First Build In Almost A Decade. Help Needed!

[timmeh]

As per the title this is my first build in almost a decade so to say I’m out of the loop is a bit of an understatement so I need some help.

I’ve been looking at some mid priced gaming PCs on some custom pc sites and got the following specs:

Ryzen 7 3700X
RX 5700 XT
32GB GSkill Ripjaw PC3200
Corsair Force 500gb PCIE 4.0
ASUS Prime X570-P
EVGA SuperNova 650W
Fractal Meshify C
Corsair H60 or similar cooler

That all comes out at around $1400 so just under my $1500 budget.

Are we expecting the new GPUs to be released in the next few weeks? If so will they be around the same price as the current GPUs? Is it going to be worth waiting?

I welcome any other spec change suggestions too. It’s going to be used for sim racing (Assetto Corsa Competizione is the only one I play right now) and is like to be able to run a 49” ultrawide in the future too. Not sure how much that changes.

Thanks

 

[timmeh]

Yeah those custom gaming rig sites was only to get a gauge of what spec I should be looking at.

I was planning on dropping in a spare 1TB SSD but I’ll just upgrade the main storage to 1TB instead. I’ll swap to PCIE 3 too. Thanks for the suggestions.

B550 sounds like a good swap, I’ll do that.

I’m going to switch to a 2070 super too as it sounds like it’s got more features and slightly better performance.

Thanks for the suggestions!