No the thermal pads that Asus use are not electrically conductive which means you should have no problems, I had a similar issue in an Intel NUC and the NVME SSD continued working.
Ok, have been working on getting things together and finally looking to bite the bullet and order everything. So here is what I am looking at, I currently do not need Mouse/keyboard and my monitor is LG 34UM59-P 34" 21:9 FreeSync IPS Monitor
CPU
AMD - Ryzen 5 1600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor
$219.99
Buy
CPU Cooler
be quiet! - Dark Rock 3 67.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler
$59.90
Buy
Motherboard
ASRock - X370 Taichi ATX AM4 Motherboard
$183.98
Buy
Memory
Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory
$158.99
Buy
Storage
Samsung - 960 EVO 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
$233.88
Buy
Video Card
EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card
$434.89
Buy
Case
be quiet! - Dark Base Pro 900 w/Window (Black) ATX Full Tower Case
$219.90
Buy
Power Supply
be quiet! - DARK POWER PRO 11 750W 80+ Platinum Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
$159.90
I have other SSD's and HDD that I will be adding from older system. My budget is around $1800 to $2200 US.
The reason for the computer is for Photo Editing, very little video editing, YouTube/Netflix, surfing web/email and playing some newer games. I have not been playing games besides War Thunder for a couple of years now, but my current system will not run anything new that I am looking at. I plan on running 1080P not 4k for now. Not sure when I would switch to 4k.
Anyway, thanks for the feedback, I am planning on doing this within the next week or two!!!
A resistor/silencer from, example Noctua is a small extension between the fan header on the moterboard to the cable on the fan itself.
It makes the fan go a bit more silent in case it's too loud. Pretty cheap to my knowledge!
To the original question, older fans are alright! You can reuse them if you don't think they're bad, loud or ugly.
Mark924 got a reaction from Origami Cactus in NVMe slot has a pre applied thermal pad (ROG Strix Z370-F)
Mark924 got a reaction from ArduinoBen in server hardware given to me need help
Mark924 reacted to Lazorsnipes in Ryzen Build, about to pull the trigger so please review!!
