Tell me what I did wrong (or forgot) after I just spent $2,501.34 (headless gaming server)

[CruxCraft]

Budget (including currency): Within Reason?

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Valheim, Minecraft, Xonotic

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Setting up a headless gaming server and wanted feedback even though I already ordered these. I can probably cancel if I messed something up too much lol

• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570 (non-wifi)

• Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core

• Thermal Paste: ARCTIC MX-4 (incl. Spatula, 4 Grams)

• Heat Sink: Noctua NH-D15 chromax.Black, Dual-Tower CPU Cooler (140mm, Black)

• Memory: G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800)

• M.2 SSD: SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2 2280 500GB PCI-Express Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3c Samsung V-NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V8P500B/AM (x2 in raid 0)

• 2.5 SSD: SAMSUNG 870 EVO Series 2.5" 1TB SATA III V-NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-77E1T0B/AM (x2 in raid 0)

• Chassis: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Black ATX Flexible DT

• Case Fans: Noctua NF-A14 PWM chromax.Black.swap, Premium Quiet Fan, 4-Pin (140mm) x3

• Power Supply: CORSAIR RMx Series (2021) RM750x CP-9020199-NA 750W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Power Supply

• Uninterrupted Power Supply: CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD - PFC Sinewave UPS Systems

Just wanting to know what you think I should have done differently... & if I've completely forgotten anything... Thanks for any feedback!!

 

[kelvinhall05]

You say "should have", did you buy all this already?

 

 

Either way, I would've done four sticks of RAM (and possibly more of it) and a lot more storage.

[PorkishPig]

8 minutes ago, CruxCraft said:

Just wanting to know what you think I should have done differently... & if I've completely forgotten anything... Thanks for any feedback!!

You say the computer is going to be a headless gaming computer, but you have no graphics card listed. Do you already have one? Keep in mind that the R9 5900X has no onboard graphics.

[Downkey]

26 minutes ago, CruxCraft said:

Budget (including currency): Within Reason?

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Valheim, Minecraft, Xonotic

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Setting up a headless gaming server and wanted feedback even though I already ordered these. I can probably cancel if I messed something up too much lol

• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570 (non-wifi)

• Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core

• Thermal Paste: ARCTIC MX-4 (incl. Spatula, 4 Grams)

• Heat Sink: Noctua NH-D15 chromax.Black, Dual-Tower CPU Cooler (140mm, Black)

• Memory: G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800)

• M.2 SSD: SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2 2280 500GB PCI-Express Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3c Samsung V-NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V8P500B/AM (x2 in raid 0)

• 2.5 SSD: SAMSUNG 870 EVO Series 2.5" 1TB SATA III V-NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-77E1T0B/AM (x2 in raid 0)

• Chassis: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Black ATX Flexible DT

• Case Fans: Noctua NF-A14 PWM chromax.Black.swap, Premium Quiet Fan, 4-Pin (140mm) x3

• Power Supply: CORSAIR RMx Series (2021) RM750x CP-9020199-NA 750W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Power Supply

• Uninterrupted Power Supply: CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD - PFC Sinewave UPS Systems

Just wanting to know what you think I should have done differently... & if I've completely forgotten anything... Thanks for any feedback!!

 

-You have no GPU

-Motherboard is really overkill, could’ve gone with a B550 + a 5950x for that price.

[WereCat]

That is a great motherboard if you do a lot of overclocking  But unless you also need all the connectivity it offers, you can go with much cheaper B550 board. 

 

Graphics card? 

[BizzWhacken]

Motherboard is great but mad overkill. I would look for another B550 or something unless you are planning on overclocking hardcore. 

 

honestly the CPU you're running also could be overkill if this is a gaming rig only. i would suggest maybe dropping to a 7 core or so and put more money into your graphics card. 

 

I am a big fan of not having open slots of ram i would suggest either more ram or honestly depending on what youre doing with this rig the same amount just 4 sticks. 

 

GPU is crucial to every build if you have one already great but i would add a GPU. If you're waiting on a GPU to become more affordable i would check FB market place, sometimes they have great deals for an older model that is super functional. or if you were planning on having onbaord graphics i would look at switching the build to Intel. .  

 

you might want to consider, depending on your GPU, maybe bumping up your power supply to 1000 watts or so. if you use a newer graphics card you'll need more power potentially. 

 

cheers man! congrats on the build hopefully we can get GPUS again for MSRP

[brob]

Beyond overkill motherboard.

 

Trident Z memory modules are not a great choice to pair with an NH-D15. Corsair Vengeance LPX would be better.

 

Don't use RAID 0 in a server. Use 2TB drives instead. I'd getting two 2TB Samsung 980 drives rather than 2x1TB 980 and 2x1TB SATA III ssd.

 

Even with a windowed Meshify 2, I would not have bothered with the cost of Chromax Black parts.

 

I wouldn't have bothered with the Arctic thermal compound. The stuff that comes with the cooler is fine.

 

Since the system will be headless I would have used a lower capacity psu. Probably around 550W.

[ramava]

Do you have an old GPU to put into it? Even though it's headless, it will need a bare minimum of a video card to boot and set up (unless you're doing some really fancy provisioning). Even though your motherboard may have an HDMI port, it won't actually do anything because there's no onboard graphics on that CPU. If you don't have a spare, you can find the cheapest thing you can that doesn't have reviews saying it fails a lot.