Rekusha89

Okay cool, I'll check it out. I mostly was just willing to go big so I could keep it quiet because I wanted to spoil myself with a really quiet CPU since my fans in my current build are like sirens.

Ohh see I didn't even know they came with paste. So people are just saying you dont need aftermarket paste, and that the stock paste is just fine. That makes a lot more sense to me because I was getting the impression that they were saying you didn't need any at all.

I swapped for the max. What do you mean by OTT? My apologies, I haven't heard of that term before. Will definitely check out new PSUs. Thanks!

I just planned on flashing it via thumbdrive since thats what someone else said you could do in a separate thread I made, but having just seen the MAX I will definitely swap it out. Thanks for the heads up!

Gotcha, thanks a bunch!

PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor $199.99 @ Amazon CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler $88.99 @ SuperBiiz Thermal Compound Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5 g Thermal Paste $4.95 @ Amazon Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard $99.99 @ Amazon Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $74.99 @ Newegg Storage Sabrent Rocket 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $119.98 @ Amazon Storage Seagate Barracuda 3 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $84.49 @ Amazon Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB GAMING OC 3X Video Card $509.99 @ Newegg Case Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case $98.99 @ Walmart Power Supply EVGA 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $71.98 @ Newegg Case Fan be quiet! SilentWings 3 pwm 59.5 CFM 140 mm Fan $25.13 @ Amazon Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $1429.47 Mail-in rebates -$50.00 Total $1379.47 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-17 14:09 EST-0500 So here is my build which I am sufficiently happy with, but my final question is: WIth the semi modular PSU I am getting, will I need to get any extra cables for the items im purchasing? Like perhaps extra power cables or SATA/molex cables?

Okay, awesome thanks for the info, I will see about swapping that out before I pull the trigger.

I have the Samsung 840 EVO 250g atm with my windows and a couple games on it. I will check this out and compare, thank you!

Good idea on the retailer part. Unfortunately the closest place that would sell something like that is about 45 minutes out and its a best buy which is a bummer but if they sell a b450 board then I will definitely make the drive. Otherwise my last question for now is: Would you consider this a decent build? As in the parts all make sense and and nothing is an outlier in price/performance?

Yeah the gold PSU looks like a much nicer buy than the one I selected. I really like your idea of keeping the 3TB hard drive and supplementing with a 1TB SSD. I do have a 256g one atm but Im quite frankly sold on the 1TB SSD. Thanks for the info on the thermal paste, I always thought it was just something that you did to help keep your temps down. I was going to get a B450 but I kept reading they were having BIOS troubles that you could solve if you had a ZEN 2 chip but I don't so I wasn't quite sure if I could flash it and update it to get it all working. In the event that I can, or can otherwise get it to work just as fine, I will certainly switch to the B450 boards. I'm glad that I'm not super out of touch with whats in at the moment so I've got that going for me at least. Thanks for all your help, super appreciated.

I was thinking the x570 would be unnecessary as well, but I was worried that my BIOS would be all messed up had I gone for a b450 board due to the chipset difference or some such that I read was going on. Maybe that issue resolved itself and I hadn't heard yet. Thanks for the all the info! I also have a Samsung EVO 256g SSD already so I might omit the 512g one. Although the 1TB SSD was looking enticing so I think I would do better to drop the 3TB HDD and keep both SSD's and add another soon after. Overall I am glad to see that I got the hang of it my first go around, and I really appreciate your help, thanks a bunch!

Thanks for all the replies so far, I'll try to reply to you guys here soon enough, but for now I'll just add that Im sorry, I suppose I wasn't clear in my post but I do have an SSD already, its just the EVO 840 or whatever 256g one, and then some standard 1TB hard drive. I got the 3tb hard drive as a bigger main drive (Windows still on SSD ofc) because I bought that first hard drive ages ago. Although after seeing those 1tb SSD drives I am definitely compelled to check them out. Anyway, I will reply soon enough to you guys in particular.

Hello all, new to the forum and haven't built a PC since the gtx 770 cards dropped, and I am ready to upgrade. I plan on selling my old PC at a bargain price to a friend sans my SSD with my windows and my HDD. First things first, here is a link to a PC part picker build I've tried my best to optimize. 1. Budget and Location My budget hovers around $1500 USD, I'm not married to the price though and am willing to go up to ~$1700. 2. Aim This system will be used entirely for gaming. More specifically, currrent FPS games (CoD:MW, Cyberpunk) and current action/adventure games (Witcher 3, new Resident Evil remakes, Remnant from the Ashes) 3. Monitors I will be using 1 main monitor 1080p 144hz (ASUS VG248Q) and a secondary monitor at 900p. I plan on upgrading monitors next but thats aside from this current PC budget. 4. Peripherals I have all the peripherals I need, but might nab a Windows key off of ebay for cheap or something. 5. Why Upgrade? I finally have the money available to do so and I am sick of my current build as it stands, and I think I could really use a new computer to enjoy my games on my nice-ish monitor. Summary: I am ready to pull the trigger on a build but I haven't built in 6 or so years and I haven't kept up with the status quo in terms of parts and such, so I am a little behind on the knowledge. I am all ears for any fixes or recommendations. Also, let me know if I should post this during the day next time to get more attention or if there is a sufficient amount of lurkers at night.