Upgrade or start fresh?

NiaNova said:
Hi sorry, Could have your advice on this one, i forgot I added this one, If i'm patient I will be able to up the budget, as I had no idea what I was added I had copied a build from a pc builder site.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,717.15 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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Is this worth the extra?
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Get 3200MHz C16 32GB RAM.

Increase the NVME M.2 SSD to 500GB at least.

Ditch Raijintek liquid cooling, they have an awful track record.

You're overpaying for Corsair TX. It's one of their mid-range PSUs, there are several better PSUs at lower price and with more warranty. 650W is more than plenty by the way.

You can save money on Windows if you buy a cheap key. You can download Windows from Microsoft's website, onto 8GB minimum USB flash drive and install from there.

You're overspending on the hard drive because it's a 2.5" model. There are cheaper 3.5" models which will fit in the case.

Onboard wifi speeds v separate adapter speeds depends on the actual hardware. Some onboard is faster than some adapters, and vice versa. You can find Gigabyte GC-WB1733D-I PCIe expansion card for £25 with max speed of 1733 Mbps. That Asus will only give you 400 Mbps extra (2100 Mbps) but at three times the cost. I would suggest the Gigabyte card or a motherboard with good onboard, would be plenty for your needs.

5700 XT is only a handful of fps away from 2070 Super, in general. And more value for money.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,311.13 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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+ Gigabyte GC-WB1733D-I PCIe expansion card
+ cheap Windows 10 Pro key

£400 cheaper - larger SSD, better PSU, better RAM. About same graphics performance. I picked out a cooler that's plenty for 3700X and at 149mm it fits inside the case you chose. Be careful with cooler clearance for that case if you change cooler as it's only 155mm max cooler height. Personally I'd change the case to one with slightly more clearance and better airflow.

If you wanted Nvidia 2070 Super anyway, I'd go with:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,040.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Zotac 5 years warranty if you register. And that Gigabyte 4 years if you register.
 
NiaNova said:
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Unless you'll be upgrading CPU to 12/16 core expensive X570 boards makes little sense.
Those have also active chipset cooler with fan as minus and while Asus now has good CPU power circuitry, chipset cooler design is from 15 years ago and badly positioned and relies entirely on fan running always.
Which isn't good if you want worry free cooling.
At least in Gigabytes better positioned chipset cooler with lot larger heatsink can work semi-passively saving fan life.

MSI B450 Tomahawk would be perfect for only 3700X.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-b450-tomahawk-max-socket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-33t-ms.html
B450 Carbon would also have built in Wifi.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ocket-am4-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-33s-ms.html


Wouldn't touch such cheapo AIOs except with blunt instrument, if you care about reliability.
Even high quality ones have way more degradation/wear mechanisms than heatpipe coolers.
Neither is continuous cooling per noise performance of such mediocrities at hyped level.
(small slim rads don't have excess of surface area)


At that price level you should be aiming for 1TB of SSD space to minimize need for old "spinning rust".
Just Wintoys10+Modern Warfare would reserve that whole tiny drive.


And in graphics cards you won't be getting any future proofness no matter how much you pay.
In case of Nvidia you're just paying for lot worser performance per money the higher you go.
Pricing per performance and future proofness has never before been this bad.
 
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