Built in… I think 2021? Maybe 2020? Would have been October-ish. It was right as nVidia’s 3000 series came out and no one was able to get ahold of them, or any other GPUs, at MSRP.

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (came with CPU cooler)
• Mobo: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4
• RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16
• OS and games that need fast loading drive: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2
• Drive for everything else: WD_BLACK 2 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM
• Also misc USB 3.0 drives, around 20TB total for media, emulation, backups, old games where load speed doesn’t matter, etc.
• GPU: Asus DUAL EVO OC GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (Tried to hit a sweet spot on price vs power, and then find the best performing card of that type. But mostly this was just snatching up whatever I could grab at MSRP. No one was getting GPUs when I built it, but I lucked out with an alert from NewEgg)
• Tower: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower (came with two fans)
• PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3
• Additional fans: Two Noctua A14 PWM chromax 82.52 CFM 140 mm

Use case when built: Gaming at 1080p with settings maxed out (or close), pimping old game graphics using reshade, running a home virtual server lab for learning, never having to close out of applications or browser tabs to ensure other programs had enough speed. Programming using RAM hungry IDEs (Jetbrains and VSCode).

Use case now: Mostly the same, but gaming at 1440p (upgraded my monitors) with high frame rates requires bumping down settings at times. Don’t play too many recent AAA games either, so it’s mostly fine for my needs, but the GPU is finally starting to show its age. Thankfully my eyes are pretty “console-ified” so with variable refresh rate I don’t usually notice framerate until it drops below 30. Little less use of the virtual homelab stuff. Still program at home occasionally, but again, not as often anymore. Use as a lazy man’s media server to share media folders to Kodi across the house.

I don’t remember anymore, because I’ve done it so many times and the current one was built pre-pandemic.

Use case is programming, webdev, and gaming. I’d want higher specs if I was doing video editing on a regular basis, but it’s never has a problem with anything I set it to.

Just built a new pc, the first for a few years but probably the 20th or so I’ve made in total. This one’s a home server, replacing an HP ML110 Gen 9. It’s running proxmox with a dozen linux vms and is performing very well so far.

• Ryzen 5700X
• ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS, AMD B550 (Full linux compatibility)
• 48gb of ddr4 (32 new, 16 re-used)
• 2tb nvram (I have a nas for bigger storage)

Cheap PSU, half a case nailed to a wall (seriously. I keep it in a cupboard). A fanless gpu just to get it booting. Stock cpu fan and that’s about it. Idles at around 50 watts, which is less than half of the ML, and is almost silent.

!buildapc@lemmy.world would be a good place to crosspost for more answers

AMD Ryzen 5 7600x, RTX 4080 Super 16GB, 64GB system RAM, and like 10TB split up over multiple drives both SSD and HDD. I don’t remember what PSU I put in but it’s an 850W Gold from Corsair. Case is a Fractal North XL in white with glass side panel.

Usecase is 3D modelling primarily. I mostly work in Blender so getting a capable GPU was a must and the large amount of system RAM is nice when I’m working with textures in Substance or editing large files. I may upgrade my CPU as I move into more CPU-rendered tasks but right now I’m doing just fine.

Ryzen 8700F (6-core, auto-overclocks to 4.76 Ghz, 65W), Radeon 6400 (the weakest gpu I found, 55W), 64GB ram, 1TB m.2 SSD, 500W power supply (I think I just needed 200W but this one was cheaper), some gigabyte wlan mainboard (my room’s lan connection doesn’t work), ATX housing (I accidentally bought the wrong size at first), a cheap cpu cooler (65W doesn’t need much cooling)

My usecases are modded minecraft, dolphin-emu, IntelliJ, Qwen-Image (had to stock up on ram for this), BTD6, modded Balatro, VLC.

Skip Nvidia and go AMD. Trust me. Drivers and other issues. I’ve built many PCs high end to dinosaurs by today’s standards.

Last machine I built was a media server. Four 3.5” drive bays and a decent intel processor.

But then it got a little slow so I swapped out the mobo for one that supported an AMD Ryzen chip, 64GB of RAM, and had an m2 slot built in. Also added an external RAID for even more storage.

Your best bet is to use Linux for your machine, as that won’t clutter your resources like Windows 11 will. The G100 will certainly be interesting to try out based upon a cursory look.

