Brief

My daily driver PC.

Specs

Story

Origin

Direct successor to doromi tul 1 not because it broke, but because my needs grew beyond what the first model could handle.

It was also my first computer assembled from scratch, which you might find surprising considering what kinda person I am but hey there's a first time for everything.

I got it for my birthday in 2025 RIGHT before RAM prices spiked, which is why I was able to get that 32GB DDR5-6000 kit for only 500zł (or even 400? I don't remember exactly).

I still remember being hyped about the fact I found an rx 6900 xt for only 1400zł at the time. The original plan was to get an rtx 5070, but Hickensa recommended me to get the rx 6900 xt instead since it's cheaper and for most use cases comparable (and hey, the linux driver situation is better).

I was originally planning to also get a ryzen 7 instead of a ryzen 9, the reason I picked the ryzen 9 was because the original plan was to run 2 user-facing VMs alongside one another, which I never actually did lol (well kinda).

Usage

When I got it, I was still attempting to keep the fully virtual + remote workflow from doromi tul 1, which had a maintenance so annoying I decided to just go bare metal anyways.

Okay, but I didn't just upgrade to get more FPS, that's not really what I upgrade for. What this upgrade really meant for me was a new unlocked ability. I finally had hardware powerful enough to even think about local inference.

16GB, while still very little, has enough space to fit Gemma 4 A4B (quantized @ IQ3_S) alongside with a few gigabytes of KV cache.

It was also the first device I ever attempted to render a serious Blender animation (the ZenOS intro).