• 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

  • pigup@lemmy.world
    3·
    24 days ago

    I just built dual Xeon machine and used two of those coolers. They’re a but weak but do get the job done. Check the fan direction, I got it wrong at first.

    • BOLOID@pawb.socialOP
      2·
      23 days ago

      Yeah, i should have bought an AIO watercooling, but then i had a dad moment and said “i don’t want water anywhere near muh PC i don’t care how safe it is”.

      It’ll be fiiiine

  • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    25 days ago

    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.

    • BOLOID@pawb.socialOP
      2·
      18 days ago

      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

      • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        17 days ago

        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

        • BOLOID@pawb.socialOP
          2·
          9 days ago

          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

          • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            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!

  • Focal@pawb.social
    2·
    23 days ago

    Nice! I have a windows build that I recently decided to install Linux on myself. Nobara in my case. Have already done streaming and video production on it! Only issue is Nvidia doesn’t always play nice.

    Which video editor are you gonna use?

    • BOLOID@pawb.socialOP
      1·
      23 days ago

      I’ve been learning DaVinci Resolve. I wouldn’t recommend anything else whether it’s Windows or Linux, but it happens to be natively compatible with Linux.

      Admittedly though i haven’t actually used Premiere because i didn’t make it past the installation process. The only video editor that i’ve spent time in aside from Resolve was Kdenlive, which is clearly not up to par.

      • Focal@pawb.social
        1·
        23 days ago

        I used premiere a lot when I had windows. Great program (begrudgingly) that crashes too often. After swapping to Linux, i also jumped to DaVinci. It’s different, but also really good. There are some limitations in the Linux version, especially when it comes to audio, and I had to change my game recording setup a bit, but once those kinks were ironed out, it was all good!

        I wish you the best of luck, friend! You’re going to have a blast