and not just my first build in 14 years but my first new PC/Laptop since 2013 (When I bought the Samsung NP700G7C 17" "gaming" laptop, which is still putting up a brave fight).
Anyways its a AMD Ryzen 5 5600X on an Asus B550M-A motherboard and 64GB of Crucial Ballistix 3000 DDR4 RAM.
CPU cooling is via a Corsair H100X AIO and the additinal case fans are some cheap(ish) chinese addresable RGB ones.
Gfx card is an EVGA GTX950 (from fleabay, new cards are stupid prices ATM)
Storage is a 500Gb Crucial M.2 NVME plus a 2TB Seagate Barracude HDD
Whole thing is powered by a Corsair SF600 PSU and its all shoehorned as an inverted build so that I could have it on the RH side of the desk facing me which puts the IO panel facing towards the chimney breast) into a Cooler Master Q500L case
Little bit of stress testing when I only had 32GB of RAM installed (had to get a replacement Mobo/CPU bundle as the original would not POST with any RAM in the B Channel)
First PC build in 14 Years
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Nice setup @mikeyw64
I'd like a new Radeon RX 6900 XT, if they ever appear.
I'd like a new Radeon RX 6900 XT, if they ever appear.
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and the 2 additional (aquarium) thermometers are for the ambient room temp and the inside case temps
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Nice! I’ve stuck with 16GB ram as in yet to find anything that uses it!
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I'm dual booting into two different W10 installs.
One is a "Home" install and the other is a "Work" install.
For work I have a couple of Java based development tools that work so much better if you assign dedicated amounts of RAM to them
Oh and I may tinker with virtual machines as well ;o)
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I'm not sure if that monster would even fit in this case even if it was available lolMartinspuddle wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 18:28 pm Nice setup @mikeyw64
I'd like a new Radeon RX 6900 XT, if they ever appear.
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They are 2cm shorter than the beast I’ve got
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must not click on Buy it Now to use as a supplementary monitor just under the 2 main ones, spent enough already....
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08L392TGP
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08L392TGP
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Nice set up Mikey.
I upgraded my self-built PC about 2 years ago.
I upgraded my self-built PC about 2 years ago.
425L SeaBray Elite aquarium - Rio Mamoré (Bolivia) theme
4 x Cupid Cichlids, 14 x Cory caudimaculatus, 12 x Cory sterbai 51 x Reed Tetra, 4 x Honeycomb Bristlenose (L519)
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