Build Report - #57

Sale Notes

I listed this build on 9/28 and sold the very next evening on Facebook Marketplace for $600, for a net profit of $287. The buyer was coming from console and wanted to play Rainbow Six Siege, for which this PC was perfect.

Build Notes

This was a fun build that came together pretty effortlessly. The only gotcha was I had originally planned on pairing the Ryzen 5 3600X with an XFX RX 5600 XT RAW II PRO that I had picked up for $60, but unfortunately, the NZXT H210 is limited to true 2-slot GPUs and the XFX RX 5600 XT RAW II PRO is a 3-slot thicc boi. So it was back to scouring Facebook Marketplace, where I came upon a lady selling 2 brand new XFX Air Cooling AMD RX Vega 56 for $100 each. I offered and ended up getting both for $150. These are true 2-slot blower GPUs, so not only do they actually fit, but are arguably better for an ITX case anyways.

Other than that little snafu, everything else worked as expected. The built-in underside ARGB lighting on the motherboard was a nice visual touch. The rest of the ARGB was provided by the usual combo of Thermalright Assassin King 120 SE ARGB along with the Thermalright TL-C12C-S 120mm ARGB fan 3-pack. I purchased an additional 3-pack so I could use 4 fans total (2x front intake, 1x rear + 1x top exhaust). No ARGB controller was necessary due to the built in ARGB header on the ROG STRIX B350-I GAMING motherboard, and no ARGB splitter cables were needed either because the passthrough ARGB cables on the TL-C12C-S allowed all of the ARGB to be daisy-chained. I did end up using a 1-to-2 fan splitter on the single motherboard CHA_FAN header so that the fan cables wouldn’t be stretched, with the end result being that the top + rear exhaust fans were daisy-chained and connected to one splitter end, and the 2 front intake fans were daisy-chained and connected to the other splitter end.

Aside from the GPU slot issue, the NZXT H210 is a really easy case to work in, especially for an ITX case. Being able to use a full size ATX PSU really helps to keep costs low, and there’s ample room in the back for cable management.

There’s also plenty of room to upgrade, with 5000-series Ryzen processors being compatible, as well as a more powerful GPU (as long as it’s dual slot!)

Performance was great, with my usual test of Overwatch 2 on competitive settings at 1080p getting between 200-300+ FPS.