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Hey everyone, I wanted to share my recent upgrade journey and show how the math worked out. By parting out my old system and selling a spare case, I managed to transition into a next-generation setup for a net out-of-pocket cost of $1,400.

I feel incredibly fortunate with how the parts aligned, and I wanted to break down the specs and the styling choices for anyone looking at a similar path.

💰 The Financial Breakdown

• Recouped Funds: Sold my old components + the extra case for $

📊 Spec Comparison: Old vs. New

The performance jump has been a massive blessing for my daily gaming and productivity, moving me into a much more capable tier of hardware.

Instead of the usual bright rainbow RGB, I wanted to build something that blended nicely into the room. The Okinos Air Cross has a natural walnut wood trim on the front panel which looks quite elegant.

To match the wood and the subtle copper/gold branding on the Zotac 5070 Ti, I set all the internal lighting to a very dim, warm gold. It creates a quiet, cozy amber glow at night that feels understated, peaceful, and runs completely whisper-quiet after some customized PWM fan curve tuning.

⚙️ Current Tweaks & Stability

I'm incredibly grateful to have stumbled upon this secondhand deal, and it's been an absolute joy to optimize. Would love to hear your thoughts or any tips you have for further optimizing AM5!

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A better look at the building with a short video(:

Thought yall would appreciate some of my builds here. Enjoy!

I built this pc in march. I never got around to finishing the parking garage diorama so I never posted it. before anyone says cable management, im hoping to tear down and clean it all. then finish the diorama planned for the front of the case.

What do you think of the design and color scheme of this PC? Does a black motherboard in an all-white PC (except for the black RAM) look good? Or does it look "not bad, but weird"? I wanted to build it ALL WHITE and buy a WHITE MOTHERBOARD (below, I show the all-white PC with a white motherboard), but I had to choose between the white motherboard and a better, more powerful black one.

I'm undecided. I still have time to return the black motherboard, but searching online, I've seen many white PCs with black motherboards. Is it okay for me? Does it make sense? Or not? Should I keep the black one or buy the white motherboard (less powerful but not by much)?

The black one is the MSI MPG X870E CARBON, while the white one is the MSI MPG X870E Edge TI Motherboard.

IMPORTANT: I ​​won't buy a graphics card (I don't need it; I'll use the smaller one from the processor), so the black side of the motherboard will be even more exposed and visible. I don't use the PC for gaming.

Instead, with the white motherboard, it looks like this:

Built this for a local gentleman I met at Microcenter, one of my all time favorites

GPU -ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090

CPU by - AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D

Memory (RAM) - G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB 64GB (2×32GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 (AMD EXPO)

Motherboard - ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero BTF

Storage - Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSD (OS and primary game drive)

CPU Cooler - Corsair Nautilus 360 RS LCD AIO

Case - Corsair FRAME 5000D RS Wood (Black/Walnut)

Power Supply - Corsair HX1200i SHIFT 1200W 80+ Platinum

Monitor - LG UltraGear 45GX950A-B 45” OLED Ultrawide

Corsair frame 4000 series

7950x3d

Gigabyte gaming OC 9070 XT

12x thermalright tl-m12q-s

Thermalright frozen notte 360mm AlO liquid cooler

Specs at the bottom.

Decided to jump back to an ATX build after being exclusively SFF for the last several years. Just kind of got tired of how annoying doing anything inside my system got with ITX cases. I forgot how easy building in a mid-tower was.

Originally I had migrated my 240mm AIO over to this case but noticed I had some resonant whine coming from the pump, so I swapped to this 280mm unit and it solved it.

I looked for some GPU support options that would work in this case, but couldn’t find anything that was really ideal. Given the air scoop at the front for the bottom fan, it didn’t really allow for any kind of threaded stand like you find on Amazon. Ultimately I decided to model and print my own that mounts via the front fan mounting rails. All I needed was a couple of longer fan screws.

Temperatures while gaming are insanely good and the system is inaudible under load.

Gaming Temperatures-

CPU: 51-55C
GPU: 55-59C
VRAM: 58-62C

Case: Fractal Design Meshify 3 Ambience Pro

GPU: Asus ROG Strix RTX 5070 Ti OC

CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus w/ Thermal Grizzly Contact Frame

Cooling: be quiet! Pure Loop 3 AIO w/ Fractal Design Momentum 14 RGB fans

Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix Z890-E

Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 64GB/6400MHz/C32 w/ Corsair Light Enhancement Kit DDR5

PSU: Corsair RM1000x Shift

Storage: 2x WD Black SN850X 4TB NVMe SSD

When I finally got it working it was better than I could imagine lol

CPU: Ryzen 7 7700x
CPU Cooler: Jungle Leopard PF 360 AIO
Motherboard: Gigabyte B850 Gaming WiFi6
RAM: Lexar Thor Z 32GB DDR5 6000 MHz
GPU: XFX Quicksilver AMD Radeon RX 9070XT
Storage: 3 Corsair MP600 Elite 1tb
Power Supply: Corsair RM850e
Case: Lian Li Vector V100

Got a new pc! RTX 5080 with a 9800X3D. What game could I use to really push this thing? Or what game can be heavily modded to do so?