7 Years on..... Time for build 2

[Madmonsta]

Budget (including currency): A$2500

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Light video editing, multimedia, light gaming (no AAA games)

Other details I built my first pc in 2015 .....

 

It's served me well but I feel it's time to hit beast-ish mode. I bought new case last week (Fractal Define 7 Compact), although the fans would be ok I'm replacing them with BeQuiet fans.

I got email yesterday my parts have been shipped so I'm very stoked for next week's fun.

 

Here are my beast's organs :-))

 

MOBO - MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk Wi-Fi DDR5 A$399

CPU - Intel Core i7 12700 (non K (don't @ me lol (saving A$90 and I've never overclocked))) A$549

CPU COOLER - BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 (with LGA1700 mounting kit) A$229

RAM - Corsair Vengeance 32GB (2x16GB) 5600MHz CL36 DDR5 A$369

STORAGE - Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 (boot drive) & Samsung 980 1TB M.2 (additional storage) (no 2.5 SSD or HDD) A$378

PSU - BeQuiet Pure Power 11 1000w A$239

CASE FANS - Front 2 x Silent Wings 4 140mm PWM 1100rpm, Rear 1 x Pure Wings 2 120mm PWM 1500rpm A$97

will go for positive pressure running front at 100% 13.6 (dB(A)) and drop rear fan to 900rpm.

COST TO DATE - A$2395

 

I have already prepped the case, removed case fans, run front i/o cables to where they'll be needed, and removed HDD drive cage.

I'm going to hold off on GPU till end of year and reuse my ASUS Strix GTX970 in the meantime :-(((

 

I'll add photos to this next week, I'll try to do a better job at internal cable management this time around lol (refer previous build)

 

Photos added.

 

A lot of sag on the GPU but that's what happens when you get old. exceot for the power LED and an annoying power LED on the GPU (will fix that with some electrical tape lol) it's totally blacked out and incredibly silent.

 

Edited August 12, 2022 by Madmonsta
added photos and final comments

[Ryuikko]

Wait have you already bought the parts? I give you a 100000% chance that the cpu will not be able to run that ram at all

[Madmonsta]

I'll find out next week, and let you know :-))

[Madmonsta]

2 hours ago, Ryuikko said:

Wait have you already bought the parts? I give you a 100000% chance that the cpu will not be able to run that ram at all

 

[Ryuikko]

I am aware of 12th gens memory controller being terrible, but it's more that the locked cpus have their vccsa voltages locked down at iirc .9-.92 volts. To get the rams xmp profile on for ddr5, I'm fairly confident it would exceed that. At that point youd have to go to gear2 which is terrible for performance