With my order still in preproduction I've been torn between modifying to go with this or sticking with the Cooler Master TD500, which they also reviewed favourably and which made it into their honourable mentions for 2020.
Questions (still learning):
Any good cases that have a width of <220mm? That one is slightly too large for the ideal space in my workstation, by literally by a few mm. Very frustrating, but I don't want to have to buy a whole new desk as well or have cables draped everywhere.
Will downgrading...
I also put together a roughly comparable Intel CPU build, which afforded a better GPU. To my mind this one looks generally better, as the RAM is going to take a marginal hit in clock speed, but the trade-off there allows a trade-up in GPU, and I'm still not clear about the clock speed throttling...
I'm finally making the switch from mainlining a Mac as my all-purpose home computer to a Windows build. I'll still be using a Mac laptop since my workplace provides me with one, so I won't have to miss macOS for some of the apps I use. A win-win-win overall.
Anyway, life story over.
Key points...
