Last modified: 2024-12-20 11:29
| 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 8× PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 560 16CU 2GB GDDR5 OC V3 |
| GPU 2 hwdec | MPEG2, H264, HEVC, VC1, JPEG/MJPEG |
| Net 1 | i217-LM Intel PRO/1000 (e1000e) |
| Net 2 | i210 Intel Gigabit Ethernet (igb) |
| Net 3 | USB 3.0 Netis WF2190 AC1200 RTL8812AU 802.11ac WiFi |
| Sound 1 | Intel HDA HDMI/DP |
| Sound 2 | Realtek ALC892 |
| Sound 3 | AMD Baffin HDMI/DP [Radeon RX 560] |
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. It was hard to find a suitable replacement. This was the best I could do, an open box board from Newegg.
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."
Not unique to this PC, but Firefox is unable to display 4k video on the Intel integrated graphics without stuttering and dropping frames. No such trouble occurs when mpv plays 4k video to igfx. It has nothing to do with hwdec. I added the AMD GPU to work around the problem (successfully).
The WiFi works well but is using an out-of-tree kernel module. This might be resolved in kernel 6.13.
