Dr. Zaber Sentry Ryzen Build

[cj360]

Revived my Sentry case so here's a little album I made of my build.
From my Node 202 I had a Biostar 370 mobo, upgraded to an Asrock B350 for the better build quality and uefi. Comments about the build also in the imgur album. Need to come back later and edit the prices, both the ssd's were under $300 when I got them.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00)
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-L9i 33.8 CFM CPU Cooler ($39.15 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($108.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($173.50 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Crucial - BX200 960GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($299.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Corsair - Force LE 960GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($310.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC Video Card
Power Supply: Corsair - SF 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Other: Zaber Sentry ITX Case (Purchased For $200.00)
Other: NM-AM4-L9aL9i kit ($0.00)
Total: $1222.51
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-10-27 13:59 EDT-0400

 

[rfarmer]

Very nice build, how are you liking the 1600 and the Asrock B350? I am considering doing a build with those parts.

Sad thing is I bought the exact same memory from Newegg in May of 2016 for $69.99 and that wasn't on sale. Memory is just getting stupid expensive.

 

[cj360]

I got really lucky on the memory actually, bought my set from someone on reddit for 60 a couple of mouths ago.

Havn't had a chance to mess with the speed or try the xmp profile yet. It does however post faster than the biostar did with the rest of the components being the same besides the mobo & case.

Edit-
ALso I've seen other posts from the Sentry thread and fliped one of my sata power cables and have re-added by 2nd ssd and fixed the linux install I have on it. Will probably add more pictures once I get a set of custom cables I've ordered.

 

[cj360]

So I saw in the S4 mini thread some users found an older, but possible better cooler than the n9i titan ttc-nc25. I bought it off ebay to try it as I was watching my cpu go to 70c when building aosp/android on linux and 68c on windows sometimes when playing pubg.


So later tonight I'll see if the titan works a little more than the n9i.

Edit: or not since I forgot I don't have the means to use the included am3 brackets that come with the titan... Need to find another way to mount it.