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After the past two months of ordering hardware and waiting for equipment to arrive, I was finally able to build out and configure my home office to be the workspace I always wanted!
My workstation is now a liquid-cooled 4.7Ghz AMD Ryzen 9 with 16-cores (32-processors/threads) and a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card. It has a 2TB SSD for the Windows drive and a 12TB HDD for applications, games, and data. Our Network Attached Storage (NAS) is now a 48TB RAID configured as 4x12TB in a RAID-10 configuration giving me 24TB of addressable space with 4x Read and 2x Write. Using a bonded NIC over two CAT-6 ethernet cables, throughput has been fantastic. I use it to back up everything in the house as well as hosting Applications, Movies, Music, and Data. For latency-sensitive applications and games, I still run them locally on my gaming rig/workstation rather than from the NAS.
The display is 49″ 5K (5120×1440) DQHD monitor with HDR10 and 120Hz refresh rate. All of my apps and games have been running at 96-120fps now! My older HDMI and USB-C cables weren’t rated and certified beyond 4K/60fps, so I upgraded to USB 3.2 and DisplayPort 1.4 to drive the monitor at 8K/120fps. I never realized that cable certifications could make such a difference, but the resolution and performance has been obvious!
So, while Vicky has been enjoying her new home office, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying mine as well! I can finally develop for and host all the Docker, Kubernetes, Containers, and VMs I need for my job during the day while also do some serious gaming on the nights and weekends.
As much as I enjoy the recent news about the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox One Series X, I’m really in no hurry to upgrade from my PlayStation 4 Pro and my Xbox One X right now. With the new gaming rig and RTX 3080, my home gaming rig runs at much higher resolutions, frame rates, and detail than either. It would take a serious, exclusive game (like the sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn) that I couldn’t play on a PC to get me to consider either gaming console just yet.