My new Custom built AMD Ryzen 5800X and RTX 3060 Gaming PC

[soldier_ph]

Believe it or not this is the first time that I’ve built a Custom Gaming PC for myself, thus far I’ve only personally owned Prebuilts (HP Towers), Barebones (Intel NUCs, Chromeboxes and that Zotac Zbox with a GTX 1060), Notebooks, 2 in 1 Notebooks, Windows Tablets and an iPad. I have built a couple of fully Custom PCs in the past for Customers so I do have enough experience from it and of course from disassembling my own Prebuilts and Barebones but the majority of the knowledge is from Linus Tech Tips videos of course.

 

So Specs and what I paid for them are as follows:

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X = 385,50 Euros on Amazon 

 

Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair 8 Impact = 298,66 Euros on Amazon

 

RAM: Kingston Fury Renegade 64GB (2x32GB) 3200MHz = 241,90 Euros on Amazon

 

GPU: Palit Geforce RTX 3060 Dual 12 GB with the OG GA106-300 die = 452 Euros via my friend @AluminiumTech from the UK

 

Case: Fractal ARC Mini R2 digitec Edition = 27 Euros

 

Storage: Samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 2TB = 316,67 Euros on Amazon

 

PSU: Seasonic Prime 1000 PX 80+ Platinum = 223,55 Euros on digitec galaxus

 

Cooling: Noctua NH-U12S in Chromax.Black = 79,90 Euros on Amazon

 

and 5x NF-A12x15 PWM Fans in Chromax.Black = 124,50 Euros on Amazon with one being 24,90 Euros.

 

With the total being = 2’149.68‬ Euros or 2307.83 CHF (which is what I actually ended up paying) or 2488.12 USD or 3103.13 CAD (oh you poor Maple Sirup Dollar lol) 

 

Windows 10 Pro license = Free since my Brother has access to a Database of them because of his job and no one will notice if 5 of those go missing a year out of thousands of activation keys lol. Yes, for some reason I think I used over 5 activation keys in the past 2 to 3 years. 

 

Only the Case is technically used since it was first used by digitec galaxus (my Swiss Tech Retailer of choice) to be built in back in 2013 when their own PC line still had cases with the digitec logo pressed in on the side panels. So they never sold around 200 of these Cases and then they ended up in a Corner of their huge Warehouse, then they were found again in late 2019 and they fire sold them for 27 bucks and I was lucky to get one. 

 

And then I also bought the Roccat Sova Lapboard Gaming Keyboard which was 69.70 CHF or 64.92 Euros or 75.14 USD or 93.71 CAD.

 

Showing off the loot which has been acquired in a time frame of about 2 years: First the Case, then GPU and all the rest in the end just recently:

The WiFi antenna looks like a shark fin:

I absolutely hate how AMD marks the triangle on their AM4 socket. Like the whole triangle is just embeeded in the plasitc "frame" of the socket which is also grey. My Vision is already bad enough... Please just color code it like it is on the CPU itself:

My Thermal paste application of choice. The amazing NT-H2 has been used of course:

That fan cable is a bit too long for the Tower Cooler fan:

Assembling the fans. I went with the Red corners to make a Red and Black theme: Also iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit FTW !

Welcome to my OnlyFans:

All that blowing power in a nice, sexy package:

That's basically the whole PC without the PSU and Fans of course. A dense dance indeed:

POST on First Boot !

Now that all of the Drivers have been installed everything works as pie. Nothing DOA, f u Covid !

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The Test Setup on a Fan Box inside my TV Cabinet. Yes I built that TV Cabinet myself to spec to the size of the feet of my TV:

Setting up Windows 10, always hate that process:

Moved the PC to the Desk and then remoted into it using Windows RDP:

Now to move the Components into the Case itself:

Removed the Cables of the integrated Fan Controller since I need one with 4 Pin PWM:

This is using Molex anyways so yikes:

Removing the Stupid Labels Noctua has to put on the extension cables of their Fans:

So this is the Soundcard of the MoBo and this standoff screw combo moves the cover plate around when you try to close the thing up again:

Also you have to take the damn thing out in the first place to plug in front panel audio:

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Time for Cable managment: 

I've never seen a PC Fan without pre drilled fan screw holes so the hell ?

