Building an AMD-based PC

It’s time to retire my 10.5-year-old desktop PC, which isn’t able to run Windows 11.

Much as I hate to abandon a company that has been passionate about DEI, I think it is time to switch to the AMD side (way better for gaming, which I’m not allowed to do; somewhat better for productivity).

Workload:

• Adobe Premiere (not very frequently)
• photo editing
• training some AI models (if nothing else, I want to train and run a local AI model for photo library search)
• general Web browsing
• Zoom and Teams for work
• Microsoft Office

Dreams:

• 16 TB M.2 SSD (nobody seems to make this and thus the build below is what I think is the best 8 TB)
• as many USC-C ports as possible (3 on the back and 1 on the front seems to be the limit; ASR LiveMixer motherboard below was picked to get beyond the standard 2 on the back)
• reasonably compact case (currently have a Fractal Design Define 7 that is quiet, but absurdly huge)
• quiet
• built-in UPS that can handle outages of up to 30 seconds (typical Florida power outage is just a few seconds; I guess a 1-minute supply would be necessary to allow the machine to shut down gracefully if power is still out after 30 seconds; nobody makes this because consumers see that they can get 30 minutes out of an inexpensive desk-cluttering standard external UPS?)
• built-in CD/DVD reader (will give up for compactness and plug in via USB-C)
• built-in reader for SD and CFExpress cards (these don’t seem to exist either for 5.25″ or 3.5″ slots; there are some cheap/old readers that fit into 5.25″ slots that read old CF cards, but not CFExpress?)

Here’s my proposed build, with no case:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 4.3 GHz 16-Core Processor ($671.99 @ Amazon)
• CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition 42 CFM CPU Cooler ($29.99 @ Amazon)
• Motherboard: ASRock X870 LiveMixer WiFi ATX AM5 Motherboard ($229.99 @ Amazon)
• Memory: Corsair Vengeance 128 GB (2 x 64 GB) DDR5-6400 CL42 Memory ($359.99 @ Amazon)
• Storage: Samsung 9100 PRO 8 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
• Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 24 TB 3.5″ 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive ($249.99 @ Newegg)
• Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 24 TB 3.5″ 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive ($249.99 @ Newegg)
• Video Card: Asus PRIME GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB Video Card ($999.99 @ Amazon)
• Power Supply: Corsair HX1000i (2023) 1000 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($239.99 @ Newegg)
• Monitor: Samsung Odyssey Neo G95NC 57.0″ 7680 x 2160 240 Hz Curved Monitor ($1499.99 @ Abt)
• Total: $4531.91

Questions:

• what is the best case? It would be nice if it can hold one or two addition 3.5″ drives (maybe just move a couple from my old PC), but this isn’t essential
• do I want the heat sink on the Samsung 8 TB M.2 SSD? It’s almost free and yet they sell the device with and without the heat sink (for mechanical fit?)
• what is the right video card to get? I think RTX 5080 is what I want and I think that it will drive the crazy huge double-4K monitor, but I have no idea which brand video card makes sense (the ASUS was picked due to being reasonably cheap and available)
• is the motherboard pick the right one? I might want to add a second M.2 drive some day. I can live with a max of 256 GB of RAM, I think
• any other improvements?