LENGTH OF TIME: 2 HOURS
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: MEDIUM
SO, THE HARDWARE has been selected—a fairly stock-standard mid-tower ATX build. There won’t be a lot to write about, then? Not quite—there are still some decisions to be made that are open to personal style. At its core, the most crucial element, aside from figuring out whether the 4070 Ti Super plays as well with the 7800X3D as it does with the 14900K, is that chassis. It is phenomenally cheap for what you get, almost to the point of being better value than the Corsair 4000D Airflow, our go-to chassis for blueprints for an age. It’s nice because not only does it not compromise on the cooling front, but it manages to do that without necessarily costing the earth, or swerving away from the modern style of chassis that we’ve all come to know and love.
It’s the one key component that we’d actually suggest remains the same in this build, regardless of what else you’d change. For instance, you could opt for an Intel Core i5-14600K instead, or a Ryzen 7 7700X if you want a bit more multi-core goodness. Alternatively, you could drop down to an RTX 4070 Super, or change up the storage to something slightly more affordable. There are numerous options you could choose, but it’s challenging to find a better-value proposition than that thing right now.
Speaking of tweaks, one area we’d suggest you do consider is that CPU/GPU combo we mentioned earlier. Super cards are seriously pricey right now, certainly when you’re not buying direct from Nvidia. If we’re honest, the 4070 Ti Super is a solid unit, but still falls short of the value proposition that the 4070 Super represents. One other point about the H6 Flow to bear in mind is that this is quite a short case. It’ll only support graphics cards up to 365mm in length, so any number of 4080 cards might struggle to fit in this one.
CHASSIS SHENANIGANS
Bet you can guess what’s coming. Yep, it’s our favorite time of the build, the chassis teardown. We should probably
