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Zippy6 said:

Managed to get a Fractal Node 202 with included SFX PSU for £80. So that's my next builds case sorted. Now it will sit around until either I find an ITX AM4 board at a cheap enough price to use my current components in it or I also upgrade CPU/RAM and get a Zen 4 or 12th gen Intel build. Either way waiting till I can get a good deal, not in much of a rush.

Thats a pretty insane deal. Always wanted to try a SFF, and didn't know Fractal did mini-ITX cases.

With a new build, you may as well look into getting Zen 4 and AM5. You can get a 7600 for under £189 with code on Ebay. Which is pretty crazy as it mostly has the same performance as a 5800X3D at 65W, and you have the option to slot in a Zen 5 CPU down the line.

I'm 99% sure I'll go with a 7600X because it's almost 100€ less than a 13600K and, while the later is very good, it's not good enough to justify the extra cost.

My only problem is the motherboard. I have decided almost everything else, but I'm stuck in that stage of the planning because I always end eyeing a X670E part, and paying more for the motherboard than for the CPU feels wrong.