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The box arrived today. I installed a Linux distro (LMDE4) with a kernel released in early 2020 and booted a USB - straight into a working 5800X on a B550 board (and a basic passively cooled GPU). I did backport a modern kernel, but it made no apparent difference. All in all, a very fast quiet...

I'll let you know.

That's very good news - I currently run a program that temporarily reduces the CPU frequency if my FX-4300 exceeds about 68C - the idea being that a cool component is likely to be a long-lived component.

Obviously its the money!:) But its also the watercooling thing - thanks for all the advice and I've taken on board the case + PSU thing, and to some extent the cooling problem. Of course, I might come back to say that it runs like a dead dog - but that's my problem. Thanks to everybody. Anyway...

I appear to be reluctant to accept advice - but this isn't true. On the basis of @Scott's suggestion, I'm thinking of going for:- 1. Call me a stick-in-the-mud, but there is no way I'm letting water inside my PC - so I've simply gone for the most expensive air cooling offered [PCS FrostFlow 150...

That's an interesting option - with a better GPU, I'd suggest it might make a decent gaming platform. I've never used liquid cooling in a PC and it sounds much too scary (and too expensive) for me. I don't understand how a case can affect heat issues - I would agree that a poor case could/would...

It now looks like this:-

I've always used AMD CPU's in the past [on grounds of cost] - but they run so hot. Current CPU, about 5 years old is a "Quad Core AMD FX-4300". But I can't run it flat out without it going into a thermal shutdown. :( Also, the major expense (for me) is the CPU, not the GPU. I will get a quote...

Proposed build, strictly not for games use! I intend to use it as a Linux desktop, some photo editing & occasional video transcoding + enough RAM to run several VM's. Hopefully it will be more future-proof than my current 4-core. If the builtin video isn't up to playing videos, I have an old...