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upgrade my Brothers old FX amd system

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p05ta1

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He wanted to go cheap.
went from old FX chip and a sata saumsung drive.
redid it with stuff he got 1 tb samsung nvme, corsiar 750 watt ps, rtx550, and a cheap ebay case.
I donated X370 am4 , 3700x cpu 16 gig ddr4.
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Personally I'd have gone AMD on the GPU (Linux reasons), but that's overall a nice upgrade.

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Looks good.

I'm still rocking a 3700x, 32gb b-die, b550 mb although I have 9700x, b850, 32gb ddr5 combo waiting on deck, too lazy to build.
 
I order new

Thermalright TL-S12-S X3​

to replace the bad cheap case fans that are super crazy.
I did replace the cpu cooler with a themalright one like this kit.
I also order a hub to turn off the light for the case.
 
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