Building my dream gaming pc

[Ph1n3aSs]

Since my current PC is already 6 years old, I am putting together a new PC, not just one but my personal "dream" PC! The starting point of the PC is the best possible components for a gaming PC with a budget of € 3000 to € 3500, where the entire system must be RGB compatible with Philips Hue Sync and Razer Synapse, so I have currently opted for ASUS (Aura).

At the moment my shopping cart contains the components below where I still wonder if there are better options compared to these components where I stay within my budget. In addition, I am very curious about which memory options you would advise me ...

Shopping cart:

ASUS ROG Strix Helios                                          €    259,00
ASUS ROG Aura Terminal                                      €    119,95
ASUS ROG THOR 850P                                         €    250,00              <--- ASUS ROG STRIX-750G      - € 71,05
ASUS ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming                           €    195,95
Intel Core i9 9900K                                                  €    545,05
ASUS ROG Strix LC 360                                         €    259,00
G. Skill DDR4 Trident-Z 2x8GB 3200Mhz CL14      €   184,90
Samsung EVO 970 500 GB (Windows 10 Boot)      €   101,00
Sasmung EVO 970 1 TB (Games/Music/Movies)    €   185,00               <--- Seagate 2TB  Barracuda     - € 125,10
ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2080TI O11G Gaming       € 1330,00

                                                         Current total: € 3429,85                                           Current total: € 3233,70

Personally I am very curious about your ideas, I prefer to order the PC as soon as possible given the current situations ... If any of you have any questions about the reason for the construction, the purpose of the construction or other questions. Feel free to ask, of course I try to answer it as soon as possible.

Current setup:
Razer Huntsman Elite
Razer Mamba Elite
Razer Filrefly V2
Razer Kraken Ultimate
Logitech Z906 5.1 Surround Set
Philips 272G5DJEB - 27 inch 144Hz Gaming Monitor
3 x Philips Hue Playbars behind my monitor 
1 x Philips Ledstrip behind my desk

Games I play most: 
Battlefield V
COD Modern Warfare
APEX Legends
GTA V

[Jumballi]

Kill the smaller ssd and replace it with a hard drive, games don’t benefit with ssd outside of load times, but storage is great to have.

[Nocte]

Why 9900K when the 3900X exists and even costs less?

[SavageNeo]

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor	$418.89 @ B&H
CPU Cooler	Asus ROG Strix LC 360 80.95 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$239.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard	Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero ATX AM4 Motherboard	$359.99 @ Best Buy
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z Neo 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory	$229.99 @ Newegg
Storage	ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$127.05 @ Newegg
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$169.99 @ Adorama
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$54.98 @ Newegg
Video Card	Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB ROG Strix Gaming OC Video Card	$1279.99 @ Best Buy
Case	Asus ROG Strix Helios ATX Full Tower Case	$312.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	Asus ROG Strix 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$154.99 @ B&H
Case Fan	Thermaltake Riing Trio 12 RGB TT Premium Edition (3-Fan) 41.13 CFM 120 mm Fans	$139.99 @ Best Buy
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$3488.83
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-28 06:13 EDT-0400

Sine you have over 3000 dollar budget. R 9 3900x will serve you longer and better. With 12 cores and 24 threads (with good enough cooling, the strix lc 360mm is very good) you will make much better and faster video renderings, workloads etc than i9 9900k. For gaming disabling 4 cores and 8 threads, gives you more overclock headroom to gaming, and it will match the i9 9900k (you can disable them wihtout going into bios). 

 

The ram. 16 gb is enough and with that overkill motherboard you have plenty of headroom to upgrade that in the future. 3600mhz and cl14 is the best for ryzen right now, since money is not the problem.

 

Adata sx8200 pro is very similar to that samsung one, put with lower price. 500gb is enough for windows and your main games. For huge gaming library the 1tb sata ssd will be good enough, since games do not use all of that m.2ssd speed. 2tb hdd for large files etc.

 

The one of the best (and one of the most expensive) rtx 2080tis. Good look, cooling and software.

 

The asus helios is good looking and mid range performing in airflow. Its very overpriced, but it loos kinda nice.

 

I could not find a price for rog thor psu in partpicker, so i put 750 strix psu instead (still good performing, badass look).

 

Since helios comes with 4 non rgb fans. You should buy thermaltake 14 premium edition 3 pack fans. (those in the list are 120mm and not 140mm cuz partpicker did not have the 140mm ones) Mount them in the front, the aio on the top, and you could buy one more 140mm rgb fan at the rear.

