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Thanks for the reply! According to PCP there does not seem to be much of a difference between the Scythe cooler and the Noctua coolers that are on there. Could you perhaps elaborate on which ones in particular you'd think would be a better fit? I'm not entirely sure yet if I want to get a new case so I can still use the old PC as a backup, using the old 7950 card I still have laying around. I'll have to decide that by the time I'm putting this build together (late December/early January). Regarding the M.2 SSD SATA bandwidth warning, does that matter considering the other drives I'd like to stick in there? I'm not fully up to speed when it comes to the AMD Ryzen motherboard chipsets.

Hi! I'm pretty new here. I've followed the LTT channel for a couple of years now and would like some advice when it comes to upgrading/replacing my existing PC. I posted this earlier in the megathread and was asked to make a new thread, so here goes! Currently I have an older PC running an i5 3570k that's really starting to show its age when trying to stream and/or playing some more CPU-intensive games. I'm trying to figure out which parts of my previous build I could migrate over without worries. Here's the build I was looking at building, with the parts that I'd like to carry over below the PCPartPicker list: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor €335.00 @ Azerty CPU Cooler Scythe Mugen 5 Rev. B 51.17 CFM CPU Cooler €44.95 @ Paradigit Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard €117.00 @ CD-ROM-LAND Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory €84.95 @ CD-ROM-LAND Storage Intel 660p Series 2.048 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive €210.85 @ CD-ROM-LAND Case Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case €96.95 @ CD-ROM-LAND Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply €72.04 @ Azerty Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total €961.74 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-09 17:30 CET+0100 Storage Intel 520 120GB Samsung 750 EVO 250GB SeaGate Barracuda 4TB @ 5400RPM Graphics MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G Peripherals AVerMedia Live Gamer HD 2 Power Supply Seasonic G Series 650W Case Bitfenix Shinobi PCPP mentions how the M.2 SSD takes up additional SATA bandwidth, causing some of them to be unavailable. When I swap the motherboard out for an X570 one this no longer seems to be the case which sounds better to me for when I want to add additional storage, but from what I understand that chipset is overkill/overpriced for what I intend to use the PC for. As for the old PSU and case, I'm not sure how wise it would be to carry those over given how they're about 7 years old by now. I haven't really had any issues with either of them so far. For the time being I'd like to stick with my GPU with the intent to replace it one or two more generations down the line. Currently I don't see the merit in having ray tracing support whereas getting a 16XX card seems like not too much of an upgrade for the money. Are there any red lights in this build or am I good to go with this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Hi! I'm pretty new here. I've followed the LTT channel for a couple of years now and would like some advice when it comes to upgrading/replacing my existing PC. Currently I have an older PC running an i5 3570k that's really starting to show its age when trying to stream and/or playing some more CPU-intensive games. I'm trying to figure out which parts of my previous build I could migrate over without worries. Here's the build I was looking at building, with the parts that I'd like to carry over below the PCPartPicker list: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor €335.00 @ Azerty CPU Cooler Scythe Mugen 5 Rev. B 51.17 CFM CPU Cooler €44.95 @ Paradigit Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard €117.00 @ CD-ROM-LAND Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory €84.95 @ CD-ROM-LAND Storage Intel 660p Series 2.048 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive €210.85 @ CD-ROM-LAND Case Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case €96.95 @ CD-ROM-LAND Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply €72.04 @ Azerty Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total €961.74 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-09 17:30 CET+0100 Storage Intel 520 120GB Samsung 750 EVO 250GB SeaGate Barracuda 4TB @ 5400RPM Graphics MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G Peripherals AVerMedia Live Gamer HD 2 Power Supply Seasonic G Series 650W Case Bitfenix Shinobi PCPP mentions how the M.2 SSD takes up additional SATA bandwidth, causing some of them to be unavailable. When I swap the motherboard out for an X570 one this no longer seems to be the case which sounds better to me for when I want to add additional storage, but from what I understand that chipset is overkill/overpriced for what I intend to use the PC for. As for the old PSU and case, I'm not sure how wise it would be to carry those over given how they're about 7 years old by now. I haven't really had any issues with either of them so far. For the time being I'd like to stick with my GPU with the intent to replace it one or two more generations down the line. Currently I don't see the merit in having ray tracing support whereas getting a 16XX card seems like not too much of an upgrade for the money. Are there any red lights in this build or am I good to go with this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!