Thoughts and advice please?

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My last build was in 2012 and that was an i5-3570K and 670 GTX which was a monster in its day but because of life and children I haven't until now been able to get back into gaming, after a bit of research I have decided on these parts but would love some thoughts and advice from the guys who know their stuff! I do plan to buy a 3080 when it is released in case anyone thinks I forgot the most important part.

Corsair H115i RGB PLATINUM 97 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (front mounted as intake)
Gigabyte X570 AORUS MASTER ATX AM4 Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor
Corsair H115i RGB PLATINUM 97 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory
Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
Corsair HX Platinum 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Corsair 275R Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case


Extras (to replace the three fans included with the case, all exhaust)
Corsair ll Series ll120 RGB 120mm Dual Light Loop RGB LED PWM Fan 3 Fan Pack with Lighting Node Pro Cooling CO-9050072-WW

A MASSIVE thank you in advance!
 
Looks solid, and guessing your wanting a nice Corsair build :)

Save up to £100 could go B550 Master ! It does house triple m.2 PCI.e 4.0 slots but bumps down GPU from x16 to x8 speed.
Just a heads up if you plan running 4.0 NVMe in future . Also seems Nvidia and Microsoft tackling Sony's PS5 insane IO speeds with newer version of DX 12 and GDDR6X speeds. But not going to a fruit till next year. If you've GOT the budget then push 4.0 PCIe m.2.

Also, 3700x should be plenty for playing games to be honest. If your streaming, even 8 cores is fine doing the encoding via Nvidia software and 3080 GPU.

And a heads up, Aorus 3080 is an absolute monster. Should see GamersNexus reaction on it.

And if your going to wait for AMD next CPU, almost tempting to wait for Intel's as it's fast ... Easy to see new 11th gen laptops performance but built on 10nm node. Desktops will be on 14nm which isn't as good but will allow for higher clock speeds.
Interesting times

All this node size doesn't interest me, of course smaller is better to an extent but considering AMD using 7nm, Intel still beat them in several ways and if AMD didn't beat them with all the additional cores something would be very wrong! Also as you said 8 cores should be more than enough for gaming, I opted for a 12 core purely as overkill, so background bloatware wouldn't hinder gaming performance. I may wait it out even further and pickup cheap Ryzen and 1660 super to tick me over until Intel and AMD release their next gen processors, ultimately it comes down to what you use the computer for and at this time 1080p gaming is exactly that, 1440p at constant 144fps and 4k at 60fps in what i desire when I do pull the trigger and spend big!
 
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