Since one use case is video editing with Resolve (I’d recommend looking at Kdenlive, as I edited for CoculesNation using that), you need 32GB of DDR4 or DDR5, depending on what motherboard you’re using. GIMP is a fantastic choice for photo editing, so good on you for that. Developing using Godot (I’d recommend a fork called Redot, personally) will probably require some good CPU and GPU shenanigans. Indie gaming would definitely be interesting to do with a G100, as that apparently has good performance to that of an RTX 4060. Self-hosting… you’ll want another computer for that. One of my folks utilizes a Quadro P2000 for Plex, but I’d imagine you’d want similar, since the P2000 is NVIDIA. For browsing, I wouldn’t recommend using Chromium-based browser except Brave and maybe Vivaldi (as they won’t utilize AI slop), and just go for Firefox-based browsers like Waterfox, Librewolf, Floorp, Firedragon, Midori and the like. I like using Zen for checking my YouTube stats (and the stats and comments of my producer’s main YT). Also, those need to be hardened, since surveillance capitalism is the way everyone’s data is sold nowadays.

For the CPU, I’d go Intel (despite them being in a hole right now), and find a motherboard that supports Coreboot, that being an MSI Z690-A from my research. I utilize AMD right now, but I’ll be switching to Intel so I can disable the ME spyware with a Corebooted MSI motherboard, the one I just mentioned.

Hope this helps you…

I use my ATX case I have had since 1998 and an ATX mother board. I generally go AMD and use one of their best lower power processors. Last was an 8 core. I added SATA hot swap bays.

Built in 2019, with some upgrades here and there:

MOBO: Asus X570-E Gaming WiFi CPU: RYZEN 5800X3d GPU: Radeon 6700XT OS Drive: 2 TB WD NVME Power Supply: Corsair 1000W

Looking at your list I’d consider a couple of things:

1. do some research on the Motherboard. I have a vague recollection of ASRock having problems lately. Not sure what models or anything.

2. consider a fully modular power supply if you’re at all concerned about clutter inside your case. You might also look up the recommended PSU wattage for that GPU. I don’t know much about the Lisuan specifically, but a lot of them recommend at least 750W.

Wanted a silent server system for various things; fan noise bothers me, and in trying to rid heat also creates it.

So Monsterlabo case, its all passive heatsink that sandwiches onto your CPU and GPU.

I wanted a silent fanless PSU but they were hard to get here without huge shipping fees…so I picked up and over spec’d wattage PSU for the system as the fan in it only comes on at 30% watt use.

SSDs for silent operation, since harddrive access makes noise.

CPU I5-7400, 16 GB RAM

You never know its on. CPU runs around 35 C, will hit 49 C when processing a video render or other labour task.

Specs:

• Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus WiFi
• AMD Ryzen 5950X
• 64GB of G.Skill F4-3600C18-32GVK
• Gigabyte AMD RX-7900XTX
• Samsung 980 Pro 500GB (OS drive)
• Samsung 990 Pro 4TB (Game Drive)
• Samsung 870 EVO (one 2TB and one 4TB for main non-game storage)
• WD Black 1TB HDD (mostly used for books, comics, file history for my user profile, and misc storage)
• LG M-Disc Ultra-HD/4k internal burner/reader with hacked firmware to use with MakeMKV.
• Seasonic 850W 80+ Platinum
• Noctua NH-D15 Gen 2 (had a NH-U12S) and 5 140mm case fans from them (can’t remember which models but one is the newer version).
• Fractal Define R4 (main reason I have air cooling instead of an AIO as the 5.24in bays and older style from a 2013 build I bought from a different friend in 2015 that wanted to downsize to do two years of Van-Life).
• Windows 10 Pro (will likely move to a Linux distro after I have a new build and use this one as a dedicated Plex/Jellyfin/long-term data storage).

Built piecemeal over the past 6ish years (original CPU: Ryzen 3800X as a bundle with the board and GPUs first RX-580 8GB then RX-5700XT also 8GB, drives changed out also over time along with the RAM). So the cost of all the parts has been spread out. I got the RX-7900XTX for $800 off a friend that was down-sizing on things which was too good to pass-up as the price was still $1000~1100 at the time (2023 within the first year).

Usecase: Mostly games, general daily tasks and browsing, also as my Plex server and more recently ripping/re-encoding my Blu-rays and DVDs.

I plan to build a more straightforward PC for games and daily tasks. I don’t have the parts selected yet for it, but plan to stay all AMD. Also plan to run a Linux distro from the start with that one since Proton has worked so well on my Steam Deck (along with Windows 11 being so much more invasive than even 10). Might still need to setup a VM with Windows for really specific situations and to keep-up with how things work and trying out things that might help in fixing PCs I work on for my job.

I have heard that doing hardware pass-through on VMs is maybe easier if the host is Linux to be able to actually use my GPU in the client OS. So I am looking forward to seeing how that might work (I don’t use VMs much since I haven’t had proper GPU support which annoys me lol). —