Computer Collection: Phobos (Cerberus)
About
My second self built PC, which was first assembled in December 2019. It's been upgraded since. Phobos is a bit of a power hog and costs a lot per month to run, adding as much as £12.50 onto the last monthly electricity bill as of writing. Use of Phobos has been somewhat discontinued as I test Apophis.
Specs
- Case: Phanteks Eclipse P360A ATX Mid-Tower
- Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II ATX
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (Stock)
- RAM: 16GB (2x8GB) Kingston Fury Beast DDR4 3200MHz
- GPU: XFX AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT Merc 308 Black
- Main SSD: Samsung 980 500GB NVMe M.2 (Linux)
- Second SSD: Kioxia Exceria 240GB SATA 2.5" (Windows)
- Games SSD: Samsung 870 QVO 1TB SATA 2.5" (750GB Linux, 250GB Windows)
- Bulk games HDD: Toshiba P300 HDWD220 2TB SATA 3.5" (2TB Linux)
- Backup HDD: WD Elements 4TB USB 3.0 (4TB Linux)
- Photos HDD: Toshiba 1TB HDWV110 Surveillance SATA 3.5" in Iomega FireWire 800 enclosure
- OS: Fedora 40 Workstation, Windows 11 Pro
- PSU: Seasonic Focus GX550 550W ATX, 80 Plus Gold
- PCIe Card(s): Syba FireWire 800/400 (2x800, 1x400)
- Monitor: Dell S2421HS 24" IPS 16:9, 1920x1080
- Keyboard: Corsair K65 RGB mini (Cherry MX Red)
- Mouse: Steelseries Rival 3 Wireless
Trivia
- Phobos is named after the moon of the same name, orbiting Mars.
- Phobos can consume upwards of 150W when playing games.
- When playing YouTube videos, the whole setup can consume 130W. It's scary.
- I replaced the default Fedora bootloader (Grub) with rEFInd.