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Great! Thanks your your advice! Do you think, that a Liquid cooler is even worth at this point? Portability (like over countries) and ease of maintenance are also important points for that Build. Will having like a 3700 (or a bit higher) be even worth it? I reckon a decent air cooler will only cost around 60€. Is there a big difference in noise? (I don't know if the person will use speakers or headphones.)

Sorry for implying that you just were biased towards AMD. No offence meant. So I can basically flex on the CPU.

Is there a reason to go 3900X over 9900KF? The 3900X is even more expensive then the Intel one in my country. I don't think that sides really matter to my friend.

Huge thanks for the advice already. I'll look into it again tomorrow. Wasn't sure how much time I'll have. I'm not sure about the 110 dynamic case though. The person will probably need to get that around the globe at some time. A that much glass will probably be problematic there. With the RAM, I totally agree. I missed that completely on his list. The PC will also have to do some productive work with 3D-Software. But even there 16GB will probably be sufficient (can be upgraded anyway). I personally am running a 3700X with an 1060 6GB. I also do some programming and other cpu intensive work with it. So pls don't judge me on my combo. Will the 3700 be really enough for a 2080 (Ti)?

Hi, I have a friend that want's to build a gaming pc. He mainly insists on the i9-9900K and 2080Ti. This is his partlist so far: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i9-9900KF 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor €469.00 @ Caseking CPU Cooler Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240R RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler €99.79 @ Aquatuning Motherboard Asus ROG STRIX Z390-H GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard €190.95 @ Amazon Deutschland Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory €146.52 @ Amazon Deutschland Storage Western Digital Blue 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive €58.90 @ Amazon Deutschland Storage Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive €68.48 @ Amazon Deutschland Video Card Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB Dual OC Video Card €1253.00 @ Amazon Deutschland Case In Win 805 ATX Mid Tower Case €206.13 @ Amazon Deutschland Power Supply Xilence Performance A+ 630 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply €53.90 @ Amazon Deutschland Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit €107.80 @ Mindfactory Monitor Samsung LC27JG50QQNZA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor €287.60 @ Amazon Deutschland Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total €2942.07 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-02 22:41 CET+0100 He has a 2800€ "budget". - The PSU is probably too low. Will 850W be sufficient? - Probably also a little potential on the RAM. Will the Motherboard be good (I suppose so)? - Anything special to pay attention to on the Liquid cooler or is it even useless (probably won't overclock anyway). - Any tips or compatibility problems? Thanks in advance.

For anyone finding this. I built got all the components and built the system. After reinstalling GRUB (which included adding the UEFI-Entry) for the new Board using a new ArchLinux-Disk (old one didn't support the hardware) everything worked flawlessly. FPS are at least doubled and playing Overwatch at 120 FPS isn't a problem anymore (now the GPU is the bottleneck ). I also had a test-render of a self created simple blenderscene (in two states): Scene 1 was rendered 3x faster and Scene 2 (a bit more complex) almost 5x faster. With some basic settings (and still bad cooling in my case) I get the CPU to 4GHz on all core load and one to 4,25 GHz on a single core load. Again, thanks for all the advice that I got here.

Great refrence. So the carbon seems to be one tier better, but the Tomahawk is plenty for the CPU according to the list. Also thanks for the insight on compatibility for the 3rd gen. So the board will probably work flawlessly. Thanks a lot!

Thats a good point i completely missed. The MSI B45 Tomahawk looks fairly good. Does this have the current bios for 3rd gen? I certainly don't have any other CPU lying around to update it myself.

Hi, as the title suggests, I'm looking for a good combo along with an AMD Ryzen 3700X. I've wanted to upgrade my PC for about 6 Months now. CURRENT SETUP: - CPU: i5-4570 (Stock cooler) - Mobo: ASUS Z87-C (Rev 1.xx) - RAM: 2x4GB from one vendor and 2x4 GB from another (DDR3 something) - GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB from Gigabyte - Power supply: Something with 450 Watt from BeQuiet - Samsung 860 EVO Sata SSD and some WD Blue HDDs - Badly cooled case - OS: Manjaro Linux (currently on Kernel 4.19, but I can upgrade that) The whole PC is about 4 years old and the OS running for about 3 years without reinstall. I originally started out with 2 HDDs and a 750 Ti. Later I upgraded that and the RAM (hence two different kits). I never had a problem with the PC (runs rock solid). TYPICAL WORKLOAD: - Mainly playing Overwatch (using Lutris (Wine and DXVK)). - Sometimes gameplay recording using OBS and NVEnc (shadowplay'ish). - Converting Videos using ffmpeg (mostly from H264 to H264) - Developing (e.g. doing compilation of source code) UPDATE REASON (maybe skip this): The CPU runs well, but usually at 50°C on Idle which can be blamed on both the stock cooler and the case (which isn't ideal and not in an ideal spot, too). In the long run, I plan to try 120/144 Hz gaming since I only heard good things about it. When playing Overwatch the GPU is literally bored at about 30% while the CPU is maxed out on most cores. The CPU always reaches 3,4 GHz on all cores never more or less (4/4 cores/threads, 3,2Gz base, 3,6 boost). Since DXVK translates DX11 to Vulkan, there is certainly some CPU-Overhead involved. I'm currently starting to work more and more with C-Projects (Programming) and the insane cache and resulting performance will be very nice. CURRENT PART SELECTION: I decided on the 3700X and went to look for Mainboards on EBay and Amazon. On Amazon, I found this Mainboard (ASUS ROG Strix B450-E) which seems to have enough VRM-Cooling for the CPU. I know that I can get down to 90€ on EBay, but I'm not sure whether they will to will with meeting the demands of the 3700X (I would like to boost as much as is possible without any special settings). I will probably use the Be Quiet BK008 as cooler which should be plenty and offer a nice boost over the stock one. I probably won't be wrong even if the stock cooler will do well, too. For RAM, I'll probably go this Kit. Though I'm not sure about the timings but it should suffice. QUESTION: Is the planned stuff good or am I making a major mistake that I should look out for. My PSU should in theory have no problem with the new combo, too. Is the extra cooler worth it, or it useless for such a build? (I consider less noise as useful) Mainly knowing, whether the Mobo is a fatal error would be nice. Can it cope ok (not perfect) with the CPU? I'll probably purchase the stuff tomorrow (in about 14 hours). GOALS WITH IT: Compile lots of stuff (own linux kernel compilation). Trying some more AAAs I've never come to play. Looking for a 120/144 Hz Monitor in near future if the performance is sufficient for that.