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Building high end desktop advice?

SLP Firehawk

Limp Gawd
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Hello to all the great and knowledgeable people.
I determined I needed one more threadripper desktop but unfortunately AMD discontinued the 3rd gen threadripper and abandoned the platform so I could not order another one built as I did with my 3970X. The new versions are over $8k so I decided to buy the old discontinued parts and build it myself.
So, o'er the last 2 years I have scavenged around and gathered the new parts to build one.
I hate working on computers, especially expensive ones.
I have changed every part except for the Motherboard of PCs through the years starting with a 386, Pentium 2, P4, and i7 but I have never fully built one from the ground up (except for a very basic Pentium 3 long ago).
I am not looking forward to doing an expensive ground up build....so I am looking for advice from you veterans. 3rd gen Threadrippers are large CPUs and hot.
Below is the parts list of new parts I bought over the last 2 years planning for this. I intend this to be my last computer. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you in advance.

CPU
AMD socket sTRX4 Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core, 128-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor

Motherboard ASUS Prime TRX40-Pro S
https://www.newegg.com/asus-prime-trx40-pro-s/p/N82E16813119260?Item=9SIASGMK867616

RAM
G.SKILL Trident Z Royal Series (Intel XMP) DDR4 RAM 256GB (8x32GB) 3200MT/s CL16-18-18-38 1.35V
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088SR199B?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

case
Thermaltake Core V71 Tempered Glass Edition E-ATX Full Tower
Got the biggest most open one I could find for room and airflow

cpu cooler
https://www.icegiantcooling.com/products/prosiphon-elite
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074ZLQZ8F?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1
I also bought a 360 AIO but I think this siphon unit will cool the big hot threadripper better and longer

graphics card
PNY NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 OC XLR8 Gaming VERTO EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan Graphics Card
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1733322-REG/pny_vcg409024tfxxpb1_o_geforce_rtx_4090_24gb.html

Optical Drive
Pioneer BDR-S13UBK Internal Blu-ray Writer with M-DISC Support (Standard)
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...r_s13ubk_internal_bd_dvd_cd_writer_black.html

Optical drive 2
ASUS BW-16D1HT Internal SATA 16X Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1019271-REG/asus_bw_16d1ht_16x_blu_ray_disc.html

OS
Windows 10 Pro

PSU
SeaSonic Electronics 1000W FOCUS GX ATX 3.0 80 PLUS Gold Desktop Power Supply
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...tx3_focus_gx_1000_focus_v3_gx_1000_1000w.html

Multiple Samsung NVME drives and SSD drives

One thing making me think I might be capable of doing this is I do have my Threadripper 3970X computer I bought from CyberpowerPC that I can use as a reference.
 
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Don't you want ECC memory (UDIMMs of course) with this?

With that much memory it might be cheaper to go with a platform with registered memory (the 32 GB ECC RDIMMs are dirt cheap).
 
Don't you want ECC memory (UDIMMs of course) with this?

With that much memory it might be cheaper to go with a platform with registered memory (the 32 GB ECC RDIMMs are dirt cheap).
Thank you. I basically spec'd the parts from my older Threadripper I previously ordered from Cyberpower and it works great. Certified/approved memory was really scare back in 2020 so I got the above for my earlier machine and then later got another kit on sale after it became discontinued for this future build and saved it so that is why I have the above memory. ECC would be great if approved memory is available but I already have the above 256GB kit new in box...
 
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