This what I have so far tell me which ones I should change, also do all the parts match?:
- MSI MPG Z390 GAMING EDGE AC LGA 1151 ATX Motherboard
- ASUS GeForce RTX 2080 ROG Strix Advanced 8GB Video Card
- Corsair DOMINATOR PLATINUM RGB 32GB(4x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15
- Intel Core i7 8700K Hexa Core LGA 1151-2 3.70GHz Unlocked CPU Processor (I'm confused not sure if I should get the 8700k or 9700k thou it doesn't have hyperthreding, does it affect games is any way not having hyperthreading?)
- NH-D15
Welcome aboard.
Do you have case fit for them?
And quality PSU?
Some medieval design/cheap component model wouldn't be exactly balanced for pricy high end parts.
Of course you should also have SSD at least for operating system.
And possibly use that as cache if you have big game library on HDDs.
NH-D15 is top level cooler and would beat most water pipe coolers in cooling power per noise.
(water pipes in place of heat pipes don't make heat disappear any more easily and there's more noise sources)
For most CPUs without overclocking you could also get away with cheaper cooler.
Something like Scythe Mugen 5 would be only step behind, while costing lot less.
As for CPU now is one of the worst times in very long time to buy.
Intel is in full cash grab mode with greedy expensive per number of cores/threads pricing (very little improvement from early decade) while having no upgrade path.
And while current Ryzens are clock speed limited by originally Samsung's phone/tablet CPU manufacturing process, architecturally improved Zen2s made on TSMC's more modern than Intel's manufacturing node, are few months away.
In CES AMD demoed engineering sample matching 9900K's processing power at ~50W lower system power consumption.
Also chiplet design rumoured in December got confirmed and AMD clearly hinted further pushing forward in cores/processing power per money.
So that 9900K level 8 core/16 thread model might come for $200-250, while hundred more likely gets 12 cores/24 threads.
At final boost clocks those might exceed Intel's single thread performance, while being completely superior for multihreaded future.
Intel basically paralized advance of game development for decade with their "Desktop platform gets four cores as high end and two for low end" policy.
Now game development should start moving forward and next-gen consoles are going to give game development huge kick forward...
Those are very likely coming with Zen2 based 8 core/16 thread CPU!
Even if clocks are more moderate, coding for fixed hardware and lower bloatware/overhead than in PC gives heck lot of CPU power for games.
As PC Master Race hobbyer wouldn't have ever thought that consoles could catch gaming PCs in CPU power.
But Intel's greed made that possible.
