Build 391 – Forensic Rocky 11: General Workstation

Forensic Rocky 11 is a general workstation, designed around a 6-core Ryzen 5 9600X processor and onboard graphics.

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General Workstation

Description

Forensic Rocky 11 is a general workstation, designed around a 6-core Ryzen 5 9600X processor and onboard graphics.

General System Design

This build is designed around a 6-core Ryzen 5 9600X processor and onboard graphics.

Software Workload/Customer Need

This customer needed a powerful new workstation to handle their growing professional workload that would last a long time.

This system is designed for downloading and transferring large files. Solid stability was needed, but no heavy-duty processing would be done.

This build is similar to our Ryzen 9000 SFF Workstation.

System Spec

Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin MINI​

Motherboard: Gigabyte B850M EAGLE WIFI6E ICE

Memory: Kingston Fury Beast 2x16GB ​DDR5-6000

OS Storage (NVME): Western Digital Black SN850X 2TB

Power Supply (PSU): be quiet! Pure Power 12 850W

Case: Lian Li A3-mATX Black Mesh

OS: Windows 11 Pro

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Design Rationale

  • The Ryzen 5 9600X gave the customer a good amount of single-core performance for general use.
  • To ensure the CPU runs at full speed, air cooling is recommended.
  • The customer wanted a stable motherboard with a good amount of desktop functionality.
  • For the relatively low-power requirements, we recommended 32GB of memory.
  • We recommended a single 2TB NVME, to save on cost and give the customer a decent amount of local storage
  • The customer does not need a dedicated video card.
  • The overall design of the build meant that a 850W power supply was recommended.
  • We used a SFF case to fit the build.

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