New gaming build around 2k

Monkey00

Monkey00

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Howdy partners,

My current PC is coming up to the grand old age of 5 and the missus is asking for something to both work on and use for media so it's getting handed down. This leaves my in the fantastic position of getting something new.

Budget wise I am looking at maybe 2kish for the entire build, I was thinking 5800 and a 3070 or 3080. While I'm currently playing on a 1440 144hz GSync monitor I'd like to future proof to some extent. I appreciate the AMD cards are an option but because of GSync I'm feeling nvidia might be the way to go, happy to be corrected on this.

With all the new stuff coming out recently and the fact I don't keep up with tech I really don't want to go wrong while spending so much so I really appreciate any guidance people can give. I also know I might have a bit of a wait on my hands I'd just like to get orders in etc.

Thanks very much.
 
It's an Acer predator 27inch 1440 144hz of some sort. I can't remember the model number, sorry if this isn't enough info I can definitely dig out more if it helps.
 
If you do drop a 4k monitor it will squeeze your budget a fair bit. For me it was a big upgrade moving from 1440 (to Predator 32 inch IPS GSync), more so than going top end on pc components. Good time to buy a really futureproof system with all this latest tech landing!
 
My budget has some flexibility in it and I'm not thinking about 4k for the next 12 months at the least, right now my focus is being able to hit 144 at 1440 with some consistency. As I've got older I find myself playing more single player games and dropping frames in RDR2 and I imagine seeing similar in things like Cyberpunk is what I want to avoid.

Thanks for all the input so far!
 
Stick with the monitor you have and take advantage of gsync, get a 3080/3070 if you can.

Will you be taking anything from your old pc and Do you need Wi-Fi ?
 
Here is just one option there is scope in your budget to adjust things to tour wants. You could also drop the water cooler for a £50 air cooler or less. The 360 mm cooler you would have to fit in the front of the csse

CODE My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,868.70 (includes shipping: £15.90)
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Just out of interest, how much performance would I lose going to a 5600 with a 3070? I believe it would save a large chunk of change so I wanted to make sure that I'm gaining a similar amount of performance.
 
I've got the 5800x on my wishlist, but having watched GamersNexus the 5600x gives roughly the same performance figures for gaming. The extra cores in the 5800x may come useful in a few years time, depends how the gaming industry develops I guess.
 
Boxfreshchris said:
I've got the 5800x on my wishlist, but having watched GamersNexus the 5600x gives roughly the same performance figures for gaming. The extra cores in the 5800x may come useful in a few years time, depends how the gaming industry develops I guess.
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I saw exactly the same thing! Thought it might be worth asking the question.

So I've come up with the following which may stretch my budget a little more but wanted to know if anyone had any thoughts.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,211.45 (includes shipping: £14.70)​
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Thanks again guys.
 
Looks good.

You can get windows keys for £10 and j7st download windows and put it in a usb drive. There are many guides online

You done need a £160 water cooler you could save money with alternatives or air coolers.
 
mickyflinn said:
Looks good.

You can get windows keys for £10 and j7st download windows and put it in a usb drive. There are many guides online

You done need a £160 water cooler you could save money with alternatives or air coolers.
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I didn't know that about the Windows key, I'll look into it as that would be a nice chunk taken off it.

I heard the 3rd gen AMDs run hot so I didn't want to risk anything in regards the cooler, would the one from your first post still serve well with the 5900?

Also, is the motherboard still okay with the upgrade to 5900? I don't want to potentially be bottle necking anywhere. I've heard that getting the 570s to work with 3rd gen can be awkward so I thought I'd stick with the original suggestion.

Cheers again.
 
Monkey00 said:
I didn't know that about the Windows key, I'll look into it as that would be a nice chunk taken off it.

I heard the 3rd gen AMDs run hot so I didn't want to risk anything in regards the cooler, would the one from your first post still serve well with the 5900?

Also, is the motherboard still okay with the upgrade to 5900? I don't want to potentially be bottle necking anywhere. I've heard that getting the 570s to work with 3rd gen can be awkward so I thought I'd stick with the original suggestion.

Cheers again.
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Both coolers will serve you well it's entirley up to you.

The motherboard is s b550 and will work perfectly as will x570 motherboards they just need a bios update.

Here is a video showing how to.


Good luck with your build
 
mickyflinn said:
Both coolers will serve you well it's entirley up to you.

The motherboard is s b550 and will work perfectly as will x570 motherboards they just need a bios update.

Here is a video showing how to.

Good luck with your build
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Brilliant, thanks very much for all the help, really appreciate it!
 
Monkey00 said:
I heard the 3rd gen AMDs run hot so I didn't want to risk anything in regards the cooler, would the one from your first post still serve well with the 5900?

Also, is the motherboard still okay with the upgrade to 5900? I don't want to potentially be bottle necking anywhere.
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B550 Tomahawk has overkill VRM for any AM4 CPU.


Easily rising core temperatures come from actual CPU cores being very small on modern manufacturing nodes increasing heat output per square millimeter of those.
Hence it's harder to get heat conducted out from them.

And average waterpipe cooler isn't any better in continuous cooling per noise than high end heatpipe cooler.
In fact very few can beat top heatpipe coolers, simply because of not having especially much surface area for dissipating heat into air.
Water can absorpt only short term load spikes before temps rise and in long term all heat must be dissipated into air.
Which needs surface area.

And brand hype Corsair uses precisely standard slim radiators, unlike cheaper Arctic, whose radiator is 50% thicker and actually beefy with lots of heat dissipating power.
 
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