New AMD build for gaming (without GPU)

[Astravagrant]

Hi there, I'm speccing up a PC for a friend and they have an existing 1080ti GPU which they want to keep, but otherwise they have a budget of £1500. They're upgrading from an Intel 2600, which is obviously the bottleneck. He also has existing drives to move over, so only NVME boot is needed.

So here's where I'm at, any problems with this build or any room for obvious improvement? I've tried to make it fast, quiet and with room for a new GPU in a few years.

Note: I always overspec the PSU since I prefer they run quiet and leave headroom for possible future upgrades.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £179.99
• 1 x Super Flower Leadex Titanium 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Titanium" Power Supply - Black= £177.95
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT Eight Core 4.7GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail (100-100000279WOF)= £359.99
• 1 x Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard= £289.99
• 1 x Team Group 8Pack Edition 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit= £218.99
• 1 x OcUK Tech Labs 92mm 645LT Asetek Extreme CPU Liquid Cooling Bundle With Noctua Fan = £78.84
  • CPU Socket:Asetek Premium Retention Kit AMD AM4 (35-150-1000015)
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Base 500 Midi Tower Case - Metallic Grey= £74.99

Total: £1,393.94 (includes shipping: £13.20)​

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[Astravagrant]

Cheers, Esat. Good info!

there's no chance I'm recommending MSI again, I had two fail in a two years. OC kindly upgraded me to an Asus after the second one went, but it was a MASSIVE pain the arse to diagnose and I wasted weeks on those problems. Not to mention losing so many CSGO games because I got kicked for DCing.

I suspected as much on the 3900X, which is one reason I raised this question. I'll recommend that my mate waits for the Zen3 launch (someone else said this, too. I didn't realise it was so soon!).

Good call on the seagate.

Pretty sure that cooler was one OC recommened when I tried to buy a corsair once. :/

 

[Astravagrant]

cheers, lee, good tips! I've been using water cooling for a while now (on two PCs) and they are really easy to keep clean. If it's just a bit extra, I think it's worth it (the less maintenance required, the better).

Seems you both agree that X570 isn't worth it. Good to know!

I've been using Asus ROG Strix boards (Intel) and never had any issues with them, but I'll bear that in mind. I think I had a crash over summer...