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jolliman86

jolliman86

jolliman86

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I am in the need for a new PC now, and I wanted to look and get most of the build sorted before Zen 2 hits on Sunday and wanted a bit of help.

I have monitors, keyboard, mouse and drives (although I would like to upgrade to an nvme for the boot drive, and maybe a new ssd for my games), and power supply.

My budget is around 22/2400. I have left off the motherboard and cpu until the weekend, but I was thinking something along the line of this, but i am happy to recieve corrections if I have messed anything up.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,507.61 (includes shipping: £11.70)​
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Ok thanks a lot for your advice.

Would you recommend a different GPU?

<edit> Might help if I tell you what games. I currently have a 1440, 144hz monitor and mainly play Overwatch, Apex and recently Civilization 6
 
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EsaT said:
Radeon VII/RTX 2080 is level after which performance per money starts going completely down the toilet.
For 2560x1440 both are perfectly good.
Even little cheaper ones aren't really that much worser.

Actually besides Zen2 there are now also new graphics card's coming out.
AMD has Navi cards coming out in same day with Zen2 and Nvidia beefed up versions of couple current cards.
So there's going to be lots of competition for 2560x1440 gaming.
(and short sleeps for reviewers with lots of products to test)
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I made a few amendments and looked at the 2080 and my basket looks like this now

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,162.25 (includes shipping: £12.30)​
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I really am of a mind to wait and see the review on super and Zen 2, but I have to be honest, my evening are fill with boredom now that I can't game lol. I do know it would be sensible to wait and see the review and let the prices settle as well... what to do, what to do.
 
Scooter72 said:
Similar predicament - be smart and be patient its a big purchase to no doubt last a few years... waiting is the sensible thing to.

But hey this is about shiny things and since when did being sensible have anything to do with it :)
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Haha yup. I was all set to wait as well, then my gfx card died and now I am becoming increasingly impatient lol.
 
So I have done a bit more reading and watched a few more reviews and I have got the following

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £979.14 (includes shipping: £13.20)​
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I am going to add this when it is out as well https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1b7-gi.html

I am a little unsure on what route to take with the cooler, I have a Noctua NH-U9S which I have been happy with, but my cpu hasnt been under much stress either. I have seen quite a few different ones recommended so I was looking for suggestions, and also any thoughts on the above?
 
I think I will go for the 3700x actually. My thought process around the x570 board was that although there is nothing that would need the pcie gen 4 right now, the most likely thing for me to upgrade in the future is my gfx card, which might be needed in the future.

I am hopeful this will last me quite a while, and I really dont want to replace my motherboard in the future if I can help it lol.
 
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