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Why? Do you for some reason assume that the author is an expert on hardware and authority on picking the best, most compatible parts?

Do you not have your own specific requirements and use cases? It is better you do some research on your own end and learn to pick the parts that will best work for you.

Ryzen CPUs run hot, the stock cooler is garbage.

The tower is not silenced, and with the stock cooler you will have a lot of fan noise both from the CPU fan and chassis fans.

Ryzen 3900 is a much better choice than the 3600, especially for CPU intensive work like compilation.

The M2 disk is on the slow end.

The motherboard supports 128 GB RAM, but now all 4 DIMM sockets are used for 64 GB. You should go with 2x32 GB, in case you have a need for more RAM later on.

There are more issues here, but those are the worst.

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Simply to compare the author list to mine and check for compatibility issue if needed. Ryzen 3000 series CPUs are known to have issues with systemd while booting ( which affect nixos https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/64443). And the fact that it works for the author helps me deciding that 3700x suits my needs and budget without worrying that i will need to use old versions of NixOS. Also the suggestions that you gave are valid, but that doesn't mean I will go with them because as you said I'm doing my own research. For example I will stick with the stock cooler because it got good reviews and my budget won't allow another cooler for now.

Running my computer at full blast (GPU+CPU), the loudest thing in the room is the death metal from Doom Eternal.

Some people use their computer for more than trivial things like video games.

I use my tower for programming too, Doom Eternal is the fastest way I have to getting full load on the system though.

That's strange considering most games do not put a full load on your system, especially not the CPU. Doom Eternal, in particular, has both low GPU and CPU usage. So I'm having trouble seeing how you got your full load. How did you measure? MSI Afterburner + Riva Statistics Server for OSD is good for this.

BTW: Death metal is a particular genre, and Doom's soundtrack is not it. This crap is death metal: https://youtu.be/482tDopNzoc?t=69

Do you have an axe to grind against the blog’s author?

No, but the author is obviously not a hardware person. And anecdotes about perceived loudness does not contest reality. It's why we use dBA and temperatures as benchmarks.

I do not have a sound gauge, so the best I can give you is anecdotes. If this is insufficient, I accept donations and could arrange to receive a properly calibrated professional quality sound gauge to get a more precise answer.

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