New build this summer

[edgy fractal]

I'm going to reuse my old GPU and SSD, but everything else is gonna be new (or new to me).
A coworker of mine is going to sell me his 7950X for $250, and I planned on going AM5 anyway.
Looking online I found kits of 48GB (24x2) DDR5 for around $100 but finding them with EXPO seems a little time consuming.
I also found some decent AM5 motherboards on ebay for around $140, it needs to be matx to fit the case I want. I want two nvme slots, that's my only real requirement.
For the case I'm getting an okinos cypress 3 with wood on it, and I'm gonna put some noctua fans in it. I already have a few noctua fans and I can get them for $5 a pop at my work if I'm patient.
I found that there are plenty of 2tb nvme drives available for around $100-$130, I want to avoid silicon power due to a previous poor experience
For power supply I want to get an RM850e, I've built with a modern corsair unit before for someone else and really enjoyed it, I like the cables it comes with.
For CPU cooler I want to keep with the noctua theme to go with the wood but the case has me limited on cooler height, the NH-D12L seems like a good option, even at $100 I dont mind spending a bit more
Anything I should change? I want the extra ram for DCS and Beamng btw 🙂

Update:
Case is on order and I have 3 noctua fans to at least fill the front of the case, but I’m still hopefully going to more.

[wise comet]

whats the pc for and is just gaming since 7950x not realy faster then 7600x/7700x in games
and allso do you realy need more then 32GB of ram? best best 24Gb ram is worse then the good 16Gb ram
and where are you

[edgy fractal]

I can get the 7950X for $250 so might as well and DCS uses 27GB of my 32GB kit(so pretty much the most it can)

[wise comet]

my advice if you using that cpu for gaming only, disable one of its ccd

[wise comet]

wow that game saying they recommend a AMD FX-8170 wow thats a shit cpu

[edgy fractal]

Its really old and they never updated the system requirements. Also currently only uses about 3 threads😭. Beamng will use all the threads tho and I do some video editing on it.

[wise comet]

then why do they recomend a 8 core or better

welp if you need more then 32GB this is ram i recomend https://pcpartpicker.com/product/ChdG3C/patriot-viper-venom-64-gb-2-x-32-gb-ddr5-6000-cl36-memory-pvv564g600c36k

[edgy fractal]

Honestly not sure, the guy who told me that had played more than me and I couldn’t be bothered to test it myself since I’d have to change my after burner settings. I should’ve picked up on that tho, considering it can use 70% of my 8700K in multiplayer. Im gonna be honest that was an incorrect statement that it only uses 3 threads.

[edgy fractal]

Thats awesome thats available for so cheap, thanks

[wet latch]

What GPU you reusing

And 850e Corsair is b tier. Spring to the x series if you can.

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RTX 3070

[edgy fractal]

I dont want to spend much and I want it to be really quiet

[deep shell]

How much is the 850e?

126 is what I see

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9qz8wY

[edgy fractal]

$120 or $130 I think, a bit more expensive than other 850 watts but I enjoyed my previous experience building with them

[deep shell]

Montech century 850w is a pinch nicer than the rme. And is cheaper

[half crown]

IS it 2023 or 2025 rme

[deep shell]

The century noise profile is excellent

[half crown]

century is loud

Louder than rme

[deep shell]

No

[edgy fractal]

2025

[half crown]

Yes

They could improve it

By far

Thats a solid fan curve

[half crown]

So no broken fan controller and some other issues amazing. But i would get c850 then

[deep shell]

That’s for 3.0 not 3.1

[half crown]

What?

Thats montech century II

[edgy fractal]

I just had a really good previous experience building with it and liked how the cables looked. Its worth the extra in my opinion. Everything was very high quality, I think corsair really put a lot of thought into their power supplies and the building experience

[deep shell]

Ah it’s the 1050 that they fixed the noise

[wet latch]

What about 850x?

[half crown]

Could be better

On 0-600w range

[deep shell]

Considering the amount of DOA’s and coil whine issue they had, it’s unlikely

[edgy fractal]

Whats unlikely? I remember my good experience…

[half crown]

Cybenetics keeps the fan always on. On hwbuster they use semi passive mode also so the results are different

[deep shell]

That they put a lot of thought before releasing

[half crown]

That is cybenetics chart

Rme 2025 dosent report coil whine anymore AS 2023 did

comes down to a luck basically

[deep shell]

RMX is a much better unit

[edgy fractal]

The cables are perfect. They are easy to manage and stay and place once they’re in. They came with combs already on them too. All of the materials felt very high quality. Maybe I’ll regret it but I think its a good choice for me.

[deep shell]

Okay

[half crown]

Two class units anyway

[deep shell]

Did you look at the board and ssd linked?

[wet latch]

My first thought was about 600w. I got the psu and never heard it tbh.

[half crown]

U used semi passive mode on yes

[wet latch]

Aye I do

[wet latch]

Tbh wouldn’t know how to change it

[half crown]

This is with on

[half crown]

The fan knob

On 3.1

Rmx

instead of providing a switch to select or deselect the fan’s semi-passive mode, Corsair provided the option to choose the fan’s starting speed.

[wet latch]

Oh I got 2021version. No knob

[half crown]

Fan graph

For 2021

[wet latch]

Thanks. More than good enough for me then

[edgy fractal]

Does the graph change if you have 120v power? Im an american…

[half crown]

Only very slightly

Like 1-2% difference

[edgy fractal]

Okay

Do you think Im making the right choice on PSU?

[desert hollow]

Why would the graph have any changes? Watt is unit of power so it doesn't change.

[edgy fractal]

Power equipment can do weird things from my experience

And watts is volts x amps so to get the watts through the connector on a different voltage you need a different amperage. You likely already know this, Im just thinking that the change in amperage could affect noise.

