Finally back to team red

[P5yco]

So after 7 or so years with my last system, I finally took the plunge and upgraded. I'd been considering an upgrade for several years but the new Ryzen chips finally swayed my head back to team red so here I am.

 

I use my computer for Gaming, Blender, Art, and Music, and if i'm doing an upgrade I wanted it to be at least as future proof as my last build which apart from switching to an SSD boot drive was largely unchanged since it was first built.

 

So the specs of my new system are

 

Ryzen 7 3700X

Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro ATX

1TB Corsair MP600 NVME PCIe4 boot drive

Asus AMD Radeon 5700 XT TUF Gaming

32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200

850W Aerocool 80+ Platinum Fully Modular PSU

Be Quiet! Pure Base 600 Mid Tower

Pioneer Blu Ray

1Tb and 2Tb WD Green HDD storage drives

 

I was sorely tempted by an NVidea RTX 2070 Super but I figured the Radeon 5700XT was close enough in terms of performance give or take hardware RTX support so i used the saving on the graphics card to go for the NVME Boot.

 

I'm sticking with the stock cooler at the moment. Temps and performance are ok, no throttling that I've noticed even on long renders.

 

So here it is. Nothing too flashy but it's in my desk most of the time so I don't see the insides. Actually the biggest challenge of the build was modifying my desk so the case would fit on the shelf, my old case was quite a bit smaller and only just fit.