This is where the 5th Noctua Fan would go if I had a 4 Pin PWM Fan Controller which didn't catch on fire or explode: 

(I hope you got that meme reference)

 

Pretty sexy cable management for stock cables, eh ?

The MoBo came with a 20% CableMod Coupon Code so that will be used. You can recommend me some Cable designs if you'd like.

 

Now all that's left is to sticker bomb both side panels since I have lots of cool and funny stickers and to buy a Monitor and Fan Hub. Will also start Folding and mine using Nicehash to make some of that money back. Getting back to trying out different Linux Distros and perhaps even getting back into programming is something I'm also looking forward to. 

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[DJ46]

Love the auesthetic of this build.

 

I wanted to mention a little trick for cable management - a lot of thinner cables can run with no interference under the motherboard (especially front panel connectors, but you can even sneak the front panel audio cable in there sometimes). Flat ribbon cables like the PCI-e power for your GPU will fit too.

With the smaller motherboard you are using you could also run the 24pin, CPU 8pin and USB 3.0 (with a looser bend as that thing never does what you want it to do) through the cutout for the CPU cooler backplate.

I'm not sure I described it properly, so I threw together a quick edit in Paint to show what it would look like (well, more of the cables would be visible but it's hard to create bends in paint ).

 

[soldier_ph]

2 hours ago, DJ46 said:

Love the auesthetic of this build.

 

I wanted to mention a little trick for cable management - a lot of thinner cables can run with no interference under the motherboard (especially front panel connectors, but you can even sneak the front panel audio cable in there sometimes). Flat ribbon cables like the PCI-e power for your GPU will fit too.

With the smaller motherboard you are using you could also run the 24pin, CPU 8pin and USB 3.0 (with a looser bend as that thing never does what you want it to do) through the cutout for the CPU cooler backplate.

I'm not sure I described it properly, so I threw together a quick edit in Paint to show what it would look like (well, more of the cables would be visible but it's hard to create bends in paint ).

 

Hey, thanks for your tip. I'm gonna do a better job at Cable mangament once I have a good Fan Controller and Custom Cable Mod Cables.

[DJ46]

55 minutes ago, soldier_ph said:

Hey, thanks for your tip. I'm gonna do a better job at Cable mangament once I have a good Fan Controller and Custom Cable Mod Cables.

Oooh custom cables, can't wait to see how it will look with those!

 

You've already managed it very well for stock cables, now that I think about it the bend I recommended probably isn't even possible with the stock 24pin.

I'm pretty sure an 8mm steel rod is easier to bend, nevermind less likely to break while doing so.

[TVwazhere]

On 10/9/2021 at 2:51 PM, soldier_ph said:

I've never seen a PC Fan without pre drilled fan screw holes so the hell ?

Not as uncommon as you may think. Many of the case fans on the market come with those self-tapping screws; fans that are for RADs usually come with the thinner+ longer screws, and CPU towers tend to use clamps, claps or brackets. 

[Blue4130]

On 10/10/2021 at 2:51 AM, soldier_ph said:

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Seems way to big and empty for my taste. 

[DJ46]

11 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

Seems way to big and empty for my taste. 

I'd agree with you but years ago before the Fractal launched the C cases there were plenty of builds with this much empty space up front and noone batted an eye.

 

The alternative for this build would be the Nano but IMO it would put the GPU too close to the PSU for comfort.

Having the rear fan totally obstructed on an RTX card doesn't sound like a great idea.

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Forgot to post pictures of the Cable Mod Cables:

 

Before and after from the back:

Before and after from the front: