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.
(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!