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Oct 19, 2020
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TN_Coug
meh
Cable management will be less of an issue because he has a fully modular PSU and an m.2 drive that needs no cables
That said, I'm moving to a full atx on my next build.
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I need some help with a PC build - never done this before
Medute
10/19/20 7:08am
BM Jdub
Mathew
10/19/20 7:12am
Building a bootable USB stick is pretty easy.
MarkWatney
10/19/20 7:15am
Make sure everything is compatible, which you probably did on a site like pcpartpicker.
TN_Coug
10/19/20 7:19am
It all looks good to me, choice of components are what I would choose for a nice
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 7:19am
You might also look into a CPU cooler, I am not sure if the 3600X comes with an
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 7:28am
It does come with a cooler. I did use pcpartipicker.com
Medute
10/19/20 7:33am
That seems pretty straight forward and yet sounds like Japanese
Medute
10/19/20 7:34am
There are a ton of monitor options out there at a very wide variety of prices.
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 7:47am
You can do this, it's only intimidating until you've actually done it. Watch some YouTube videos and it will help
jdub
10/19/20 8:10am
Needs more rgb
snowbird
10/19/20 7:24am
Can you provide a suggestion?
Medute
10/19/20 7:32am
If you want more RGB, get an addressable RGB stick that fits in your case
Squeegee
10/19/20 7:50am
you could also swap the stock CPU cooler with an RGB one
Squeegee
10/19/20 7:57am
Personally, I hate the flashy lights, but your 12-yo might like it.
jdub
10/19/20 8:04am
That's me, too, but he asked for it, soooo.
Squeegee
10/19/20 8:21am
I would get dual 27” with minuscule bezels rather than a 34” curved. Some
valleus
10/19/20 7:43am
I'd suggest a full ATX tower. The cable management is amazing. I can't believe I stuck to mid-towers forever.
Bert609
10/19/20 7:48am
Cable management will be less of an issue because he has a fully modular PSU and an m.2 drive that needs no cables
TN_Coug
10/19/20 8:01am
yeah, I'm definitely doing a modular PSU next time. There are so many cables on my 750W power supply, I can't imagine
Bert609
10/19/20 8:05am
Some of the new ultrawide monitors let you treat them as two logical monitors.
Squeegee
10/19/20 8:26am
we use a lot of the small cases at work. They definitely have their place. I'd have to try the large monitor thing, we
Bert609
10/19/20 9:20am
If budget isn't an issue, I'd bump up to a Ryzen 7 3800X or 3800XT.
jdub
10/19/20 8:01am
I mean if budget REALLY isn’t an issue, get the Nvidia 3090.
MarkWatney
10/19/20 8:12am
Well, yeah, but that's a much bigger price jump than Ryzen 5 to Ryzen 7.
jdub
10/19/20 8:14am
Couple of questions on this
Medute
10/19/20 9:11am
I put HDDs in because they add a lot of additional storage at a much cheaper dollars per GB than with your M.2 drives.
jdub
10/19/20 10:35am
Cool, thank you. Everything else I listed will work with Ryzen 7, right?
Medute
10/19/20 10:42am
yep
jdub
10/19/20 10:49am
To answer your question, here are the instructions to install windows:
BYUMizzou
10/19/20 8:10am
I built my own PC
sanitarium
10/19/20 9:08am
Sorry, but don’t do this. Do backup your files online somewhere though.
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 10:03am
How much is 10TB of cloud storage these days? I haven't priced it because my internet speeds are slow enough it would
Bert609
10/19/20 10:42am
I do run an Unraid NAS in my house, but it also does nightly backup to Backblaze
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 4:48pm
Yeah, that'd be $400/month for me. :(. But the NAS idea w/ nightly backups is awesome.
Bert609
10/19/20 5:02pm
10 TB would be $50/mo
Pablo Bot
10/19/20 8:39pm
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