Well I finally got my PC built and running after 1 and 1/2 years or so on my backup PC with an Intel i7 860 (1st gen i7) and was cool about 8 years ago if you do a lot of gaming or encoding or whatever the i7 860 will not run well.
Case:
Phanteks Enthoo Pro TG PH-ES614PTG_BK Tempered Glass Side Panel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Black
4 Noctua 140mm 3000rpm industrial fans, 2 front 2 back
Seasonic VERTEX GX-1000, 1000W 80+ Gold, ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 Ready, Full-Modular, ATX Form Factor.
Main Hardware:
1) ASRock Z790 Riptide WiFi LGA 1700.
2) Intel Core i7-14700K - With a Scythe Fuma 3 CPU Air Cooler with 2 120mm Noctua industrial fans at 3000rpm.
3) G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 96GB (2 x48GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6400.
4) GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC.
5) HT-OMEGA eClaro Sound card which has a S/PDIF Optical out and sounds like a Home theater. Also has 7.1 analog out as well.
6) PCI Express x1 Dual 2.5 gigabit Ethernet NIC.
Drives:
WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4:
1TB Dual Boot:
Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Microsoft Windows 11 Home
3 Of These Puppies:
Western Digital WD_Blue SN580 M.2 2280 2TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 TLC
2TB Games Drive
2TB VMware Workstation Drive
2TB Temp Drive
1 SATA port: Bluray Burner
1 SATA Port: 1TB 2.5" SSD
6 SATA Port: 6 6TB 3.5" SATA 3
Yeah this motherboard has native 8 SATA ports!
It took a while to get it, the last time I played 7 Days to Die was 3/24/2023. But this is best PC I believe I have ever put together.
Yeah it runs hot! But I got over 900 FPS in Quake Team Arena at 1080 with all effects maxed!!
