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
- 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)
- 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
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.
Future proofing is a losing game imho
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.