Is this good or bad?

Dazz17

Dazz17

Dazz17

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Hello, looking for some advice on whether this setup is good or not.
It will be used for some high end gaming but also for the boring day to day pc requirements. I'm trying to get some future proofing built in with it as well. Haven't configured a desktop in a while and things move fast as we know. My budget was £2000ish.

Asus TUF Gaming GT501 Midi-Tower
AMD Ryzen 9 3900
ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus WiFi
NZXT Kraken X53 AIO CPU Water Cooler
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8gb) DDR4 PC$-29200c18 3600MHz
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 Super Gaming
WD Black 500GB SN750 M.2 2280 SSD
Seagate BarraCuda 2TB
Kolink Continuum 850w 80 Plus MPS
 
Hi, the monitor I have is
HP 27XQ Gaming quad hd.
It wont be for just gaming but I would be grateful for any suggestions in changing the spec. Just wanted a bit of future proofing. Just need a bit of guidance as not a great deal of knowledge in what's good to have to get a good few years from a setup. Thanks
 
Sorry I should have been more informative with my other uses. There would be home/office computing with streaming and some graphics video editing that my son has informed me he would like to use it for?
 
I basically have 2K to spend and I would like the best I can do for the money that will game high end, and what I mentioned before in previous post. If I can get better for the money than I've listed then let me know. This build is to hopefully last me a while. Thanks again.
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,999.87 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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Used the full budget with a view for longevity, kept your case choice as much of that is preference.

1. Larger NvME and HDD.
2. Much better PSU, I wouldn't touch Kolink with a ten foot pole held by someone else.
3. 32GB of better RAM, Micron E-Die should clock to 3600MHz with good timings without a problem. Some AAA games are nearing the 16GB mark already, modding some games can use well over 16GB, Cities Skylines comes to mind. Could also be helpful with editing etc.
4. 2080S rather than a 2070S, went with Zotac as they've excellent customer support and a 5 year warranty. That said, for 1440P you could drop down to a £350 5700XT and still have a very good experience.
5. Gigabyte X570 Elite is a fantastic mobo for the price, might need to shop around for it though. If you don't need specific features offered by X570 you could save around £100 and go for an MSI B450 such as the Tomahawk MAX or Pro Carbon.
 
Thank you for your suggestions. But I think I may have wasted your time, as my configuration I posted was basically Overclockers machine with a few changes. I am disabled and although I have a son who could help build the machine, I really like the warranty if anything goes, wrong that's why the longevity. Unless I missed it I couldn't find any base machine that I put your suggested components into. So thanks again for your help I dare say that's why the price seemed so high for the spec.
 
If you paste the spec I've listed into the customer service section of the forum you can ask OCUK to build it for you. They'll charge a fee for the work, you'll get warranty directly through them just as you would buying a prebuild.
 
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Thank you again for your help & guidance. Will do that and see what the total cost would be. As they do not have the mobo you listed, what does the X570 features wise have, is that more future proof than the other one you mentioned? Is there another X570 they do have you could recommend as it seems I might have to go over budget anyway to have it built..
 
There's a lot of stuff out of stock at the moment so your options are limited in that regard.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £449.98 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
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Either of these should be fine, choose depending on whether or not you need WiFi

If the build is too much over budget depending on the build quote you get we can always look at reducing costs to bring it in line.
 
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