Corsair Carbide mATX refit

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Evening folks,

I want to put some new innards in a Corsair Carbide mATX case and I'm looking for some help. It's for games and graphics, but nothing bleeding edge. I'd like to keep it under £1500, but I'm willing to overspec to gain longevity. The monitor is an existing DELL P2723DE using HDMI through a KVM switch.

It's built in as a stack of two PCs, so there's some extra heat and the airflow is a little bit restricted. Coordinated colours and LEDs will not be visible so it can be a mismatch of styles just as long as it works and I can make the wiring neat (I'll know that it's neat even if it's never seen). The confined space set-up is part of my reason for picking a Ryzen 7700 over Intel or even the 7700X. Please let me know if the stock cooler is bad, I'd like to stick with air-cooling. I think I may have gone a bit over the top with the 750W PSU, will anything use that much?

1 X Asus TUF Gaming B650M-Plus (Socket AM5) DDR5 Micro ATX Motherboard - £205.00
SKU
: MB-6K3-AS

1 X AMD Ryzen 7 7700 Eight Core 5.30GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail - £299.98
SKU
: CP-3DV-AM

1 X Kingston FURY Beast EXPO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KF556C36BBEK2-32) - £119.99
SKU
: MY-29U-KS

1 X Asus GeForce RTX 4060Ti Dual OC 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £329.99
SKU
: GX-49G-AS

1 X Asus TUF Gaming 750W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply - £134.99
SKU
: CA-061-AS

1 X Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive with Heatsink - £189.95
SKU
: STO-KNG-01333

3 X Corsair AF120 ELITE 120mm High-Performance PWM Fan - Black - £11.98
SKU
: FG-086-CS

Total: £1,335.82

Many thanks in advance :)
 
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Fast and forensic, thank you Tetras.

Graphics are only going to be the free stuff, Sketch-up, Studio and GIMP.

I'd rather only install the air-cooler once so yep, peerless assassin or phantom spirit thank you.

PSU stays, ta.

7800X3Done

I confess NVIDIA is probably more of a personal bias. I'll be favouring gaming over design these days so I'd love to hear some more recommendations for this.

Are additional heatsinks needed for M.2 WD SN770 2TB?

Thanks for your time.
 
Thanks freddie64. I'm looking into AMD, but agree a 4070 Super may be a good choice. I'm finding the graphics card forum useful reading, especially the *** GPU Hierarchy *** thread.
 
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