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Ordered this one of Amazon: Noctua NF-A4x10 FLX, Premium Quiet Fan, 3-Pin (40x10mm). From the manual diagram it looks thin. What's irritating is the manual does not specify the size of the fan. It calls it the "I/O cover fan".

I have a fan possibly going bad on my ASUS X79 LGA 2011 Sabertooth. It is constantly making a buzzing/vibrating noise. Noise varies based on MB temp. If I press my finger on the center of the fan to stop it from moving the noise disappears so it is definitely the fan. Searched eBay, Google, etc. for a replacement and nothing comes back. Can this fan be replaced? No, I am not going to drop hundreds of $$$ for another MB for a small fan. Should be replaceable. Thermal Armor Total Airflow-Boosting Heat Dissipation New generation TUF Thermal Armor kicks cooling up a notch with dual integrated Turbo Engine fans. This enhances the original TUF thermal design, helping direct heat away from MOS area components and out the case via the rear I/O section. Special heat pipes propel dissipation from critical components and make sure temps stay low across the board. The Thermal Armor also provides modders and LAN party goers an extra-cool dress up option to show off their creativity and dedication to performance.

Thanks for the detailed info. Never knew about that PCPartPicker site. Certainly makes things easy. Here is what I have done to adjust the build based on the info on SATA ports you provided. I've upped the capacity of the Samsung 860 EVO drives to 1TB each and dropped the two WD SATA 1TB drives from the list. That leaves one open SATA port. I've dropped the standard DVD R/W drive, and gone with the single Bluray R/W drive. All six SATA ports are filled now. That is a very cool case you picked out. Going to do some research on what people have experienced with it. If it continues to look good I will swap it into the build. Thank you!

5 x 3.5 for the raid, 1-2 x 3.5 for secondary sata (backup/slow storage), and a DVD R/W and Blueray player bay.

https://www.amazon.com/Nanoxia-Window-Panel-Silence-NXDS5B/dp/B01L6L98CW?th=1 It's like wearing fancy underwear. 99% of the people won't see them, but you like the way they look and feel so you buy them. Under Armor anyone? ...and because I can.

I am getting the distinct impression no one likes the MSI Godlike MB. LOL One thing I would like to remind everyone on is that this is not just a build for today... its a build for the next couple years. No telling where things might go technology or price wise. Next year I may add in two RTX 2080Ti's. So having the extra watts in the PS is important. The replacement fans on the cooler are to add some flash, nothing more. I don't like brown for some reason. I have on the list to buy Noctua NA-HC3 covers for the cooler but did not include it in the list above. As for the case size. Big case, lots of cooling, lots of air flow, in a case designed to muffle sound, sounds like a good mix. The case can handle what ever I want to put in it, including water cooling if I should decide to go that route. Overall, I believe you get what you pay for... buy cheap, risk getting cheap. Not worried about a couple hundred $$$ "wasted".

No... building one now that will last 3-5 years comfortably. Hence why some of the parts are quite expensive or what appear to be overkill. Like the memory and PS. I respect your opinion on AMD. It's just I have been an AMD fanboy since the 90's. I've seen them do great things and do shitty things. Gaming performance is good one cycle, then sucks the next. Intel continues to be steady when it comes to gaming performance. Three of my five test rigs run AMD as do my two servers. That's seven AMD systems compared to two i7 systems. As I said, I love AMD, just not for gaming.

Sticking with my existing 1080Ti until RTX prices come down.

3-5 years. While I have been a loyal fan of AMD for many years, I won't use AMD for gaming. Been there many times, not going back.

Looking to build a new PC for gaming that uses hardware that will let me game comfortably for the next 3-5 years, all things considered. I don't have room in the budget for a RTX video card due to the current RTX prices, so I will stick to my 1080Ti for another year. I have an Alienware 34 Curved Gaming Monitor 120Hz (AW3418DW) that is less than a year old so won't need a new monitor either. UPDATE #3 - Final build after community recommendations: 1. GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS Ultra 2. Intel Core i9-9900K processor 3. BK022 Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Air Cooler 4. Samsung 970 PRO Series - 1TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 5. 5 x Samsung 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III in RAID 5 6. 2 x CORSAIR Vengeance RGB PRO 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz C16 LED 7. CORSAIR HXi Series, HX1200i, 1200 Watt, 80+ Platinum Certified 8. Deep Silence 6 Super Tower HPTX Case Note: I decided to keep the case as listed after a lot of research. There were almost no negatives/cons reported on it compared to similar sized cases. Thanks to everyone for their input. Excellent community!