Building a 3 year Safe 80% Gaming 20% Workstation PC

[alpha47]

I going to build a 80% Gaming 20% workstation PC, About roughly 3 year safe PC.. as of now I have been looking into Blue Team set up. Considering a Budget of 150,000 INR.

Monitor - Acer Predator XB241H bmipr 24-inch Full HD 1920x1080 NVIDIA G-Sync Display, 144Hz 

CPU - Intel i5 8600K
Motherboard - Asus Z390-E (For future upgradability to 9th gen CPUs)
SSD - Samsung 970 Evo Series - 250GB PCIE NVME - M.2 Internal SSD

HDD - Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard

RAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB DDR4 3000Mhz 8GBx2

GPU - Asus Strix GeForce 1070ti

PSU - Corsair RM750x

CPU Cooler - Corsair H60 57.2 CFM Liquid Cooler 

 am I good or should I check out the Red team AMD?, or should I stick with this config?

 

[Cereal5]

What games will you be playing? What resolution/refresh rate? What does "workstation" mean, in your case?

 

Wait a few months for Zen 2, then purchase one of those chips.

Swap the motherboard out for a Gigabyte Aorus of some sort - better power delivery will allow for better/more stable overclocking

Save some money and go with a 2.5" SSD, the performance is not noticeable in a mostly gaming computer

Go with a good Air cooler. A similarly priced one will beat a 120/140mm AIO.

 

If you want to buy now, I would still recommend AMD, because you will be able to upgrade later down the road, likely for 2 more generations.

[racker24]

7 minutes ago, alpha47 said:

I going to build a 80% Gaming 20% workstation PC, About roughly 3 year safe PC.. as of now I have been looking into Blue Team set up. Considering a Budget of 150,000 INR.

Monitor - Acer Predator XB241H bmipr 24-inch Full HD 1920x1080 NVIDIA G-Sync Display, 144Hz 

CPU - Intel i5 8600K
Motherboard - Asus Z390-E (For future upgradability to 9th gen CPUs)
SSD - Samsung 970 Evo Series - 250GB PCIE NVME - M.2 Internal SSD

HDD - Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5-inch Internal Hard

RAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB DDR4 3000Mhz 8GBx2

GPU - Asus Strix GeForce 1070ti

PSU - Corsair RM750x

CPU Cooler - Corsair H60 57.2 CFM Liquid Cooler 

 am I good or should I check out the Red team AMD?, or should I stick with this config?

 

CPU - Intel i5 8600K 267$ vs Ryzen 7 2700 269$ (Newegg)
Motherboard - Asus Z390-E (For future upgradability to 9th gen CPUs) 239$ vs B450 129.99$ vs X470 199.99$ (Newegg)

 

price to performance or yeah go intel if you really want.

[alpha47]

9 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

What games will you be playing? What resolution/refresh rate? What does "workstation" mean, in your case?

 

Wait a few months for Zen 2, then purchase one of those chips.

Swap the motherboard out for a Gigabyte Aorus of some sort - better power delivery will allow for better/more stable overclocking

Save some money and go with a 2.5" SSD, the performance is not noticeable in a mostly gaming computer

Go with a good Air cooler. A similarly priced one will beat a 120/140mm AIO.

 

If you want to buy now, I would still recommend AMD, because you will be able to upgrade later down the road, likely for 2 more generations.

Work station meaning I will be using the system for premiere pro, Photoshop, like wise.. for occasional image/video editing..
gaming Assassin's creed series, CoD MW2 Multiplayer ,GTA V, Witcher Series, Crysis, CS GO etc

[alpha47]

1 minute ago, alpha47 said:

Work station meaning I will be using the system for premiere pro, Photoshop, like wise.. for occasional image/video editing..
gaming Assassin's creed series, CoD MW2 Multiplayer ,GTA V, Witcher Series, Crysis, CS GO etc

I looking for 144hz refresh rates, 1080p gaming..

