Battlestation

HP Z600 Workstation | Owned from 2019 to 2022

Battlestation was a HP Z600 Workstation enterprise surplus computer turned gaming computer. It was the first computer I used Arch Linux on and the last computer I daily drove Windows on, some time in 2020, I decided to switch from my Windows partition to my Mint partition I had at the time before completely reinstalling Arch over the entire system after seeing some videos about it. It was my most powerful computer until I built Battlestation's successor Starcruiser.

Battlestation holds a lot of memories for me due to the length I had it for and the amount of time I put into it.

The power supply was faulty and killed two GPUs, the RX 470 and a GTX 660. I lost the keys as well during moving and had to destroy the case to get the SSD out to put into Grapes after its HDD died in 2022. The parts have since been binned which I am still kicking myself for especially considering that I lost the paired Xeon CPUs.

• CPU: 2x Intel Xeon X5560

• GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 470

• Memory: 16GB

• Storage: 250GB SSD, 500GB HDD

• OS: Arch Linux