Its time

[Steevo]

I have a 7800X3D
64 GB of https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-64gb/p/N82E16820374445?Item=N82E16820374445
And a Asus board https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-strix-b650e-f-gaming/p/N82E16813119604?Item=N82E16813119604

The PSU, and GPU are yet to be decided.

Liquid cooled, and all or almost all solid state drives.

What am I missing?

The old PC is/was modded by Mark RIP, and will be donated or used for a good cause.

 

[Hyderz]

check the motherboard bios, amd boards recently got an update for faster ram if that is your thing
how much more are you willing to spend for the gpu and psu?
what res/hz is your monitor or you are using the 1080p 46"

 

[Steevo]

check the motherboard bios, amd boards recently got an update for faster ram if that is your thing
how much more are you willing to spend for the gpu and psu?
what res/hz is your monitor or you are using the 1080p 46"

I haven't bought the PSU or GPU, Mobo or RAM yet.

I'm moving to a new Samsung HDR 4K 65" monitor/TV

Thinking about a 7900XT or 6800XT.

My budget is around 3 or 4K

I was hoping for 6TB of storage in total, I want to reuse the RAID card for slower storage, home movies, pictures etc... and then go with 2 2TB M2 drives or a 3TB, and use up to 4 SSD drives to get 6TB of storage internally.

I want to only keep my Blu-Ray drive, KB and Mouse. The rest is ready for retirement. Hell, most of it is older than the majority of members here, with all due respect.

 

[ir_cow]

I suggest against ASUS right now for AM5 if you want top ram speeds. But it's possible the newest AGEAS update fixes all of that. Enough people have posted ASUS problems, it's hard to recommend as a top choice ATM.

 

[joemama]

What's the purpose of this computer?

 

[Steevo]

What's the purpose of this computer?

Gaming, photo, video editing, surfing the web, music through my Harmon Kardon receiver, quiet, long term storage of family photos and videos.

 

[A Computer Guy]

What am I missing?

Backup? What are you doing for backup? Sometimes people put together their systems and leave no budget for backup options for when things go wrong so this popped up in my head for some reason when you asked the question..

 

[Steevo]

Backup? What are you doing for backup? Sometimes people put together their systems and leave no budget for backup options for when things go wrong so this popped up in my head for some reason when you asked the question..

I have a 6TB mechanical USB 3 drive that gets backed up every time I upload, I’m buying a new higher density drive once this is done and operating. I have CD-R backups and DVD backups, on top of this 6TB and an older 4TB backup.

I got the backups.

I want performance.

 

[A Computer Guy]

My budget is around 3 or 4K

I was hoping for 6TB of storage in total, I want to reuse the RAID card for slower storage, home movies, pictures etc... and then go with 2 2TB M2 drives or a 3TB, and use up to 4 SSD drives to get 6TB of storage internally.

I'm curious to know what raid card you are using for HDD? Does the 6TB of storage have to be internal? Could it be over USBC or 10Gbps NIC?

I was just thinking with that large of a budget you could do some interesting things for the slower storage so you can reserve PCIe slots for more internal high speed NVMe expanders if you need beyond what the motherboard M.2 supports. For example a 10Gbps NAS or an external USB-C HDD RAID box.

 

[joemama]

Thinking about a 7900XT or 6800XT.

How about a 7900XTX?

 

[Steevo]

I'm curious to know what raid card you are using for HDD? Does the 6TB of storage have to be internal? Could it be over USBC or 10Gbps NIC?

I was just thinking with that large of a budget you could do some interesting things with the high speed USB-C 3.2 ports like using an external HDD box for the slower storage so you can reserve PCIe slots for more high speed NVMe storage if you need that beyond what the motherboard M.2 supports.

I’m used to not having to worry about storage space or random disconnects. The RAID card is capable of RAID5 so four 3 TB drives would get me there.

How about a 7900XTX?

I’m not against it, just with a custom loop and the desire to mod its BIOS for full fledged performance with PSU room to spare.

I bought anX1800XT and after I swore it would be the last brand new full fat cars I would buy and get screwed over…..

 

[phanbuey]

I remember MKmods helping me mod my stuff on these forums... RIP man!

7900xtx all the way. Also 4TB SSDs are pretty affordable at the moment so a 2+4 could be had fairly inexpensively.

would lean towards giga boards seems like they have the best bioses at the moment.

Also i have this ram, and it can do 6200 CL32-38-38- @ 1.3v or 6400 CL34-40 at 1.3 with very low SOC
G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 5600 Desktop Memory Model F5-5600J2834F32GX2-RS5K - Newegg.com

 

[nomdeplume]

I was hoping for 6TB of storage in total, I want to reuse the RAID card for slower storage, home movies, pictures etc... and then go with 2 2TB M2 drives or a 3TB, and use up to 4 SSD drives to get 6TB of storage internally.

More than anything else this made wonder me how flexible your timeline is for completion. Above has a late product cycle feel to it as opposed to half or better number of drives required given your robust backup.

I want to only keep my Blu-Ray drive, KB and Mouse. The rest is ready for retirement. Hell, most of it is older than the majority of members here, with all due respect.

