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DarkJayson

DarkJayson

DarkJayson

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First I would like to say that seven years ago I got a build here that lasted myself this long, other than upgrading to a gtx 1060 6gb a year and a half ago when I got into vr my build lasted that long and ran everything fine, so its time to upgrade.

With how old my last build was there is no point in comparing them lol so I will just post my basket to see if anyone spots any issues:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,207.73 (includes shipping: £20.82)
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So first thing I am going to transferring my gtx 1060 6gb as it has done well and I am going to wait a bit till say a rtx 1080s get cheaper in price maybe in a year or two, its the only thing I am bringing over as everything is staying in my old system as I am going to be re-purposing it.

My budget was around 1k but I added an extra 200 to it as I wanted to upgrade my monitor as well.

Starting with the cpu I picked the AMD Ryzen 7 3800x as it looked to be the best of the current AMD Ryzen 7 cpus other than going past into Ryzen 9 and thread ripper territory which the cpu alone would cost half to the total build cost, from what I have read looking at other upgrade builds it looks like currently AMD ryzen 7 gets most performance for cost at the moment.

Next is the motherboard I went with the AMD AM4 3rd gen boards as I wanted to make sure all features where future proof at last, the first shown one was the Gigabyte x570 as it basically had everything I wanted and my current board was made by gigabyte I picked it. Although in seven years who knows if they kept up the reliability.

Memory next, one regret I had last build was not going for more memory at the time 8gb sounded like a lot but over time it became standard and now is one of the factors holding everything back, with the design of my board and heat sink i can not add more memory as well. So this time I picked 32gb at 3200 and a CPU cooler that had cuts to its fins to stop memory blocking.

I got a CPU cooler in the performance range that also had cuts in the fins to stop blocking the memory slots hope it works.

I went with a nice airflow tower that looks a lot like my old case, I am not that into RGB I would rather have it sit nice quite and cool than look good.

I added two SSDs a kingson A480 for the OS and a Samsung 1TB for my steam drive, the case can hold up to 10 drives I have lots of room to expand storage space which I feel I will do.

Now on to power supply as someone who had a tower die from a cheap power supply which lead to my last build I picked a Kolink 80 plus gold modular power supply any issues with this one? I used part picker to figure out the wattage and it came to 354w so 500w should be plenty including future GPU upgrades.

Lastly I am upgrading my monitor, its the same size as my old one but its gone from 60hz to 144hz It looks like it has good reviews.

So there hopely is my next build for at least the next 5 years which is the time limit I give myself between upgrades, upgrading to a 1060 6gb added the extra years to my old tower so hoping to do the same in a few years with this one.

Any help on issues with parts anything i am missing would be great as the advice here last time helped a lot.

Thanks

Jason
 
3800X isn't really worth of its £40 higher price than 3700X, unless you have more money than you know what to do with.
Speed difference is marginal at best.

Instead put that money into at least semi proper PSU instead of that Kolink cheapo with very short warranty.
And that size PSUs often have lacking PCIe power cables for graphics card updates.

Also for CPU cooler Scythe Mugen 5 is well enough for very good £43 price.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/scythe-scmg-5100-mugen-5-rev.b-cpu-cooler-hs-046-sy.html
And it has proper full memory clearance unlike that BeQuiet, which covers RAM under it.

Unless planning to upgrade CPU to 12 core you could as well take MSI B450 Tomahawk for £100.
And CPU VRM of that X570 Gaming X isn't really that much better with old design.


Samsung SSD's are more or leass heavily brand overpriced.
Like said you can get lot faster performance capability NVMe drive for same price. (which should be also used for OS)
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0c-hd-56l-wd.html

In fact that pretty much analog storage QLC Samsung loses to 10 year old "spinning rust" in continuous writes after exceeding SLC cache, because its native write speed is below 100MB/s.


And while case is PC's best part for holding usage value, that case is rather expensive for such PC with low mainstream graphics card, shoe string budget monitor etc.
I don't think you'll be building any big RAID arrays there...
 
Thanks how does this look

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,140.18 (includes shipping: £20.82)​
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Swapped cpu to ryzen 7 3700, the motherboard to the one you suggested. I am using 3200 ram so I will have to OC it which that board can handle.

The reason I went with that case was because its the most basic one still in stock at the moment I might just get a case from elsewhere, I dont need anything fancy with it just that its quite, good airflow and holds everything inside.

I swapped the power supply for a corsar 750w with 10 year warenty its also 80 plus gold rated as well so that one any good?

Last time i had to do parts comparison was seven years ago which is why I am needing some help with it.

For the monitor its a bit confusing, I am looking for a 24inch 144hz monitor and they all come in different prices without any noticeable difference. If I go for 1440p the price doubles. Any advice on this?

Thanks
 
DarkJayson said:


The reason I went with that case was because its the most basic one still in stock at the moment I might just get a case from elsewhere, I dont need anything fancy with it just that its quite, good airflow and holds everything inside.
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Scrap that Silverhype paste, which hasn't even been any top paste in long long time.
Scythe's bundled paste does as well in this big comparison.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/thermal-paste-comparison,5108-9.html

Corsair RMx is very good PSU.
Just drop it to 650W.
Very few gaming PC components draw even 350W.


If you want minimalistic looking case Fractal Design Define R5 would be good.
Also Corsair Carbide serie has some old style cases.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...dition-mid-tower-pc-case-black-ca-196-cs.html
 
Thanks you have been a great help, this is what my final build should be I took out the silver paste I downgraded the PSU to 650w

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,060.95 (includes shipping: £18.12)​
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Its looking good I also swapped out the monitor for a more expensive AOC Gaming monitor thats the last thing I am looking to get help on its an IPS monitor which usually has slower responce times from what I have looked up but this one looks like it has good responce times. Any issues with this one or is there another one that should be looked at instead?

I'll be ordering tomorrow when I get the monitor sorted out.
 
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