Upgraded after 8 years.

[Runemane]

Xmas Present to myself, Almost 8 years between systems bar a video card upgrade, first got my system in Feb 2012 an i5-2500k, and only replaced video card in 2016.

Got bits and pieces from all over the place, it's a Frankenstein.

CPU: AMD 3700x w/ Wraith Prism RGB Cooler.

 

MOBO: ASRock x570 phantom gaming 4.

 

RAM : 16gb XPG Z1 DDR4 3600MHz CL18

 

GPU : Radeon RX480 8gb – (from my old box, will be upgrading soon to either 1660ti or 2070 super)

 

SSD : 2x Samsung SM863a 1.9tb in a RAID1 config. – For Games.
Corsair MP510 480GB M.2 NVMe – For W10/Boot/Programs.

 

STORAGE: 3tb & 4tb WD Black 7200 rpm storage drives from old system, will be getting a 6tb soon and retiring the 3gb.

 

PSU: Corsair RM750x

 

CASE :Deepcool Tesseract Mid Tower.

 

FANS: 2x Bykski 120mm RGB (Front and Back of case.)

 

OPTICAL: LG Blu-Ray 16x Writer

 

PERIPHERALS : Asus Cerberus Gaming Mouse + Logitech G105 KB (from old system)

 

DISPLAY: Viewsonic VX2458 144Mhz Curved 23.6" Freesync.

[Jumballi]

Everything appears balanced.

don’t raid ssd, that caused more issues than solving them. Only thing is load times, and your cpu may bottleneck at ssd speeds at times.

x570 is only if you want the ryzen 9 or pcie 4.0, consider getting an updated b450/x470 board to save a hundred bucks.

[The Spectator]

it feels like a waste to put all that nice hardware in the deepcool tesseract but whatever floats your boat man

 

Nice System! 

[Runemane]

I opted for the x570 cause it supported high speed memory & Ryzen 3000 series compatibility out of the box, otherwise I would of had to mess around swapping cpu's and flashing the bios.

A tech friend supplied and recommended those drives in raid cause they are data centre SSD and apparently perform better.

I did get cheap on the case a bit but this was one of the only cases that had ample bay storage options for my legacy 3.5' drives and blu-ray drive.

It seems that almost every other case didn't have enough spaces cause everyone is going SSD's and NVMe's and even ditching the cd rom drive now too, in favour of water cooling reservoirs and rgb fans.

But yeah I'm happy with it for now, so much better than my old system and when I get the GPU up grade it will be sweet.

[LunaP0n3]

On 12/31/2019 at 4:53 PM, Runemane said:

OPTICAL: LG Blu-Ray 16x Writer

Optical Drives are a rare sight these days with new systems, but there is nothing wrong with that. I've got 2 internally and one external, used for backing up/converting my physical media for upload to my NAS.