Blu-Ray and new hardware, hmmm. Not sure how to break that one to you. Expect dwindling, if any, support even with a fair amount of well meaning attention given to it. Intel basically rolled up their ongoing support with 12th gen. Not entirely sure how AMD left things when the industry cut it out at hardware level.

You mention a tv as monitor. That certainly eases the transition towards A/V based Blu-Ray. Even storage, which you should be able to access over network at least.

 

[A Computer Guy]

I’m used to not having to worry about storage space or random disconnects. The RAID card is capable of RAID5 so four 3 TB drives would get me there.

I'm not sure I understand your point of view on random disconnects.

On the AMD side with your budget why not consider X670E instead of B650E? You will get more options and more high speed everything that way.
For example for a modest $300 I see ASRock X670E Steel Legend you can get 4 NVMe and potentially use the first PCIe x16 for graphics and the PCIe 3.0 x16 (x4 mode) with your raid card and still have 4 SATA ports.

(edit) Nevermind I missed that you already had the Asus board.

 

[csendesmark]

If you get a top card like a 4080 or 7900XT, and you will use two SSDs you should not use the second m.2 SSD slot, because it is right under the GPU's heat sink and it will make it hot like hell.
Which also means you cannot use the bottom PCIe slot.

 

[phanbuey]

If you get a top card like a 4080 or 7900XT, and you will use two SSDs you should not use the second m.2 SSD slot, because it is right under the GPU's heat sink and it will make it hot like hell.
Which also means you cannot use the bottom PCIe slot.

Can confirm hot like hell - no issues with my ITX rig and top sammich SSD yet (1.5 years) but it's brutally hot.

 

[A Computer Guy]

If you get a top card like a 4080 or 7900XT, and you will use two SSDs you should not use the second m.2 SSD slot, because it is right under the GPU's heat sink and it will make it hot like hell.
Which also means you cannot use the bottom PCIe slot.

OP mentioned liquid cooling so if that includes GPU then this shouldn't be an issue.

Liquid cooled, and all or almost all solid state drives.

What am I missing?

Case and liquid cooling components.

 

[Steevo]

I'm going to wait on liquid till I make sure it all works, but currently.

7800X3D / Deepcook AK500 (cheap $44 until I get it tested and built)
Asus ROG Strix B650E-F
64GB G Skill 6400
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB
2) 2TB Silicon Power RAID 0 for games etc...
XFX Merc 310 7900XTX (liquid later)
Corsair RM1000e
Corsair 4000D plain black big case

I will move my Blu-ray drive to a external enclosure or just rip my blu-rays. My Router has NAS/Media server capability so add a large drive to it to house important things and buy another enclosure.

Now what am I missing.

Am I better off with my 360 radiator I have now adding a 240mm with a new D5 pump and running

Pump--> CPU --> 240 --> GPU --> 360

Or to buy a AIO for the CPU and then keep the 360 for just the GPU?

 

[A Computer Guy]

I'm going to wait on liquid till I make sure it all works, but currently.

7800X3D / Deepcook AK500 (cheap $44 until I get it tested and built)
Asus ROG Strix B650E-F
64GB G Skill 6400
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB
2) 2TB Silicon Power RAID 0 for games etc...
XFX Merc 310 7900XTX (liquid later)
Corsair RM1000e
Corsair 4000D plain black big case

I will move my Blu-ray drive to a external enclosure or just rip my blu-rays. My Router has NAS/Media server capability so add a large drive to it to house important things and buy another enclosure.

Now what am I missing.

Am I better off with my 360 radiator I have now adding a 240mm with a new D5 pump and running

Pump--> CPU --> 240 --> GPU --> 360

Or to buy a AIO for the CPU and then keep the 360 for just the GPU?

The order in the loop shouldn't matter too much as both components will be hotter than the liquid when under load.
Personally I would go all custom loop and not do the AIO for the best fit and aesthetic possibilities with the case and the shared heat dissipation of both rads on the same loop.
If you want to be able to service the CPU and GPU without having to drain the loop get some quick disconnects too and plan your tubing runs for the eventual GPU upgrade to liquid.
Don't forget to setup a drain valve too.

 

[Steevo]

Do the quick disconnects restrict flow?

 

[claes]

Just throw money at it

 

[kapone32]

Do the quick disconnects restrict flow?

Nope

 

[Steevo]

Just throw money at it

I wish. Im still rocking my 1100T from 13 years ago. Teenagers, house, vehicles, life.......

But my oldest is out and my younger one is almost driving.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Do the quick disconnects restrict flow?

I found my Koolance QDC's (I have two sets) has less flow restriction when oriented a particular way in the flow.

 

[claes]

Nope

Uh quick disconnects always restrict flow more than normal tubing?

I wish. Im still rocking my 1100T from 13 years ago. Teenagers, house, vehicles, life.......

But my oldest is out and my younger one is almost driving.

My apologies I was joking as this felt like one of those threads where you just buy top-tier products and watercool them

What kind of photo/video editing do you do? What software do you use? The only issue I see here is not using cuda, but maybe that’s less important to you/isn’t something g your software supports.

You should definitely go custom for your cpu cooling if noise is a concern and since your watercooling the GPU already. I’d also go for the airflow edition of the 4000d both for temps and noise.