Blue SN5000

You can probably buy RTX 4070 for decent price only second hand . Still good choice of GPU if you find it for the right price . You want SSD for boot drive that isnt QLC but TLC , TLC SSDs last longer, on paper at least .Kingston NV3 have both QLC and TLC variants . Try checking the price of Western

How do you know it's SSD-related? The WD Blue SN5000 4 TB is a fast drive, even though it uses SLC NAND, and it's not like I'm using a ton of disk IO for other stuff simultaneously. The other guy said he had a Samsung 990 PRO which is just about the best quality NVMe SSD that you can get these days.

PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor $799.99 CPU Cooler Thermalright Frozen Notte ARGB 72.37 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $82.09 @ Amazon Canada Motherboard Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX ATX AM5 Motherboard $0.00 Memory TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan 32 GB (2 x 16 GB)

There is no reason to use separate drives; a single 2 TB NVMe SSD can handle everything. The NV3 often uses QLC flash, which has low durability and becomes noticeably slower after a few years. Get a better drive with TLC flash like the TeamGroup MP33 Pro, Kingston KC3000/Renegade Fury, WD Blue SN500