 

[Cereal5]

I would look for a Ryzen 5 2600X or Ryzen 7 2700, B450 motherboard, 860 Evo SSD, 16GB of RAM at 2666-3200 MHz, the GPU you can use either a 1070 or 1070 Ti (1070 should be plenty though), Either an RM650x or EVGA G2 650W, and the stock cooler should be fine on both CPUs. I don't know how pricing is in India so you'll have to throw a price total together.

[alpha47]

one more thing, i'm thinking of saving some bucks, swapping out the Corsair H60 57.2 CFM Liquid Cooler  to an air cooler. guys can any one recommand any? it also has to support slight cpu overclocking..

 

[Princess Luna]

On 12/5/2018 at 4:55 AM, alpha47 said:

Motherboard - Asus Z390-E (For future upgradability to 9th gen CPUs)

Getting a bad motherboard just because it is overpriced as hell ain't gonna give you "upgradability" at all.

 

Besides by the time you do need to upgrade from 8th gen Intel will have 10nm processors with a new chipset and socket any ways... 9th gen is pretty identical to the 8th gen aside the i9 9900K but there will be better processors on 10nm as explained.

 

All 120mm AiO are terrible value for money, they perform usually worse than decent air coolers while costing more and they are much ore prone to failure like leaking (which can kill other components and no warranty pays for those) or dead pumps and so on.

[alpha47]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Getting a bad motherboard just because it is overpriced as hell ain't gonna give you "upgradability" at all.

 

Besides by the time you do need to upgrade from 8th gen Intel will have 10nm processors with a new chipset and socket any ways... 9th gen is pretty identical to the 8th gen aside the i9 9900K but there will be better processors on 10nm as explained.

 

All 120mm AiO are terrible value for money, they perform usually worse than decent air coolers while costing more and they are much ore prone to failure like leaking (which can kill other components and no warranty pays for those) or dead pumps and so on.

so.. should I go for Asus Z370-E, instead with 8600k?

[alpha47]

6 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

All 120mm AiO are terrible value for money, they perform usually worse than decent air coolers while costing more and they are much ore prone to failure like leaking (which can kill other components and no warranty pays for those) or dead pumps and so on.

https://mdcomputers.in/cooler-master-hyper-212-led-turbo-rr-212tr-16pr-r1.html
how about this one?

[Princess Luna]

4 minutes ago, alpha47 said:

so.. should I go for Asus Z370-E, instead with 8600k?

I advise against ASUS altogether, it is true there was a time they made by far the best motherboards but those days are over... now they actually do the worse while overpricing the products to no end and remain relevant thanks to heavy marketing.

 

Something like the ASRock Z370 Pro4 actually performs the same as the ASUS Strix Z370-E but for much cheaper.

3 minutes ago, alpha47 said:

https://mdcomputers.in/cooler-master-hyper-212-led-turbo-rr-212tr-16pr-r1.html
how about this one?

I know some people aren't big fans of the 212 line up because it is a bit dated but this is still by all means a better purchase than a 120mm AiO.

 

It is reliable, it is silent and will last a great deal of time, the chip might get a tad toasty on the low 80's if you go for 5ghz though, but it can sustain 5ghz while that previous 120mm AiO would likely thermal throttle.

[alpha47]

6 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

ASRock Z370 Pro4

the thing is there are no after sale service  available in Kerala, India for AsRock... so .. that why.. other viable options for motherboard are MSI, Gigabyte..

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, alpha47 said:

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Don't stress over it, the i5 8600K will run fine on pretty much any Z370, pick one that suits your needs connectivity wise and looks, just avoid paying an extra just for a brand

[alpha47]

4 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Don't stress over it, the i5 8600K will run fine on pretty much any Z370, pick one that suits your needs connectivity wise and looks, just avoid paying an extra just for a brand

I'm thinking of going for intel system and going with cooler master hyper 212 turbo as CPU Cooler

thanks