First off, I'd like to thank everyone that answered all my questions regarding this build. Made things go a lot smoother, and helped me piece together a decent PC. Secondly, I can't believe there's still issues with mobo oem's software, like Asus Aura Sync and RGB in general. I haven't built a new pc in 6-7 years, and figured by now things would have improved, I was wrong lol. Anyways, here's the build.
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x
GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 Superclocked
RAM: 16gb DDR4 3600mhz Corsair Vengeance
MOBO: Asus TUF Gaming x570 Plus
HD1:500gb Samsung Evo 970 nvme
HD2: 2tb Samsung Evo 860 SSD
Case: Phanteks P400A Digital
PSU: Corsair RM650x
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-UH12A CPU cooler
Temps seemed ok playing PUBG, cpu hit 42 C gpu hit 76 C. Not sure how GamerNexus gets 50 C gpu temps during the torture test, I'll have to mess with fan speeds, everything was running factory settings and no fans were running over 1000 rpm.
So the issue with Aura sync is that for some reason it's not recognizing my motherboard, it's greyed out in the software. So I can't manually address the RGB on the mobo, but it works all sync'd with my fans. The next issue I had was my mobo rgb's would stay on when the pc was turned off or in sleep mode. I fixed that by enabling erp s5 in bios and now the rgb's turn off when the pc is shutdown, but still doesn't turn off in sleep mode. I also tried settings in bios specifically for the lighting, setting to turn off Aura when shut down, also didnt work, this is all on latest bios I flashed. I usually keep my pc's in sleep mode, but with the nvme boot up time is minimal so it doesn't matter much.
And finally I'm having issues with my Rift. I'm using the same exact gpu, same 2 camera sensors, and same extension cables I used on my old VR pc. The extension cables are giving me issues where the Oculus software isn't recognizing the headset via HDMI or USB. I plugged it in directly and the software found the headset. On my old VR pc I was using a USB 3.0 pci card, so maybe that was helping things. And finally, when I open the Oculus app it makes my monitor flicker to black, but only one monitor. I have that monitor hooked up with a DP to HDMI cable, my other monitor is hooked up DP adapter to HDMI, so I ordered another DP adapter / HDMI cable to swap out the DP to HDMI cable. Maybe the GPU isn't liking that cable. I thought for sure the Rift setup was going to betrivial since it worked flawlessly on my 7 year old pc for years, but I discovered plenty of quirks lol.
