Welcome to PC Building Simulator 2 Update v1.3. In today’s update, we’re expanding our list of AM5 motherboards, teaching water to hold many shapes, introducing more cases, and learning how to swap radiator fans. Additionally, instead of this year’s spring cleaning, we’re skipping into the future with a new free Decorator theme.

First though, before we admire alternate dimension aesthetics or talk about our new Fan tech, it’s time to talk about a long-awaited new partner…

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New Partner: Phanteks

Founded in 2007 by an international team of engineers and designers, Phanteks has established itself as one of the most beloved brands in the hardware enthusiast community, known for some of the most innovative, zero-compromise case designs.

Often requested by players, today we’re happy to welcome their first entries from the Enthoo and Eclipse case series to PC Building Simulator 2.

Decorator Theme: Post Apocalyptic

Envisioning the future but prefer to build computers from the comfort of your own dubious cataclysm shelter? Intent on assembling machines through the rise of the machines? Step in and seal the door on the new post-apocalyptic theme.

Fire up your adequately ventilated diesel generators and power on the security system prepper, we’ve got CPUs to burn in test.

New Feature: Customisable Radiator Fans

Need to keep things cool in a more literal than metaphorical buzz word sense? We’re stepping up the custom water-cooling game with another new feature – customisable radiator fans.

Out with the stock and in with your weapon of choice, players can now remove and replace radiator fans via the custom water-cooling bench.

Quality of Life improvements

Decorator App Improvements

• Added a new drop-down option to filter posters by specific themes.
• Added an “Apply All” button which applies the currently selected style to every option which has the same style available.
• ‘Current highlighted’ button quickly navigates to the currently applied item in focus within the menu.
• Added a scroll bar to improve navigation instead of using pagination.
• Navigation now allows for continuous scrolling through multiple item selections.
• New items now appear at the beginning of the list.

Faulty Parts improvements

• Where relevant, fans on faulty parts are now louder and whine noticeably.
• Where relevant, fans on faulty parts now visibly stutter every so often to indicate a fault.
• Faulty Parts now flicker intermittently if they have LEDs.
• Faulty Parts now show up clearly overheating in the thermal app.
• Thermal App onboarding messages have been updated to reflect the above change.

New Parts

Highlights

Lian Li LANCOOL III RGB

New AM5 Motherboards

Expanded CPU/GPU block options

Full Parts List:

Cases:

• HYTE Y60 Snow White
• HYTE Y40
• Lian Li LANCOOL III
• Lian Li LANCOOL III RGB
• Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 TG
• Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2
• Phanteks Eclipse G500A Performance
• Phanteks Eclipse G500A DRGB
• Phanteks Eclipse G360A DRGB
• Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X Digital Midi

CPUs:

• Intel Core™ i9-13900KS

Liquid Coolers:

• Antec VORTEX 240
• Antec VORTEX 360
• EKWB EK-AIO 120 D-RGB
• EKWB EK-AIO 240 D-RGB
• EKWB EK-AIO 360 D-RGB

Motherboards:

• MSI PRO B650-P WIFI
• MSI MPG B650 EDGE WIFI
• ASROCK B650 PG Lightning

Power Supplies:

• CORSAIR VS Series™ VS500
• CORSAIR VS Series™ VS600

Custom Water cooling:

• EKWB EK-Momentum2 ROG Strix X570-I Gaming D-RGB MonoBlock
• EKWB EK-Quantum Velocity2 D-RGB – 1700 Nickel + Acetal CPUBlock
• EKWB EK-Quantum Velocity2 D-RGB – 1700 Nickel + Plexi CPUBlock
• EKWB EK-Quantum Velocity2 D-RGB – AM4 Nickel + Acetal CPUBlock
• EKWB EK-Quantum Velocity2 D-RGB – AM4 Nickel + Plexi CPUBlock
• EKWB EK-Quantum Vector2 FTW3 RTX 3080-90 ABP Set D-RGB GPUBlock
• EKWB EK-Quantum Vector2 RE RTX 3080-90 D-RGB GPUBlock
• EKWB EK-Quantum Vector2 Strix RTX 3080-90 ABP Set D-RGB GPUBlock

Bug Fixes

General:

• Players can now choose which monitor to display the game on without needing to restart it.
• Added cables to the main desk monitor.
• The music app now scales correctly when viewed on the tablet.
• Adjusted the glass material in the futuristic theme to resolve odd reflections.
• Fixed delivery boxes not updating when lights are turned on/off.
• PC resale values now consider whether the case fans are new or used.
• Custom water cooled motherboards no longer change sizes in their inventory icons.
• Custom cables can no longer be installed in non-modular PSUs.
• Fixed the ATX 24-pin and the 8 pin connector icons in the custom cable app.
• AIO coolers no longer have multiple entries in the power monitor app.
• Items in the shop basket no longer disappear when assigning parts to multiple Spares’N’Repairs PCs.
• Added drop shadow to the OS icon text.
• Futuristic walls now reflect the correct room.
• The Wallpaper app no longer appears in the Add/Remove Programs app.
• Medieval inventory shelves now display correctly in the decorator app.

Parts:

• Corrected positioning of the SilverStone PF Series AIO coolers.
• The NZXT H210i case fan hub can now be connected to the Asus X570i motherboard.
• The fan hub in the Corsair 5000T case is now working.
• Fan alignment corrected on the Alphacool Eisbaer LT 240mm CPU cooler.
• Removed an unnecessary screw on the GIGABYTE Z590 AORUS MASTER motherboard.
• Fixed pipes not correctly pathing around the PCIe slots of the Raijintek ERIS EVO case.
• Fixed broken pin material on the MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT GAMING X TRIO 16G.
• Fixed a broken texture on the Corsair iCUE 220T RGB Airflow case.
• Fixed the displays of NZXT Kraken X73 showing the same data across different systems.
• Fixed the drive bays on the BeQuiet! Dark Base 900 (black) not being removable.
• Altered cable pathing in the Kolink Stronghold case.
• TR4 CPUs can now be installed in the Deepcool QuadStellar case.
• Fixed the location of front fans in the BeQuiet! Pure Base DX case.
• Fixed LEDs on the CoolerMaster Hyper 212 White.
• Pumps can now be correctly cabled in the left pump slot in the Raijintek Enyo case.
• Fixed the selectable area of the MSI MEG Z690 UNIFY X motherboard being the CPU socket when removing the VRM covers.
• Fan cables connected by Auto-Cable in the Fractal Design Torrent case can now be removed.
• High-profile RAM no longer clips into high-profile radiators in the ADATA XPG Battlecruiser case.
• Memory clips realigned on the ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming ITX/ac motherboard.
• Multi GPUs can now connect to the PSU in the Endorfy Regnum 400 ARGB case.

Onboarding:

• The Email app is no longer available in between buying the first Spares’N’Repairs PC and working on the PC.

Localisation:

• Updated Russian localisation.