I wish more case manufacturers would support slip line optical drives. They are a cheap enough that wasting space on the larger ones is hardly worth it and they could be fitted into most cases with little difficulty. Then again, an external optical drive is probably good enough for all the times you are likely to use it.
Winckle wrote:I'd appreciate it if someone could look over my new parts list:
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/JmJwFtI plan on reusing my graphics card, but I think it's time to move on from my ageing 3570k.
I am running a 3570K at the moment too. It served me way longer than I thought it would, great CPU but a bit long in the tooth now so I am retiring it after Christmas.
Personally I went with Ryzen 2600X as I didn't think the 9600K was worth paying nearly £70 more but I suppose that's down to the peference. You'll get superior single thread performance out of that CPU than the 2600X.
My advice is:
* Buy faster memory (3200mhz or abouts). If you are buying a fast CPU you might as well.
* Maybe reconsider NVME storage for now. I was contemplating it myself but decided that, considering the price difference between it and SATA3, it's not really worth it at this point when you are paying nearly twice as much and the latter still offers pretty solid performance. I will probably uprgade to it in a few years though.