New PC - £2,000 - £3,000 (Video editing, some gaming)

[andy85wsm]

I put up a thread back in November but with the new cards out it's time to buy now.

I mostly use the computer for video editing and streaming - gaming is not the priority for this computer but it's always nice to be able to handle whatever is needed and my current PC is over 5 years old, so I want it to last a while.

I think I'm fairly set on a 9950x CPU based on previous discussions on here. Previously I was looking at a 4080s but not sure they're coming back into stock, so the equivalent is probably the 5070ti or 5080 I would guess? I'm happy enough to wait, but I need to get a pre-order in so I can at least get into the queue.

64GB RAM because why not - a couple of SSD drives, maybe 2 TB each?

Would like at least one USB C connection, it may come in useful in the future.

I'm going to get OCUK to put it together and it will have to be shipped to Europe.

I don't really have the patience to be building computers so I guess an air-cooled PC might be better in case something goes wrong, but not sure if that's enough for the kind of specs I'm thinking of?

I'm open to being persuaded to better options on the above if there's a good reason to switch. Don't need keyboard/mouse/monitors as part of the budget.

 

[andy85wsm]

Possible to air cool, but if you do long run intensive stuff on a 9950X it won't be quiet. I don't think PC builders like shipping large tower coolers anymore, so OCUK might insist you install an AIO anyway.


The 5080 is the equivalent, similar price too (or it is supposed to be, if they were actually available to buy!

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Sixteen Core 5.70GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-02674) = £559.99
• 1 x Asrock X870 Pro RS WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-ASR-03308) = £220.00
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-02841) = £179.99
• 1 x Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER AMP 16GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-ZTC-02848) = £1,099.99
• 1 x Crucial T500 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01090) = £127.99
• 1 x Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (SFYRS/2000G) (SKU: STO-KNG-01330) = £124.99
• 1 x Lian Li Lancool 216 Mid-tower PC case - Black (SKU: CA-7BG-LL) = £85.99
• 1 x Antec HCG 1000 Pro Platinum 1000W ATX3.1 Full modular Power Supply (SKU: POW-ATC-02746) = £189.94
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Loop 2 360mm AIO CPU Water Cooler (SKU: COO-BEQ-00977) = £125.00

Total: £2,725.87 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

Thanks!

I may have asked before but how likely is a AIO cooler to break in comparison to standard air cooling?

Which 5080 is best to opt for? I guess at this stage that’s probably what I’ll have to wait for.

 

[andy85wsm]

Most decent units should survive until the PC is obsolete.

They're not really intended to be maintained, so you would almost certainly just replace the whole unit if it breaks, unless there is a known defect where you can just swap a bad part out.

The cheaper AIOs with a 1-3 year warranty, I wouldn't like to guess (which is a point reviewers made with some of the newer cheap AIOs too).

In terms of: is it more likely to break, well,.. yeah, there's more parts in an AIO and the only part that really goes wrong in an air cooler is the fan, which is usually replaceable without much trouble. You'd have to ask someone like OCUK for actual numbers (of returns) though and I doubt they're going to tell us


There's a coil whine thread in the graphics forum, which I suggest you look at.

TPU did lots of reviews and you can find a comparison chart in any of their reviews which include all of the coolers.

Okay, maybe I'll just go AIO though and hope it doesn't break.

So any 5080 that I go for should work in the setup above over a 4080s?