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This thread is related to my earlier thread, "The Saga of the New Notebook." I am putting together a new desktop system for use as my new Music Computer, the parts gathering of which began in earnest overnight after a 2 1/2 hour long Discord call with my son. We discussed the system from top to bottom, bottom to top, and made a couple of disturbing revelations about my current system in the process (can't believe I haven't checked them until now). Prior to last night, we (I use the joint we because this is a joint construction process) had decided on one thing: the case. I've bought a Fractal Design Define R5 case, a nice, roomy, quiet case with room for a Blu-ray burner at the top front. After last night's Discord call, we'd decided on everything except the motherboard, and had made one extremely major purchase: an Intel i7-12700KF CPU, one of the few 12th generation Alder Lake CPUs actually available on shelves at close to MSRP. I'm going to try and post a decided-upon parts list in a separate post, using BBCode markup (if that works), but the CPU is a big step forward. I was able to delete three test parts lists based on that decision alone. I'm looking to complete the buying for this build some time around Black Friday, since that's when I'm guessing I'll see the best prices in the shortest amount of time. I can't wait too long, for various and sundry reasons (number one being that my wife is going to get my old system, and her old system is really starting to flake out). I'll use this thread to keep you updated, and I would appreciate feedback from you on my choices and leads on where I might be able to find better prices. Thank you for putting up with this project. Again.

I always thought that Naugas were a wild species. We would hear tales of the great nauga hunters nearly making the nauga extinct.

"I'll help The Human with the little not-a-butt warmer" - Explorer the Cat

I, on the other hand, come from a long line of Naugahyde herders

Got ta shoot me some wild polyesters.

"The Human is trying to get a flash on me. Well, I'm going to mark what ever this new thing on the floor is in case another cat comes in the house. Two things at once!" - Explorer the Cat.

So that's what the cats of ancient Egypt said? Good to know. (is now envisioning the Sphinx with a case of the Zips)

...and the people Basque in the sunshine of the knowledge of their differences.