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Thanks. I wanted to leave OC as an option as I'd only save like 40€ on a B660 board that fits my IO and potential future upgrade needs (mainly a x4 and a x1 pcie slot and 2-3 M.2 Slots in total). This is the RAM I plan to go with: https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/32GB-Kingston-Renegade-K2-FURY-DDR4-3600-UDIMM-CL16_1424615.html It wasn't pickable in pcpartspicker, so I picked one with similar specs. It just was pretty much the cheapest 3600 Ram I found, maybe 5€ more than a similar one with worse timings. There are 3200 kits for 50€ less though. I'm not sure if that's worth it. Didn't do much research on it, other than seeing fast DDR4 RAM as a compromise on not going DDR5.

Budget (including currency): 1100€ Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming (osu!, GTA V, LOL, F1 2021, Satisfactory, AOE IV, …; sometimes EA triple A titles via EA Play); heavy multitasking on two monitors (up to 6 applications, many chrome tabs, etc.); light CAD work (designing 3D-printing parts in Fusion360) Other details: Currently I'm running a thin and light convertible with a R9 Fury hooked up via Thunderbolt. Connected are 2 Monitors, one 3440*1440 144hz (running it at 100Hz because DP 1.2, or 1080p 144Hz for shooters) and my old 4K Monitor (with a TN panel though) as a secondary monitor (put on 1440p most of the time). I'm demanding way too much from that poor 15W CPU (i7-1065G7), so I want to build a PC around that GPU. I'm planning to upgrade to something 3070-grade (~400-500€) when GPU prices hopefully normalize in a year or so, but I don't want to wait as long, to upgrade to a Desktop. The R9 Fury is fine for now (still CPU bottlenecked 90% of the time rn, despite the GPU only having 4 lanes). I haven't really put a system together before (only a very low-budget FreeNAS-build, that ended up not really being upgradable), so I wanted to double check my parts list before spending most of my savings as a college student. Here's my parts list: CPU: i5-12600k CPU-Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 4 Mainboard: MSI Pro Z690-A RAM: Kingston Fury 32GB DDR4-3600 CL16 (2*16gb) PSU: be quiet! Pure Power 11 700W System Drive: Crucial P5 2TB M.2 Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Additional Case Fans: 2*be quiet! Pure Wings 2 140mm Here also as a pcpartspicker list, with PSU and RAM replaced by similar ones, as they weren't pickable: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/3kXCmr And here the (german) price comparison site I put it together on in the first place: https://geizhals.de/?cat=WL-2357636 So: is the build sensible for the budget and needs? Or would I be better off reallocating some budget, i.e. from SSD and RAM to CPU? Any help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance.

Oh no, I only got 19 days of making points because my two very unpowerful rigs (2012 MBP with i7 3615QM and NAS with Celeron J4105) couldn't always complete a whole WU every day, especially a few (for my rigs) very big ones I got. But I had them active for 29 days (NAS 24/7 for the first 24 and MacBook about 5h average for about 18 days. Is something like that taken into account?? I actually don't have a PC at the moment and CPU-Folding is pretty slow, especially with those ones. Well, if not I enjoined taking part in the competition anyways. And great job everyone!

It finally happened: Shipping is now much cheaper with Canda Post international shipping being available (at least for shipping to Europe)! For me it's 8$ for shipping to Germany.

It seems like it shut down recently, so that‘s not an option anymore.

There is a shipping forwarder in the US called Shipito. They collect a fee of $2 US + shipping fee (from $15 US to Germany). That's still about $25 ($8 to US, $17 US to Germany (that's where I live in, but other European countries are similar)) not including taxes, but that's way cheaper than the $50 US charged when shipping directly.