New PC Build input needed

[Nocturne_sa]

Hi all. My current system is over 10 years old so looking to get a new build which would hopefully last me for another 10 ! Mainly for gaming and ideally future proofing it as much as possible. I've got a 43 inch ultra wide monitor (3840x1200).

Will be using my current GPU (1080ti) and power supply (Corsair TX 650W ATX CMPSU-650TXUK)

MB: MSI M570 Tomahawk Wifi

RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3600MH (can't decided on whether to go for 3600 or 3200MH so any advice will be much appreciated.

CPU: Ryzen 5600x

COOLER: Corsair Hydro H60

SDD: Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 228

CASE: Corsair iCUE 220T RGB Airflow, Tempered Glass Mid-Tower ATX

Not wanting to spend more than £850 on the above parts.

Is the spec appropriate or requires tweaking? Any input would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[mickyflinn]

3600 mhz is the sweet spot for 5000 series cpu but here isnt much diffrence in performance if you drop to 3200mhz, just get the best value.

Overall your good to go

 

[Nocturne_sa]

3600 mhz is the sweet spot for 5000 series cpu but here isnt much diffrence in performance if you drop to 3200mhz, just get the best value.

Overall your good to go

Thanks for your input, much appreciated

 

[EsaT]

Six core CPU won't cut it in long run with new consoles bringing 8 core as mainstream base level for game developers to use in future.
So plan upgrading that in couple years.

MSI X570 Tomahawk is certainly excellent board.
But if you're only going to have one PCIe card (graphics card) and only basic amount of drives also B550 boards would do.

RGB stands for Ridiculously Grossly Bloated overpriced in most things, including that memory:
It costs 33% more than faster latency non-RGB memory.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patr...dual-channel-kit-pvs432g360c8k-my-107-pa.html
So if wanting to future proof performance as much as possible for limited budget forget RGB.

And what I can certainly say is because of numerous degradation/wear mechanism that waterpipe cooler isn't going to last that long except with very small propability.
Also with such small radiator it gets beaten by lot cheaper heatpipe coolers in continuous cooling per noise.
It simply doesn't have that much of area for dissipating heat into air, while quite high end heatpipe coolers can be gotten for below £50.
With cheap and easy to replace fan being only wearing part in them.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/alpenfohn-brocken-3-cpu-cooler-140mm-hs-05a-al.html

Rocket Q isn't cheap enough for race to the bottom QLC Flash, whose native write speed withotu buffering is worser than in HDDs.
Black-blue normal Sabrent Rocket is lot better with only £10 more price for TLC Flash.

 

[Nocturne_sa]

Six core CPU won't cut it in long run with new consoles bringing 8 core as mainstream base level for game developers to use in future.
So plan upgrading that in couple years.

MSI X570 Tomahawk is certainly excellent board.
But if you're only going to have one PCIe card (graphics card) and only basic amount of drives also B550 boards would do.

RGB stands for Ridiculously Grossly Bloated overpriced in most things, including that memory:
It costs 33% more than faster latency non-RGB memory.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patr...dual-channel-kit-pvs432g360c8k-my-107-pa.html
So if wanting to future proof performance as much as possible for limited budget forget RGB.

And what I can certainly say is because of numerous degradation/wear mechanism that waterpipe cooler isn't going to last that long except with very small propability.
Also with such small radiator it gets beaten by lot cheaper heatpipe coolers in continuous cooling per noise.
It simply doesn't have that much of area for dissipating heat into air, while quite high end heatpipe coolers can be gotten for below £50.
With cheap and easy to replace fan being only wearing part in them.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/alpenfohn-brocken-3-cpu-cooler-140mm-hs-05a-al.html

Rocket Q isn't cheap enough for race to the bottom QLC Flash, whose native write speed withotu buffering is worser than in HDDs.
Black-blue normal Sabrent Rocket is lot better with only £10 more price for TLC Flash.

Thanks for the detailed response, a few points for me to consider. I possibly need to look into getting a B550 and non-RGB ram and use the savings to upgrade to a 5800x or even a 5900x.

 

[EsaT]

Six core would do fine in most games for couple years.
After that game developers probably start designing more games to work optimally with that 8 cores of new consoles.
Though heavier PC games could start pushing that sooner.
But monitor's refresh rate is one requirement limit for CPU.
So if you have some 60 or 75Hz monitor, that can keep lower core count CPU as non-bottleneck for longer time.

 

[Nocturne_sa]

Six core would do fine in most games for couple years.
After that game developers probably start designing more games to work optimally with that 8 cores of new consoles.
Though heavier PC games could start pushing that sooner.
But monitor's refresh rate is one requirement limit for CPU.
So if you have some 60 or 75Hz monitor, that can keep lower core count CPU as non-bottleneck for longer time.

Thanks. My monitor is 120Hz 3840x1200

 

[EsaT]

That's only 55% of pixels of 4K monitor.
So new GPUs of the coming years can certainly put bottleneck pretty evenly between it and CPU in some games.
8 core would be pretty sure to stay good for long time, if you don't keep much of backgrounds stuff open.
Of course 12 core would handle those along with any game and is certainly the most future proof CPU without upgrades on that side.