The case is the worst. I'm picky on the design (the Pure Base isn't great) and I target coolness above all else. But a lot of cases have really few ssd slots and I plan to go full ssd some time in the near-ish future. And when I finally decide on a case, it's a fucking third party seller on amazon, and I'm not really into them.
The 5600x is yeah, 10-20 euros more.
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Let me try to recap
My PC - 2600x / Wraith Prism / B450 Tomahawk / 16go Corsair Vengeance / 2060 Super in a godawful NZXT H500.
I avg 44c idle and the sky is the limit in load. Last 3DMark I did was avg 66c but I'm pretty sure I did near 100c on Control for example. Which was not pleasant.
And I'm not made of money, at all. But with this fucking pandemic shortage and rising pricing, I had to wait for a refresh and I fear that if I wait some more it won't be a couple hundreds but a couple thousands I will take in the face.
I'm not even sure this is the right move. After all, outside of rare exceptions like CP2077 my PC handles 1440p/60 pretty well. Wait at the risk of having an horrible purchase later ? Refresh some parts but which one ? Wait for AM5 or Intel to be more reasonable ?
Surprised that system is hitting 100C in Control, I heard the H500 is bad but is it really that bad even with a stock fan?
You could possibly justify the CPU upgrade with AM4 on its way out, it's priced to clear. Looks like you'll get Uncharted Legacy Collection included with a Ryzen 5000 series purchase and then you can flip the 2600X on the used market to claw back a bit more. Any new platform will be a huge upfront cost comparatively. If you're content with around a 3070 tier GPU, you will be fine for sometime.
On the cases, the Lancool 215 allows for three 2.5" SSDs and the Pop Air gets you four out of the box, couldn't tell on the 4000D if you had to buy additional brackets or not to mount on top on the PSU shroud. Don't know if that's sufficient for you.
For the GPU, it's a difficult choice considering how screwy the market has been and how low my confidence is for Nvidia and AMD to deliver reasonably priced mid-tier cards. If you have the budget to spare and have a list of games that could use the extra horse power immediately, maybe buying isn't too bad of an idea? Otherwise, if you're happy as is and the extra power will get wasted while you're playing a bunch of smaller budget indie games, there's no real rush.