New Build time

[H3av3N]

Last build lasted me 5 years ( thanks Overclockers )

Time for a new one.

I've contacted sales, as I am looking to get this built for me, so just need to see what the price difference is then for this. I just don't have the time any more to do my own builds, and its been years since I've done one. I also end up spending so much time looking at components etc, that it takes an age.

Can any one see any major issues with the spec list below ? I've stayed away from ASRock mobos, i've seen there was (months ago now) a load of 9800x3d CPU's being killed due to some BIOS issues.......



My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £419.99
• 1 x Phanteks NV5 v2 - Black (SKU: CAS-PHK-02322) = £99.95
• 1 x Gainward GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Phoenix-S 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-GNW-05399) = £679.99
• 1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-KNG-02961) = £158.99
• 1 x Lian Li Edge Gold 1200W Black (with USB HUB) Power Supply (SKU: POW-LIA-03760) = £149.98
• 1 x Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03316) = £313.00
• 1 x Samsung 990 Evo PLUS 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 / 5.0 Hybrid NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-SAM-03390) = £116.99
• 1 x Samsung 990 Evo PLUS 2TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 / 5.0 Hybrid NVMe Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-SAM-03391) = £195.95
• 1 x Lian Li UNI FAN TL LCD Wireless Reverse 120 Black Triple Fan Pack with Controller - 120mm (SKU: COO-LIA-03742) = £125.98
• 1 x Lian Li UNI FAN TL Wireless 120 Black Fan - 120mm (SKU: COO-LIA-03728) = £24.95
• 1 x Lian Li UNI FAN TL LCD Wireless Reverse 120 Black Fan - 120mm (SKU: COO-LIA-03738) = £39.95
• 1 x NVIDIA Game Bundle - Arc Raiders Deluxe Edition PLUS Astro Cosmetic Pack (SKU: DIG-NVI-06436) = £0.00
• 1 x Lian Li HydroShift II LCD-C 360TL Black All In One CPU Cooler - 360mm (SKU: COO-LIA-04870) = £199.99
• 1 x Phanteks Universal Hi-Res Display - Black (SKU: ACC-PHK-01390) = £113.99

Total: £2,639.70 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

 

[deviation]

Do yourself a favour and get rid of the overpriced LIAN LI AIO and matching fans - get yourself either the ARGB or non ARGB Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro and some matching Arctic P12 Pro or P14 Pro fans. They will wipe the floor with the Lian Li and in silence, at less than half the price!

Get yourself a 4TB single NVME, and bin the X870E overpriced motherboard, and get a decent £150-200 B850. There's no reason/benefit to running 2 small NVME's, it's just a waste of money and requires a silly overpriced X870 board to allow the NVME's to run at full speed. Pointless!

Unless you need USB4.0, and to run 2 small unmatched NVME's separately at full speed, then go B850!

Any money left over, can either go towards a 5080 (if you fancied) or just money in your pocket

 

[throwaway4372]

Less spending on fans, more spending on gpu.

 

[Tetras]

Suggested changes:

Motherboard: nice board, but do you need USB4 and 4x M.2?
Memory: memory has gone up a lot lately, but even so, £160 for 32GB is painful.
Graphics: plenty of room in the budget for an upgrade.
SSD: the Evo Plus seems pricey at £200, you can get Samsung's full speed PCI-E 5.0 drive for that (9100), or other PCI-E 5.0 drives.
Case: I chose one with fans, there's several alternatives which also include fans, like Lian Li's Vector, Antec's Flux and C5.
PSU: not sure about the compatibility with the Lian Li PSU with any case, just because of the design.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £419.99
• 1 x Sapphire Nitro+ B850A WiFi 7 (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-SPR-05688) = £157.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance XMP 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-05105) = £175.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5080 Solid Core 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04544) = £989.99
• 1 x NVIDIA Game Bundle - Arc Raiders Deluxe Edition PLUS Astro Cosmetic Pack (SKU: DIG-NVI-06436) = £0.00
• 1 x Crucial T705 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen5 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01870) = £192.95
• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus 7300 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-GIG-05732) = £119.98
• 1 x Asus A32 Plus ARGB Dual-Chamber Gaming Case - Black (SKU: CAS-ASU-06474) = £99.95
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming 1000W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-05Z-AS) = £140.00
• 1 x Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Digital Black CPU Cooler - 120mm (SKU: COO-TLR-04205) = £37.99

Total: £2,346.82 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

 

[darkblade]

If you are using this for gaming, what resolution and Hz will you be gaming at?

