New build for a friend:
- Ryzen 7 7700X
- Noctua NH-D9L
- ASUS TUF GAMING X670E-PLUS WIFI
- Corsair Vengeance RGB 2x16GB DDR5 5600MT/s C36
- ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 V2 OC
- 1TB WD_BLACK SN850X
- ASUS ROG STRIX 850G
- Fractal Design Pop Air RGB (Black)
...More RGB than I usually work with (three case fans, RAM, GPU, motherboard, power button) but I got to slap a big ol' brown-on-brown Noctua fan in the middle of it, so I'm good :) Very quiet, too. Didn't go all-out, but it leaves them a nice upgrade path. 12GB 3080s and 3080 Ti cards are either impossible to find around here or horribly overpriced. Considered a 4080, but ended-up saving $600 by going with the 10GB 3080 OC which is already overkill for their use cases. They'll also be putting a few spinning drives in there, and an optical drive - yes, that case has a 5.25" bay!
Anyway, fun stuff:
- Forgot that the 7700X has an integrated GPU; took me a second to figure-out what that thing was in the Device Manager.
- So much RGB software; iCue + Aura plugin for iCue + Armory Crate
- Getting the thing to POST at all with that RAM; BIOS FlashBack to latest revision, boot with single module to complete the update, set EXPO, add second module. While I was figuring that out, I found reports people saying DDR5 memory training can take up to 30 minutes!? Thankfully wasn't that.
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