Soldato
case is personal choice==no comment if you like it go for itThank you all, I think I've finally decided upon the main bits of the build being....
Corsair Crystal 680x ATX (£200.00)
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master AMD AM4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard (£311.99)
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor (£699.99)
HYDRO Series H150I Pro RGB Performance Liquid Cooler - 360MM (CW-9060031-WW) (£149.98)
CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB PRO 64GB (2x32GB) DDR4 3600 (PC4-28800) C18 (£339.83)
Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2TB Solid State Drive/SSD (£743.98)
Gigabyte Geforce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming OC 11GB GDDR6 Graphics (£1,059.98)
Corsair HXi Series HX1200i ATX Power Supply (£249.98)
Total £3,755.73 (although ill now start to hunt the lowest prices of these components
The main points in my logic being...
Case -- No more logic than I liked it, nice shape nice size
Motherboard -- PCIe4, PCIe4, PCIe4 - still doing a bit of research on which board
CPU -- Quick, More cores than the intel and I will run a lab with multiple VMs which could use them.
AIO Water Cooler - I hope this is sufficient for some basic overclocking, no experience doing it, so guesswork really.
RAM -- Speedwise It didnt look like 4400Mhz would make a masive diference to me, 1 to 2 FPS at most. As for 64GB, I also do a lot of photoshop'ing which will definitely benefit from 64GB - From what I can find, I don't think the multi cores of the CPU will help Photoshop much, if at all.
SSD -- 5GB read, 4.4GB write, RAID 1 so if there is failure I have time to buy another (Don't yet know whether RAID 1 will improve or slow the read/write, will do some bench-marking)
Graphic Card -- My main focus of the machine, so happy to spend a little more, almost the king at the moment, I appreciate I could save £300 going Super for only ~8% performance reduction
PSU - Like the AIO cooler, is this big enough? how do you size these things.
By all means comment, correct, even mildly insult
Rich
motherboard==could drop down to gigabyte x570 auros ultra==fair bit cheaper all the master has different
better power phase system but ultra is more than adequate
and a faster ethernet
cpu==hell yeah
aoi==yep,and not much headroom left in 3950x for overclocking the amd ryzen precision boost over drive
handles it for you==may squeeze a little more out of it==but its not like overclocking an intel cpu
240mm ,280mm or 360mm==if the case takes a 360mm go for it not like you are budget constrained
ram==3600mhz is sweet spot or little lower but with cas14 timings
nvme==not compared prices but corsair mp600 would also be a contender
gpu==if you want to spend the extra go for it mate
you are already aware of the super so not going to talk you out of it
psu is way overkill==i have a corsair hxi 850 and a corsair axi 860 as a spare either one of those would do you fine
i am not great at putting together a basket but
some one will likely come along and help with that
really healthy budget not sure if threadripper might be an option
but i certainly like basically what you picked
no sleep last night lol
but dont think i made any glaring errors there
edit some one will suggest better ram
probably as cas18 is a bit high for 3600mhz