*sigh* I've been thinking about a new build for a couple of months but was waiting on the new nVidia cards being launched. On Monday the company I worked for went into administration so my 'PC fund' has become a 'food/mortgage' fund instead 
How would this have been as a build? The 2080 would have been a 3000 series of some description but other than that I was fairly settled with the rest of it. I know it's OTT but the idea was for 5 solid years of use both gaming and running multiple VMs. I have a 1440p 144hz monitor that I would have kept from my old rig and might also have kept the 1tb Samsung EVO 850 that it also in it.
If I can find another position quickly I might still be able to do it although I'm not holding out a lot of hope and suspect the current system (i7700k, 1080Ti, 16gb, 512gb M.2, 1Tb SSD) will have to last another couple of years at least - thankfully I can game at 1440p without too many problems, it's running more than 1 VM that it starts to struggle!
The system would have been on the floor under the desk so RGB is not important - but noise is and I think that case is pretty quiet. Noise is also part of the reason for the Noctua over a watery solution as is solid state rather than rotational drives
I would have been building it myself having done a few over the years (the 1st ones I built had an 80286 processor in them - so long go that it was fine with a heatsink and didn't even need a CPU cooler!
My basket at Overclockers UK:
How would this have been as a build? The 2080 would have been a 3000 series of some description but other than that I was fairly settled with the rest of it. I know it's OTT but the idea was for 5 solid years of use both gaming and running multiple VMs. I have a 1440p 144hz monitor that I would have kept from my old rig and might also have kept the 1tb Samsung EVO 850 that it also in it.
If I can find another position quickly I might still be able to do it although I'm not holding out a lot of hope and suspect the current system (i7700k, 1080Ti, 16gb, 512gb M.2, 1Tb SSD) will have to last another couple of years at least - thankfully I can game at 1440p without too many problems, it's running more than 1 VM that it starts to struggle!
The system would have been on the floor under the desk so RGB is not important - but noise is and I think that case is pretty quiet. Noise is also part of the reason for the Noctua over a watery solution as is solid state rather than rotational drives
I would have been building it myself having done a few over the years (the 1st ones I built had an 80286 processor in them - so long go that it was fine with a heatsink and didn't even need a CPU cooler!
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Fractal Design Define 7 Mid-Tower Case - Black & White= £144.95
- 1 x 8 Pack 3950X Bundle - AMD 3950X, Asus ROG HERO, Corsair 64GB 3600MHz Bundle= £1,423.98
- 1 x Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Super ROG Strix OC 8192MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £889.99
- 1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)= £6.49
- 1 x Fractal Design ION+ 860P 860W 80 Plus Platinum Rated Fully Modular Power Supply= £139.99
- 1 x Aorus 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (GP-ASM2NE6100TTTD)= £229.99
- 1 x Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Pure Black CPU Cooler with Dual 140m Fans= £99.95
Total: £2,951.24 (includes shipping: £15.90)
Pointless Gen4 drive, tad expensive PSU, very expensive mobo and bundle... 7700k still good CPU, on par and a little better than Ryzen 3600 in some games. 1080 Ti still a great GPU as well, equivalent to a 2070 Super if not the Ti is a little better again in some games.
Maybe the cheaper alternative will help you fit it in with the job loss, obviously prioritise your 'food/mortgage' fund first! Then PC after when you sort a new job ofc.
