The rest of the items are ordered. Going to be great building my own rig again.

Looking forward to your progress.

Today the second piece of the puzzle arrived. A Lian Li Lancool II Mesh case.

Full viewing windows Left and right, doors on hinges with magnetic locks, Left and right panels for access to the power supply compartment, full support for 2 bottom fan 120 mm air intakes to blow fresh air onto the CPU, 1 bottom panel is meshed also, similar to the one in the picture but meshed for air intake for the GPU cooling fans, 2 x 140 mm front intake 120 mm back exhaust, full support for radiators or more fans, full rear cable management system trays, etc...

Looks like it will be a pleasure working with this case. The picture does not do it justice.

Manufacturers web site 

Nice!  I also moved from GPU and CPU from my R10 into a Lancool II Mesh performance case.  It was my first time building a PC from scratch and I was nervous about it but it turned out great.  Cable management was a breeze!

I decided to use a Arctic liquid freezer II 240 AIO up top instead.  My ryzen 3700x maxes at 62c at load.  I"m sure noctua cooler will do great!

Enjoy!

I have used AIO for the past +10 years, but I decided to go with air cooling because I am not planning on overclocking this setup.

If I ever upgrade the CPU I can always put a 240 AIO Galahad in there. I almost put that in there, but I am not a big fan of RGB fans.

Yeah the noctua cooler should be plenty fine.  I plan to upgrade my CPU to a 5800x/5900x in the near future and I know they run hot so that's why I went with an AIO.

Personally I"m not a big on RGB fans either and it also means extra cables.  What I like about the liquid freezer II is that it only has a single cable to connect (to CPU fan header).

The remainder of the parts arrived today. After I dug myself out of the snow, the building can commence.

I am thinking I will use a 2 step approach.

First build everything up in the new case, move CPU, ram and GPU at a later time.

Looks awesome! I am also in the process of moving my Aurora R12 components into a Fractal Meshify 2 Compact. Trying to reuse as much as I can, but we will see how it goes. The Alienware AIO may not work but I have a backup Corsair i60 just in case.

Well, if all goes well tomorrow is CPU and GPU time, with a bit of memory thrown into the mix.

After that, hopefully no smoke!

@Vanadiel Good luck!  Very interested to see how this goes.  I'm following.