New build

ROBERTO MORRIS · 2 Dec 2020 at 10:18

Can anyone offer any advice - possibly is there anything over spec'd - so I can reduce cost?
This is a gaming machine - I play at 3440 x 1440 - and have Discord - Twitch - web browsers open whilst gaming.

I would prefer to buy from OC but struggling to get anything maching this spec and price.

Hoping to not need to replace for 4 years - ish.

Case
CORSAIR 175R RGB MID TOWER GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12 Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.8GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4)

Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0) - ARGB Ready!

Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3600MHz (4 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
10GB ASUS ROG STRIX GEFORCE RTX 3080 - HDMI, DP (Xmas delivery not guaranteed)

1st Storage Drive
2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE

1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3200MB/W)

Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Processor Cooling
PCS FrostFlow 120 Series RGB High Performance Liquid Cooler

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND

Extra Case Fans
1x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof)

Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]

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Shawreyboy · 2 Dec 2020 at 12:17

That 120mm AIO unit is not going to do well with a 12 core CPU running multiple cores/threads for playing games and encoding video streams for Twitch. Should be 240/280mm as a minimum.

EDIT: you'd be better off with high-end air cooling over that 120mm unit.

ROBERTO MORRIS · 2 Dec 2020 at 12:54

Perfect @Shawreyboy - thanks for the input.
Do you think I've overcooked the spec in anyway or does it look sound to you for my requirements?

Shawreyboy · 2 Dec 2020 at 15:53

The spec is about as good as you can get however if it were me I'd actually swap the 3080 for a 6800XT due to the AMD platform having Smart Access Memory which allows the CPU to get direct access to GPU memory on Zen 3.

AMD's New Radeon RX 6000 Series Is Optimized to Battle Ampere - ExtremeTech

Joxeon · 2 Dec 2020 at 16:20

Shawreyboy said:
The spec is about as good as you can get however if it were me I'd actually swap the 3080 for a 6800XT due to the AMD platform having Smart Access Memory which allows the CPU to get direct access to GPU memory on Zen 3.

AMD's New Radeon RX 6000 Series Is Optimized to Battle Ampere - ExtremeTech

I don't think SAM is enough to consider a 6800XT over a 3080 considering you lose the better RT performance, DLSS and shadow-play among other features. Besides nvidia will have its own version of SAM out soon.

hlennie · 8 Dec 2020 at 02:08

360mm AIO min, maybe a small monitor to display your other open apps and web pages

pc-guy · 8 Dec 2020 at 17:25

Shawreyboy said:
The spec is about as good as you can get however if it were me I'd actually swap the 3080 for a 6800XT due to the AMD platform having Smart Access Memory which allows the CPU to get direct access to GPU memory on Zen 3.

AMD's New Radeon RX 6000 Series Is Optimized to Battle Ampere - ExtremeTech

I wouldn’t get AMD over Nvidia here. He uses discord and twitch, Nvidia is better or those uses.

@ROBERTO MORRIS get 1TB NVMe drive, you will need it.

also shop around for parts and put it together yourself.