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[Pew-Pew]

Nice!

As for the chipset fan thing: I ended up getting a (probably unnecessary) X570 mobo for my 5600x, mainly for the extra PCI-e 4 NVME slot. The only time the chipset fan even runs is a brief whirl when you press the power button, it's super pointless.

[Sly Boots]

Ordered my PC a few days ago, thanks again for the help guys. It isn't super-duper top of the line, but I'm hoping I've found a good sweet spot between cost vs performance.

Ended up going for:

Fractal Define 7 Black case
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
ASUS® STRIX B550-F GAMING (WIFI) (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
1TB CORSAIR MP400 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD (up to 3480 MB/R, 1880 MB/W) (system drive)
4TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 5400RPM, 256MB CACHE (storage drive)
CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Graphics-wise I've opted to keep using my 1060GTX for now, due to the near-unavailability of cards right now, and the insane pricing of what few cards there are out there (my 1060 that I bought for a couple of hundred - if that - a few years ago is now fetching more than double that on ebay ). I know it'll likely bottleneck my system in the meantime, but I'm hoping in another year or two the market will have normalised somewhat and I can shell out on something better then.

[Pew-Pew]

Nice choices. If the Define 7 is anything like my Define R5, then it'll be nice to build in! Also nice and quiet because of the front panel that can close. It obviously affects thermals a little, but still should be fine.

[2Channelwonder]

Ordered my PC a few days ago, thanks again for the help guys. It isn't super-duper top of the line, but I'm hoping I've found a good sweet spot between cost vs performance.

Ended up going for:

Fractal Define 7 Black case
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
ASUS® STRIX B550-F GAMING (WIFI) (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
1TB CORSAIR MP400 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD (up to 3480 MB/R, 1880 MB/W) (system drive)
4TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 5400RPM, 256MB CACHE (storage drive)
CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Graphics-wise I've opted to keep using my 1060GTX for now, due to the near-unavailability of cards right now, and the insane pricing of what few cards there are out there (my 1060 that I bought for a couple of hundred - if that - a few years ago is now fetching more than double that on ebay ). I know it'll likely bottleneck my system in the meantime, but I'm hoping in another year or two the market will have normalised somewhat and I can shell out on something better then.

Looks like a solid setup Sly, did you buy parts from all over or just the one supplier? Since that's the power supply I've zeroed in on although trusting 4Tb in one drive is a step too far I'll stop at 2 when the time comes as the spindle speed will stay at 7200 RPM according to Ebuyer.

[Sly Boots]

Ordered my PC a few days ago, thanks again for the help guys. It isn't super-duper top of the line, but I'm hoping I've found a good sweet spot between cost vs performance.

Ended up going for:

Fractal Define 7 Black case
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
ASUS® STRIX B550-F GAMING (WIFI) (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
1TB CORSAIR MP400 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD (up to 3480 MB/R, 1880 MB/W) (system drive)
4TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 5400RPM, 256MB CACHE (storage drive)
CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Graphics-wise I've opted to keep using my 1060GTX for now, due to the near-unavailability of cards right now, and the insane pricing of what few cards there are out there (my 1060 that I bought for a couple of hundred - if that - a few years ago is now fetching more than double that on ebay ). I know it'll likely bottleneck my system in the meantime, but I'm hoping in another year or two the market will have normalised somewhat and I can shell out on something better then.

Looks like a solid setup Sly, did you buy parts from all over or just the one supplier? Since that's the power supply I've zeroed in on although trusting 4Tb in one drive is a step too far I'll stop at 2 when the time comes as the spindle speed will stay at 7200 RPM according to Ebuyer.

I've never built my own system, so I did what I've done for my last couple of setups and ordered from PC Specialist. Whenever I've used them before I've been impressed with their prices (I've found it's only marginally above what you'd pay for the components individually), quality (touch wood I've had zero issues with anything I've ordered from them) and customer service

I have a 2Tb drive at the moment, but with games growing ever larger I'm finding I constantly have to uninstall old games to get new ones on. I won't have anything critical on there that I haven't got backed up elsewhere.

[Pew-Pew]

Neth, 4 TB drives are fairly normal nowadays and work just as well. Definitely worth it if you need decent amounts of storage.

[Hatredsheart]

Ordered my PC a few days ago, thanks again for the help guys. It isn't super-duper top of the line, but I'm hoping I've found a good sweet spot between cost vs performance.

Ended up going for:

Fractal Define 7 Black case
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
ASUS® STRIX B550-F GAMING (WIFI) (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
1TB CORSAIR MP400 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD (up to 3480 MB/R, 1880 MB/W) (system drive)
4TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 5400RPM, 256MB CACHE (storage drive)
CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Graphics-wise I've opted to keep using my 1060GTX for now, due to the near-unavailability of cards right now, and the insane pricing of what few cards there are out there (my 1060 that I bought for a couple of hundred - if that - a few years ago is now fetching more than double that on ebay ). I know it'll likely bottleneck my system in the meantime, but I'm hoping in another year or two the market will have normalised somewhat and I can shell out on something better then.

When you install the 4tb drive don't forget to set the drive as GPT not MBR or Windows will only see half of it.

[Sly Boots]

Ordered my PC a few days ago, thanks again for the help guys. It isn't super-duper top of the line, but I'm hoping I've found a good sweet spot between cost vs performance.

Ended up going for:

Fractal Define 7 Black case
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Six Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.6GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
ASUS® STRIX B550-F GAMING (WIFI) (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
1TB CORSAIR MP400 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD (up to 3480 MB/R, 1880 MB/W) (system drive)
4TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 5400RPM, 256MB CACHE (storage drive)
CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Graphics-wise I've opted to keep using my 1060GTX for now, due to the near-unavailability of cards right now, and the insane pricing of what few cards there are out there (my 1060 that I bought for a couple of hundred - if that - a few years ago is now fetching more than double that on ebay ). I know it'll likely bottleneck my system in the meantime, but I'm hoping in another year or two the market will have normalised somewhat and I can shell out on something better then.

When you install the 4tb drive don't forget to set the drive as GPT not MBR or Windows will only see half of it.

Hopefully it will already be properly installed when it arrives, but I'll keep an eye on it, cheers

[Hatredsheart]

Hopefully it will already be properly installed when it arrives, but I'll keep an eye on it, cheers

Ah sorry mate, I didn't read your post properly I missed that it was a prebuilt system coming not just parts. Nice build!

[Sly Boots]

It's here

[Medicine Man]

Woooooooo! Nice.

[Drarok]

Is that… an optical drive?! Oldskool.

[Sly Boots]

Is that… an optical drive?! Oldskool.

I know, I know. I ummed and ahhed about it a bit, but in the end I went with it as I'm still using a ripped copy of Word 2003 I have on CD (as I'm too cheap to pay £100 for more recent editions), and the kids still occasionally watch one of their DVDs on it.

It only added about £20 to my quote so it wasn't a major investment.

[Drarok]

Heh. My current case doesn't even have a slot to put an optical drive in, so I didn't give it much thought at all when I built this one. Found the case I like "no optical slot? meh." and that was it.

[Maturin]

Ruins the blackness though.