£2k + build

Asmo11

Asmo11

Asmo11

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Hi all,

Last time I had a gaming PC built this forum helped massively, so looking for some advice/ guidance again! I'm looking to spend between roughly £2k - £2.5k on a rig, i've pulled the following together:

1 X Gigabyte X870 GAMING X WIFI7 (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard - £249.98

SKU: MOT-GIG-03321

1 X be quiet Dark Rock 5 CPU Air Cooler - £62.99

SKU: COO-BEQ-02546

1 X Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive with Heatsink - £131.99

SKU: STO-KNG-01333

1 X Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMT32GX5M2B6000Z30K) - £158.99

SKU: MY-4DV-CS

1 X CORSAIR RM1000x Gold ATX 3.1 PCIe 5.1 Fully Modular Power Supply - £179.99

SKU: POW-CRS-02467

1 X AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail - £488.98

SKU: PRO-AMD-03517

1 X be quiet! Pure Base 500DX ARGB Midi Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass - £99.95

SKU: CA-13W-BQ

1 X Arctic Liquid Freezer III High Performance CPU Water Cooler - 360mm - £76.99

SKU: COO-ARC-01991

Plus a Sapphire Nitro + Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card

This come to c. £2.2k - are there any recommended amendments / material improvements you would recommend?
 
Asmo11 said:
Can never have enough air cooling :P this was as i was undecided, but leaning towards aio!
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My opinion is that if you're going air, you should do it cheap (peerless assassin/phantom spirit), otherwise you might as well just get the AIO.

The rest is mostly just preference, but I must say I'm not a fan of the dominators for £158.99, since you can get 64GB for that money (depending on speed).
 
keep to 6000 speed as keeps the memory controller at 1:1 ratio...above that it goe to 2:1 ratio....at 2:1 ratio, it introdces a latency penalty, so you then have to go to much higher speeds to combat it, which then makes it very expensive, so 6000C30 is the sweet spot
If you go for dominator ram, it is corsair top tier...but I'd go for the titanium which looks far nicer imho, as is their newer ram...where I live it's the same price as the triden z5 neo at £230
I've got some kingston fury beast 64ddr4 ram which I got for work..looks identical to the ddr5..if you like rgb, then it's certainly bright..got the corsair vengeance ddr5 32gb in my current setup...not coming anywherer close to using it all while gaming, but I wont argue if you want 64gb..the vengeance looks ok..prefer the look of my ddr4 stuff to the ddr5
never had the g.skill, but people do love it
the non rgb 6000c30 was the same price as the rgb..if you don't want rgb I'd still buy it and just turn the rgb off...it's more popular and when you come to sell it, you'll shift it either quicker, or get a bit more for it

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £629.98 (includes delivery: £0.00)​
 
Corsair Vengeance EXPO RGB 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit
MEM-CRS-03749
£200 (incl. VAT)
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G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo EXPO RGB 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit
MEM-GSK-01357
£260 (incl. VAT)
£230 (incl. VAT)
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Kingston FURY Beast EXPO RGB 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit
MEM-KNG-03708
£200 (incl. VAT)
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If you go with that AIO in that case it will only go in the front.
That will reduce max GPU length to ~ 303mm, the Nitro+ is over 330mm so will not fit.

Lancool 216 (out of stock here) will fit all your components and the AIO fits in the roof of the case.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £97.98 (includes delivery: £7.99)​
 
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