I’m considering to build a new machine for personal use, but it’s been a while since I’ve upgraded, so I’m looking for some thoughs about this one.
Currently I’m running Linux about 98% of the time, with some occasional gaming on Windows. Mostly normal desktop browsing and software dev work, hence plenty of RAM and CPU to keep dev feedback loops tight (Rust, JVM languages, web stuff, containers, VMs, the usual). One new SSD so far, but I have a bunch of 3.5" drives and one M2 I’ll probably bring over from my current machine as well. Hence the case should support more than two 3.5" disks.
I’m not looking to upgrade the GPU at this point, I think my current 2080 will still be good enough to power the occasional game and my two 1440p 144hz displays for desktop usage. But I want to prep the system for an upgrade in a gen or two without major changes (meaning the PSU should have enough headroom and reasonably future proof connectors).
I don’t care about RGB. Its acceptable if it can be configured to a dim white or single color as ambient light, but no LEDs are preferred if two parts are equal in all other regards.
The one thing I’d look into is x670 vs b650, you save a little money (b650) but the extra 8x pcie lanes may be useful for you in the future. At least it was for me going into Ryzen with an x470 and now on x570 with dual gpu’s and a 10g nic.
You said in another comment the price is fine so other than being fun overkill it’s solid. I have a very similar build but last gen (5950x, x570 taichi) but with 128gb ram, 3070/1070 and a power hungry 10g nic. Its 1k psu is overkill even for this with plenty of hdds/ssds attached as well. The power supply was better fit for the original 350w idle dual Xeon monster I had ages ago.