Ryzen 7 5800X + RTX 3070Ti "GPC"

Created: 2022-07-13

Named for the large purple robot "GPC" from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Paired with a 3440x1440 Ultrawide monitor. It can run Doom Eternal (using Proton of course!) at full resolution 160FPS Ultra Nightmare, or Nightmare with Raytracing. It puts out so much heat, it feels like I'm really there! ;-)

Front drive bays are going out of style, but I needed an optical drive and card reader for my Virtual Cable TV Network and to make discs for my retro computers.

The case fans are RGB, controlled through the motherboard. OpenRGB external link works for controlling the LEDs in the fans, GPU, and my Razer mouse, on Linux.

The internal card reader failed within a year, so I switched to an external one and put a retroCART in the bay. In April 2025, I upgraded the NVMe drive to a larger one.

Built	July 2022
OS	Kubuntu 22.04
CPU	Ryzen 7 5800X: 8 cores, 3.8-4.7 GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite Wifi
RAM	2x Silicon Power DDR4 3200: 32GB
GPU	Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
PSU	EVGA 750GS: 750 Watt Modular
Network	OnBoard Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth
Internal Storage	Original: Silicon Power PCIe Gen 3 M.2 2280 1 TB Current: Silicon Power PCIe Gen 4 M.2 UD90 2 TB WD Blue HDD: 4TB
Removable Storage	Blu-ray Writer, retroCART (replaced original card reader in 2023.)
Case	Fractal Desgin Focus G Gunmetal
CPU Cooler	Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4
Additional Cooling	3x Cooler Master MasterFan MF120 Halo