Please critique my gaming/work build whilst waiting to get a 3070/80

If you can get the B560 tomahawk for £122 then I'd go with that, seems like a bargain for what you get and the VRM looks solid with large heat sync so it should run very cool.
 
Managed to get a 3070 FE so finished my build with parts coming over the next week. Ended up going with the 5600k after all due to gift cards I already had. Keeping my RMi 850w PSU

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor (Purchased For £255.00)
CPU Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 (Purchased For £79.99)
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard (Purchased For £186.00)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory (Purchased For £150.00)
Storage: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (Purchased For £214.00)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card (Purchased For £469.00)
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case (Purchased For £79.99)
Power Supply: Corsair RMi Series 850W 80+ GOLD Full Modular Power Supply
Case Fan: ARCTIC P14 PST 72.8 CFM 140 mm Fans 5-Pack (Purchased For £33.99)
Total: £1467.98

Edit: Changed cooler from Fuma 2 to Arctic
 
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I'd probably either keep the box cooler or upgrade it to something more substantial. The 212 Evo is better than the box cooler, but not substantially so. It's more for CPU's which don't come with a cooler, or to replace Intel box coolers. My advice would be to go for a mid range AIO, Chonky Air cooler, or keep the stock cooler.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £88.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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Cooler running said:
I'd probably either keep the box cooler or upgrade it to something more substantial. The 212 Evo is better than the box cooler, but not substantially so. It's more for CPU's which don't come with a cooler, or to replace Intel box coolers. My advice would be to go for a mid range AIO, Chonky Air cooler, or keep the stock cooler.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £88.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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I've dropped the 212. Was going to get the Scythe FUMA 2
CPU Cooler: Scythe FUMA 2 51.17 CFM CPU Cooler (£52.73)
 
Cooler running said:
The FUMA 2 is a strong middle ground, I wasn't sure about it before, but just had a shifty at this video. The price to performance is looking strong.


By the looks of it said would be a significant upgrade over the box cooler.
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Yeah I was looking around a lot, the arctic is better but I think the FUMA 2 will do a good job still. Although, I do have some left over credit on eu stores, if I can bring the arctic down to £65 odd, I'll get it
 
Cooler running said:
I'd probably either keep the box cooler or upgrade it to something more substantial. The 212 Evo is better than the box cooler, but not substantially so. It's more for CPU's which don't come with a cooler, or to replace Intel box coolers. My advice would be to go for a mid range AIO, Chonky Air cooler, or keep the stock cooler.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £88.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)
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Ended up getting the 280mm for £80 from elsewhere

Fuma 2 was basically £60 after delivery. £20 for an upgrade, maybe overkill? but eh, it's been bought and will be here tomorrow :D
 
Mylestheone said:
Ended up getting the 280mm for £80 from elsewhere

Fuma 2 was basically £60 after delivery. £20 for an upgrade, maybe overkill? but eh, it's been bought and will be here tomorrow :D
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It's difficult to overkill with cooling, as in the better cooler will always be doing something, also leaves headroom to upgrade into a 5900x (or refresh?) if the financial side makes sense.
 
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