ThrustyPuss

It wasn't a intentional choice to get Freesync, just happens that the monitor I wanted has it and obviously G-Sync monitors are WAY too expensive with the same stats as that monitor. Pricing wise it does end up cheaper to go the Vega option even without factoring in a G-sync monitor to make it worth the time. Could get a Vega 64 and still be cheaper overall.

Thanks for the detailed reply, I have noticed in some more detailed reviews on (see Gamers Nexus) they are coming to the same conclusions. And I mean there is always the "but more cores will be utilized in the future" argument but that's been around for years and is only just starting to improve now...barely. Higher clocks are going to be the king for a long time still game side, but when you mix in streaming those higher core counts more than make up for it. I will likely get the 1080 or maybe even towards a Vega option to take advantage of the monitors FreeSync. And they seem to do very well in the workstation based tasks. Outdoing the Nvidia options in most tasks, with only a small performance drop in games buy being able to offset that with Freesync is tempting.

There is a little flexibility in budget, I was just trying to match everything parts wise in the same kind of performance "Tier", things that can be utilized by everything in a smooth way if that makes sense, good but not over the top. Based around the Ryzen 2600 as its more than what I need for now but is enough too keep me going for a few years. I have flip flopped between the 1070, 1070Ti and 1080 the entire time, with the only bonus being the longer I cant decide the more money I have to spend on this and then the closer I am too the 1080 path... A 1080 wont be too much for the 2600? like not being able to utilize the card correctly?

It is actually meant to be the MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X not the Armor card, must have selected the wrong one in the Part Picker list. I have looked into going the Ti variant as well since I will be running 1440p in everything and would prefer higher settings for gaming.

No other input for this build? I have put a fair amount of research into it and general thought, but outsourcing fault finding is always the best way too find out how wrong you are about something.

Love it, what are you planing on using it for overall?

Yeah but not in any meaningful way. All home and hobby based work. As high of quality as I can but by no means professional.

I'm removing the $300 in SSD and HDDS since I already own those parts. And I want 1440p gaming, plus the GPU and CPU will be useful for my light production work.

Hello everyone, haven't had a system for awhile after having my poor old i5 4440 based desktop die from a power surge. Looking too get back into gaming a little, with some streaming and a little minor production type work but nothing hugely intensive or near professional levels, just a hobby amount. Really this CPU is probably more than I require right now but I'm hoping not needing to update for a few years and grow into the power available. The only things being carried over from my dead system is the SSD and the HDD's. I MAY go a large NVME M.2 drive at some point in the future. But right now this amount is around my budget. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($234.00 @ Shopping Express) CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($55.00 @ PCCaseGear) Motherboard: MSI - B450M GAMING PLUS Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($134.00 @ Shopping Express) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($255.72 @ Amazon Australia) Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage: Western Digital - BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Storage: Western Digital - BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card ($619.00 @ Scorptec) Case: Fractal Design - Define Mini C MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($125.00 @ BudgetPC) Power Supply: Silverstone - Strider Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($109.00 @ Umart) Monitor: AOC - Q3279VWF 31.5" 2560x1440 75Hz Monitor ($298.00 @ Shopping Express) Total: $1828.70 ---I have removed the SSD and HDD prices from this---

Is there much of a reason to go 370 series motherboard with no intention to overclock at all? Also chance of going 2 GPU's in my future are 0%

Just noticed have included them, no idea why I did. Likely due to changing the build a million times already and just forgetting I own the bloody things already. Just fixed the dumb

Have seen a lot of good reviews about the Macho cooler.

So I am looking at a 1080p/likely 1440p in the future, mostly gaming build. I have a semi rounded idea of what I am picking as far as parts but it has been many years since my last system build and am in no way up to date with current trends and technology. I'm looking to keep the budget to the under 1700 mark if possible and have a heavy preference for as quite as possible. Type Item Price CPU Intel - Core i5-7600 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor $303.00 CPU Cooler be quiet! - PURE ROCK 51.7 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler $45.00 Motherboard ASRock - B250M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $109.00 Memory Kingston - HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory $185.00 Storage Samsung - 850 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Already Own Storage Western Digital - BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Already Own Video Card Asus - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Strix Video Card $495.00 Case Raidmax - Hyperion MicroATX Mid Tower Case $119.00 Power Supply Silverstone - Strider Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $115.00 Optical Drive LG - GH24NSD1 DVD/CD Writer $18.95 Total $1389.95 Already have a 1TB WD Black and 850 Pro that will be coming over to the new system. I have no interest in overclocking anything and would prefer to just build it and leave it until it becomes obsolete like my current system. I do no workstation based tasks, no real editing/encoding (occasional changing video/audio formats but not often enough to matter), just YouTube/Facebook/basic things and then everything from old indie games to new AAA titles. I Have a average 1080p monitor currently but this will be something that changes after I build the system and more than likely I will be going to something 1440p and 144hz. Prefer to play games as maxed as I can settings wise while staying comfortably above 60 fps (higher once I get the new monitor) I also have no brand loyalty to anyone so if AMD do something better for the same price I will go that way, it makes no difference at the end of the day anyway. In Australia as well so raped on prices and availability of everything.