Part Recommendations

[salmonman]

I've been running Linux since Red Hat 5.6 I use Blender 3D. I've got an old Thermaltake Armor box that I would like to rebuild. Here's my list:

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X - 16-Core 4.5 GHz - Socket AM5 - 170W Desktop Processor (100-100000514WOF)

GIGABYTE B650 AORUS ELITE AX AM5 LGA 1718 AMD B650 ATX Motherboard DDR5, M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB 3.2 Gen2X2 Type-C, WiFi 6E, 2.5GbE LAN, Q-Flash Plus, EZ-Latch

ASRock Radeon RX 6800 XT Phantom Gaming Graphics Card with 16GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA 2 (RX6800XT PGD 16GO)

G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 5200 (PC5 41600) Desktop Memory Model F5-5200J3636D32GX2-RS5K

WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe M.2 2280 2TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) WDS200T2X0E

I'm not a hardware or software guy. I just like doing graphics on my PC. Does anyone see a problem with the above? If so, recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

[mengelag]

I'd say that's a really solid build. What are you using for a CPU cooler?

[salmonman]

Thanks for the encouragement. I didn't go with liquid. my old ATX Thermotake case would heartily resist 🙂 . Not too likely I will be gaming. Mostly just rendering animations. I purchased an Aorus ATC800. It is a behemoth. Makes my old cooler look like a tinker toy. I did order another two sticks of 2T ssd. That takes me up to 6T for storage. Seems like my linux home partition is always screaming for me to make room. My old storage system is pathetic. I have four sata drives and I store different things in each. Back in 1998 I lost all of my data from a crash. Now I'm so paranoid I also have 5 external hard drives to constantly back everything up. Too busy to set up a raid but hope to this time around. I think I built the original box in 2008 with an occasional upgrade here and there. Nothing like this rebuild. Got plenty of use out of the old system for sure. Linux is pretty nice to my hardware.

[salmonman · Accepted solution]

Thermaltake not Thermotake. 🙄

[Black_Bombarder]

Make a dual-boot PC and install Windows. To bad not to utilize that hardware with games or some serious loading/stress. 🙂

[salmonman]

I haven't used Windows since 1996. 🙂

On another note I'm having a hard time getting my hearing aides connected to the realtech bluetooth or any other bluetooth (like my phone) for instance. Pain.

[jaandoh]

I have to agree with @mengelag, looks like a well solid build...

Plus I read somewhere (can't remember where) that Linux actually gave better results in over 70% of bench tests than windows...