Aaand purchased.
Added 2019-12-28 23:04:55 +0000 UTCTotal cost is a little over $500, I'll tally up the exact numbers sometime soon and adjust the budget to compensate.
It took a bit of narrowing down on a couple parts, since apparently there are a lot of things sold out due to the holidays, but I got great deals on everything and I didn't have to make any compromises. I also overshot the power supply on purpose, so I have room to grow in the future (total power usage is somewhere around 280-350ish, the PSU supports 750.)
What is up in the air is a couple things:
1. I might get a new CPU cooler, or just a new fan; I'll take a closer look at mine when I start the new build.
2. MAYBE a new hard drive, or a small SSD, but that's pretty low priority, and transferring my entire HDD's storage to another drive sounds like a pain in the patootie.
3. I'll be keeping an eye out for deals on video cards that are RTX 2070 (or 2060, not sure yet) or better. I want to eventually get an RTX card, since Blender has support for the raytracing technobabble found in the RTX cards, which speeds the heck up out of the Cycles engine.
A slight bit of bad news, though, ONE (1) part wont arrive until the 7th, the rest will arrive on Monday/Tuesday.