 

 

[Ph1n3aSs]

9 minutes ago, Nocte said:

Why 9900K when the 3900X exists and even costs less?

 

In my head there is still a very strong idea that intel is more reliable. I want to use my PC purely for gaming, as well as for administrative tasks, music and films. Not for video rendering.

[SavageNeo]

Just now, Ph1n3aSs said:

In my head there is still a very strong idea that intel is more reliable

Well use ryzen master to put 4 cores to sleep, then you have same amount of cores than intel. Overclock to 4.75 ghz and boom. Its will be same performing as intel i9 9900k.

 

[Nocte]

3 minutes ago, Ph1n3aSs said:

 

In my head there is still a very strong idea that intel is more reliable. I want to use my PC purely for gaming, as well as for administrative tasks, music and films. Not for video rendering.

In terms of reliability, I have had this AMD Ryzen 1600 for 3 years and I never had a single hiccup. 
 

The 3900X matches 9900K in most games according to benchmarks I’ve seen. 

[Ph1n3aSs]

11 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor	$418.89 @ B&H
CPU Cooler	Asus ROG Strix LC 360 80.95 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$239.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard	Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero ATX AM4 Motherboard	$359.99 @ Best Buy
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z Neo 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory	$229.99 @ Newegg
Storage	ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$127.05 @ Newegg
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$169.99 @ Adorama
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$54.98 @ Newegg
Video Card	Asus GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB ROG Strix Gaming OC Video Card	$1279.99 @ Best Buy
Case	Asus ROG Strix Helios ATX Full Tower Case	$312.98 @ Newegg
Power Supply	Asus ROG Strix 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$154.99 @ B&H
Case Fan	Thermaltake Riing Trio 12 RGB TT Premium Edition (3-Fan) 41.13 CFM 120 mm Fans	$139.99 @ Best Buy
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$3488.83
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-28 06:13 EDT-0400

Sine you have over 3000 dollar budget. R 9 3900x will serve you longer and better. With 12 cores and 24 threads (with good enough cooling, the strix lc 360mm is very good) you will make much better and faster video renderings, workloads etc than i9 9900k. For gaming disabling 4 cores and 8 threads, gives you more overclock headroom to gaming, and it will match the i9 9900k (you can disable them wihtout going into bios). 

 

The ram. 16 gb is enough and with that overkill motherboard you have plenty of headroom to upgrade that in the future. 3600mhz and cl14 is the best for ryzen right now, since money is not the problem.

 

Adata sx8200 pro is very similar to that samsung one, put with lower price. 500gb is enough for windows and your main games. For huge gaming library the 1tb sata ssd will be good enough, since games do not use all of that m.2ssd speed. 2tb hdd for large files etc.

 

The one of the best (and one of the most expensive) rtx 2080tis. Good look, cooling and software.

 

The asus helios is good looking and mid range performing in airflow. Its very overpriced, but it loos kinda nice.

 

I could not find a price for rog thor psu in partpicker, so i put 750 strix psu instead (still good performing, badass look).

 

Since helios comes with 4 non rgb fans. You should buy thermaltake 14 premium edition 3 pack fans. (those in the list are 120mm and not 140mm cuz partpicker did not have the 140mm ones) Mount them in the front, the aio on the top, and you could buy one more 140mm rgb fan at the rear.

 

 

 

Thank you very much for this extensive response! This afternoon I really have to shift my full focus to my 9 day old son. Tonight I will definitely sit down for this!

[Nocte]

2 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

Well use ryzen master to put 4 cores to sleep, then you have same amount of cores than intel. Overclock to 4.75 ghz and boom. Its will be same performing as intel i9 9900k.

 

You don’t really need to do anything like that to get the chip to match the 9900K in most games. 

[Ph1n3aSs]

40 minutes ago, Jumballi said:

Kill the smaller ssd and replace it with a hard drive, games don’t benefit with ssd outside of load times, but storage is great to have.

I will look into this for saving some money!

[SavageNeo]

The ryzne 9 3900x has more cahce than i9 9900k that is why its better similar to i9 9900k when overclocked. Ryzen 9 3900x runs very hot.

 

You can create gaming profile in ryzen master. put 4 cores to sleep, put voltage something beetween 1.325-1.38. And overclock to 4.7ghz+

 

For workload etc you can make profile too. Do not put any cores to sleep. Just put your voltage to 1.33-1.35 and put all of your cores to 4.5ghz-4.6ghz (max turbo) depending on your cooling.

