strong ravine
Built in a Fractal Ridge case
SFF Corsair 850W PSU
Ryzen 5 9600x
32GB DDR6-6000 (48CL but if I got the faster ram the cooler wouldn’t clear the CPU cooler)
Noctua NH-L12S
It was challenging building in the smaller case but really fun! Last two pics are of it completed in-situ
It maxes out about 80°C on the CPU when pushed (Horizon Forbidden West / Monster Hunter Wilds, max settings). GPU hits around 70°c in that situation too. I tuned the fans to stay quiet so under most conditions it is not too noisy.
The CPU fan has a touch of a whine at higher speeds, I’m guessing this is either an airflow thing or due to the smaller form factor fan. Not sure precisely. Might end up replacing it sometime down the road
Oh — the GPU isn’t pictured in box because I got it used (work was offloading some hardware and I won the raffle). The box isn’t interesting anyway it was shipped to me in an AMD 9070XT box
The 8bitdo keyboard actually feels really nice. Pleasantly surprised though I haven’t had much bad luck with 8bitdo’s things