VEGA: The PC (Parts List / Build Suggestion)

[FinalCPU]

Hiya,

 

   I was browsing Amazon looking for a budget tempered glass case and stumbled across the newly released InWin 101.

Almost immediately, I recognized something familiar: the red acrylic corner piece, the flat black surfaces...

Yes of course, RX Vega! The reference design language of the card matched the case so perfectly that I thought I'd mocked up a

PC part picker list for all of you here on the forums. I would love to see such a machine come to life in celebration

of the release of Radeon Technologies Group high end graphics card.              *Image usage disclaimer at bottom of post.

 

Without the pricing on Vega as of this post, this setup is approximately $2200 sans GPUs (not that bad for what you get in peripherals). 

PC Part Picker List: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/finalCPU/saved/#view=zg93CJ

 

 

    First we begin with the case.

At first glance the interior may dissuade some from this case due to it's odd fan layout, but with proper components

we can achieve an upward airflow design that has been known to promote better heat dissipation.

 

Here's a reference design render of RX Vega from WCCFTech for comparison:

 

Most of the other components are more or less bang for the buck in terms of what you can find at the time, so here's what I came up with:

 

Mainboard/CPU:          Asus Strix X370  +  Any Ryzen 7 CPU  +  BeQuite! Dark Rock 3 (Reorient for Upwards Airflow)

                

Storage Devices:        WD Black 256 NVME M.2 SSD (OS)  +  Sandisk Ultra II 480 (Games/Misc)  +  Seagate BarraCuda 2Tb 7200RPM HDD (Overflow)

                                                       

Power Supply and Memory:          Corsair RM1000X  +  2 x 8GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB  +  Gigabyte Wireless Card (Rev. 4.2)

                                

The reason for a 1000W PSU is that the current Frontier edition cards I've heard are able to consume up to 400 watts each, so this will hopefully be enough to keep usage between 70-90% for efficiency.

 

Peripherals:           RedDragon K556 RGB Mech. Keyboard  +  Corsair Sabre RGB Mouse  +  ATH AD500X Headphones  +  Acer XR342CK Monitor  +  Corsair AF120 Red Additional Fans

All images owned by their respective copyright holders, procured from Google Image search.

[Jurrunio]

I don't think cards from their partners like Gigabyte, Sapphire etc will stick to that color scheme.... Of course you can get one that's black with RGB, or go with MSI Gaming X version (that's the same cooler that cooled the 390Xtra-hot).

[FinalCPU]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

I don't think cards from their partners like Gigabyte, Sapphire etc will stick to that color scheme.... Of course you can get one that's black with RGB, or go with MSI Gaming X version (that's the same cooler that cooled the 390Xtra-hot).

True, and as underpowered as the reference designed cooler may be, I personally find it pretty neat looking.