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Was working on a build, R5 1600 CPU, 16GB DDR4-2667 @ 3000 1.35V, currently an R7 260X 2GB, but that's just basically a place-holder card for now, 256GB M.2 NVMe, Win10 64-bit 1903.
Case is a fairly plain-looking but decent ATX DIYPC case, with a tempered-glass side panel. (Only $30 shipped! Was cheap, and in places, it shows, but for $30 I'll take a couple.)
PSU is a Corsair CX450 80Plus Bronze.
Was looking at the various dual-ring RGB fan bundles on Newegg and Amazon. They've got some with just a standard 3-pin / molex (no RGB control?), and ones that come as a kit, either 3 or 5 fans, and an RGB controller, and even a remote control(!). I think that the ones I was looking at were from DeepCool. I was a little put off by a couple of reviews that said that the RGB controller actually SMOKED/melted, once powered up. (Does that happen often?) Also some reviews said RGB effects/LEDs died in 2-6 months after owning them.
Want something nice, but I can get the entire DeepCool RGB fan kit / fans / controller / remote, for the same price as just 1-2 of the, say, Corsair RGB fans alone.
Was planning on possibly gifting this build to one of my friend's teen-aged offspring. They already have a gaming laptop that's decent, but my friend mentioned at one point, possibly wanting a gaming desktop that was even MORE powerful.
Edit: Here's the case, it has one rear exhaust fan, two top fan mounts (with magnetic dust filter), and I think two, maybe three, front 120mm intake fan slots (or a 240mm AIO rad, which might be useful if I/they upgrade to a 3000-series Ryzen CPU, like a 3700X).
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811353170
Case is a fairly plain-looking but decent ATX DIYPC case, with a tempered-glass side panel. (Only $30 shipped! Was cheap, and in places, it shows, but for $30 I'll take a couple.)
PSU is a Corsair CX450 80Plus Bronze.
Was looking at the various dual-ring RGB fan bundles on Newegg and Amazon. They've got some with just a standard 3-pin / molex (no RGB control?), and ones that come as a kit, either 3 or 5 fans, and an RGB controller, and even a remote control(!). I think that the ones I was looking at were from DeepCool. I was a little put off by a couple of reviews that said that the RGB controller actually SMOKED/melted, once powered up. (Does that happen often?) Also some reviews said RGB effects/LEDs died in 2-6 months after owning them.
Want something nice, but I can get the entire DeepCool RGB fan kit / fans / controller / remote, for the same price as just 1-2 of the, say, Corsair RGB fans alone.
Was planning on possibly gifting this build to one of my friend's teen-aged offspring. They already have a gaming laptop that's decent, but my friend mentioned at one point, possibly wanting a gaming desktop that was even MORE powerful.
Edit: Here's the case, it has one rear exhaust fan, two top fan mounts (with magnetic dust filter), and I think two, maybe three, front 120mm intake fan slots (or a 240mm AIO rad, which might be useful if I/they upgrade to a 3000-series Ryzen CPU, like a 3700X).
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811353170
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