New build advice - quiet and VR/1440p ready for <£2k?

Skullfish

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Hi all,

I've not touched the internals of my PC for at least 6 years, and there's some 10 year old bits in there. Time to sack it off and get something entirely new.

I've got around £2k to spend, to include Win10 pro and a 1440p monitor. I've avoided any game newer than Fallout 4 due to the age of my current machine, but I'd be looking to get something relatively future proof that'll support VR (Rift S?) and play upcoming titles like Cyberpunk, as well as current favourites like Elite and shiny new FPS and RTS titles without screaming like a banshee. I'll also potentially need a secondary drive to store about 2TB of photos.

Any advice?
Cheers
Skully
 
Hey Skullfish,

Just a start but i put this together,

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,374.63 (includes shipping: £11.70)​
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Should be great for 1440p gaming and future proof for upcoming titles aswell.
 
Skullfish said:
Cheers all. Is 16gb RAM sufficient? I've lost all idea of where the choke-point in a home system would be.
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It's more than enough for gaming needs. Unless you start adding mods in certain games.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,021.83 (includes shipping: £28.02)
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This will be quiet when you tune the case fans and GPU fans (undervolt the GPU even better). The CPU cooler will be quiet even maxed (140mm fan only about 1000 RPM).

You could save a bunch and reach for a 2080 Super, by getting Win 10 Pro on the cheap.

The Display Port cable is for that particular monitor which doesn't come with one, to enable Freesync on Nvidia cards. I received that monitor last week and love it. Out of the box the reds and greens were a tad oversaturated, and just reducing Colour Vibrance down by 1 was perfect for my taste, as well as adjusting Brightness to your liking (or using BI and letting the monitor adjust brightness automatically depending on what's being displayed and the amount of ambient light). The remote is very handy to quickly test whether an app/game has good HDR or not. Click on/click off, no messing about with monitor buttons or joystick. The speakers, including subwoofer, are pretty impressive for a monitor. The quality of the panel and its coating (not grainy in the least) is impressive. The cons are ergonomical: no pivot or rotate, and no height adjustment. Has enough tilt to make up for lack of height adjustment. Sturdy thing.

3800X v 3700X not much difference, except there's only £20 difference just now so might as well get 3800X.
 
I would suggest the Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Gaming OC if going with an Nvidia gpu. It is £10 more than the windforce version, but you get 4 years warranty instead of 3.

I would also go with this Seasonic Prime Ultra Snow Silent for a bit extra. Probably one of the best value units at the moment for a 650W.

Alternative motherboard if you don't need wifi and some cheaper ram which you can easily overclock with ryzen dram calculator.

The 3700X is currently £30 cheaper than the 3800X. You can claim 1 free game with the 3700X and two with the 3800X so if you are not interested in the games then maybe save the cash and opt for the 3700X.

https://www.amd.com/en/gaming/equipped-to-win



My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,019.66 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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With the Pro Carbon you get a second M.2 slot as well as mid-board USB Type C for the case front panel IO. Also a Digital (Addressable) RGB header if you have any plans for that. If you don't need that, or Wifi, then the Tomahawk MAX is fine. Good shout on the 2070 Super Gaming OC with extra warranty, didn't spot that one so close in price.
 
This is similar to what I’m about to build. Could you guys take a quick look over the following and let me know if there are any glaring errors/anything missing?

Ryzen 3700x
MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max
Be Quiet Dark Rock Slim
Team Group T-Force Dark Z 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3600
Corsair RM650x
Gigabyte RTX2070 Super Gaming OC 3X
Samsung 970 Evo 500GB NVMe
Crucial MX500 1TB SSD
Define R6 Black Tower

EDIT: should mention I’m going for 1440p and currently looking at the LG 27GL850-B or ASUS PG279Q.
 
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timebomb26 said:
This is similar to what I’m about to build. Could you guys take a quick look over the following and let me know if there are any glaring errors/anything missing?

Ryzen 3700x
MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max
Be Quiet Dark Rock Slim
Team Group T-Force Dark Z 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3600
Corsair RM650x
Gigabyte RTX2070 Super Gaming OC 3X
Samsung 970 Evo 500GB NVMe
Crucial MX500 1TB SSD
Define R6 Black Tower

EDIT: should mention I’m going for 1440p and currently looking at the LG 27GL850-B or ASUS PG279Q.
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All good if you are going for the Define R6 with no USB Type C port instead of the Define R6 USB Type C version. If the latter, you wouldn't be able to connect it to the Gaming Plus MAX (no Type C at all) or Tomahawk MAX (Type C only at the back). You'd need Pro Carbon.

Gaming Plus MAX v Tomahawk: from what I've heard the VRM cooling on the Tomahawk is slightly better.
 
Danny75 said:
All good if you are going for the Define R6 with no USB Type C port instead of the Define R6 USB Type C version. If the latter, you wouldn't be able to connect it to the Gaming Plus MAX (no Type C at all) or Tomahawk MAX (Type C only at the back). You'd need Pro Carbon.

Gaming Plus MAX v Tomahawk: from what I've heard the VRM cooling on the Tomahawk is slightly better.
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Thanks mate. It’s the former, not USB version of the case.

The place I’m buying the parts from (I’m not UK based) doesn’t have the MSI Tomahawk board in stock. They’re giving me a discount based on buying everything with them. Given this, would it be worth going elsewhere for the tomahawk?

The board specifications also say it supports ram speeds up to 4133, but then doesn’t specially list 3600. It does list 3200 though. Should I be going for one of these kits instead? So many different variations on offer, it’s hard to narrow it down!
 
timebomb26 said:
Thanks mate. It’s the former, not USB version of the case.

The place I’m buying the parts from (I’m not UK based) doesn’t have the MSI Tomahawk board in stock. They’re giving me a discount based on buying everything with them. Given this, would it be worth going elsewhere for the tomahawk?

The board specifications also say it supports ram speeds up to 4133, but then doesn’t specially list 3600. It does list 3200 though. Should I be going for one of these kits instead? So many different variations on offer, it’s hard to narrow it down!
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Gaming Plus will be fine then. Can always stick a top fan above the VRMs if needed, don't think it will. 3600 will be part of the supported memory overclocks in the BIOS.
 
Danny75 said:
Gaming Plus will be fine then. Can always stick a top fan above the VRMs if needed, don't think it will. 3600 will be part of the supported memory overclocks in the BIOS.
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Thanks, that's very helpful. Time to buy myself my first Christmas present in about 10 years!
 
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