{"id":542,"date":"2025-08-25T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/?p=542"},"modified":"2025-10-26T10:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:25:30","slug":"building-a-modern-powerpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Building a modern PowerPC as a workstation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been a dream for many years getting in touch with the PowerPC architecture as a workstation. As a Linux enthusiast I had been reading ppc64 and ppc64le for decades and always wanted to have an own system beyond the IBM Power servers to give it a try in the workstation environment. As the little-endian supported POWER processors from POWER8 and above made it possible porting existing x86 software with minimal effort it was my intention of running a POWER8 or above system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I found mainboards with a usual EATX\/\u00b5ATX form factor manufactured by RAPTOR Computing Systems supporting POWER9 CPUs and leveraging Linux and OpenPOWER\u2122 technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As there are not many people that want to build a modern workstation with those components I have searched through all compatibility lists and created my &#8222;baby&#8220; from the following components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Basic Blackbird\u2122 Bundle with 8-Core CPU<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2x 128GB TruDDR4 PC4-2933Y registered ECC RDIMM (M393AAG40M3B-CYF \/ 02JG082)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>XFX Radeon RX 6600 Speedster SWFT 8GB<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thermaltake View 270 Plus TG ARGB Mid-Tower Chassis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 650W ARGB<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD, 4TB<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ELUTENG M.2 PCIe X4 NVMe Adapter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thermaltake CT120 Reverse ARGB Snow (2x)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thermaltake CT140 ARGB Snow (1x)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>StarTech DB9 Serial Motherboard Header<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cuifati ARGB Controller 5V<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>different jumper wire cables (M2M\/F2M\/F2F)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Running the system with openSUSE Tumbleweed (ppc64le) makes all hardware run without any issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"894\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/powerpc-894x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-543\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/powerpc-894x1024.jpg 894w, http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/powerpc-262x300.jpg 262w, http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/powerpc-768x879.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/powerpc.jpg 1256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 894px) 100vw, 894px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a dream for many years getting in touch with the PowerPC architecture as a workstation. As a Linux enthusiast I had been reading ppc64 and ppc64le for decades and always wanted to have an own system beyond the IBM Power servers to give it a try in the workstation environment. As the little-endian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pauls.li\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}