u/FrancMaconXV

2024-2025 I bought my first pre-built PC, and I suffered through 2 faulty i9 14900ks over the course of 10 months, the whole experience nearly put me in my grave. I swore off intel and nearly swore off PC building as a whole, but ultimately I decided to just spend the money to switch to an AMD build. With the reccomendations of the guys at microcenter I put together a new build with a 9800X3D on an Asrock X870 Steel Legend motherboard (screaming in retrospect).

Well, it happened, earlier this week the motherboard failed spontaneously and took my CPU with it. I just got back from spending $600+ at microcenter for a new MoBo and new 9800x3D. I'm feeling pretty shitty about it all, does anyone have any similar PC building experiences?

In a way, I hope I am alone in my misfortune cuz this shit sucks.

I have one of those slightly smaller panoramic cases without front fans, where the intake fans are mounted on the side instead. and I feel like the air above the back of the GPU is too hot and stagnant, and its sorta cooking my SSD and MoBo components despite both having heatsinks. I love this case aesthetically, but I hate how much direct airflow I've sacrificed compared to normal cases with front fans. Would love yall's thoughts on this!