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So I've been parting IN my next pc on a shoe string, as opposed to parting out. so far i have a DIY case and crucial cx PS, a ryzen 2400g i got for $25 and a non working asrock b450 pro4 that seller said doesn't power for $5. got the board and there are a few bent pins but nothing to bad ( not bent over just crooked) however on the underside i notice that there are tiny conical plastic feet but a lot of them are missing like on all the dimm slots exposing a 2 prong metal fork. one of the dimm ones is even bent. i guessing that would contact the case and short the board out? but id expect the standoffs to give enough space. i realize it may well be a brick but is that an avenue i should pursue?

Because of thermals or just inherent?. I saw an acrylic case on AliExpress but they wanted $177 and I thought it was just dumb.

You could make it out of poly with an anti scratch coating I guess like eyeglasses which would help.

Anyone have experience or thoughts on pros/cons of building in an all acrylic case? Obviously aesthetics but I would be concerned about ESD. Not actually thinking of doing it, just wondering.

Well you Herman, thx1138 and vexicus. And yeah it did.

I didn't get any notifications of replies so I'm sorry I kinda ghosted you. I will take your suggestions to heart. And I'm off the 3200g because it's not zen 2 and on the rx570 train now

well like i said that's not really an option in my situation but thank you anyway

Yes. do you have any other recommendations?

I thought the Mortar was discontinued

Thanks but I don't think that's going to work for me, it is a good point though

So I'm based in Florida and looking to build a budget pc. It's both general purpose and some gaming. I used to build way back in the day (owned a then current IBM PC I upgraded to a HDD from a cassette drive LOL, I'm pushing 60) but the last thing I built was maybe a pentium 4 don't remember much about it except i way over-payed for an all brushed aluminum Lian Li full tower case with like 6 5.25" external bays back when you could have a case in any color as long as it was beige with pebbled finish. nice case though. I don't play racing games, shooters because i have a reaction time of probably 200ms (I do however make an excellent target) or e-sports. I'm more a civ 6, or 4x guy so I'm planning on an AM4 Ryzen 3400G with the RX graphics, stock cooler. not planning to overclock. I'm thinking on using LPX Vengence ddr4 probably 3000 but when I buy i'll see what's the best value. I have several problems though. 1. i'm dirt poor (been out of work for 3 months and rocking an unrelated broken leg) so this is a 6 month+ window to build where i'll be buying like one component a month starting with PSU I think since it least likely to suffer obsolescence . 2. I do play things like Witcher 3 and Uncharted series so FPS isn't something I can completely ignore. 3. I have some old laptops I can re-purpose for the mechanical drives (a dual core Pentium and a I think a 17" gen 3 core I7 (can't remember which exactly but it ended in HQ. it was fast in its day but I can't charge either due to lack of the right sized power supply) with a 1tb 5400 boot drive running windows 7 and I have an acceptable mouse and KB for now but that's basically it unless I can reuse some ram but that's unlikely. My current laptop is using a 3200u and blasting out 1.5 FPS in 3dmark. Need a monitor too, a 24" or better, wide would be nice. going for an ATX mid tower. My main problem is MOBO. I want to use an MSI (best mobos by consensus) but i need displayport or at at least hdmi and wi-fi because my ISP supplied router an motorola SBG 3850? is very inconveniently placed. I was leaning toward the msi B450 carbon AC but I don't have an gen 1 or 2 ryzen chip to flash the bios for the gen 3 so i need a solution for that. And if i'm not overclocking does the VRM cooling matter? I follow LInus tech tips, tech quickie to get back up to speed on some terms like dank and i think I've watched every video going back a year other than the WAN shows which are just too long for my taste (apologies to Mr Sebastien), jayztwocents (he's my homie, my brother from another mother), and just started gamer nexus which has a ton of info but is a little tough to watch leaning toward a corsair cx550 but PCpartpicker says my power draw is about 200w but I don't think a 300w modular or semi exists unless it's way off brand and experience has taught me to not go cheap on that component. i'm not a cable management freak but i like the idea of semi or fully modular Are all $50 mid tower atx cases horror shows to build in? I've looked online at Corsair, THERMALTAKE, Rosewill, Phanteks and IDK how many others and i pay attention to the 1* reviews the most and they are not encouraging. Don't need RGB but If a can get some why the hell not? I do plan on upgrading the CPU and adding an nvidia gpu in the future. i DON"T need pcie 4 and I cant find an X570 in my budget, or a x470 with everything i need. should a go wifi usb dongle or pcie card. router is in the same room but i'd have to move a lot of furniture, add a barrel connector and run it over my front door so another 50 foot run to reach the PC. and if I don't do much online play why would I? budget is 500 to 700 greenback. I have like $30 in amazon gift cards and i'll be running win 10 eventually but the OS is NOT part of the budget.

I believe Linus did a video on this. There was an Asian market only card. Not 1000% sure it was a 1060 but that sounds right.