 

[Space Monkey]

Suggested changes:

Motherboard: nice board, but do you need USB4 and 4x M.2?
Memory: memory has gone up a lot lately, but even so, £160 for 32GB is painful.
Graphics: plenty of room in the budget for an upgrade.
SSD: the Evo Plus seems pricey at £200, you can get Samsung's full speed PCI-E 5.0 drive for that (9100), or other PCI-E 5.0 drives.
Case: I chose one with fans, there's several alternatives which also include fans, like Lian Li's Vector, Antec's Flux and C5.
PSU: not sure about the compatibility with the Lian Li PSU with any case, just because of the design.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £419.99
• 1 x Sapphire Nitro+ B850A WiFi 7 (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-SPR-05688) = £157.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance XMP 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-05105) = £175.99
• 1 x Zotac GeForce RTX 5080 Solid Core 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-04544) = £989.99
• 1 x NVIDIA Game Bundle - Arc Raiders Deluxe Edition PLUS Astro Cosmetic Pack (SKU: DIG-NVI-06436) = £0.00
• 1 x Crucial T705 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen5 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01870) = £192.95
• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus 7300 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-GIG-05732) = £119.98
• 1 x Asus A32 Plus ARGB Dual-Chamber Gaming Case - Black (SKU: CAS-ASU-06474) = £99.95
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming 1000W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-05Z-AS) = £140.00
• 1 x Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Digital Black CPU Cooler - 120mm (SKU: COO-TLR-04205) = £37.99

Total: £2,346.82 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

Excellent setup, only thing I'd personally change is have 2 of the Aorus 2TB drives and save over £70

 

[deviation]

It's pointless having 2 NVME's.

Eonly thing I'd personally change is have 2 of the Aorus 2TB drives and save over £70

What would the benefit of that be? That Aorus isn't remotely special, nor fast compared to others, and it's just a sticker, no included heatsink either. Why would you want 2 running at slower speeds due to B850?
You can buy a single 4TB for the same price or less.

OP is far better off just getting a single 4TB PCI-E 4.0 drive that runs at full speed.
There's nothing to gain from 2 drives, you can partition a single drive.

 

[deviation]

Excellent setup, only thing I'd personally change is have 2 of the Aorus 2TB drives and save over £70

What would the benefit of that be? That Aorus isn't remotely special, nor fast compared to others, and it's just a sticker, no included heatsink either. Why would you want 2 running at slower speeds due to B850?
You can buy a single 4TB for the same price or less.

OP is far better off just getting a single 4TB PCI-E 4.0 drive that runs at full speed.
There's nothing to gain from 2 drives, you can partition a single drive.

 

[Space Monkey]

It's pointless having 2 NVME's.

What would the benefit of that be? That Aorus isn't remotely special, nor fast compared to others, and it's just a sticker, no included heatsink either. Why would you want 2 running at slower speeds due to B850?
You can buy a single 4TB for the same price or less.

OP is far better off just getting a single 4TB PCI-E 4.0 drive that runs at full speed.
There's nothing to gain from 2 drives, you can partition a single drive.

It might be pointless to you but I find it very handy, redundancy for example, I can back up any files to the second drive before formatting the other drive etc etc...

 

[deviation]

It might be pointless to you but I find it very handy, redundancy for example, I can back up any files to the second drive before formatting the other drive etc etc...

I don't think that's worth sacrafising having full speed read/write. Otherwise you have to go X870 which is just a con for features that should have been standard years ago.

That doesn't seem like much of an argument TBH, as you can partition a bigger drive into multiple partitions, and easily do the same thing, without nuking the lot.
Plus the fact lol, would would someone need to frequently be wiping their OS and putting everything back on there? Bit of a rare occurance?

Plus, you must have a backup solution in place? So you could easily transfer stuff from that, IF you really felt the need to nuke every partition on a single drive? Given speed stuff is now external wise, and the plentiful options such as external NVME caddies for around a tenner that are silly fast, there's not much to warranty dual drives.

The only thing I can think of that is a minor benefit over having a single drive, is dual booting, but that's only because people skim read and don't bother to learn how to set it up a bootloader properly due to jumping the gun, then slating it afterwards out of ignorance. The irony is, it's very easy to do, and doesn't take any longer.