Last modified: 2024-12-01 11:51
| Name | Haswell |
| Case | Apex TX-381-C Black µATX |
| CPU | Xeon E3-1245V3 |
| CPU year | 2013 |
| CPU arch | Haswell |
| CPU socket | LGA 1150 |
| Mobo | AsRock Rack Z97M WS |
| Mobo EOL year | 2015 |
| Mobo max RAM | 32 GiB (4×8 GiB) |
| Slot 6 | PCIe 3.0 ×16 (×8 when 4 is occupied) |
| Slot 4 | PCIe 3.0 ×8 |
| Slot 7 | PCIe 2.0 ×4 |
| RAM size | 16 GiB |
| RAM | Corsair Vengeance LP 2×8 GiB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) CML16GX3M2A1600C10 |
| HDD/SSD size | 112 GiB |
| HDD/SSD | SATA 6 Gb/s Samsung 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 120 GB TLC |
| GPU 1 | HD Graphics P4700 (HSW GT2) Gen7.5 |
| GPU 1 hwdec | MPEG2, H264, VC1, JPEG/MJPEG |
| GPU 2 | PCIe 16× EVGA GTX 970 FTW 4 GiB |
| GPU 2 hwdec | MPEG1, MPEG2, H264, VC1, JPEG/MJPEG |
| Net 1 | i217-LM Intel PRO/1000 (e1000e) |
| Net 2 | i210 Intel Gigabit Ethernet (igb) |
| Sound 1 | Intel HDA HDMI |
| Sound 2 | Realtek ALC892 |
CPU is Xeon not Core.
Mobo has dual Ethernet, PC speaker, a POST code display, and all the video connectors (VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, and HDMI).
The original ASRock H87M motherboard failed with silent corruption problems in 2018 and it was hard to find a suitable replacement.
The GTX 970 was pulled from lava 2023-12 when it began flaking out and falling off the bus at random intervals.
The CPU is overheating despite not overclocking. The airflow is not ideal as the side vent is in the wrong place relative to the CPU.
Microcode must be updated early to avoid hard lockups. Setup often locks up when saving changes because no microcode update can be loaded.
ALC892 is 7.1 but thus far I have confirmed only stereo. There are three analog jacks labelled line in, front speaker, and microphone. Reassignment of the jacks is not documented in the mobo manual. The linked product page says "All analog jacks (port-A to port-G) are stereo input and output re-tasking."
