u/deathdisco_89

I saw this bundle being added last night, but I'm disappointed this morning when they added the discounted price. For $350 I cant think of a reason to get this over the 7500x3d bundle. Who would want 1 dimm of ddr4?It should have been $299.

I am a hobbyist PC building working on my first actual flip. I have the parts in the link. Can you please recommend a cost-effective case that sells well (ATX)? Do you think shopping for a 1TB SSD to add will pay off in selling price?

I just go into PC gaming this year, after not gaming on PC in a very long time. Safe to say I am fully sucked in. I've been using an entry-level rig that I upgraded with a RTX 5070 and a better GPU, but I am preparing to fully build my first PC.

This PC will be going under a desk in my office, so I did not want to build a rainbow lightshow fish tank. I decided to keep it simple - all black parts, no RGB. I saw the ProArt PA401 and knew that's what I wanted to build inside. This PC will be used heavily for gaming, but will be a mixed use PC for the family including some creative programs.

From shopping around and using a Microcenter bundle I was able to keep the entire build to $1,499 + tax (including thermal paste).

I would love to get your thoughts on it while I wait for the parts to arrive and prepare for the build. My plan is to stay on this CPU/Motherboard for 5 years, but potentially upgrade the GPU in about 3 years. I would also like to expand storage once it becomes more reasonable.

[PCPartPicker Part List](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kM9yK7)

Type|Item|Price

:----|:----|:----

**CPU** | [Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus 3.7 GHz 24-Core Processor](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/WMNscf/intel-core-ultra-7-270k-plus-37-ghz-24-core-processor-bx80768270k) | $315.00 @ Amazon

**CPU Cooler** | [Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE V3 70.84 CFM CPU Cooler](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/vZfV3C/thermalright-peerless-assassin-120-se-v3-7084-cfm-cpu-cooler-pa120se-v3) | $34.90 @ Amazon

**Thermal Compound** | [ARCTIC MX-4 w/ Spatula 4 g Thermal Paste](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/gCpQzy/arctic-mx-4-w-spatula-4-g-thermal-paste-actcp00031b) |-

**Motherboard** | [Gigabyte Z890 EAGLE WIFI7 ATX LGA1851 Motherboard](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/TVrqqs/gigabyte-z890-eagle-wifi7-atx-lga1851-motherboard-z890-eagle-wifi7) | $189.00 @ Amazon

**Memory** | [Crucial Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL38 Memory](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/TQjRsY/crucial-pro-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-6400-cl38-memory-cp2k16g64c38u5b) | $399.99 @ B&H

**Storage** | [Crucial P310 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/X46NnQ/crucial-p310-1-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-ct1000p310ssd8) | $179.99 @ Newegg

**Video Card** | [MSI SHADOW 2X OC GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB Video Card](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/n9cBD3/msi-shadow-2x-oc-geforce-rtx-5070-12-gb-video-card-rtx-5070-12g-shadow-2x-oc) | $629.99 @ MSI

**Case** | [Asus ProArt PA401 Wood Edition ATX Mid Tower Case](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/q4nXsY/asus-proart-pa401-wood-edition-atx-mid-tower-case-90dc00m0-b39010) | $134.00 @ Amazon

**Power Supply** | [Rosewill VMG 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply](https://pcpartpicker.com/product/MM62FT/rosewill-vmg-850-w-80-gold-certified-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-vmg850) | $89.99 @ Amazon

| *Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts* |

| **Total** | **$1972.86**

| Generated by [PCPartPicker](https://pcpartpicker.com) 2026-05-25 16:16 EDT-0400 |

I am about to move my PC to new case and AIO, so I would like to upgrade my CPU (5700) at the same time. I believe the 16mb of l3 cache and PCIE 3.0 limit are having an impact on gaming performance. I would love to move to AM5, but I don't want to buy a new motherboard and DDR 5 RAM right now, so I am instead going to focus on getting the most out of AM4 for the next few years.

 I have researched the best AM4 processors, and I am between the 5800xt ($200) and 5900xt ($260). I would love to find a 5700x3d or 5800x3d, but they have been ridiculously hard to find and expensive ($400+ used).

I primarily use the PC for gaming, but it is also our primary home computer so I could have other use cases for it in the future. I could see myself repurposing this PC into a SFF mixed-use build when I eventually move to next generation platform for gaming.

Wha would you do?

 CPU: Ryzen 7 5700

Motherboard: ASRock B550 mATX

RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200MHz

GPU: Geforce RTX 5070

Storage: 2x 1 TB Gen 4 NVME

Case(new): Montech King 15 Pro mATX

CPU Cooler: AIO (TBD)

I got an ABS prebuilt off eBay a couple weeks ago and its been working great. Recently two of the 3 case fans will light up, but will not start spinning unless I blow air at that with a compressed air gun. Once they get spinning, they control completely normally until the power goes to sleep or powers down. I can manually increase fan speed to 100% using MSI Afterburner and they speed up appropriately. There is no dust build up or other power concerns with the rest of the PC. RGB responds correctly (SignalRGB). I updated the motherboard bios to the newest version. Any ideas what could be causing this?