The 3600 (not so much 3600X) is pretty much the peak of the price-for-performance graph at the moment, maybe slightly on the performance side with the 1600AF as tippedy top, since it's within a few dollars of half the price for a 15% difference in clock speed, basically a 2600 with a different label - to the point that they deliver benchmark results within 1-2% of each other, even. I almost went with one of those and fully populating the RAM slots with 16Gb sticks, but getting another SSD to use for swap space was much cheaper and very little should need to hit the swap file in the first place even with "only" 32Gb on a system that's not something like a web server handling hundreds or thousands of connections at once. Maybe running filters on huge image files in GIMP or if glTF export wasn't fixed in Blender 2.82; the demo video I saw of that in 2.81 had 16Gb on the system and had to turn their virtual memory up to 32Gb to output a file with large image maps.
Gah, I'm really anxious over having this go well, though I know intellectually that it's really rare for new parts not to just snap together and work. I haven't built a PC since 1999 and have pretty much only dealt with laptops since then, mostly at second or third hand, which obviously all come prebuilt. It's a big outlay all at once for parts that so far only exist as playing-card-size preview images on a web page.
Gah, I'm really anxious over having this go well, though I know intellectually that it's really rare for new parts not to just snap together and work. I haven't built a PC since 1999 and have pretty much only dealt with laptops since then, mostly at second or third hand, which obviously all come prebuilt. It's a big outlay all at once for parts that so far only exist as playing-card-size preview images on a web page.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus