in C, C++, C#, Java and Python at a fairly good level, I'm also quite competent with webdev and Linux system administration as I've been running my own servers for various things for a long time. Of course from the hobby side of things I also know a thing or two about Verilog, FPGA development and embedded firmware development (ok, that last one I actually used to do professionally too).
Lastly some notable things I did or do that are not related to this site:
- I wrote and maintain one of the monitor testing tools HardwareUnboxed and MonitorsUnboxed use.
- I sometimes help either with testing or by providing technical expertise for various tech sites such as Chips and Cheese.
- Years ago I used to moderate, then administer, and then eventually host the now shut down Minecraft server Redstoner.
About the Machines
Now it wouldn't be a complete tech blog/website without a list and specs of the PCs I have and use. (and I'm also tired of referring people to pcpartpicker when they ask for specs).
Main Desktop PC
This is my primary PC I use for my day to day being, hobbies and gaming.
Specs- Intel Core i7-12700KF
- DeepCool AG620 (with 2x Arctic P12 fans)
- ASRock B760M Pro RS
- 2x 32GB Crucial DDR5-5200
- Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Jetstream 12GB (with 3x Noctua NF-A9x14 fans)
- Kingston KC3000 2TB NVMe SSD
- Western Digital SN750 SE 1TB NVMe SSD
- Mellanox ConnectX-3 10GbE SFP+ Add-in Card
- Seasonic Focus GX-650
- Inter-Tech IM-1 Pocket
- Corsair K95 RGB Platinum (Cherry MX Brown)
- Logitech G502 Lightspeed
- Native Instruments Komplete Audio 1 Interface
- Sennheiser HD 560S
- LEWITT LCT 240 PRO
- LG 32GK650F (1440p144 VA, Primary)
- Fujitsu E24-8 TS Pro (1080p60 IPS)
- LG OLED55BX (4K120 OLED, By the bed via a Club3D CAC-1377 optical HDMI)
Home Server & NAS
This is my main home server and NAS. Using Proxmox, it runs various virtual machines such as TrueNAS, pfSense, a VM running the home print server, a Bitwarden VM and also CI/CD VMs for my GitLab instance and more.
Specs- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X
- CoolerMaster Wraithripper
- GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME
- 8x 32GB Micron MTA18ASF4G72AZ-3G2B1 DDR4-3200 ECC
- 3x SK Hynix PE3110 960GB NVMe SSD
- 1x Corsair Force MP510 960GB NVMe SSD
- 8x Samsung PM983 3.84TB NVMe SSD
- 2x random 1TB 2.5" 5400rpm SATA HDD
- 3x Toshiba MG06 8TB 7200rpm SATA HDD
- Intel X550 Dual 10GbE (Onboard)
- Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro 40GbE QSFP+ with Noctua NF-A4x10 PWM
- Seasonic Focus PX 650W
- Fractal Design Define 7 XL + 3x Arctic P14 PST CO
Remote Server
This is the server this very website is hosted on! It is an auction server I rent from Hetzner.
Specs- Intel Xeon E3-1275 v6
- Fujitsu D3417-B2 (C236 Chipset)
- 4x 16GB Micron DDR4-2400 ECC
- Intel HD Graphics P630 iGPU
- 3x Samsung PM981 512GB NVMe SSD (root 3-way mirror, data pool RAID-Z1)
- Intel i219-LM 1GbE (with symmetric 1Gbit to the outside internet)