- peripherals
- ✔ monitor
- ✔ Samsung: G9 95SC 5k ultrawide - $700 (refurbished)
- Dasung: Paperlike 13k Color - $750
- mounted on a stick, to the right. mobo HDMI. for text editing, coding, reading
- DP to mini-HDMI cable
- 3D monitor that supports GNU+Linux OR anything good for playing BG music videos, movies. eARC HDMI
- directly above G9, center. GPU DP 1.4
- CRT for retro games?
- off to the left side. mobo DP-VGA
- HID
- ✔ kb: System76: Launch
- ✔ mouse: Logitech MX Ergo
- trackball: Ploopy
- trackpad: Ploopy
- Knob: Ploopy (scrolling dial)
- ✔ drawing tablet: Xencelabs: Pen Tablet Small
- gamepads:
- ✔ Steam Controller v1
- Steam Controller v2 (2027)
- ✔ arcade fighter stick
- ✔ Logitech: Extreme 3D Pro flight stick
- JBL 1300X next gen w/ BT6.x
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- current
- ✔ mobo: Gigabyte: Z97X-Gaming 3 (was gift)
- upgrade: ASUS Z97-WS
- LGA2011, 64GB quad ch support, 2x PCI-E 3.0 x16,
- CPU: Intel: i7-4790k (was gift)
- i-7-4960X, socket 2011, 6c/12t, OC 4.5-4.8GHz
- cooler: be quiet!: Dark Rock Pro 3 (prev build)
- RAM: 32GB DDR3 OC (prev build)
- ✔ GPU: Nvidia 750 ti (was gift)
- GPU: 2x MSI: Radeon RX 570 4GB (prev build)
- upgrade GPU: Gigabyte: AMD Radeon™ AI PRO R9700 - $1,300
- 2x Tenstorrent: p150a ai accelerator cards
- PCI-E x1 to Firewire 800 adapter
- (note: LR PC use does not require 1394 nor pro audio recording card, studio does)
- optical audio mobo header
- replace fans with be quiet! Lightwings & Lightwings LX, 120mm & 140mm; Noctua everywhere else. 180-200mm, 40x20mm
- next build
- 2027 gen AI Pro GPU - $1,500
- motherboard: ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE - $1,000
- CPU: Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9965WX or similar - $2-3,000
- AI accelerator: (Tenstorrent: p150a - $1,400)
- RAM: 128-256GB ECC DDR5 - $2-5,000+
jun 16 2026 ∞
jun 28 2026 +