Not happening with Storm Peak’s US$ 1100+700 CPU+motherboard entry level. Unless you get lucky with used or overstock, maybe.
Phantom Spirit 120. Thermalright pretty well owns AM4 and AM5 air for the time being. There’s a few minor exceptions but most anything else performs a bit worse and costs at least as much even after a fan swap. D15 G1’s been obsolete for a while anyways.
Trident offers CL28, 30, 32, 36, 38, and 40 Z6 Neo 2x32 kits. None of the DDR5 scaling tests I’m aware of has benched across CAS latency but 30-40-40-96 versus 36-36-36-96 probably isn’t going to be much of a difference.
I’m only seeing CL36 in RGB which, at 42 mm, gets tight on case clearance for putting a 140 fan over the DIMMs. Not finding a height spec for Z5 Neo non-RGB but looks like it’s also 42 mm. I’d use 120 air or Vengeance.
For 4x32 from two 2x32 kits I’d buy M- or A-die for the margin to handle mismatches between the channels. CL30 at 6000’s often an indicator there.
I’d spend the extra US$ 36-46 for RM850x or RM850x Shift. HX1000i’s probably worth thinking about.
Sometimes, but not in this case as OWC’s ACQ113 4.0 x1 NIC is 10T. Refer to pages 4 and 5 of the X870E Aorus Pro’s manual.
Boards like X870E Carbon offer CPU x8 + CPU x8 + chipset x4 but three x8 slots or x16 + 2x8 isn’t happening with a 24 lane available CPU (AM5, LGA1700, LGA1851). And dGPU size means slot layouts aren’t conducive straightforward cooling of an x8 SAS HBA and x4 NIC intended for rackmount airflow.
ProArts offer 10 Gbase-T down. But then you have to deal with Asus.