Giocol

Thanks! I'll read the post, and I'll probably follow your advice! I see your point, but I think that 16 GBs will be enough. If the situation demands it, I can always try to distribute the workload on a server (since I don't think I'll need THAT many VMs for more than a few hours at a time) You have a solid point, but I'm still not sold on giving up on those two cores, but I'll surely think about it. The MOBO you suggested seems way better than the one I picked though, thanks!

As my poor i5-2500k keeps asking to be retired, and with some extra income coming near the holidays, I finally decided to give a big update to my PC, and I thought that I could get some feedback on my choices and some tips here on the forum! What do I need this rig for: It will be dual booting some flavour of GNU/Linux (arch, if I don't randomly change distro in the next few weeks, which is not that certain) and Windows (at least until gaming on Linux finishes to catch up) 1080p 60Hz gaming, from indy stuff to AAA titles Coding, virtualization, unit testing, container hosting and other fun stuff. I'm majoring in Computer Engineering, and lately I've been feeling the need of those sweet extra cores that the Ryzen 2700x can give me Photo editing and light video editing (mainly 1080p) Some 2D and 3D rendering, mainly using game engines like Godot and UnrealEngine Hardware that I'm going to keep from the old rig: ASUS STRIX GTX970: I know, it's not that new, but I only game at 1080p, and it still holds up pretty well. I could consider changing to a 1060/1070ti, but I'm not super sold on that EVGA 600W 80+ GOLD PSU: I don't have a lot to say on this, it's just a solid, reliable PSU 4TB (2xTB) WD Black HDD: almost brand new, they are more than enough for long-time storage (planning on putting them in a RAID 1) 250GB SanDisk SSD: really hold drive, it still holds up pretty well. It will probably become my Star Citizen drive (don't hate me too much for that, please) or go in a small media server Dual 1080p monitors, mechanical keyboard and gaming mouse New Hardware: (prices in euros from italian Amazon) PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor $320.15 Motherboard Gigabyte - B450 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard $138.60 Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $138.99 Storage Western Digital - Blue 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $87.18 Case Fractal Design - Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case $95.47 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $780.39 Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-24 12:25 EST-0500 I want to thank in advance anyone that will waste a tad bit of his time to give me some tips/share some thoughts on this config :3