- Feb 22, 2010
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Rebuilding my daily driver desktop, it has pretty much been untouched for quite a while, its an i5 2500k to show its age.
I will be reusing my case, power supply, fans, and hopefully the hsf if i can find a mount kit for it. My budget is kinda low, so i'm doing it a piece at a time and plan on getting new monitors soon as well (2k or 4k 24-28)
Case- Enermax Fulmo
PSU- Enermax Galaxy evo 1250w (overkill i know, i will swap it for a 550-650 later on)
Case fans - standard Scythe Kaze fans (they are old, will look at switching to all pwm fans later on)
HSF- Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, I love this hsf, ive used it for over a decade. have all the intel mounts, and having a hard time finding an am4 one. id like to find the am4 pressure vault one like the one i have but noone has it.
What ive bought so far
Motherboard- Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite (i didn't want one with wifi integrated) Amazon wharehouse buy $87
CPU- AMD Ryzen 5 2600x Open box from MicroCenter $109
RAM- GSkill Ripjaws 3200 32gb (2 of the 2x8 kits). $56ea kit $112
GPU- XFX RX580 8gb (amazon flash sale) $129
ODD- Reusing my Asus BD/DVD burner
HDD- Temporarily reusing a ocz vertex 250gb
NVME- Im looking at either the SN750 black or the crucial p1 only looking for 500gb unless the 1tb is more cost effective What are your guys reccomendations on this??
Storage drive what would you guys use? i do have a file server that i use for most of my bulk storage so this isn't a "have to have" but i would like to
was thinking either a 4-6tb mechanical, 1-2tb sata ssd (if i go with a 1tb on the nvme this won't be neccessary i don't think)
OR i could use the other m2 slot and use a pcie x2 drive in it,
that is one of the reasons i went with the aorus elite, a lot of the other boards i researched start cutting pcie slots when you populate the m2 slots
the aorus cuts sata ports. so using the main pcie x4 cuts 2 of the sata ports leaving you with 4
and if you populate the second m2 pcie x2, it cuts 2 more, leaving you with 2
So, is there anything that you would change?
What are your thoughts on which NVME drive to get?
Storage drive thoughts?
I will be reusing my case, power supply, fans, and hopefully the hsf if i can find a mount kit for it. My budget is kinda low, so i'm doing it a piece at a time and plan on getting new monitors soon as well (2k or 4k 24-28)
Case- Enermax Fulmo
PSU- Enermax Galaxy evo 1250w (overkill i know, i will swap it for a 550-650 later on)
Case fans - standard Scythe Kaze fans (they are old, will look at switching to all pwm fans later on)
HSF- Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, I love this hsf, ive used it for over a decade. have all the intel mounts, and having a hard time finding an am4 one. id like to find the am4 pressure vault one like the one i have but noone has it.
What ive bought so far
Motherboard- Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite (i didn't want one with wifi integrated) Amazon wharehouse buy $87
CPU- AMD Ryzen 5 2600x Open box from MicroCenter $109
RAM- GSkill Ripjaws 3200 32gb (2 of the 2x8 kits). $56ea kit $112
GPU- XFX RX580 8gb (amazon flash sale) $129
ODD- Reusing my Asus BD/DVD burner
HDD- Temporarily reusing a ocz vertex 250gb
NVME- Im looking at either the SN750 black or the crucial p1 only looking for 500gb unless the 1tb is more cost effective What are your guys reccomendations on this??
Storage drive what would you guys use? i do have a file server that i use for most of my bulk storage so this isn't a "have to have" but i would like to
was thinking either a 4-6tb mechanical, 1-2tb sata ssd (if i go with a 1tb on the nvme this won't be neccessary i don't think)
OR i could use the other m2 slot and use a pcie x2 drive in it,
that is one of the reasons i went with the aorus elite, a lot of the other boards i researched start cutting pcie slots when you populate the m2 slots
the aorus cuts sata ports. so using the main pcie x4 cuts 2 of the sata ports leaving you with 4
and if you populate the second m2 pcie x2, it cuts 2 more, leaving you with 2
So, is there anything that you would change?
What are your thoughts on which NVME drive to get?
Storage drive thoughts?