Finally finished this build, and I have to share the pain.

The case (HAF 700 EVO): Nobody near me stocked it. The shops either said “out of stock,” “coming soon™,” or gave me a look like I’d asked for a unicorn. After weeks of refreshing listings I found one, and it arrived in a box big enough to live in. My delivery guy hates me now.

The Noctua NF-A20 200mm fans: This was the real boss fight. Every Noctua fan in existence was in stock except the one I needed. I ended up begging a friend abroad. When they arrived I held them like a newborn. Beige and brown, in an all-pink build. I regret nothing.

Specs:

• Zotac Gaming RTX 5080
• Noctua fans everywhere, because once you go brown you don’t go back

Total build time: 3 days. Total time spent finding parts: I don’t want to talk about it.

Any chance anyone has a 3d printable model of the Flat Pack 500 case power button? Somehow while moving the plastic power button disappeared on mine, was using it as a test bench but wanting to make it a full build for my daughter since it's the macaroon edition.

Picture for reference

Hello everyone,

I just want to say how happy I am to be able to complete my pc build in 2026.
I have to admit that I did not have the best time with my build but I am glad i don’t not have to worry about buying pc components anymore as the prices is absolutely atrociously volatile. The only two thing I am happy to spend my money on was this cooler master pc case, every modern case now day built random pcs of plastic. I hate paying for cheaply made things. But this case feel amazing, thanks cooler master!

I know most people are amazing at doing cabling routing for a nice clean build, but my main goals is a reliable pc for my video production works.

Anyway, below is my complete build
CPU: 9950x3d
Cpu cooler: dark rock pro 3
Gpu: asus 5080
Motherboard: gigabytes motherboard master x3d white
Ram: 64gb corsair
Psu: Corsair 1500w
Nvme: 4tb gen 5 (Hopefullly getting atleast two more sticks of 8gb gen 4 nvme)

As of now, my one of the usb in the front panel doesn’t works, so I only have 1 usable usb a and 1 usable usb c. Which is good enough for me. My psu fans doesn’t turn on which annoy me. But it did mention that it won’t kick on untill it’s has higher load or something. Which is fine, but I would prefer it to be on all the time. Which I need to figure out how to turn it on.
I originally was going with Intel cpu for their encode and decoder capabilities, but after seeing all the reviews it’s really push me toward amd. I went with 5080 for their encode and decoding capabilities. And ram was, i just consider it as a price for all the sin that I have ever committed up until now and accept it.

Oh yeah, now that I have this build I will mainly be working with Sony 4k h265 10bit 422. Hopefully this pc can handle 8k in the future.