Adamant Custom 16-Core Liquid Cooled Gaming PC Ryzen 9 9950X 64GB DDR5 1TB NVMe 10TB HDD RTX 5060

16-Core Liquid-Cooled Desktop

The Adamant Custom tower pairs a 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X processor with a 360 mm liquid cooler and 64 GB of DDR5 memory. It ships with Windows 11 Pro, a 1 TB NVMe boot drive and a 10 TB hard drive for bulk storage. The GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card delivers 8 GB of video memory for 1440p gaming and creative workloads.

Upgrading from air-cooled 8-core systems

Builders moving from an 8-core air-cooled rig gain double the core count and sustained boost clocks thanks to the liquid loop. The jump is worth it when rendering, compiling or streaming while gaming pushes the previous CPU past its thermal ceiling. The 850 W Bronze power supply and X870 motherboard also leave headroom for future GPU upgrades.

Limits of the PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe interface

The Samsung 990 PRO reaches sequential reads of 7450 MB/s and writes of 6900 MB/s, which saturates the PCIe 4.0 x4 link. Workloads that demand higher sustained throughput — such as uncompressed 8K video capture — will hit this ceiling. The board provides four M.2 slots, but only the primary slot runs at full x4 speed from the CPU.