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Zkuq said:

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Ah, thanks for the tips! Yeah, it's a bit of a gamble with C:S2 too, but with the first one being my most-played game on Steam and the second one seeming even better, I just don't see a world when I'm not buying it very close to release. Ideally I'd wait of course, but there's the Starfield deal as well, and it might be worth more to me than any potential gains I might get by waiting.

'Convoluted' is exactly the right word, I'd say... I mean it's pretty clear where things are now, but it's much less clear where things are going to be moving to.

Schools actually start a bit earlier here in Finland, around mid-August, so the back to school deals are already gone. I didn't notice anything interesting there though, otherwise I might have made by move already.

I don't think I'm going to be needing PCIe 5.0 for a GPU, considering I probably won't be getting any 500+ € GPUs any time soon. Depending on how things go, it might be worth it for an SSD even in my case though. I've actually looked up some motherboard with those finer chipsets, but it's probably not worth the extra cost to me.

Lancool 216 seems like a relatively reasonable option, although I'm trying to avoid a side window, and it kind of looks like a speaker to me. I've kind of been thinking about Fractal Design Define 7 Compact and Fractal Design North, but they're a bit on the pricier side, and I'm not 100 % happy with their features either - but I don't think I've found any decent-looking case with perfect connectivity at an acceptable price, so I'll just have to decide which bullet to bite I guess. But yeah, I'm getting a new case and everything inside it basically, but I'll be keeping pretty much everything else.

Definitely not getting a gen 5 SSD yet. I'm not a fan of the prices, and I'm hoping they'll somehow mature a bit more, e.g. to help with the heat. I'm more interested in future-proofing so I can upgrade if I want to without having to rip everything out. I'm probably getting an WD Black SN850X, which seems like a significantly better investment at the moment.

I mentioned the -E chipset because you've mentioned several times that you want a future-proofing system, and having the extra gen 5 PCIe slot may come in handy in the future if you upgrade to something like a 6060 in several years. But well, it's a gamble.

Techspot reviewed (kind of) the 5800X3D with Cities: Skylines, but the engine appears to rely on single core performance and the extra cache doesn't do anything. Surely they'll use a new engine for Skylines 2, or at least an upgraded one, but the results may be the same, with the 7700 performing better than the 7800X3D due to its higher clocks. But again, it's a gamble.

And yeah, in today's world, finding a case with no windows is extremely difficult, and you're basically limited to a case with at least one window or a case that looks like a fridge (not that it's a bad thing, tho).
Phanteks has good cases, but they're not cheap or lack USB-C.