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Originally Posted by chemgear
The last few machines I've gotten have been MemEx builds (after picking the desired parts) and I'm more than happy to pay for the service. Having somebody else deal with issues and avoiding my own probable #### ups is worth it for me. There may or may not have been a bent CPU pin from personal experience in the past when I've done it.
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Having them do the CPU mount makes sense given that risk... other than that though, especially for something finicky like a mini ITX, I need to be able to be pretty picky about what goes where and where cabling gets tucked, etc. I'm sure the Memex guys do a perfectly competent build but I kind of doubt that they're taking the extra hour to manage everything optimally. Especially putting a 280 in the thing, which is, shall we say, pushing it.
Anyway, I got the case and PSU. Still mulling over the other stuff and looking for a cheap EVGA FTW 3080 which seems to be the ideal card here. I might go to a 12700K, use the on board graphics initially, and wait for the EVGA card to hit rock bottom. I was also considering going Ryzen as the 5900x is about the same price, but based on my research it runs somewhat hotter, and that's a no from me in this case, dawg.