Current Setup

This page contains a detailed listing of my current setup. Every piece of hardware on this page has been chosen to fill a need. Each part was chosen either because it was the highest performing part available, specced to fill a use case, or it was a significant value in some way.

All development work is done on the Macs as is most general productivity work and writing for this site.

Some older items may no longer be available. Attempted to note said items if there is a newer version.

If you have any questions about anything on this list, please feel free to email comments@effingnerdery.net or find me on social media

Gaming PC

Custom Build, Self Assembled

• AMD 7950x @ 4.5 GHz CPU
• Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 ARGB Dual Tower CPU Cooler (White)
• 32 GB GSkill Flare X5 DDR5-6000 RAM
• Asus Prime X670E-PRO WIFI Motherboard
• ASRock Taichi AMD Radeon 7900 XTX GPU (White)
• Western Digital Black SN850x 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD
• Corsair RM 1000x 1000W PSU
• Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL Case (White)

Desktop Macs

• 2025 Mac Studio

  • Apple Silicon M4 Max SoC
  • 4.5 GHz 16 Core CPU (12 Performance 4 Efficiency), 40 Core GPU
  • 64GB Unified Memory
  • 1TB SSD
  • 10Gb Ethernet
  • Copious amounts (~26TB) of external storage via Western Digital HDDs/SSDs
    
    

• 2018 Mac Mini (Running headless. Kept in service as a reference for preferences and other things.)

  • 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7
  • Intel Integrated Graphics
  • 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 (Custom Upgrade. Not Apple Supported)
  • 10 Gb Ethernet
  • 1TB SSD

Laptop

• 2021 16″ Macbook Pro
  • M1 Pro SoC
    • 3.2 GHz 10 Core CPU (8 Performance, 2 Efficiency), 16 core GPU
    • 32 GB Unified RAM
  • 3456×2234 Liquid Retina XDR Display
  • 1TB SSD

Monitors:
All three screens are hooked up to the 2025 Mac Studio as well as the Gaming PC

• 27″ Asus ROG Swift PG27AQDP 480Hz WOLED Gaming Monitor
• 2x 25″ Dell UltraSharp U2520D

Keyboard and Mouse:

• Keychron C2 (Retro) w/ Gateron Brown switches
• Glorious Model D Mouse (White, Non Glossy ~2020)
• Wallhack (formerly SkyPad) Cloud Glass Mouse Surface 3 (White)

Controllers:
For Fighting Games and games that are “meant for consoles” or just generally play better with a controller

• Junkfood Arcades 2022 MICRO with One-piece Case (PS4/PS3/Switch/PC) – Clear (leverless Hitbox style controller.)
• Hori Fighting Commander Octa (Xbox Series X|S version)
• PS4 DualShock 4
• Xbox Wireless Controller

Headset:

• Astro A40 + Mixamp 2 (Very old version. ~2014)

Speakers

• Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX Certified Computer Speaker System

Mic:

• Elgato Wave3

Cams:

• Logitech HD Pro C920
• Elgato Facecam (original)

Router

• Netduma R3