After having a good talk with a few folks, I've decided to buy a gaming PC and build it myself. I have everything I need, including all of the necessary equipment and accessories. I don't want to buy anything from NVIDIA because of some of its controversial decisions, its drivers' poor performance on Linux, and its high price. I'm going full red (AMD). Keep in mind that I will not be using Windows on this PC at all and will be running Pop OS on it as my primary operating system. I am also buying all the parts from Bestbuy. My budget is not to go completely over $2000

Two questions

  1. Will everything work properly with all of the PC accessories I'm getting, and is there anything I should replace? (not including the CPU or GPU)
  2. Do you think it will be enough with three fans, or do I need five for extra cooling?

Everything is linked here: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Crafted_104/saved/XcZCrH

The current price for everything is $1716.78

  • POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG [none/use name]
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    13 days ago

    Noooooo!!!!! Your motherboard is not compatible with CPU and RAM. I will edit this post once I have formulate my reasoning, I want you to hold off buying this system based on ptevious comments

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      13 days ago

      I didn't even notice they had an AM5 motherboard in there. Yeah, you'll have to at the very least switch that to something else.

    • crafted_104 [any]
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      13 days ago

      I changed it to a AM4 lmao

      You can check the updated images

      • POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG [none/use name]
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        13 days ago

        An AM4 motherboard is ok and cheap but entirely un-updateable. If that is ok go with it queen but if you want tonfiture-proof your system you should go with an am5 cpu, mobo and ram.

          • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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            13 days ago

            It will be a LONG time before 24 threads at 3.7 GHz is unworkable. Aside from gamer slop, software will be targeting much less performant machines for a very long time. I was running Gentoo on an i7-4770k (8 threads at 3.5GHz) up to this year and the only reason I switched was because the 32GB RAM limit of the architecture was finally beginning to constrain me, 10 CPU generations later. And though the clock speeds of these CPUs hasn't changed significantly, they have MUCH larger caches nowadays. That old machine is still more powerful than the CAD/CAM workstation IT provides me at work.