An exploration of the modern workstation design space.
A formidable machine for open source development.
A computer architecture research platform.
A colorful statement that draws the eye.
A vulgar display of power.

I stuffed my Magnum T10 (a legendary artifact from the now-defunct Caselabs) with as much hardware as she could fit. Based around an overclocked AMD ThreadRipper 3970X and 256GB of overclocked Kingston Fury DDR4, this machine is my day-to-day workstation for open source development, my work at Microsoft, and my own personal researches. The design aesthetic is maximalism at its purest and most arrogant. Translated from the German, it's the "black device", but you could call it my beautiful dark twisted fantasy.

Custom 3d-printed parts? ✅
Three D5s with 1200mm² of radiator? ✅
288TB of disk via 16x 18TB? ✅
Custom electronics to power same? ✅
1920x1080 embedded touch-sensitive display? ✅
...a Geiger counter? ✅

She's got just about everything you can put in a computer...except closed source. In addition to the many parts listed below, there is also a LSI SAS2008 SAS PCIe card, an Aquantia AQC107 10Gbps PCIe NIC, a HyperX PCIe 4xM.2 card, a FL1100 USB3 PCIe controller, a no-name 12V PWM+RGB hub, a no-name 5V+12V PWM+ARGB hub, several PCIe-to-12VMolex adapters, two buck converters to turn those into 12V+5V Molex, a Waveshare 5.5" AMOLED, a Raspberry Pi 3B controlling said AMOLED, a MEGA2560 Arduino, and an RHElectronics Geiger counter. I've written custom software for the Pi and MEGA for their attached devices, custom software to control the Corsair iCUE Commander Core XT, custom software to extract information from the Aquacomputer NEXT sensor, and a custom PID controller to manage fans and pumps based off ΔT.

Complete writeups, with more details than you probably want, are available here:
* February 2022 main build
* May 2022 upgrade

Schwarzgerät III runs Debian Linux Unstable (Sid).