Desktop Computers

If you haven't been following tech news the 3600 is a budget cpu from 2019 that is very, very, good. To the point there's limited reason to buy a more expensive cpu for any existing pc games. You should notice a hefty improvement from an ancient quadcore.

mATX can mean less connectivity (usb, pci, etc,) less OC, physical space for storage, slightly more of a hassle to work on, and more cooling considerations; but it's not a terribly big deal.

Wouldn't recommend being a first adopter if you haven't built a new pc in a long time. 4000 series will be a bit more expensive and will sell out minutes after shipping for months. Many of the b450 boards won't get the needed bios updates for a while, if ever, to support it; and the ones that do will need a donor cpu just to update the bios (x570s too.) Took a quite a while after the 3000s were out for most b450 boards to start shipping with bios support pre installed.

Thanks for the tips. Checked the 3700x but it is around 150 bucks more than the 3600 here in Sweden. Think I'll pounce on the 3600.

This is the first time I switch to AMD since I had the AMD K6-2 back during the stone age.

moonarchia said:

Been going through a few desk and monitor arm configurations. Finally found a good clean display setup. Just got everything plugged in and working with my old kb and mouse. Will switch over to the new wireless ones after sleepy time.

Using this:

and this:

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Just to follow up the new wireless kb/mouse on the chair arm thingy has been fucking awesome. I moved my old setup downstairs to my work from home area, and moved my old dinner table solution back into storage so it has been win/win/win. My stretch goal is going to be getting my laptop connected to the other monitor. Just got a razer 16gb ram 500gb ssd and gtx2070 last fall, and it is a beast. I am thinking to get a thunderbolt 3 hub, and an a/b cable for the kb/mouse so I can have both computers doing their thing.

So i am trying to decide if its worth it to do a custom cooling solution for my build or just go with a nice 360mm AIO solution. Aside from the obvious flex im not sure i want to do with a custom solution having never done it before. Especially considering i'll be dumping 3-4k into it.

Not worth it except for looking pretty

Xexx said:

So i am trying to decide if its worth it to do a custom cooling solution for my build or just go with a nice 360mm AIO solution. Aside from the obvious flex im not sure i want to do with a custom solution having never done it before. Especially considering i'll be dumping 3-4k into it.

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AIO no doubt.

I have a 360 AIO i will be doing in push/pull on my Core P3 - It will have a bit of useless bling tossed in as i currently have a Asus Ryujin 360 that i will replace the fans with RGB and use the stock in the rear. The PSU is the Asus Thor for more pointless RGB etc, with that and the other disco shit i will toss on it i guess that will be enough if i dont go big on water. I assume there will be an RGB 3080 variant running around as well if not the 3090.

Xexx said:

So i am trying to decide if its worth it to do a custom cooling solution for my build or just go with a nice 360mm AIO solution. Aside from the obvious flex im not sure i want to do with a custom solution having never done it before. Especially considering i'll be dumping 3-4k into it.

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I just did a custom loop with corsairs new line. Didnt do the gpu yet as their block has reported leaking. I dont look forward to draining it and adding it in the upcoming weeks.

I went from corsairs aio to this and it did provide better temps by like 5-10 degrees, so it was really just for the looks and to say I did it. If it is your first time prepare for some research and frustration.

slippery said:

I did corsair blocks as well, but I think I'm going to go EK in the future. I don't like the appearance in person as much as I thought I would.

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Same on both. Thankfully they didnt have a block for my 2080. Theres videos online of people putting very little pressure at the mount and it dripping because of bad design.

I felt like it was difficult to find parts outside of corsair, Ek, and thermaltake or I just didn't know where to look. After my build was complete I found the reddit page for customcooling and realized I could have had much better, but probably end up spending twice as much.