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My 2023 Build

Started by Kilroy , Sep 23 2023 06:53 PM

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#1 Kilroy

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Posted 23 September 2023 - 06:53 PM

Well, my previous system has withstood the test of time. With Covid and the batsh*t crazy video card prices it still has the 2080 in it. The boot drive was about the only thing that changed on it.

Five years, and one faulty motherboard, later, here is the new machine.

Case: Lian Li LI PC-O11 Dynamic EVO Black ATX Full Tower Gaming Computer Case - O11DEX

CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D 16-Core, 32-Thread Desktop Processor

Motherboard: GIGABYTE X670E AORUS Xtreme

Graphics Card: ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX® 4080 OC Edition Graphics Card

Sound Card: Creative 70SB174000000 Sound BlasterX AE-5 Hi-Resolution PCIe Gaming Sound Card (not yet moved over from the current machine)

Cooler: DeepCool LT720 Liquid Cooler

RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo Series (AMD Expo) DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB) 6000MT/s

Boot Drive: WD_BLACK 2TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe

PSU: Corsair HX1000i Fully Modular Ultra-Low Noise ATX Power Supply - ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 Compliant

Storage: Games: WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe

Data / Scratch: Two Seagate IronWolf Pro ST16000NT001 16TB 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drives in RAID 1

Optical Drive - LG WH16NS40 16X Blu-ray BD/BDXL/MD M-DISC Burner Drive inside an Antec NST-536S3-BK NexStar DX USB 3.0 External Enclosure moved over from the last machine as it still works and is external.

The first motherboard was defective. The machine would boot, run for 60 second to 10 minutes in Windows and then lock up solid. So, a guy I work with got me a PSU to test, no change. I bought another CPU because the CPU light was lit on the motherboard, found it didn't fix the problem I got another motherboard and it hasn't had any issues since.

I also bought a SATA SSD for the old machine because 1TB wasn't enough for OS and games. I was originally going to just move it over, but figured since I had to open it up again anyway I'd just go with a 4TB NVMe.

Once I get my software installed and my data copied over I'm going to blow away the old machine and it will become my new media machine. The current media machine will be blown away and then given away. The current media machine is probably about 10 years old now, but still runs Windows 10 with no problem.

The 3DMark shots are the current machine and the new machine. I believe there is a significant performance increase.