new build - 5950x/3070ti/32GB ram

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i have a bunch of drives (sata/spinners) so looking for a board with at least 6 sata ports and 2 m.2 ports for new 1x 1TB 980 pro from samsung and 1x 1TB at least 3500MB/sec.

pre builds i've seen are about £2k, i'm curious how much it would cost

oh, and i'd need a copy of win 11 home.

thanks.

p.s, the last pc i built was a 3570k based pc back in 2013. how different are things now?
 
This Mobo served my needs

 
As long as you get one of the midrange boards it shouldn't be too difficult to get 6 SATA and 2 M.2, but for B550 the second M.2 port will be PCI-E 3.0, so unless you're content with something like the 970 Evo Plus (a high-end PCI-E 3.0 drive) you'll be needing X570. Similarly, use of the second M.2, may disable 2 of the SATA ports.

As far as I know, the B550 Tomahawk only disables a PCI-E expansion slot when 2x M.2 are used, not a SATA port.

The second SSD sounds like you'll consider it too slow, but it is fairly cheap compared to PCI-E 4.0 drive and the board only supports PCI-E 3.0 there anyway.

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Sixteen Core 4.9GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail - £548.99
MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard - £149.99
Kingston Fury Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit - £139.99
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Ventus 3X OC 8GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card - £659.99

Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive - £139.99
WD Blue SN570 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T3B0C) - £79.99

Lian-Li GALAHAD AIO 240mm High Performance RGB CPU Water Cooler - White - £129.95
Lian Li Lancool 205 Midi-Tower Case - White Window - £64.99
Phanteks AMP 850W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - £114.95

Microsoft Windows 11 Home 64-Bit DVD - OEM (KW9-00632) - £106.99

Grand Total: £2,149.02

Not much has changed with the building process, except AIOs and RGB, I guess.
 
ah thanks. i'll poke about a bit more and see if it makes sense to build it myself or whether or not to get a prebuilt.

ta
 
No do not buy blindly. Wait for the release and see what the reviews are like.

If you got an AM4 X370 mobo with a R5 1600 and upgraded to a 5800x 5 years later then that was a superb investment. Possibility of AM5 having similar longevity so wait 3 weeks and see what the numbers are like.
 
it'll cost more but it also offers longevity.
It should but we're also making a lot of assumptions. Remember bios updates not fitting on original am4 boards and we're also assuming the motherboard manufacturers will actual updating the bios (it's not in their financial interest to do so)....

I'd still wait though as others have said but I wouldn't necessarily say jumping onto a first gen release is a good idea.


As to the OP spec wise... I basically did what they're planning a couple of months back albeit twice the ram and no gpu (waiting on 4 series).... I was going to wait but I wanted a 'stable' platform and figured I'd jump on at second gen, or switch to intel if needed in a year or two.

In my case I went 5950x, MSI Mortar b550 matx Wifi, it has 2nvme, 1 gen4, 1 gen3 - I've got 2x 2tb firecuda 530 in them, honestly outside of benchmarks I can't tell the difference and even in benchmarks the only difference is in the sequential (it's half on the gen 3), the other ones are pretty much the same.

I didn't see a need for a 570 and I prefer matx for when I repurpose a rig. It has the 6 sata ports (in my case they're ssd's) but they work fine lol

Can I build my setup for £2000 (adjusted accordingly), in all honesty no, I've got £300 in just the fans in my o11....could I build a rig for under 2000, probably but it wouldn't be by much imo.
 
video encoding, some photomatix work etc.
Question, do you need a new pc now? Is this for work?

You could build a very cheap AM4 setup using some second hand parts. DDR4 is cheap at the moment too.

You CAN wait but if you have to have a pc for use now then it’s ok buying now.
 
Question, do you need a new pc now? Is this for work?

You could build a very cheap AM4 setup using some second hand parts. DDR4 is cheap at the moment too.

You CAN wait but if you have to have a pc for use now then it’s ok buying now.
not for work, for home. just fed up with my old 3570k and no gpu (popped during covid). i'll get one by the end of the year i think.

not sure if prices historically go up closer to xmas or not.
 
not for work, for home. just fed up with my old 3570k and no gpu (popped during covid). i'll get one by the end of the year i think.

not sure if prices historically go up closer to xmas or not.
Um why not get a secondhand GPU now to tide you over?

They are dirt cheap thanks to the mining bust.
 
because i need more ram than what i have, i need a faster processor since video encoding is a slog with this 10 year old quad core. especially since i am thinking about encoding to av1 instead of hevc
Um why not get a secondhand GPU now to tide you over?

They are dirt cheap thanks to the mining bust.
 
Intels new GPU range is supposed to be AV1 enabled.

Edit: it is. I can see why you’d prefer to go AV1.

And by AV1, I mean encoding enabled.
 
yeah, i heard that on linus tech tips. problem with gpu encoding is (afaik) you don't get the same kind of control as you do with cpu encoding. still want to game and intels stuff kinda has ?? all over it for some games. especially pre dx12 games which i have yet to play (gta 5 for example). maybe in time i could add a 2nd gpu and make that one intels if it's good for encoding. would also be more power efficient than cpu encoding
 
It should but we're also making a lot of assumptions. Remember bios updates not fitting on original am4 boards and we're also assuming the motherboard manufacturers will actual updating the bios (it's not in their financial interest to do so)....

I'd still wait though as others have said but I wouldn't necessarily say jumping onto a first gen release is a good idea.


As to the OP spec wise... I basically did what they're planning a couple of months back albeit twice the ram and no gpu (waiting on 4 series).... I was going to wait but I wanted a 'stable' platform and figured I'd jump on at second gen, or switch to intel if needed in a year or two.

In my case I went 5950x, MSI Mortar b550 matx Wifi, it has 2nvme, 1 gen4, 1 gen3 - I've got 2x 2tb firecuda 530 in them, honestly outside of benchmarks I can't tell the difference and even in benchmarks the only difference is in the sequential (it's half on the gen 3), the other ones are pretty much the same.

I didn't see a need for a 570 and I prefer matx for when I repurpose a rig. It has the 6 sata ports (in my case they're ssd's) but they work fine lol

Can I build my setup for £2000 (adjusted accordingly), in all honesty no, I've got £300 in just the fans in my o11....could I build a rig for under 2000, probably but it wouldn't be by much imo.
I hope I didn't come off as being rude to Joxeon.

All I was getting at was avoiding first Gen releases and letting AM5 mature and even if a motherboard and CPU work nicely together there is nothing to say other hardware like PCI-E 5 hardware will play nice, initially.
 
The other issue with buying the AM5 platform when it launches is you might pay an early adopter price, the b550 boards were expensive for quite a while after release as well as cpus like the 5600x and 5800x (compared to now)
 
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