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

 

[VortexA1]

I'd get a 1tb SSD, 500GB gets filled up very quick with today's modern games. Even if you're playing one game atm it gives you room for manoeuvre in the future.
32GB is only needed for literally one game, that's flight simulator 2020 out next month, otherwise you only need 16GB.

3600 mHz memory is also the sweet spot for Ryzen.

 

[EsaT]

on some custom pc sites

More like fashion hype sites...

Currently there's only little to minimal game loading time difference even between NVMe and SATA SSD.
Hence any good PCIe v3 NVMe is certainly fast enough for long time.
While space you don't have is certainly going to cause very long loading time and priority should be on space.
With that budget 1TB should be absolute minimum size, especially for very limited number of slots M.2.
Modern Warfare and Wintoys10 would take half of that small half TB drive!

Kingston A2000/WD Blue SN550 are basic level.
For full speed PCIe v3 what ever of these is well priced.
Adata SX8200 Pro/Gammix S11 Pro (/HP EX950) or some Phison E12 based drive like Addlink S70/Corsair MP510/MyDigitalSSD BPX Pro/PNY CS3030/Silicon Power P34A80/Team Group MP34


And B550 chipset is good enough, if you're not planning on using other slots than graphic's cards slot.
Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite should be well priced.
If wanting X570 board would avoid those Asus boards with 15 years old bad chipset cooling design:

Actual heatsink under marketing covers is tiny >
And relies on constant airflow from constantly running fan >
With everything positioned directly under graphics card to be bathed in its heat to make sure fan keeps always running and at unnecessary high speed. (to wear it down faster)​

Properly designed chipset coolers have good size heatsink and positioned farther from graphics card's heat and hence can run mostly passively.
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite would be well balanced design from reasonably priced X570 boards.
But anyway B550 boards have passive chipset heatsinks.

And that tiny Corsair H60 isn't any high end cooler.
It's only high profit margin fashion cooler.
It simply doesn't have surface are to match any higher end heatpipe coolers and continuous cooling per noise is certain to loose to cheaper heatpip coolers.
Though don't know what you have available in shops you're looking at.

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?

In next couple months.
And if Nvidia releases first, prices are probably higher.
After all cultists keep telling Nvidia they're already bent over with rear up, bank account in one hand and lube in other.

 

[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!

 

[EsaT]

I was planning on dropping in a spare 1TB SSD but I’ll just upgrade the main storage to 1TB instead.


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

With games hogging space like this half TB drives belong to low end budget PC.
https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matt...are-now-takes-up-over-200gb-of-storage-space/

2070 Super makes sense only if it's marginally more expensive than Radeon 5700 XT.
Performance isn't that much better and there's no future proofness value.
Just for comparison next-gen consoles have faster GPUs. Especially next Xbox.