Posted on: 3 August 2017

I built my computer today.

  • Casing: Fracture Design Define R5
  • Motherboard: Asus Prime X370-Pro
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
  • Water Cooler: NZXT Kraken X52
  • Graphics Card: ASUS ROG STRIX RX560 4G
  • Memory: 2x Corsair Vengeance 8 gb
  • Primary Drive: Kingston 2.5” 512 gb SSDnow KC400
  • Secondary Drives: 2x Seagate Barracuda 3.5” 4 tb ST4000DM005
  • Power Supply: Seasonic Prime 750W Platinum
  • And some simple USB powered speakers from Creative, model A50.
New computer parts
New computer parts

So far it has been a real breeze to build, the only setback I had with the new hardware was that the board would not POST BOOT for some reason. I pulled the second memory module from the socket and tried again and that worked. Installed Ubuntu 17.04 as my current OS, making it also my first Linux system to use as my main machine. After installing Ubuntu and shutting down I placed the memory module back and the system booted fine since then.

Fracture Design Define R5 casing
Fracture Design Define R5 casing