Battle Stations

[Ara80rn]

This is my first build that I made a year ago, on a budget and I've decided to go all AMD to get the best price/performance for the price. Here I'm going to list the specs:
Motherboard - B550 AORUS elite v2
CPU - Ryzen 5 5600
Cpu cooler - Be Quiet Pure rock 2 slim
GPU - MSI Radeon RX 6650 XT MECH 2x 8G OC
RAM  - 4x8gb 3600mhz cl17 Kingston Fury Beast ddr4
SSD - 1TB Kingston NV2 
PSU - Seasonic FOCUS PLUS 650w gold modular
Case - Cougar mx 410 mesh argb

Pheripherals changed over the time but the current ones I'm using are:
Monitor - Acer Nitro 280hz FHD
Mouse - my most recent purchase Zaopin z1 Pro 4k hz 51grams 
Keyboard - Akko 5075b plus, Akko cream yellow pro v3 switches 
Headset - Razer Barracuda X
Speakers - Creative Pebble 2.0

 

 

[BigAl01]

I would add some more storage, either another M.2 drive if you have a slot for it or an external SSD.  You need room for a Steam Library, don't you?

[Ara80rn]

I recently bought my second pair of RAM as I started with 2x8gb. SSD is next on my list. I think I have another slot m.2 slot but it's placed just below my gpu and doesn't have heatsink. Would it be safe?

[BigAl01]

You can buy M.2 drives that come with heat sinks, but before you do, measure the height available, when the graphics card is inserted.  It's a difficult thing to do accurately, so take your time.  Look for an M.2 drive with a very flat heat sink and you should be fine.  Some people do run M.2 drives without a heatsink, but the faster the drive is rated, it's more likely to generate more heat.  An older PCIe 3.0 drive might run cooler than a current PCIe 4.0 drive.  The cost of the newest PCIe 5.0 drives is still way to high to consider.

[Ara80rn]

There isn't much space but i think that mobo heatsink for the currently used M.2 would fit there. Guess I could use that one for the bottom slot and maybe get a new one for the main slot without having to worry If It would fit ?

[BigAl01]

You can certainly try moving the current M.2 drive to that other slot to check the clearances with the video card installed above it, but then you might have to transfer the data (OS and other installed software) to the new drive that will go into the primary M.2 slot.  If you just bought another of the same M.2 drive that you now have, that would eliminate your concerns about fit and give you the extra 1 TB data storage you need for a game drive.