Finally upgrading from my 2600k build from forever ago. I was kinda on the fence on which case to get, then I got the preorder notification from ncase and decided to just go with it. Below are the parts I'm planning to fill it with. I've highlighted my reasoning behind my choices in rough order of importance. I'll try and make the list easier to read later. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts.
Case: Ncase M1 (Purchased! Waiting on shipping notification.)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600x (Hunting)
Cooling: TBD - Custom Loop (looking for recommendations)
Case: Ncase M1 (Purchased! Waiting on shipping notification.)
- Caught my fancy
MoBo: B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax (Pretty certain.)
- ECC support w/ reporting
- Front USB C header
- Front USB C header
- AX200 wifi
- 2 M.2 slots
- 2 M.2 slots
- Not $400+
- Couldn't find an mATX board with the above that fit. (An extra 1x slot & 128gb ram would have been nice)
- Disappointed about the misreporting voltage issue, but I'll get over it.
- Hoping the B3 Intel lan chip.
- Hoping the B3 Intel lan chip.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600x (Hunting)
- Has enough power for what I need now.
- Likely much easier to get my hands on than a 5900x.
RAM: TBD (looking for recommendations)- Likely much easier to get my hands on than a 5900x.
- 32-64 gigs of ECC ram.
- Want to hit 3200+. Like to hit 3600+ with decent timings.
- Small preference for low profile.
GPU: AMD 6800 or 6800 XT (Waiting for the 17th)- Small preference for low profile.
- Going to aim for the XT, but will settle for the vanilla if that's what I can get my hands on.
- Excited that I get to throw some market share AMD's way! Competition is always a good thing.
- Let's hope that compute is good, but that mining isn't outstanding. Competing with miners and scalpers for inventory sucks.
Storage: some NVMe + on hand drives
- New purchases will likely depend on sales over the next few weeks.
PSU: Corsair SF600 (purchased)
- Will upgrade to a SF750 when I get a chance.
Cooling: TBD - Custom Loop (looking for recommendations)
- Likely stock air cooling to start. Build loop for CPU. Then maybe add GPU.
- Fully internal
- Fully internal
- No RGB
- Fill as much of the empty space as I can with radiators
- Focus on low noise over raw performance