 

You can also make silent mode for youtube etc. Just put 6 cores to sleep and put your clokc and voltage to 1.35 adn 4ghz.

 

Swtiching beetween profiles is very easy. Just 1 click and thats it

[jones177]

6 minutes ago, Ph1n3aSs said:

Since my current PC is already 6 years old, I am putting together a new PC, not just one but my personal "dream" PC! The starting point of the PC is the best possible components for a gaming PC with a budget of € 3000 to € 3500, where the entire system must be RGB compatible with Philips Hue Sync and Razer Synapse, so I have currently opted for ASUS (Aura).

At the moment my shopping cart contains the components below where I still wonder if there are better options compared to these components where I stay within my budget. In addition, I am very curious about which memory options you would advise me ...

Shopping cart:

ASUS ROG Strix Helios
ASUS ROG Aura Terminal
ASUS ROG THOR 850P
ASUS ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming
Intel Core i9 9900K
ASUS ROG Strix LC 360
G. Skill DDR4 Trident-Z 2x8GB 3200Mhz CL14
Samsung EVO 970 500 GB
Sasmung EVO 970 1 TB
ASUS RTX 2080TI O11G Gaming

Current total: € 3429.85

Personally I am very curious about your ideas, I prefer to order the PC as soon as possible given the current situations ...

For high end I would not go with a Strix motherboard. I would go with a AORUS board. If it has to be ASUS go Hero.

 

An 970 EVO only benefits open world games that load as you move around the world. Only my modded games that use 4 and 8k textures or 10 X NPCs use the extra speed of the EVO. For all non modified games the SATA SSDs on my other gaming computer do just fine. That may change with games designed for the new consoles.    

For the high end get a 2tb 970 EVO. For games now get a 4tb SATA. 

Since I mod games I would only buy 2tb EVOs. 

 

The boost clock on the ASUS RTX 2080TI O11G Gaming is too low for me to consider it high end.

A 2080 ti it has to run at around 2040 to 2100mhz with a 24/7 overclock to be considered high end. My EVGA FTW3 Ultra can do that with the default fan curve but my EVGA XC can't come close. It also needs a power limit over 124% so it can get the power to maintain high clocks.

A better choice wound be a EVGA Hybrid since it has a higher boost clock(1755) and would stay a lot cooler and that equals higher mhz. It is also on sale at $200 off.

 

I use 3200mhz ram but I am starting to think it was a mistake. If I was buying now I would go with 3600mhz ram since if I decided to go Ryzen next gen I would have ram better suited to it.

 

 

[Ph1n3aSs]

2 hours ago, jones177 said:

For high end I would not go with a Strix motherboard. I would go with a AORUS board. If it has to be ASUS go Hero.

 

An 970 EVO only benefits open world games that load as you move around the world. Only my modded games that use 4 and 8k textures or 10 X NPCs use the extra speed of the EVO. For all non modified games the SATA SSDs on my other gaming computer do just fine. That may change with games designed for the new consoles.    

For the high end get a 2tb 970 EVO. For games now get a 4tb SATA. 

Since I mod games I would only buy 2tb EVOs. 

 

The boost clock on the ASUS RTX 2080TI O11G Gaming is too low for me to consider it high end.

A 2080 ti it has to run at around 2040 to 2100mhz with a 24/7 overclock to be considered high end. My EVGA FTW3 Ultra can do that with the default fan curve but my EVGA XC can't come close. It also needs a power limit over 124% so it can get the power to maintain high clocks.

A better choice wound be a EVGA Hybrid since it has a higher boost clock(1755) and would stay a lot cooler and that equals higher mhz. It is also on sale at $200 off.

 

I use 3200mhz ram but I am starting to think it was a mistake. If I was buying now I would go with 3600mhz ram since if I decided to go Ryzen next gen I would have ram better suited to it.

 

 

Thanks for your input! I am wondering why should i go for a Hero instead of a Strix ?

[jones177]

The Strix and the Hero have VRM issues. The Hero is not as bad. I would not buy either.

 

 

Also I usually use sound cards but not with the Heros. They are as good as a Sound Blaster SBX.  If the Strix has the same chip, go for it.

[SavageNeo]

5 minutes ago, jones177 said:

The Strix and the Hero have VRM issues.

well whit the z390 yes. But they are one of the best even if the best x570 motherboards

[Ph1n3aSs]

Current setup .. Would love to see my new pc work in sync to!

[Ph1n3aSs]

Anyone else with some bright ideas?