Hi everyone
I would greatly appreciate your assistance in putting together a new system. My current build (~ 2013) is probably going to reach the end of its lifespan very soon and the installed HD7950 has already passed away spectacularly including an early stage fire on the GPU board¹. I am therefore planning to order the listed components within the next few days, with the exception of the GPU, to allow operations with the IGP for a few months, if necessary, until hopefully something changes in availability and pricing ...
I would thus love to hear your opinion and recommendations on some of the components, specifically PSU, motherboard, RAM and loops/loop arrangement. (marked: !!!)
FAQ
COMPONENTS
FANS & ARRANGEMENT
Thank you so much!
¹ Thanks Gigabyte!
I would greatly appreciate your assistance in putting together a new system. My current build (~ 2013) is probably going to reach the end of its lifespan very soon and the installed HD7950 has already passed away spectacularly including an early stage fire on the GPU board¹. I am therefore planning to order the listed components within the next few days, with the exception of the GPU, to allow operations with the IGP for a few months, if necessary, until hopefully something changes in availability and pricing ...
I would thus love to hear your opinion and recommendations on some of the components, specifically PSU, motherboard, RAM and loops/loop arrangement. (marked: !!!)
FAQ
- Use Case?
Gaming including more demanding titles and semi-professional image manipulation, editing and processing with DxO and Adobe CC e.g.
- Requirements?
Focus on performance and quality, no RGB with exception of RAM maybe, not too loud, focus on good protection against dust.
- Resolution?
One or two monitors, max 2560 x 1440, min 1920 x 1080, refresh rate tbd.
- Budget?
~ 1100 EUR, please note that the budget excludes GPU!
- Timing?
Soon.
COMPONENTS
- GPU: AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 Graphics or AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 XT Graphics (subsequent acquisition!)
- CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-12600K
- Motherboard: Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X DDR4 or ASUS TUF Z690-Plus D4, or recommendations? !!!
- Case: Meshify 2
- PSU: Fractal Ion+ Platinum 760W or Fractal Ion+ 2 Platinum 760W? !!!
- RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB RS Schwarz 32GB Kit (2x16GB) DDR4-3200 CL16, or recommendations? !!!
- SSD: WD Black SN850 SSD - 1 TB, alternatively 980 PRO NVMe™ M.2 SSD - 1 TB
- CPU Cooler: DeepCool AS500 PLUS, DeepCool DeepCool AK620 or DeepCool DeepCool Assassin III, or recommendations? !!!
FANS & ARRANGEMENT
And of course, what to do about loops! The case includes 3 x Dynamic X2 GP-14 loops. How would you supplement and organize those? !!!
- Front Side Fans
3 x 120/140 mm (maybe 3x Dynamic X2 GP-14, or Aspect 14, or recommendations?)
- Top Side Fans
3x 120/140 mm (maybe 3 x Dynamic X2 GP-14, the ones included?)
- Back Side Fans
1 x 120/140 mm (maybe 1x Dynamic X2 GP-14, or Aspect 14, or recommendations?)
- Bottom Fans
2x 120/140 mm (necessary? unnecessary dust catcher?)
Thank you so much!
¹ Thanks Gigabyte!
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