Need a little advice with new build for 3d modeling and gaming

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Hey, its been a few years since ive build a pc and im looking to see if what i have chosen is ok.
It would be mostly used for 3d modeling/texturing, unreal engine 4/5 and a little gaming.

I already have a 3080 graphics card after my old 1080 died last year.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,693.62 (includes shipping: £14.70)​
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Welcome to the forum.

Not the best value for money and it locks you into Corsair's lighting eco-system with its poor long-term support and occasional iCue issues. Long as you're ok with that, it's all good just might as well look for Crucial Ballistix 3600 C16 elsewhere as it's cheaper and has better timings. If OcUK only option then the Kingston Predator is same price as Fury with better timings.

What's the thinking behind 2 x 1TBs instead of largest size you can afford and add more later? If you're going to be writing to drive an awful lot maybe better to get a drive with more endurance. Having said that those are great value for money, for normal use cases.
 
That brand overhyped Asus has design from anus of marketroids badly designed chipset cooler, which is pretty much eventual failure timer.
MSI X570 Tomahawk has vastly better chipset cooler for lot less.
MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk WiFi (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 ATX Motherboard= £219.95

That memory is expensive for latencies:
Patriot Viper Steel 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS432G360C8K)= £149.99
Crucial Ballistix 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit= £169.99
Alternatively there are better latency kits
Kingston HyperX Predator 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX436C17PB3K2/32)= £179.99
Crucial Ballistix RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit= £188.99


If waterpipes are must, then Arctic Freezer II is the rational and performance choise with 50% thicker radiators than in most others for actually lots of surface area for heat dissipating.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/search?ssearch=freezer+ii
but with amd's tdp being quite honest good heatpipe coolers would do fine.
(and have lot less degrading parts/things)
for example alpenfohn brocken 3 would do well.
Alpenfohn Brocken 3 CPU Cooler - 140mm= £42.95


That PSU is complete overkill.
Because of oversizing it wouldn't even really reach that 80+ Platinum level under load, but only efficiency level of well sized 80+ Gold.
850W is easily enough and good 750W would also do with Ryzens being frugal compared to Intel's landfill fires.


No sense in wasting very limited M.2 slots for smaller drives.
2TB model doesn't cost any more than two 1TB models.
WD Blue SN550 2TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS200T2B0C)= £184.99
And if its's for some different source and target drives performance reason, on that budget level you should be looking for higher up drives, which don't cost really any more.
Seagate Firecuda 510 1TB SSD PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (ZP1000GM3A011)= £99.95
Though higher up 2TB models cost clearly more than basic consumer drives.
 
Welcome to the forum :)

Some different options that save some money without sacrificing performance.

If you need wifi then you have boards like the B550 Gaming Edge or Asus B550-F wifi etc.

The Alpenfohn cooler is currently out of stock. There is the single fan version mentioned above as an in stock alternative.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,325.13 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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Thanks all of you for you're replys, Its been a massive help. I've changed the psu, motherboard, ram, cpu cooler, and the ssd. For the cpu cooler i did a bit more research and was thinking the bequiet dark rock pro 4 would be ok. Also comes out to about £300 cheaper. What do you guys think?

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,418.59 (includes shipping: £14.70)​
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