My new workhorse arrived! 1/8

Time for the first (personal) PC build in several years!

This is the case I've decided to go with: a be quiet! Pure Base 600 (black with side window)

2/8

The mainboard was actually a tough choice: I wanted one with an on-board Bluetooth chip to free up one USB port.

Also 2.5G LAN support, as well as USB 3.2 with plenty of ports (11).

I went with the MSI X570 Tomahawk as it's by far the cheapest of the few boards that check all the marks here.

3/8

I need this machine as my main desktop, 90% of my work gets done here. I don't need much storage, but I need fast storage:

A Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 NVME it is!

4/8

You never want to run out of RAM, and we all know how much Linux sucks with OOM situations.

Patriot Viper 3600 MHz DDR4, 64GB

Sorry I'm a bit boring: no RGB here 😄

5/8

I really want this thing to be quiet (pun intended) and efficient:

be quiet! 550W Platinum as my power supply

6/8

Did I mention I want this thing to be really quiet? Right.

I just hope the be quiet! Dark Rock 4 will be able to keep up with my new CPU 🤔

7/8

Here it is, the centerpiece of the entire machine. I was incredibly lucky to be able to get one of these CPUs. I ordered it the minute it went online and shortly after it was sold out - everywhere.

AMD Ryzen 5900x 😍