First time building a PC myself. Looking for advice / opinions

JamesOfTheWeast · 3 Sep 2020 at 01:47

As the title says this is my potential build and just wondering if there's any glaringly obvious problems that I haven't noticed?

be quiet! PURE base 500DX - Case
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X - CPU
Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite - Motherboard
Corsair RM750 - PSU
Sabrent 1TB Rocket PCIe 4 M.2 - SSD
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (16x2) 3200MHz - RAM
Scythe Fuma 2 - CPU cooler

Some components from my previous PC I'll be using (planning on upgrading the GPU once I can get my hands on a RTX 3000 card):

Crucial MX500 500GB SATA - SSD
TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1TB - HDD
Asus GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Turbo - GPU

All the parts are compatible according to PCPartspicker as far as I can tell. Any and all feedback is welcomed and appreciated.

JamesOfTheWeast · 3 Sep 2020 at 08:33

siumatfung said:
What will you be using this for? That cpu could be overkill

Primarily gaming, but also coding and a bit of video production.

JamesOfTheWeast · 3 Sep 2020 at 09:51

bremen1874 said:
I’d spend the extra and get 3600MHz memory.

I had considered that but it's just a bit too expensive at the moment. Is there that big a difference in terms of performance between 3200MHz and 3600MHz DDR4 RAM?

JamesOfTheWeast · 3 Sep 2020 at 10:36

bremen1874 said:
There were many memory speed comparisons published when the 3000 series cpus came out. 3600MHz came out as the best option, but 3200MHz isn’t going to be awful.

What’s the faster memory going to add? £50 maybe?

Yeah around that but for the options available to me the CAS latency would be reduced for 3600MHz. So I think I'd prefer to spend less and get a little less frequency but better CAS latency on the RAM.

JamesOfTheWeast · 5 Sep 2020 at 12:34

pp111 said:
An electrostatic wrist strap.
Also, do you have a PC you can pull apart if things go wrong? It's very useful to have a spare video card and PSU if things don't go as planned. When a system fails to power up or the video is dead or something, you have no reference point to determine what's wrong.

Yep I have access to a number of laptops at home to look up any issues that come up during the course of the build. And thanks for pointing out the electrostatic wrist strap. Will make sure to grab one of them off of amazon.