Resurrecting a 6 year old thread because of course I am. So the Asus ROG motherboard died mysteriously - DRAM board check light was constantly lit and no response so it was time for a new board. In the meantime I had got my hands on a Ryzen 3700X so I got myself an Asrock A520M-ITX/ac...
The DB2 looks really nice, but still kinda looks like a PC case. One of the main reasons why I went with the DB4 is that it looks nothing like a PC, which is the only reason the wife will let it in the lounge room :)
What has been interesting is the number of people who have looked at it and...
Sorry for the delay in coming back to this, essentially there is no change, for a few reasons:
1. I just haven't had the time to come back to it, partly because...
2. To be perfectly honest, I can't hear the GPU fan whilst the system is running so there hasn't been a pressing need to get it...
So I pretty much copied Raiju's build in this thread: https://hardforum.com/threads/custom-db4-build.1931503/ but I'm nowhere near as confident hacking components so it's a pretty off-the-shelf build.
Specs are as follows:
MB: Asus ROG Strix B350-I Gaming
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
RAM: 1 x 16GB...
I've been experiencing the same dilemma since tbe CL launch but for an entirely different build, namely a HTPC. I was looking at a R3 1200 but started wavering when the i3-8100 showed up.
After careful consideration I've decided to stick with Ryzen for one very good reason: longevity. If AMD...
I've just bought this case and hoping to do ryzen build in it. I'd be interested to know all your thoughts on using a Seasonic fanless 400W psu rather than the streacom one. I'm not comfortable enough around psu components to do what raiju did to his sf450 (great build btw, i will be borrowing...