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Welcome to Building a PC with Andrew Krok, who hasn’t done this shit in 15 years but *really* needs to get his mind off other things. (1/?)
I went with a Gigabyte AMD mobo because I know they label all their shit really well. And because this is the mobo that PCPartPicker told me to get.
Went with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor. Pins on the chip, so, placement was Sketchy Install #1 of the day. Let’s hope I didn’t mess it up, because I won’t find out for hours.
Noctua’s 120mm cooler will certainly pull more heat than the stock AMD whatever. Look at that baby torque spec!
Sketchy Install #2: Thermal paste. Please don’t @ my application. It was fine.
Sketchy Install #2: Thermal paste. Please don’t @ my application. It was fine.
With that, it’s dual channel RAM time. 16 GB total, 8 per stick. Bless Gigabyte again for telling me *precisely* where to put the first two sticks. Didn’t fuck this part up, I know that much.
It’s my board in a box!(CoolerMaster NR600. No RGB because I’m not 12)
Time for the horsepower! EVGA GeForce RTX 2070, because WoW Classic is soooooo GPU intensive
(It isn’t, but I have a *lot* of games to catch up on and I want a few years of futureproofing.)
(It isn’t, but I have a *lot* of games to catch up on and I want a few years of futureproofing.)
I don’t know why I was so scared to upright the case for the first time. It’s not like I didn’t triple check the screws. But here we are!
Hard drive mounting is so much better than it was 15 years ago. Got both guys on the back side of the box via the clever press-fit mounts.
512GB SSD for the OS, 2TB 7200rpm HDD for the fun stuff.
512GB SSD for the OS, 2TB 7200rpm HDD for the fun stuff.
