- CPU: Ryzen 9 9900X
- Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 90 SE
- GPU: Radeon RX 9070XT
- RAM: 2x32Gb DDR5 6000MHz
- Mobo: ASRock 620AM PRO-A
- SSD: Kingston 1Tb
- Power: Fox Spirit HG 1000W
The choice of GPU is because this will be a Linux machine. I plan to install PopOS on it and use it for video editing, digital art, gaming, and streaming thereof.
I've had Mint installed on my side computers for a while, but i don't do anything complicated with them. This is the big one, the one where things can actually go wrong. Pray for me lmao
Hell yeah, that looks like a sweet setup! Seeing newer PC parts always blows my mind, especially DDR5 RAM that casually goes up to (and beyond) 6,000 MHz.
Having not built a PC recently, the size of the M.2 drive blew my mind, i didn't expect it to be so small. The CPU as well.
I was also surprised at how small the cooling heatsink is, but not in a good way, i think i may have undersized it haha
Yes, the size of drives is insane these days. I always forget how small the M.2 in my PC is, but I had to remove it a while ago and was kinda surprised because it was even smaller than I thought it was. I don't know anything about heatsinks, but there are some small and some really big ones. I replaced my stock cooler (AMD Wraith Stealth) with a much bigger one (bequiet Pure Rock Slim 2), and it keeps the CPU 2-10 degrees cooler than the old one.
I hope you have (had?) a lot of fun building your PC! It's always a special day when you get to build one after spending who knows how much time researching parts :3
Oh yeah it was emotional, i've been passively researching this for ever.
The build turned into a 10 hour stream. The motherboard's manual didn't make it clear which headers were for the front panel so i connected the power button wrong, that's where three of those hours went.
CachyOS gave me enough frustration that i'm reconsidering my decisions, but that's a problem for later haha
Manuals really aren't what they used to be. My first motherboard came with a big manual that explained every last detail of it, but when I bought the same model again (because I managed to break the old one), it didn't even include a link to an online manual. I kept the old manual, fortunately, because figuring out the front panel without it would've sucked.
Looks like CachyOS is an Arch-based distro. I don't know anything about Arch because I've only ever used Ubuntu-based distros (mostly Mint), but from what I've heard, Arch users spend a lot of time reading the Arch wiki. Don't be afraid to try out different distros before you settle down!