Thoughts on PC

[winterwhite]

Just wondered on people's thoughts about this build? (It will be used for some gaming as well as just general work):

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600
Storage 1: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
Storage 2: Western Digital Blue 2 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB GAMING X Video Card
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex III Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX

I will be adding more RGB in the future

 

[bagel]

Looks good. What res + refresh rate is the monitor you will be gaming with?

 

[Minibiker]

The Samsung drive is over priced for what your getting... You can get 1tb drives for cheaper tbh

 

[Grimley]

The Samsung drive is over priced for what your getting... You can get 1tb drives for cheaper tbh

This. here are 2 with similar read/write speeds & much cheaper for a kickoff :

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x TeamGroup MP34 512GB NVMe PCIe M.2 Solid State Drive= £79.99
• 1 x Toshiba Kioxia RD500 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £76.99

Total: £165.68 (includes shipping: £8.70)​

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[EsaT]

Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600

Storage 1: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive

Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB GAMING X Video Card

Very brand Ridiculously Grossly Bloated overpriced memory for half dozen year old school 2x8GB.
2x16GB kits are only £10/20 more non-RGB/RGB:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patr...dual-channel-kit-pvs432g320c6k-my-106-pa.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...ual-channel-kit-rgb-black-tf1d-my-0a4-tg.html
With command interleaving of dual ranks they'll likely also perform better in memory usage heavy games despite of lower clock.

In 2x8GB 3600MHz this would actually have lower total latencies for £50 less!
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...-3600mhz-dual-channel-kit-blac-my-0a3-tg.html


And Samsung is equally bad brand overpricer.
Perfectly good for gaming PC 1TB drives are only £20 more.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0c-hd-56l-wd.html


Ditto for Nvidia.
You can get good amount faster card for £40 less:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powe...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-19b-pc.html
That would actually give both 2x16GB memory and 1TB NVMe...


And 3 year longer warranty PSU for £3 less:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phanteks-amp-650w-80-plus-gold-modular-power-supply-ca-09q-pt.html