NZXT H7 Flow White
Corsair RM650x 80+ Gold
NZXT F120P x3 (Front Intake) & F120Q x1 (Exhaust)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G (On sale)
ASRock B550 Steel Legend
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro White CL16 (2x16GB) A2 B2 Slots
DeepCool Castle 360EX White (Top Mounted on case)
Samsung 870 Evo 1 TB 2.5" SSD (OS/Programs)
Western Digital Blue 1 TB 2.5" SSD (Games)
Seagate Constellation ES.3 4 TB 3.5" 7200 (Games & Storage) Asus Dual GeForce RTX 3060 V2 OC Edition GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
Traded for $$$$$ and
Asus GTX 1660 Super 6GB (I didn’t need all that OC garbage)
Intel AX200 M.2 Wi-Fi 6 / Bluetooth adapter
So (in mid 2022) I sold my awesome Alienware x51 R2 (that I upgraded multiple times) for $225, and the RTX 1560 Amp! that fit into the Alienware case for $200, and an i9 9700K someone gave me for free for $325 to fund this build.
After playing with it for several months and noticing bottlenecks and other such stuff, and also figuring out that I don’t game like I used to…I decided to just sell the RTX 3060 12GB and found a nice trade for $250 plus this really nice 1660 Super. It does everything I need on this computer for now, and I won’t ever upgrade to the 40 series anyways.
Intel 10980xe, 4.5ghz all core overclock but usually run it at 4.3 as its happier and cooler.
Noctua DH15 cooler.
3 phanteks T30 case fans (brilliant)
64GB DDR4 3200, but about to push it to either 128:or 256 GB.
AMD 6900xt, but also a RTX A2000 for CUDA shenanigans…
2x1TB SSD, 1x6.4gb samsung pcie nvme, 1x5TB 2.5” drive.
Have a Optane 960GB drive about to go in.
Thunderbolt addin card
ASUS prime-A mobo, which replaced an MSI mobo that had issues and a wonderful overclocking EVGA Dark that had a failing dram slot but i think i got a dud refreshed board and the warrantynexpiredmon me. The ASUS is ugly, but has been running flawlessly and overclocks better than the msi as it has better power delivery. It also has 3 nvme i think one U2 slot.
This build is just so good i havent got a good need to upgrade, tho in a year or so i would love to go W790 or threadripper. I dont go with the latest as j find better value with older kit…
There’s so much extra room (Corsair 5000D Airflow). This case has so much fan space I’m assuming it was made for water cooling, but I like to keep things simple. It’s just an i5 and a baby 4070. And it made it so much easier to build in. I’m only buying big cases from now on.
This is the first mobo I’ve had where I couldn’t fit the RAM in slot 1 because of the CPU cooler (unless you intentionally misaligned the CPU cooler fan).
Also I did something REALLY stupid when I was building it. It looked like something tiny was stuck between some cpu pins on the mobo, like maybe a little shred of plastic or something. So I got my vacuum with the brush attachment thinking that would help, no noticing that there were dust bunnies on the brush. So when I went to go vacuum up the thing that was stuck, the dust bunnies got stuck on the CPU pins. So I picked out as much as I could with some tweezers, got the flat attachment for my vacuum, and sucked up the rest.
I was freaking out, but after I finished it basically looked brand new. And I’ve had no problems with it so far.
This feels wrong, but it works. I could have sworn the case was supposed to come with the RGB fans in the pictures, but it only came with one front and one rear, no RGB. So I just added a couple extra NZXT fans I had laying around.
I tend to upgrade individual parts as the need arises. This will probably be my last build for now as performance is right where I want it. Maybe one of them fancy high refresh rate gaming monitors as a last upgrade.
PC Build in progress…It’s been some time since my last build, in the meantime I had a pre-built Dell which I bought it in Mining Craze when I got the PC with nVidia for the same price as scalpers wanter for a graphics card alone, so I got PC for free. So lot of trials and errors, as when you do it every 5 or 6 years you tend to forget things.
Intel i5 14600K
Noctua u12a
Gigabyte z790 elite ax wifi 7
2x32 Gb Corsair 6400MT
SSD Hynix Platinium 2 Tb
Gigabyte nVidia 4070 Super
Corsair 4000D
Corsair rx850x … which came without screws, so I had to to google just to find out that Corsairs response to not delivering screws is that they come with a case …
but i think i got a dud refreshed board and the warrantynexpiredmon me. The ASUS is ugly, but has been running flawlessly and overclocks better than the msi as it has better power delivery. It also has 3 nvme i think one U2 slot.
