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Oct 19, 2020
8:10:07am

BYUMizzou Former User

To answer your question, here are the instructions to install windows:

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BYUMizzou

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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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