Unsolicited Self-building Computer Advice, by me

CheathamPatrickL

I dared to expose my personal advice on contemporary self-built computer selections and hardware, plus some technique. The original post is on my Substack at patricklcheatham.substack.com, also linkable (if domain settings pan out) at www.creationsinspiredbynaturesnature.site The text from the Substack article is:

"Capable tools of hardware, software, peripherals and internet online services, to perform a variety of greater quality content creation techniques, are more readily available, and also less costly than was just 5 years ago, and greatly better now. High end air-cooling to replace former usage of water cooling is much more economical, and much more effective. Also, 12-core processors are a great compromise instead of the greater cost of 16-core units. 128 Gigabytes of DRAM is reasonable on the budget, and well worth the weighting placed on that componentry.

I chose Coolermaster H500 for my chassis and case, based on less material / less heaviness of ultimately less tempered glass to not bear down the chassis carriage/carry weight too heavy. Also, I removed all magnetic stripped dust filter panels. The top-of-chassis filter panel, by reasons of thermodynamics and aerodynamics, is the most effective filter panel to put aside for storage and not have in place. The Coolermaster chassis/case is reasonably visually appealing still, even with the top-of-case grating exposed, showing some readiness for fan or water cooler mounting points.

I greatly recommend the “Thermalright” brand assassin air cooling system, and I also recommend setting up the BIOS to run the cores at published standard clock frequencies, and no speedier. ASUS X670E ROG Strix channelboard was selected for great array of mainly in-place tried and proven types and total count of USB connections on the rear panel. Radeon 7600 less costly graphics processor unit was selected as being more than ample at content creation and creator studio tasks.

Most importantly, 2+ copies of — HP 200 Pavilion Keyboard and Mouse — were acquired, to possess contingency readiness in case of spill or failure. The keyboard and mouse are most important of all. These are wired components and do not involve awkward unifying radio connection systems. For some back and forward mouse capabilities, in the main I selected HyperX ‘Haste’ Pulsefire mouse, and not the ‘Surge’ mouse. The ‘Haste’ mouse is only minimally lit by RGB, in a manner less distracting than the ‘Surge’ model. The HP Pavilion package, which includes a good mouse - although without a back button for the thumb - is at the ready for failure contingencies.

Bonus issue: typing can be made more enjoyable and less awkward by aligning the keyboard portions — between the two Shift keys, left and right — as centering with the very center of the screen. That’s different from centering the entire keyboard. The ideas is that the numeric keypad can be displaced to the right somewhat, closer to the mouse. This has the QWERTY keystroke work lined up better and is not skewing the arms reach as with some laptop layouts."

CheathamPatrickL

My appreciation goes to the staff at Denver Microcenter for their flexibility in facilitating selection defaults for approximately 50% of the main components for this system and packaging it for me at a great price. G.Skill Fury DRAM, Hynix storage m.2 drive, 7900X Raphael 12-cores, and ROG Strix X670E by ASUS were quickly selected as fitting for me by Denver Microcenter staff, when I was in a hurry. I already had months earlier selected a chassis, power supply, and graphics processing unit, so it was an awkward visit, by way of being on a tight monthly budget and spreading out purchases for over a half year. Denver Microcenter, and most other stores, do not regularly carry "Thermalright" brand air cooling equipment, and I suggest maybe your acquisitions staff look into carrying that excellent brand, that I sort of lucked into via NewEgg. Case/chassis trends in design I don't know of how much Microcenter staff place suggestions or ideas to manufacturers about, but lighter weight cases without too much tempered glass are appealing! — Patrick, comments to all readers and especially those who are employed by Microcenter stores.