So upon trying to animate and render said animations, my repurposed HP Compaq Elite 8300 PC struggled to render out the sequences via Adobe After Effects. I had enough time to activate my plans to build a new PC. So my AMD Ryzen DIY journey began.
While I would not consider myself a novice at DIY PCs, I must admit I was out of sync as to what was new and popping in the DIY scene. While I would occasionally watch PC builds and new components, I must admit there was a mild period getting my self reoriented with new standards and the issues of the scene.
Upon figuring out which way was up, I decided to splurge on some items that I always wanted while getting quality components for price, thus my AMD Ryzen DIY journey became this:
- Case: Cooler Master HAF Case
- Case Fans: Noctua NF-A20 PWM 200 mm, Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM 120 mm, Noctua NF-R8 redux-1800 PWM 80 mm (x2)
- Memory: Patriot Viper Steel 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800)
- Motherboard: MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk Wi-Fi
- CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 chromax black, 140 mm dual-tower CPU cooler, with Noctua NT-H1 3.5g, Pro-Grade Thermal Compound Paste
- HDD1: M.2 500 GB WD Black SN750
- HDD2: WD Black 2 TB 7200RPM SATA
- GPU: EVGA RTX 3060 XC Gaming
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 GA, 80 Plus Gold 750W, Fully Modular
THE PARTS AND WHY IN THE AMD RYZEN DIY JOURNEY
Selecting the parts were not straight forward as they used to be, while in building a DIY rig there was always choice and compatibility issues the new architecture of CPUs and the ability to getting every last piece of juice out of them means you have to be really purposeful of what you buy.
Else you can run into bottlenecks in your system, which simply means that upon hitting the functional limit of one part, it prevents you from leveraging the full potential of another. The whole affair is not really necessary as there are standards and most things that you purchase once they fit into the slot they will work 99% of the time, I had mostly cosmetic concerns for the average user, like which M.2 slot to use for the SSD hard drive.
Such minutia will really only show in benchmarks and extremely demanding professional applications. But for the in between of the mundane to the professional user, that weird area in between, every now, and again you do things with your that cranks the hardware to a limit and sometimes little things like that matters.
THE BUDGET IN THE AMD RYZEN DIY JOURNEY
Even with those concerns, cost is always an issue, mostly because the average person does not have disposable income to waste and one would like to get performance for money. While I really had no hard line budget, I have a weird system of how much I would be willing to spend per month, how much I would be willing to pay per part and the type of performance or quality I wanted and expected in each part. I seriously do not recommend taking such a system because really it extends the whole process, and sometimes you select parts that of a certain splurge in areas that may not make a lot of difference performance wise for the price.
In hindsight, I really should have of made an overall budget because some items were really a lust issue (cough, cough case) but no part I bought is of substandard quality they are in my case luxuries I could have done without. But having some intelligence and reasoning has never stopped me from making a reckless decision yet, and I am not stopping now!!!!
THE JOURNEY CONTINUES
My HP Compaq Elite 8300 PC will not be euthanized and chucked into a landfill nor will it be relegated to some corner of my home collecting dust, but it will be utilized by a family member who will use it for virtual homeschooling thus allowing me to recapture my laptop from them which I bought for me to be productive in the wild Pre-COVID-19 Pandemic. I am thankful that to this point I only have to complain about material things while in a pandemic, and my condolences to those who have lost way more. But I am still salty about my Laptop… I guess I am a bit of a Petty Pendergrass.
So while we get into the reasoning of each component as well as some general information about the components that guided the direction of each choice in future posts, therefore you can continue our Journey here.
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