That's strange considering most games do not put a full load on your system, especially not the CPU. Doom Eternal, in particular, has both low GPU and CPU usage. So I'm having trouble seeing how you got your full load. How did you measure? MSI Afterburner + Riva Statistics Server for OSD is good for this.
BTW: Death metal is a particular genre, and Doom's soundtrack is not it. This crap is death metal: https://youtu.be/482tDopNzoc?t=69
No, but the author is obviously not a hardware person. And anecdotes about perceived loudness does not contest reality. It's why we use dBA and temperatures as benchmarks.
Why? Do you for some reason assume that the author is an expert on hardware and authority on picking the best, most compatible parts?
Do you not have your own specific requirements and use cases? It is better you do some research on your own end and learn to pick the parts that will best work for you.
Ryzen CPUs run hot, the stock cooler is garbage.
The tower is not silenced, and with the stock cooler you will have a lot of fan noise both from the CPU fan and chassis fans.
Ryzen 3900 is a much better choice than the 3600, especially for CPU intensive work like compilation.
The M2 disk is on the slow end.
The motherboard supports 128 GB RAM, but now all 4 DIMM sockets are used for 64 GB. You should go with 2x32 GB, in case you have a need for more RAM later on.
There are more issues here, but those are the worst.
> I wrote a configuration.ni x file describing my ideal Linux install once and I've been using it largely unchanged for years.
I use custom install and configuration scripts for various Linux distros and Windows installs, this is not a feature unique to NixOS, just a different implementation. I use a shell script for Linux and a PowerShell script for Windows.
BTW: Death metal is a particular genre, and Doom's soundtrack is not it. This crap is death metal: https://youtu.be/482tDopNzoc?t=69