Hey,
A friend of mine asked me for help in upgrading the PC I built for him in 2014. Due to the GPU shortage he'll probably keep rocking his 970 for a while, but this is the new stuff which I'll probably suggest to him.
Besides playing games (though mostly stuff like LoL and Anno) he uses his PC for running scripts he writes for his MSc project. I know his code though, he rarely multi-threads
The part I'm most unsure about is the RAM MoBo pairing. GN's testing suggested to me that 4x 3200 14-14-14 memory is still very cost effective (3600 cl14 would be at least 20% more expensive if I checked right) - though I could have interpreted that completely wrong. Both the board and the ram kit are rated for 3200, but the QVL of the motherboard has it listed as such with "native" 2133 speed, while some other 3200 kits are listed as native 3200. Does that mean I shouldn't expect them to work together cleanly at 3200, or just that I actually have to enable XMP? Speaking of XMP, this kit doesn't have the "v" in that column either which slightly concerns me..
I know this is a bit more in depth on the questions than these posts typically are, but if you know the answer to either of those questions, or spotted anything else weird about the component list, please let me know And thanks for taking the time to read this either way!