running 3950x, 2080 super, hero, ASU’s x570 hero viii mob, 16gb 3600 ddr4.
Is this enough for the build and room to OC the cpu on?
If purpose is gaming you would be only lowering performance by manual overclocking.
You would need like LN2 to crank up clocks of all 16 cores high enough to match automatic boost clocks of the most heavily loaded cores.
Even in properly multithreaded games there's one or two main threads, which need high clock speed:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/dkac5j/i_knew_star_citizen_utilizes_multicore_well/
And for gaming you're better off getting 12 core and changing CPU later to improved architecture Zen3, than blowing lots of money into 16 core of last year introduced architecture.
Neither does super luxury priced motherboard make CPU any faster and longer lasting.
That isn't even such good for the price with chipset cooler design being substandard even for low end board:
- With small heatsink relying on constant airflow from fan. >
- Which is restricted by marketing BS cover and...
- Positioned directly under heat of graphics card to enjoy pre-heated air for always higher than necessary fan speed.
In Finland's biggest PC forum one user with that board and 2080 Ti had chipset running at 83C during gaming.
Some days ago one user had Asus board fan starting to run noisier because of that
marketing BS collecting dust restricting fan even further.
Is that Chinese trinket level design something you want to pay super high prices?
VRMs are sure good after B450 scams, but chipset cooler design quality wise Asus is at bottom of X570 boards with boards half the price doing it lot better.
Also 16GB memory is starting level.
If getting that expensive CPU for no real use in gaming and in relation even more expensive board for design quality you should be aiming for future proof memory amount.
(while in heavy multitasking work 32GB memory would be needed even more)
And there's equally little sense in paying now very high price for bad performance per price graphics cards with next-gen cards coming in fall.
Actually next Xbox will bring fully that performance level GPU into mainstream.
And that will be roughly mid level GPU chip equivalent for AMD.
Right time to buy expensive graphics cards would be when that next-gen is out.
Now it's just blowing lots of money into really bad performance and future proofness per price.
