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Greatest_Cupcake
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Black Box Engineer

Welcome - To the most Boring Black Box.


This build was meant to accomplish two things; Be Powerful, and Be Inconspicuous. With these design choices in mind, one thing was clear; No RGB!

Everything about this build is either black, or red. I chose red, because at the time the AsRock x99m was the literal ONLY 2011-3 mATX Motherboard I could get my hands on. So I chose red RAM to go with it. I spray painted my back panel PCIe slot protectors black, as well as my I/O shield (Why are they still sending out SILVER???). The fans were chosen for being powerful, and silent. Augmented even further with rubber mounters, I get ZERO vibration, and very low noise at maximum power. Even the HDD is Rubber Mounted!

This build was TWO years in the making. I had received an excellent deal on the 6850K through job incentives, and spent the next 8 months sitting on just the CPU. Then, over the next 8, I slowly pieced all the pieces I wanted/could afford together. Orinally I had a 780 in this computer. It took me another 6 months to hunt down a good deal on a 1070 Ti, because I was fixated on the DUKE version.

Now, at a year later, I couldn't be happier with it. It's a bit dusty, but boy does it crank through all my engineering applications, and it can also do any AAA or AA game on Ultra/High at that buttery smooth 100~144Hz G-snyc'd. I get my ears melted with the sound from my DT 770 Pro 250 Ohms hooked to a JDS Labs Atom, or my room rocked by a set of Klipsch Promedia 2.1BT. I won't be able to upgrade for a long time, so I'm glad I could piece this boy together when I did. Win or (way more likely) lose, I'm proud and happy to have my Black Box.
Color(s): Black Red
RGB Lighting? No
Theme: Color
Cooling: Air Cooling
Size: Micro-ATX
Type: General Build

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This build participated in 1 contest.

Build Updates

Changed a ton of stuff!

Hardware

CPU
$ 325.00
AMD - Ryzen 9 (3900XT)
Socket: AM4
Cores: 12
Motherboard
$ 148.40
ASUS - Prime (B550M-A) (WiFi)
Chipset: B550
CPU Socket: AM4
Size: Micro-ATX
Memory
$ 198.00
Corsair - Vengeance LPX (3200MHz) (Black) (2x)
Type: DDR4
Capacity: 32 GB
Graphics
$ 300.00
Gigabyte - GeForce Gaming OC
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: RTX 3070
Interface: PCIe x16
Storage
$ 199.99
Leven - JS600
Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 4 TB
Storage
$ 119.99
Western Digital - WD Blue (WD20EZAZ)
Form Factor: 3.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 2 TB
Storage
$ 72.99
Western Digital - WD_Black SN770
Form Factor: M.2
Interface: M.2 (B+M)
Capacity: 2 TB
PSU
$ 161.80
Seasonic - Focus Plus
Wattage: 850
Form Factor: ATX
Efficiency: 80+ Gold
Case
$ 54.99
DarkFlash - DLM21 Mesh (Black)
Type: Micro-ATX
Side Panel: Tempered Glass
Case Fan
$ 14.66
be quiet! - Pure Wings 2 (PWM)
Size: 140 mm
Case Fan
$ 9.90
be quiet! - Pure Wings 2 (PWM)
Size: 120 mm
Case Fan
$ 32.95
Noctua - NF-A15 HS-PWM Q100
Size: 150 mm
Cooling
$ 99.95
Noctua - NH-D15 (Chromax/Black)
Type: Air Cooler
Accessories
$ 139.95
Accessories
$ 169.99
Accessories
$ 99.00
Accessories
$ 300.00
Accessories
$ 69.00
Accessories
$ 147.99
Accessories
$ 56.45
Monitor
$ 750.00
Samsung - Odyssey Neo G9
Size: 49 Inch
Panel: VA
Refresh Rate: 240 Hz
Keyboard
$ 99.00
Keychron - K4
Interface: Wired/Wireless
Key Switch Type: Cherry MX Brown
Type: Full Size
Mouse
$ 89.99
Logitech - G502 Lightspeed Wireless
Interface: Wireless
Estimated total value of this build:
$ 1,703.45
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