[desert hollow]

Mhm... Never thought how amps and efficiency would influence temps in PSUs in 110v vs 230v

[edgy fractal]

Yeah realistically the difference doesn’t really matter though

[desert hollow]

It shouldn't. We're not talking about MW or GW

[edgy fractal]

Yeah this is really small scale

Do you think the rm850e is a good choice?

I hear lots of back and fourth about corsair power supplies

But ive had a good experience with them

[desert hollow]

I guess depends on hardware. I'm rocking EVGA PSU, don't remember the model anymore, bought it ~5 years ago.

I don't see a reason why Corsair PSU would be a bad choice but I also haven't been following that much tech news in past year or two so mby I missed something

For me main thing would be modular or not 😅

[edgy fractal]

Yeah definitely not getting a spaghetti machine 🤣

[desert hollow]

Do you want everything to be attached to your power box or are you able to keep track of your cables over years

[edgy fractal]

Ill keep track

Ill put them in the box and store them with all my other hardware

[desert hollow]

Unless you're looking for something extra quiet or something, I don't think that your PSU choice matters that much as long as it has enough power and it comes from reputable source

so no ketchup-mustard powerboxes

[edgy fractal]

Yeah Im not trying to squeeze out every bit of noise but I definitely dont want it to be loud

I am doing a bit of noctua theme after all

[desert hollow]

I think I remember hearing that if ur PSU works at 50-60% it should be very quiet, but it won't achieve its efficiency peak. As much as I remember PSU is most efficient at 80% of its rated power, but 50-60% keeps it quiet

Tho things might have changed since then

[edgy fractal]

From my previous recent experience building with a corsair unit, they are very quiet

[desert hollow]

Personally I've never heard my PSU

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Like honestly I have absolutely no complaints about them, they’re just good all around

[desert hollow]

I either hear my CPU cooler fans or my case fans

[edgy fractal]

I did this build for someone else with a corsair PSU

The cables are fantastic

[desert hollow]

wow, it looks nice

I guess only thing that I would've done is aftermarket CPU cooler

either big nasty air cooler for low speeds and low noise or AiO for looks

Bit of a shame that front is glass. I prefer mesh front for better air flow

[edgy fractal]

That build was done pretty quickly and it had a somewhat tight budget

[desert hollow]

But that's my preference

[edgy fractal]

The reason I sent that tho is those cables

The psu just came with those

And the combs

[desert hollow]

I just noticed... SINGLE RAM STICK

https://tenor.com/view/shame-bell-game-of-thrones-walk-of-atonement-cersei-lannister-gif-16635977892557113898

[edgy fractal]

I DIDNT WANT TO

He forgot to order ram and thats all I had on hand

He upgraded it shortly after

[wise comet]

RIP its not even in the right slot

[edgy fractal]

Thats not right?

Oh yeah your right I never even noticed

It wouldn’t make a tangible difference anyway

[wise comet]

if you can run over like ddr5 4800 i be shocked

[edgy fractal]

That had DDR4

[wise comet]

i not jokinh when i say it can be -1ghz

[edgy fractal]

Both of yall are missing why I posted it

Which was the cables

Those are pretty sweet for not being extensions or modified at all

[desert hollow]

#1380055633579212841 message

I wouldn't say that if cables were a mess

[edgy fractal]

What? Are you saying that it only looks good because I did good cable management or that I did bad on my cable management

[desert hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/shame-theoffice-gif-22010221

[desert hollow]

It sounds like a trap. There is no right answer there 😅

[edgy fractal]

What could I have done better on?

There was nowhere else for the GPU cable to go except over

I genuinely want to hear your criticism if you have any

[desert hollow]

As I said, looks really nice (with the exception of single RAM stick). I can see that you've put some work and thought into it

[edgy fractal]

I didnt have a whole lot of time

Customer lived a few hours away

I ended building half of it and he delivered some stuff he had on his way through, which was the PSU and GPU

And I only had a couple hours to finish it up

[desert hollow]

It took me like 5 attempts to make my build look good and then I f***ed it up again when I changed my CPU cooler 😅

[edgy fractal]

This is my current build

It was cobbled together in some ways and Im hoping to do things a bit more calculated this time

[desert hollow]

Such a shame that GPUs now need to have special bracket to keep it from sagging 😥

[edgy fractal]

Yeah and my 3070 tuf really isn’t a “huge” card anyway

This case is pretty big tho

Thats why im going matx

[desert hollow]

I do love the idea of small builds, but I feel more comfortable with ATX and eATX just because you can fit 360 easily

[edgy fractal]

Did you see the cooler Im going with? The NH-D12L

A bit more expensive than some similar coolers but I like noctua and its worth it to me

[desert hollow]

Noctua always seemed like a nice brand. But every time I see its price, I just steer away

Not feeling like paying 120 EUR for air cooler

But I can understand why someone would like it. As far as I've heard they're best in business

[desert hollow]

I was lucky to make my build before crypto craze so I got my GPU for reasonable price

[edgy fractal]

I got my 3070 in 2023 for $270

[desert hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/rico-yum-nice-gif-2509497699000111500

[half crown]

It changes only the fan curve slightly

Some psus have have 2 different effiency badges xD.
Like gold at 115v and plat at 230v

[desert hollow]

Here 2nd hand market is kinda sh**. Everyone thinks that their old tech is worth its weight in gold. So either I need to go for new tech or look for something from Germany

[edgy fractal]

My used market is pretty meh, good hardware will occasionally pop up but for the most part its just junk

[desert hollow]

Every time I watch some YT vid and hear their prices, I'm just salivating and imagining what I could build if pc parts would be that cheap here

Tho I guess with tariffs that also went to sh**