Great stuff there! Congrats, you dawg!    

Ah....sounds like me just a few weeks ago....lights were on but no-one was home.  Spent a lot of time trying to get past the ASUS [x99] b6 error LED...even using either/or/both cables.

Reality was...dead CPU.  Fixed that...managed to post...got things going...then 'bang' ....no screen yet again [still had post].

This time it was the GTX980 that died.

Now it has a RTX3070 and is back to 'normal'.

I had been 'thinking' of an upgrade soonish....instead I had a forced-repair.  Curiously mine was also a 2015 build....first posting in 2016...

Double fail for choosing Intel when everyone knows Ryzen is better. Cheaper as well. 

I have 3 Ryzen machines [one a Threadripper 2920X] and 2 Intel Core i7s.  While I like the Ryzen machines a lot I must say that the 10th Gen i7 is also really good as well.  The 4th Gen i7 4770 is a bit old these days but still runs like a dream.  At the end of the day, I suppose it's up to the individual and what suits them best.

Talked about this build on Teams earlier but I have to say the photos show how very clean the final product is. Got to respect those cable management skills!

Ops desktop sounds like my labtop; except it is an I7, and my graphics card is not a super. Just bought it. At $1000+ a pop I will probably wait until my desktop breaks. Amd I s cheaper f your building I think, but if your buying it is not. They wanted the same price for a seventh gen amd, as they wanted for a ninth gen intel. For a new labtop. Best deal off of Amazon. Buying computers. When i was pricing desktops before it was like this. Buying not building computers. This sounds like corporations if you can’t build maybe you won’t notice cheaper amd processors.

if buying amd computers don’t come down for the same gen processors computers I will probably stick with intel. When I buy a computer I a always think will this be good down the road.

I actually like this build. This one is closer to what I have; instead of making feel like I’m back In the Stone Age. It is hard keeping up with the Jones. My contemporaries don’t understand why my coMputers are so advanced.

Not a fail at all if I got it at a great price and it works like my other Intel CPUs have for the many years I have used them.

That's exactly it!  There is nothing wrong with liking either Intel or AMD, and it appears that your preference is Intel.  I am a fanboy of neither.  I have both AMD and Intel CPUs and think they're both good.  After owning AMD based PCs for several years, my first Intel unit since the Pentium days was the 4th Gen i7, and it is still going strong, so definitely no quibbles there.  My next Intel based PC is the 10th Gen i7, which is excellent.  Thing is, I also like my AMD Ryzen based machines and I can enjoy the benefits of both brands.

ID's build has different specs to mine....but the brands are pretty much identical...Intel...ASUS....Corsair...Samsung.  I tend to stick with brands I know...and have used before.  Yes, sometimes things 'fail' ...but that'll happen with any brand.

My system had a couple of 'fails' but it first booted in on 3 Jan, 2015 ...and its 'up time' was pretty much ever since, minus perhaps in total about 5 weeks total.  I run it 24/7/365, but when I went to the US [holiday] and a couple of longer weekends motor racing away from home I'd actually shut it down.

I'd imagine the typical user who might run a machine even 12 hours a day would see a life of about 12 years - which is pretty good - and by then the machine would be way out of date and be well overdue for replacing.

There's a school of thought that cycling the electrics daily actually shortens a machine's life anyway.

Running a high power PSU means almost always its fan isn't running at all, and neither does the GPU's [both only on boot], and the tower/case design is such that the others only tick over making it essentially silent.

All the platters are 'Green' which means they tend to park themselves when not accessed...so there's a bit of a lag when they spin up again...but they're really only 'storage' as all the 'immediate' stuff is on SSDs, etc.

I think in the 20 years [next month] I've been on these Forums I've had 5 different computers...and the first one was a Pentium 100 with a 1gig hard drive and 8 meg of ram....on dial-up ...

Yeah, as I stated in the post my last build was in 2015, and the one before that was about a similar time before. I can't complain as the amount of time and use this machine gets, I certainly get my money's worth. 

I built my daughter her first gaming PC last year, and used AMD for it because I got a good deal on it. You would never know the difference in real use.

My first PC build was a Pentium 1 and the second was a Pentium II.  That was in the early 2000s.  From there I went to an AMD Phenom 1 and later a Phenom II.  My next upgrade was to an AMD FX 5150 and then an FX 8150 before going back to Intel with an i7 4750. 

I stuck with AMD because they were cheaper than the Intel counterparts back then, and not being flush with money back in those days it worked out to be more economical.  These days, though, Amd's Ryzen series is much on a par with Intel's 9th and 10th gen CPUs, which is why I purchased a 10th Gen i7-10700F at a great price.

I also have an AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT which is quite speedy and probably beats the i710700F in most things, but when it comes to video editing and conversion the i7 is the better machine.  The Threadripper 2920X beats them both, however, and is most often my go to machine.  Thing is, I won't be building anymore PCs due to cramps and arthritis in my hands, so what I've got now will have to do.

ID, congrats on the new build. I see your point and must admit that you are right. In most modern day to day computing tasks, there isn't much difference between AMD and Intel. I had me a AMD Ryzen 5 laptop last week. Sadly the SSD died and it was a brand new machine. A bit of bad luck. Now I have a dual core 11th gen Intel Celeron setup and honestly I can't see the difference in my day to day activities. Keep in mind all of my games are years old. But still, I see your point is valid, so my apologies for the comment.