Just bought this new 3080 PC - Did I rush or should it be pretty decent?

James Harrison · 18 Sep 2020 at 08:48

So really wanted a new gaming 3080 pc yesterday and finally found one online which was not on a slow or crashing website
However now that I have bought it, I'm worrying if i made a good choice or not as Im pretty new to when it comes to whats good in a system and whats not.
Just a bit worried i could have got better if I had waited and not rushed just to get one

It was a couple hundred less than the system i originally had my eye

These are the specs:
Description :

3rd Gen AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8Ghz Twelve-Core Processor

Manufacturer :

AMD

No. of Cores :

12

MEMORY
Description :

16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit

Speed :

3200

GB :

16GB

HARDDRIVE
Description :

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVME M.2 SSD (up to 3500MB/s R | 2300MB/s W)

Description :

Seagate BarraCuda 2TB Desktop Hard Drive

Interface :

M.2

GRAPHICS
Description :

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB Graphics Card

POWER SUPPLY
Description :

CORSAIR RM Series RM750 80 PLUS Gold Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Wattage / Rating :

750W, 80 Plus Gold, Fully Modular

MOTHERBOARD
Description :

Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro AMD AM4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard

COOLING
Description :

Corsair iCUE H100i RGB PRO XT Liquid CPU Cooler

WIRELESS CARD
Description :

TP-LINK Archer T6E AC1300 Dual Band Wireless PCI Express Adapter

LIGHTING
Description :

3x Corsair LL120 RGB 120mm Dual Light Loop RGB LED PWM Fan

Other than that there wasn't more info like soundcard or ports etc.
As long as this sounds like it should run new games at 1440p on ultra with great framerate, should be ok but just wanted to ask those with more experience in gaming builds.

Ideally i wanted 32gb ram and another ssd but i imagine these things are easy to add and install afterwards

chroniclard · 18 Sep 2020 at 08:52

Is fine, will smash 1440p.

orbitalwalsh · 18 Sep 2020 at 08:56

Will be fine !

Personally would swap out HDD for larger SSD as you can always had in HDD for pennies later !

Board fine, CPU fine. Could even drop to 3700x to save cash !

Did the site not sell x570 Aorus ultra as that has WiFi built in and prob save a bit instead of having add in WiFi card etc

James Harrison · 18 Sep 2020 at 09:11

Thanks for the info guys
I guess even for 4k down the road this will still be decent?

Unfortunately you couldn't reconfigure the builds on the site so not sure if they had the x570

Shaolin Chicken · 18 Sep 2020 at 14:08

Nice spec, don't like to ask, but how much did you get it for?

James Harrison · 18 Sep 2020 at 14:29

Shaolin Chicken said:
Nice spec, don't like to ask, but how much did you get it for?

£2.3k - probably overpaid but then prebuilds you always do

lee32uk · 18 Sep 2020 at 14:49

Nothing wrong with the actual parts list. You could have gone with some cheaper alternatives if self building, but if you needed it quick then it is fine

James Harrison · 18 Sep 2020 at 14:56

lee32uk said:
Nothing wrong with the actual parts list. You could have gone with some cheaper alternatives if self building, but if you needed it quick then it is fine

Good to know

freddie64 · 20 Sep 2020 at 08:45

This is your parts list from OCUK (didn't know what GPU you are getting).

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard= £259.99
1 x AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Twelve Core 4.6GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £475.00
1 x Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit= £89.99
1 x Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £95.99
1 x Seagate 2TB Barracuda 7200RPM 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM008)= £54.95
1 x Corsair RM Series RM750 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020195-UK)= £99.95
1 x Corsair Hydro Series iCUE H100i PRO XT RGB Performance Liquid Cooler - 240mm (CW-9060043-WW)= £119.99
1 x TP-Link Archer T6E Dual-Band Wireless AC1300 PCI-E Adapter= £39.95
1 x Corsair LL120 RGB, 120mm Dual Light Loop RGB LED PWM Fan, 3 Fan Pack with Lighting Node PRO= £92.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 Eagle OC 10GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card= £689.99

Total: £2,029.89 (includes shipping: £11.10)

Once you add in price of Windows and build cost, it will be about the same as what you paid.

EDIT

Forgot the price of the case to add to this total.