I see the 3600 is $100 less than the 3700x. Since they're the same clock speed, but two less cores on the 3600, I would think that the 3600 would be the better choice? No streaming at all, so that's not a consideration.
Also, any real reason to go with 32GB of RAM over 16GB? Is 2666 RAM good enough, or so I need to go 3200? Like I said before, only light gaming, Office work and surfing the net.
16gb will be fine for you.
I have a 16gb 3200mhz CL14 kit of gskill flare-x, that's pretty much on the QVL for every ryzen motherboard there is. I'd sell it to you for pretty cheap if you want since I don't have a need for it anymore.
The reason intel generally beats AMD in gaming is latency between the processor and memory. Intel will generally get 30ns, AMD runs in the 60-70ns range. So by speeding up your memory you counter the main hindrance to the AMD platform.
Just remember, if you get into Arch Linux, you have to tell everyone at every possible chance that you use Arch.
Building gaming PC's is one reason I got into IT.
Working in IT is one reason I got out of building gaming PCs and buying an XBox.
/subscribing
I'm too accident prone to ever want to try liquid cooling. One of the guys I used to work with always used to razz me about this, but one day he called in sick. The next day when he returned he was telling me that something failed on his setup having to do with the water cooling and he had to replace some components. Not sure what or how much damage there was, but if something bad could happen, it would happen to me...
Personally I think the huge cooler in mine looks bad a$$. I am looking forward to the smaller cooler on the AMD CPU though. My son has the same one in his system and it's a nifty little cooler.
I'm too accident prone to ever want to try liquid cooling. One of the guys I used to work with always used to razz me about this, but one day he called in sick. The next day when he returned he was telling me that something failed on his setup having to do with the water cooling and he had to replace some components. Not sure what or how much damage there was, but if something bad could happen, it would happen to me...
Personally I think the huge cooler in mine looks bad a$$. I am looking forward to the smaller cooler on the AMD CPU though. My son has the same one in his system and it's a nifty little cooler.