So, I just realised that I didn’t finish the build logs. Welp, my bad.

It went well. I now have a working desktop :3. My biggest gripe so far is actually that I have to start the ASUS Aura software manually after each boot, in order for the mobo lighting to turn a pretty purple colour rather than the default red.

Cooling seems to have settled a bit, after some teething problems (mainly me trying to figure out how to work the fans properly, and get an optimal curve such that they weren’t ramping up and down every second… that was irritating).

The 1070 is holding up pretty well in gaming so far - after I adjusted the fan curve to ramp up earlier, otherwise it was hitting 80C, which I do not want. Granted, I haven’t tried to do anything daft like run whatever the current “Crysis-like” benchmarking game is at 4K, as frankly, I don’t do that anymore.

Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, all on a screen like this though. *That* is lovely. Also, I find it amusing that I can play a couple of strategy games in a borderless window, and have absolutely no gripes about it. That is power of having 2x the pixel density as my last monitor, and being only 2″ smaller (last one was a 31″, this is a 29″).

Lastly, RAM usage. Haha, this made me chuckle. So, my last desktop had 6GB. (Yes, *six*). Due to the kind of work I’m wanting to be able to do, I went with 32GB for this one, and I haven’t even bothered to load the XMP for them yet. 

Cannot wait to start some proper CAD work with this computer.