First build/ First pc

[JCosta1527]

Hello, my name is Jeff. This is my first ever pc and also the first time ever building a pc. I have had a little experience in fixing ps4s and Xboxes in the past but never really had enough spare money laying around to get a pc because I always wanted to at least create my own even if I wasn't building it, rather than buy a prebuilt. I recently saved $3,000 for a full gaming setup. I went to micro center because I fortunate enough to have one 15 min down the street from me and I was ready with a pocket full of cash. Unfortunately, when I got there, I was informed they're build team was super busy and it would be at least a week before they could start one mine, so when faced with the challenge I took it and decided I would try myself. I watched loads of videos over the past 5 years from Linus, jay2cents, bitwit, and many more and with the new build guide on Linus channel playing in the background I had never been more prepared. 

Here is how it turned out. 

 

The specs are -

Ryzen 5600x 

MSI Mag B550 Tomahawk Max WIFI

Samsung 970 evo

16gb Corsair vengeance rgb pro

EVGA rtx 3070 ftw3 ultra 

Corsair h150i elite capellix aio

Corsair cx750m

Lian Li o11 dynamic xl

6 corsair ql120

1 corsair ll120

 

If you look closely there is also a ez gpu anti sag bracket holding up the gpu because it was sagging pretty bad, and the one included with the case didn't fit the shape of the card. 

 

I realize cooling wise I may have gone a little overboard, but I had in mind upgrading to a higher cpu, graphics card, mother board, ect within a year or two. I probably could've gotten some nicer equipment with the money I put towards the fans alone. But the full build I believe came out to around $2,300 or so. This pc is being run on a gigabyte G32qc curved 32' 1440 monitor. I also picked up 2 keyboards, a hyperx alloy origins, and a corsair k55 rgb pro. A Logitech G502 mouse, a red dragon long mouse pad, a $110 desk, and a Logitech G432 headset. Plus a 3 year protection plan on everything brought the total to right around $3,000 with tax. 

Did I do good? 

Any suggestions?

Ideas for future upgrades?

[JCosta1527]

Also, any suggestions for cable management? I found that the 8 pin power cables for the gpu that came with my power supply are very very stiff and hard to bend. I find it looks kind of messy. The same goes with the usb 3.0 cable that you can see connected to the bottom of the motherboard, but that doesn't bother me as much.

Also, the gpu cables are daisy chained but I used 2 separate ones as informed by many people, so I zip tied the ends down as seen in the picture, but I think it just throws everything off aesthetic wise. Should I invest in some cable extensions or something of that nature?

[NF-A12x25]

Beautiful build! 

38 minutes ago, JCosta1527 said:

I think it just throws everything off aesthetic wise. Should I invest in some cable extensions or something of that nature?

If it makes you happy and you have a few extra bucks to blow do it! I’d get Cablemod extensions if I was gonna do that.

 

A good future upgrade, since you asked for suggestions, would be to move to a 5800X3D, as that is the best CPU for gaming of the 5000 series and you wouldn’t need to get a new motherboard and DDR5 RAM- you would have to upgrade mobo and ram for a 7000 series.

[Ryuikko]

Looks nice!

1 hour ago, JCosta1527 said:

I found that the 8 pin power cables for the gpu that came with my power supply are very very stiff and hard to bend. 

Iirc that's specific one has in cable capacitors, so it'll be a bit more annoying to bend then some other cables 

My only pet peeve with the cable management is whatever is happening below the gpu,  are both 8 pin pcie connections going through the bottom cable management hole? I can't see too clearly. Maybe pulling the slack would help a bit as well

[JCosta1527]

4 minutes ago, Ryuikko said:

Looks nice!

Iirc that's specific one has in cable capacitors, so it'll be a bit more annoying to bend then some other cables 

My only pet peeve with the cable management is whatever is happening below the gpu,  are both 8 pin pcie connections going through the bottom cable management hole? I can't see too clearly. Maybe pulling the slack would help a bit as well

The 2 8 pins for the gpu are going through the bottom cable hole on the side. For some reason I noticed that the gpu power ports are flipped upside down on this card, I didn't know different companies do that different, I originally had a asus 3070 rog strix but the fan broke on it 2 weeks into use, so I swapped it for this evga card and got $60 back, and that along with the stiff cables makes it hard to pull any slack. I also have the gpu anti sag bracket so I have to route them under that. 

The bottom I agree looks sloppy too but it's really just that usb 3.0 cable that's very stiff and hard to bend so it sticks out a lot. I don't use the usb on the front of the case atm so in theory I could unplug it. 

Heres a better picture of the bottom