New build £2k budget for box

[Teknodeamon]

Hi,

Just wanted your opinions please, veering towards 8700k, so need, cooler, mobo, ram, pci-x ssd, PSU and case recommendations. Upgrading from 2500 sandybridge, geforce 770gtx, 16gb ram.

Using it on a 40 inch philips monitor, gaming and crypto mining in idle time.

Thank you!

 

[Teknodeamon]

Wow have I been out the game that long, am I read that right? Flashing SSD's to unlock more space? Hahah Cheers for the top two quotes. Whats the status on PSU's nowadays? Not worth going to 1000W? Everything seems to be getting more power hungry.

 

[Teknodeamon]

Hmm,

Someone is offering me brand new:

Ryzen 1800x
stock cpu cooler.
Asus x370 pro
32GB Kingston Hyperx 2400mhz memory
WD 4.0TB HDD
WD 512GB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe SSD
Windows 10
2 x Asus Turbo GTX 1080Ti 11GB
FSP 1000W PSU
Some weird looking case.

2400 delivered, need to build myself.

I want to buy a case from OCUK and a watercooler, but is the above deal good? Not the 8700K or threadripper I had hoped for, but the price seems too good?

 

[Teknodeamon]

We can't advise on price checks outside the members market.

There is no stock cooler with the 1800X. Only the R7 1700 on the 8 core cpu's has a stock cooler.

No need for 32GB Ram. Also 2400MHz is too slow for Ryzen. You really want 3000MHz and above for best performance.

Those Asus Turbo cards are loud and run hot. I wouldn't fancy having two of them in SLI.

That psu could be good or bad as FSP can be a mixed bag.

Thanks Lee.

The price of those gfx cards, the cpu and hard drives comes to around £2400 everywhere, so will most likely use the extra gfx card, memory in my old computer (i5 2500k) giving me a separate crypto miner.

What cooler and memory would you recommend from OCUK for the 1800x? Is there that much of a difference between 2400 and 3000mhz ram?

Cheers.