Question Buying a new PC - considering the silverstone RVZ03B Raven

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I am planning on buying a new PC. Due to me traveling a lot I decided to go with a smaller case RVZ03B Raven. I wanna take it with me. I really wanna get the 5800x3D with the Noctua NH-L12S. Since I will mostly be playing CS:GO and given the current GPU market I won't be getting anything super expensive. I've decided to go with the 6600 XT. The local store only has a few mini-ITX motherboards, is this GIGABYTE X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI - AMD X570 good enough? There are some stock fans that go with the case right, does it make sense to just fill it with three custom noctua fans? I don't wanna get into some really high temps. Could I fit in the be quiet platinum 650W PSU? I have heard it's pretty difficult to fit a regular size PSU into the case.

I don't need anything detailed, just general tips as I will not be building this. I'll ask the guys in the big store I'll buy all the components in to do it for me but I don't wanna seem like a total ignoramus and have an idea what the case supports and what to beware of.
 
Silverstone Raven specs say it will accept standard ATX PSU. I'd try to stay with that IF true. Let the builders worry about it and advise you if it isn't true or if it is highly problematic.

Gigabyte specs say the board supports 2 NVMe drives. Maybe you can avoid 2.5 inch SSDs entirely?

Noctua L12S is a good candidate in the low profile style. I'd check Noctua documents to confirm it is short enough to fit in your chosen case. Noctua has a bunch of low profile coolers...haven't look at them recently, but there may be an even better candidate than the L12S.

Case fans....the 2 included 120mm fans may or may not be adequate. You might want to just accept them and monitor temps for a while. You can always replace at a later date.
 
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Silverstone Raven specs say it will accept standard ATX PSU. I'd try to stay with that IF true. Let the builders worry about it and advise you if it isn't true or if it is highly problematic.

Gigabyte specs say the board supports 2 NVMe drives. Maybe you can avoid 2.5 inch SSDs entirely?

Noctua L12S is a good candidate in the low profile style. I'd check Noctua documents to confirm it is short enough to fit in your chosen case. Noctua has a bunch of low profile coolers...haven't look at them recently, but there may be an even better candidate than the L12S.

Case fans....the 2 included 120mm fans may or may not be adequate. You might want to just accept them and monitor temps for a while. You can always replace at a later date.
Regarding the SSD I want to get the Samsung SSD 980 PRO, M.2 - 2T, Heatsink so yeah. Regarding the fans, two are included but there are three slots, does it make sense to fill all the slots with fans? I wouldn't mind replacing all of them with the premium noctua ones if it helps with the temps and noise. The full setup would cost a couple grand anyways these fans are like $20-30 bucks not really interested in driving there again to replace them later on.
 
Yeah...if you don't want to travel twice and budget allows, go ahead and install Noctuas.

At that budget, may as well get what you want as long as it is compatible and not totally ridiculous.

They are likely to be quieter than stock fans and I would hope that your motherboard allows BIOS control of them. Never used mini ITX, so I don't know how cranky they can be about proper cooling.

It's entirely possible the 3rd case fan wouldn't knock temps down much or maybe even at all. But no harm done even then. You could keep it as a spare.

Noctuas claim to fame is low noise. If it turns out that mini-ITX is difficult to cool, you may have to run the Noctuas at higher rpm than you would like...which would likely make them audible if in the 1000 rpm plus range. Maybe moderate noise doesn't bother you.

I'd be sure to confirm there is no better Noctua cooler than the L12S that will fit in your case.

Mini-ITX case may limit fan thickness in some way. I don't know if "standard" Noctuas will fit. You need to confirm that. If the included fans are standard thickness, I'd certainly assume standard Noctuas would also fit.

Most likely Noctua case fan candidates would be in the A or S series. An F would be fine too, but they are normally recommended when blowing into denser obstructions......such as a tower heatsink or a heavier case fan grill. In reality, I'd think any of the 3 would be fine and you'd never know the difference. I've been using an F as a front intake against an ordinary fan grill without any problems at all.
 
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I have a mini-ITX setup. I managed to get a Asrock Phantom Gaming 4 X570 mini ITX motherboard, it was on special. At the time it was less than alot of the B450 motherboards. The case I have is Cooler Master Elite 130: has room for a regular ATX power supply, and can take up to 330mm graphics card.

The main drawback for my setup is that the NvME slot is underneath the motherboard, and that case makes it impossible to access it unless you take the whole thing apart. Another thing I did wrong was to get a normal cabled power supply. I should have got a modular one.

The Gigabyte X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI motherboard is probably a better choice. My Asrock motherboard has a really weird BIOS update procedure (you have to have specific cpu to update it).

Anyway my suggestion would be to get a modular power supply. There usually isn't much space in the mini-ITX cases. Have fun with your new PC.


{GoofyOne's mentally grumbling about non-modular power supplies and cases that don't allow for the NvMe drive being underneath ..... arrrrggghhhhh!!!}
 
Yeah...I'd certainly consider stuff like NVMe location.

For performance purposes, there's very little reason to choose NVMe M.2 over a standard 2.5 inch SSD.

You'd have to decide which is a bigger headache: having an NVMe in a bad location or dealing with the cables inherent in a 2.5 inch SSD installation. Could be that the 2.5 inch drive mounting locations are also a problem to access.

If you are going to rely on a technician or builder for all possible actions inside the case, then it wouldn't matter. It would be his problem.
 
I have a mini-ITX setup. I managed to get a Asrock Phantom Gaming 4 X570 mini ITX motherboard, it was on special. At the time it was less than alot of the B450 motherboards. The case I have is Cooler Master Elite 130: has room for a regular ATX power supply, and can take up to 330mm graphics card.

The main drawback for my setup is that the NvME slot is underneath the motherboard, and that case makes it impossible to access it unless you take the whole thing apart. Another thing I did wrong was to get a normal cabled power supply. I should have got a modular one.

The Gigabyte X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI motherboard is probably a better choice. My Asrock motherboard has a really weird BIOS update procedure (you have to have specific cpu to update it).

Anyway my suggestion would be to get a modular power supply. There usually isn't much space in the mini-ITX cases. Have fun with your new PC.


{GoofyOne's mentally grumbling about non-modular power supplies and cases that don't allow for the NvMe drive being underneath ..... arrrrggghhhhh!!!}
Yeah the PSU I am eying atm is the Be quiet! Straight Power 11 Platinum - 650W. Should be enough. I won't be able to upgrade for a better GPU later on anyways as apparently the rdna3 requires a new motherboard.
 
@Lafong one more thing. I was looking at the 6600 XT model comparison here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Ro4Ca_M4M&ab_channel=HardwareUnboxed


The store I am buying my PC from only has a couple of these cards. The MSI card did the best in the test but the reviewer said the card was missing the "dual bar support" which he claimed was a crucial feature. The other two top performing GPUs are missing from the store I am planning on buying the GPU from. There are some other ones though which didn't do as well in the comparison review. My question is, is this dual bar support really all that important?
 

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