Showcase Cleo's AMD College PC 2023

[Cleo]

A little AMD box that I put together. Initially I tried my Ryzen 9 3900 (OEM) chip but it didn't POST
so I bought the cheapest Ryzen that I could find that supports PCIe Gen 4.0 for the GPU. I didn't want
to spend much on this and the Sapphire mobo was the cheapest ITX around at the time (~$USD80 shipped)
that was in stock with a B550 chipset. I had to spend a little more on the PSU as wasted heat is my mortal
enemy in my little college room w/o air con or ceiling fans and a single window that only opens 10 cm.
edit: removed Sapphire B550i Ultra titanium mobo and Ryzen 5 3600.
edit: removed KIOXIA EXCERIA PLUS G2 1 TB M.2-2280
edit: removed be quiet! Pure Rock LP CPU Cooler

 

[Cleo]

I think the mobo has died. "A critical process has died" blue screen during Win 11 install. Tried different NVME sticks, different USB sticks, different CPU's, different riser cables, different M.2 slot. Going to call it (time of death) if it doesn't respond to different RAM and BIOS this weekend. Can't even install linux - kernel panic mode errors about PCIe lanes....

 

[Cleo]

Back up and running with my Ryzen 9 3900 (OEM) chip. I ordered a Lexar NM800PRO 1TB NVME but it's delayed in international shipping. Using an old Intel H10 1/2 TB for now.
The Sapphire board was unrecoverable. Idle CPU temp is 55 and it boosts to about 82 under full load. I'm getting Windows warnings when I go into some games that I don't have enough memory and that my settings have been turned down. Is that normal now with 16GB of RAM?

 

[Cleo]

Swapped out the "be quiet! Pure Rock LP" for a Deepcool LS320 85.85 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler. Idle CPU temps now 45C and 62C under full load and looks much better.
Lexar NM800PRO arrived. Cloned the old Intel nvme stick w/o any issue and swapped them over. System running very well.

 

[Jengo]

Nice system !