New 12900k Build End of Jan

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Max 3.1k budget. I've already bought 2x 2TB Samsung Pro 980 M.2 ssd drives ready. Would like to incorporate a 3080 or possibly 3080ti. Possibly looking at the below, any suggestions or tweaks? will be used mostly for gaming, some video editing.

Also, can anyone tell me the difference between the £400+ DDR5 Z690 boards, and the ones that look exactly the same but are around £200 mark?


CPU: Intel Core i9 12900K, Alder Lake, 16 Cores, 24 Threads, 3.7GHz Base, 5.3GHz Turbo
CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid CPU Cooler - 360mm Liquid Cooler
Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-F GAMING WIFI
Memory: 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 5200MHz
Storage 1: 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe PCIe 4.0, 7000MB/s Read, 5000MB/s Write, 1000K IOPS
Storage 2: 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe PCIe 4.0, 7000MB/s Read, 5000MB/s Write, 1000K IOPS
Video Card: Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 3080Ti 12GB £1300 or rtx 3080
Case: Lian-Li LANCOOL II Mesh Black
Power Supply: Corsair RM850x, Modular, Silent, 80PLUS GOLD 850w
OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Home 64-bit
Fans: 120mm Corsair iCUE QL120 RGB x3

Thanks in advance
 
Thanks for the responses, I was hoping to build myself, already bought 2x ssd drives. Interesting to hear about the 12700k, thanks for the advice. Wondering if it's worth holding on for the 12900ks cpu though...
 
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