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Hi fellow members.
So I have decided I want a new AMD system in my life.
System will be used primarily for gaming, compiling code and light video/photography work. So will likely be overkill at the time of building, but will be well specified for the future.

The kind of games I play are:
Tomb Raider, ROTTR and SOTTR.
Kerbal Space Program
Hitman 2
BeamNG
Battlefield 2
SWTOR
Flight Simulator X

At this time I will carry on using certain parts:
Dell U3014 Monitor (2560x1600 60Hz)
Asus GTX 1070.
1Tb SSD + 2x 10Tb Hard Drives.
Keyboard + Mice.

What suggestions would you make, to compliment an AMD 3900X, at a reasonable budget?

Meshify S2 Blackout TG £140
I like air cooling, and this is one of the better cases, buy can support water cooling blocks.

Corsair MP600 1Tb M.2 £300
Are the new PCIE 4 drives needed, beyond Windows 10 booting times?

750 - 1000W PSU? ~£200
I intend to buy a flagship AMD or Nvidia GFX card next year, so was thinking of 500W delta for it, plus more hard drives.

X570 Motherboard?
I like the X570 Gigabyte Aurus Master £390
But open to suggestions.

32GB Ram?
No clue where to start. 2 or 4 Dim's of the best overclocking I can get.
I don't want RGB disco lighting.

AM4 Cooler. I like the Dark Rock Pro 4 Air Cooler. But would a AIO Water cooler be best?
 
Thank you, everyone, for responding and your feedback.

So to summarise, at this time I have only ordered:
Meshify S2 Blackout TG Case.
3 x Fractal Design X2 GP14 Fans.

Everything else is subject to change.
I was surprised to learn that the Meshify S2 Blackout TG Case, only comes with 3 fans with the case,
yet has space for 8 fans in total to be fitting, hence why I ordered more.

As for the CPU.
No, I can't see coding, and many games making use of 12 Cores at this time.
But it's not much more money to buy over the 8 Core 3700X or 3800X.
Sadly the 3900X is also not the £480 bargain it once was. :(
Certainly in the future, I intend to put a 16 Core 4000X or 5000X series CPU, if AMD supports the present
AM4 socket for another 2 or more years.

I am also still very much interested in purchasing the Dark Rock 4 Pro CPU cooler.
But I am curious as to alternative AOI coolers. How do they compare?
And do members have any recommendations for 3x 14CM Radiator coolers?
Also what thermal paste is advised?
Is Arctic Silver 5? still the best or is there alternatives that I need to consider?

As for RAM.
Am I correct in thinking I need to populate only two DIMM's, to make the most out of the CPU's bandwidth?
Does using all four DIMM's, add any extra latencies? Or slow the RAM speed down?
At this time, I have my eye on the following RAM modules:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...z-dual-channel-kit-cmt32gx4m2c-my-4br-cs.html
It seems like a good module. Sadly so much of Overclockers inventory is out of stock. :(

The motherboard I continue to like is the X570 Gigabyte Aurus Master.
Especially with its 14 Phase power supply systems. However, I was annoyed to read that when populating all 3 M.2 slot's only 4 of the SATA3 ports work, due to bandwidth limitations.
Is this also a common problem with the suggested motherboards, previously in the thread?
Asus X570 TUF & Prime & Hero motherboards?
What about Asrock Taichi or Extreme 4 Motherboards?
I am looking into this, but if someone knows the anwser please let me know. :)
I ask as I intended to populate the Meshify case with 3x 10TB Mechanical drives, 2x SSD's and potentially 3x M.2 drives in the future. (What can I say, I like storage.)

Again many thanks for reading this essay.
All feedback is welcome. :D
 
Holy thread revival batman!

So after some weeks, after I initially opened this thread and asked for advice and suggestions, I have to admit I didn't listen much. But I do appreciate the feedback I got, it helped influence my builds specification. But I thought I'd update members on the latest developments.

At this time I have ordered the following parts:
3900X (2 week eta.)
X570 Gigabyte Aorus Master
GSKILL F4-3600C17Q 4x16GB
Dark Rock Pro 4 Cooler
Corsair HX850i Platinum
Corsair MP600 2Tb
Fractal Meshify S2 Blackout
Western Digital 10Tb x2

I am also contemplating ordering a Samsung QVE 2tb SSD for games. How does it differ from an EVO drive?
And I need a copy of Windows 10.

I dread to think how much has been spent on this system. But It'll pay for itself in the coming months of coding, and a half a decade of gaming. :D

Role on AMD and Nvidia announcements next year..
 
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