Sanity check before pressing the button

smacl

Hi guys,

Quick sanity check before I press the button on this build. Intended use is as per this thread, but discussion on the Zen thread have me thinking that threadripper is a better starting point and also gives me space for more than 64gb ram. Anything obviously crap or missing from the list below, going mostly Amazon from a trust / reliability basis even though I could save a few quid on an alternate.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD - Threadripper 1950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor (£506.39 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC - Freezer 33 TR (Black/White) CPU Cooler (£33.04 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock - X399 Taichi ATX TR4 Motherboard (£285.59 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£191.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£191.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£86.49 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda Pro 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£254.90 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB VENTUS XS OC Video Card (£271.41 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design - Meshify C Dark TG ATX Mid Tower Case (£84.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - SF 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply (£187.91 @ Amazon UK)
Case Fan: be quiet! - Pure Wings 2 120 PWM 87 CFM 120 mm Fan (£9.60 @ Amazon UK)
Case Fan: be quiet! - Pure Wings 2 120 PWM 87 CFM 120 mm Fan (£9.60 @ Amazon UK)
Case Fan: be quiet! - Pure Wings 2 120 PWM 87 CFM 120 mm Fan (£9.60 @ Amazon UK)
Case Fan: be quiet! - Pure Wings 2 120 PWM 87 CFM 120 mm Fan (£9.60 @ Amazon UK)
Keyboard: Gigabyte - FORCE K83 Wired Standard Keyboard (£43.94 @ CCL Computers)
Mouse: Logitech - G603 Wireless Optical Mouse (£42.98 @ PC World Business)
Total: £2218.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-05-09 19:06 BST+0100

K.O.Kiki

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD - Threadripper 1950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor (£506.39 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC - Freezer 33 TR (Black/White) CPU Cooler (£33.04 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock - X399 Taichi ATX TR4 Motherboard (£285.59 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Predator 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£365.03 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial - P1 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£117.59 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda Pro 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£254.90 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB VENTUS OC Video Card (£319.97)
Case: Fractal Design - Meshify C Dark TG ATX Mid Tower Case (£84.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Platinum 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£119.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case Fan: Noctua - NF-P14s redux-1500 PWM 78.69 CFM 140 mm Fan (£13.99)
Case Fan: Noctua - NF-P14s redux-1500 PWM 78.69 CFM 140 mm Fan (£13.99)
Keyboard: Gigabyte - FORCE K83 Wired Standard Keyboard (£47.99 @ Amazon UK)
Mouse: Logitech - G603 Wireless Optical Mouse
Custom: Noctua NA-SAV2 chromax, Silicone Anti-Vibration Fan Mount Set (20-pack) (£6.80)
Total: £2170.25
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-05-09 21:13 BST+0100

Change notes:

RAM: Should be a matched kit (4x16Gb) for best compatibility.
SSD: WD Blue is SATA, do not buy. SSD for this use case should be PCIe, so something like Crucial P1 is great.
GPU: Enough budget freed up to go for RTX 2060 over GTX 1660 Ti.
PSU: Chosen model is SFX and overpriced. Lots of money saved with a similar ATX-sized model.
Fans: 2x 140mm > 3x 120mm for intake. And Noctua > all.
other: Silicone fan mounts aren't for noise; they just make installing/removing fans MUCH easier! I'll never go without again.

smacl

Many thanks K.O.Kiki, revisions made and all ordered up. Will post a couple of pics and review once it is up and running.

smacl

So built it this morning no major issues apart one idiot mistake on my part during purchase. The original case I'd gone for wasn't in stock, so I went the the NZXT 500, which seemed to get decent reviews. All was going well until I went to add a DVD drive I had spare only to find there was no space for one. Doh! Not a biggy, but do still have some DVD based installs so will pick up an external USB DVD drive. The NZXT 500 is really a tidy case for cable runs but the drive bays are very inaccessible as well as no front air intake or DVD slot.



Thanks for the advice re-parts, everything worked first time and powered up without issue. The silicon fan mounts are indeed a joy.

stefanovich

smacl wrote: »

So built it this morning no major issues apart one idiot mistake on my part during purchase. The original case I'd gone for wasn't in stock, so I went the the NZXT 500, which seemed to get decent reviews. All was going well until I went to add a DVD drive I had spare only to find there was no space for one. Doh! Not a biggy, but do still have some DVD based installs so will pick up an external USB DVD drive. The NZXT 500 is really a tidy case for cable runs but the drive bays are very inaccessible as well as no front air intake or DVD slot.



Thanks for the advice re-parts, everything worked first time and powered up without issue. The silicon fan mounts are indeed a joy.

Oh god, that's so clean looking. My computer is a mass of cluttered wires everywhere.

smacl

stefanovich wrote: »

Oh god, that's so clean looking. My computer is a mass of cluttered wires everywhere.

Thanks. To be fair to the NXZT case it is a dream for cable management. Probably the tidiest of the last three builds I've done.

stefanovich

smacl wrote: »

Thanks. To be fair to the NXZT case it is a dream for cable management. Probably the tidiest of the last three builds I've done.

I think I'll be adding it to my wishlist!

wotzgoingon

What do you mean there is no front air intake? What are those two fans at the front?

If they are set to exhaust turn them around to be both intakes.

K.O.Kiki

wotzgoingon wrote: »

What do you mean there is no front air intake? What are those two fans at the front?

If they are set to exhaust turn them around to be both intakes.

https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3309-nzxt-h500-case-review-thermals-noise-vs-s340

Airflow is something we haven’t mentioned so far. The H500 is the blankest, cube-iest of all minimalist blank cube designs, surpassed only by the S340 Elite. The H500 at least has a strip of filtered ventilation along the front edge of the steel side panel, as well as the top fan mount and the usual hole underneath the front panel. NZXT assured us that, despite appearances, thermal performance wouldn’t suck and that we should keep an open mind.

The stock fan configuration is two 120mm exhaust fans, one behind and above our CPU cooler and one directly behind it. The 100% negative pressure setup and the lack of any fans pointing towards the GPU was intriguingly strange. We did three standalone tests not in the stock configuration: no top filter (unnecessary for exhaust), additional 140mm intake fan, and both 120mm fans moved to the front intake slots.

wotzgoingon

Oh right I was going by just looking at the two fans. Weird design for a case tbh.

smacl

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Oh right I was going by just looking at the two fans. Weird design for a case tbh.

Wouldn't be my choice again, pretty as it is. Compartmentalizing the PSU with cables running behind the mobo is really nice but the SATA accessibility is crap and I'd prefer the option of a drive bay up front.

Other side showing air intake



Open showing cabling and SATA bay. You have to unscrew the bay to add a drive.



Upside down text on the PSU had me wondering which way was up for a while, but is the other way up on the other side, the correct way up at the back and the non-symmetrical screws positions only work one way.

Air flow is in from side and bottom, out through back and top. I saw a video suggesting that the internal front fans didn't make much difference.

Yea. Science Studio on YT suggested not using any intake fans on that case as it makes no difference to temps. Just get two solid fans for outakes as those NZXT fans are a bit rubbish.