New Build help £3.5k ish - encoding and gaming

[Krazeyivan]

Hi everyone

My current rig has died, it came from overclockers and I think the motherboard (Gigabyte X99-SLI) has given in sadly I dont have enough items to test it but I've done everything shy of changing parts and no post. I'll just sell off the 5820k and other bits that work but I will keep the EVGA 1080ti FTW3 and move that over.

The requirements for this new rig - Fast, Quiet with two main functions - encoding video (previous rig would do that 24/7 sometimes for weeks at a time) and game play - I have a nice 240fps 1080p monitor that I am happy with. I also do not need keyboard or mouse. I would also need 10G functionality as I move around a lot of data to my NAS.

I am looking the AMD route at the moment as its looks the most hopeful and there are a lot of CPU security issues with intel right now.
I also will be getting overclockers to build this system for me as I just don't have much free time anymore I might ring them over the next few days for a chat if thats possible

Below is a list of parts I was looking at - its not complete by any means and would need some work i.e. fans - any issues or upgrade please let me know.

CP-3B5-AM - AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Twelve Core 4.6GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail £559.99
MB-57S-GI - Gigabyte X570 AORUS XTREME (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset EATX Motherboard £769.99
MY-095-TG - Team Group Xtreem "8Pack Edition" 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black £329.99
CM-222-TL - OcUK Tech Labs - Pre Noise Dampened Case - Corsair Obsidian 750D £154.99
HS-03L-CS - Corsair Hydro Series H150i PRO RGB Performance Liquid Cooler - 360mm (CW-9060031-WW) £169.99
HD-00A-GI - Aorus 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (GP-ASM2NE6200TTTD) £469.99
HD-23S-SA - Samsung 970 PRO Polaris 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive £289.99
CA-062-SS - Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium 850W 80 Plus Titanium Modular Power Supply £239.99
HD-37H-SE - Seagate 6TB BarraCuda PRO 7200RPM 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST6000DM004) £214.99
SW-173-MS - Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-FQC-08929) £149.99

Total so far - £3349.90

I like the quality of each of these components, I'm less clear if everything hangs together well - not been on AMD for a long time.

Thank you for any help

 

[Krazeyivan]

Thank you OrbitalWalsh - very interesting read - I will consider those changes you have mentioned
Still think I am on the AMD boat for now - even with the 9900k advantage gaming its clawed back with encoding on AMD I'd imagine

 

[Krazeyivan]

Pretty much - just increase in-game res to 1440p personally ! your card is more then up to the task !!!!

shame the Master doesn't have 10G port, but both it and Xtreme smash the other vendors - also only one to RMA in UK

if getting it built, but the xtreme Rocket PCIe 3.0 version or 1TB PCIe 4.0 version for £200 to run next to the Aorus 2TB PCIe 4.0 lol Xtreme heatsink is man/woman enough to the task

worth doing research into CPU vs GPU Encoding

https://savedelete.com/gaming/nvenc-vs-x264/203281/

most of the time for gaming is GPU

Do you have a link to the Rocket PCIe version you mention?
I have done some extensive work (admittedly only using my experience) but GPU is still not comparable to CPU for quality encodes. For streaming or sending to youtube I think GPU is fine and certainly of good quality. If you have high bitrate quality files GPU encodes look washed out to me - CPU wins all day long.

 

[Krazeyivan]

Thanks for the help - My final order into Overclockers

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Twelve Core 4.6GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail
Gigabyte X570 AORUS XTREME (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset EATX Motherboard
Team Group Xtreem "8Pack Edition" 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black
Aorus 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (GP-ASM2NE6200TTTD)
Samsung 2TB 860 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 64 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-76E2T0B/EU)
Seagate 6TB BarraCuda PRO 7200RPM 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST6000DM004)
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-FQC-08929)
Corsair AX850 Titanium 80 Plus Titanium Modular Power Supply (CP-9020151-UK)
Fractal Design Define R6 Blackout Type-C Midi Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass
Corsair Hydro Series H150i PRO RGB Performance Liquid Cooler - 360mm (CW-9060031-WW)
3 x be quiet! Silent Wings 3 120mm PWM Fan

 

[Krazeyivan]

POWER!!!

would have just gone the Pro 900 as it already has 3x 140mm silent wing fans and its quieter plus aluminum vs steel

The reason for my choice was purely filtration. This machine will run on a dusty environment, so I put a lot of weight into a case with quality filters

 

[Krazeyivan]

I’ve received my system - well packaged and built by overclockers - cables all done excellently nice and tidy. I’m in the process of commissioning the pc and getting everything correct. They had the bios still on F2 and it was going very slow so I flashed the latest bios and the updates from AMD site and it’s much better. It’s been encoding flat out (totally stock) and it’s hitting 75-76c with the front panel opened on this case. About 4.2ish on all cores. I’ll play with settings in the coming days. Thanks again for the help all - I can recommend the overclockers custom build it’s a good service. I’m also loving 10gig local network speed too. The latest aquantia driver from the internet I’ve found helps stability and speed.