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[ddennis002]

Ordering Parts here in the next day or 2. I still have some concerns if the 2700x is going to bottleneck the RTX card at all.

Still got concerns if the 2060 is going to be powerful enough to handle a couple HEVC to H264 streams on Plex. Also transcoding speed i don't want it taking forever.

Also I have a 360mm radiator and block just have to swap from dual 5.25 bay res to tube and the mount from intel to AMD.

Its been a while is Mayhem's Silver still good for keeping the loop clear of junk?

 

All together with taxes and shipping from my where i'm getting everything it totals $2,445

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor	$279.99
Motherboard	Asus - ROG STRIX X470-F Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard	$137.99
Memory	Corsair - Vengeance RGB 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$264.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Western Digital - Black NVMe 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive	$119.99 @ Amazon
Video Card	Asus - GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB STRIX GAMING OC Video Card	$399.99 @ Amazon
Case	Corsair - Obsidian 500D RGB SE ATX Mid Tower Case	$249.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair - RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$89.99 @ Newegg
Case Fan	Corsair - LL120 RGB LED 43.25 CFM 120mm Fan	$26.99 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Corsair - LL120 RGB LED 43.25 CFM 120mm Fan	$26.99 @ Amazon
Case Fan	Corsair - LL120 RGB LED 43.25 CFM 120mm Fan	$26.99 @ Amazon
Monitor	AOC - Q3279VWFD8 31.5" 2560x1440 60 Hz Monitor	$229.99
Keyboard	Corsair - K68 RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard	$79.99 @ Amazon
External Storage	Western Digital - easystore 8 TB External Hard Drive	$169.95 @ Amazon
Other	XSPC AMD AM4 Mounting kit for RayStorm	$13.95
Other	XSPC D5 Photon 270 Reservoir V2	$69.95
Other	PrimoChill PrimoFlex 7/16" (11 mm) x 5/8" (16 mm) Advanced LRT Tubing 10 ft. - Bloodshed Red	$9.99
Other	15-Pin SATA to 4-pin Molex Adapter	$2.49
Other	CORSAIR Harpoon RGB Wireless - Wireless Rechargeable Gaming Mouse - 10,000 DPI Optical Sensor	$49.99
Other	Mayhems Silver Coil 99.999 Pure Fine Silver	$4.95
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$2255.15
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-02-04 19:03 EST-0500

 

[Jurrunio]

18 minutes ago, ddennis002 said:

I still have some concerns if the 2700x is going to bottleneck the RTX card at all.

no. You're using an RTX 2060, not 2080Ti. Even with 2080ti the bottleneck is only noticeable as frame rate shoot way past 60Hz, which is what the monitor has.

 

19 minutes ago, ddennis002 said:

Still got concerns if the 2060 is going to be powerful enough to handle a couple HEVC to H264 streams on Plex. Also transcoding speed i don't want it taking forever.

Do it with the CPU, much better quality for the same bitrate.

[dizmo]

Personally, I'd get a better monitor. You basically have the pixel density of a 24" 1080p monitor at that resolution and size.

Also, I'd swap out that SSD for something different:

This is just a little more: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/P4ZFf7/samsung-970-evo-500gb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-mz-v7e500bw

This has twice the storage: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/88bwrH/hp-ex920-1tb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-2yy47aaabc

The CPU you've chosen should be absolutely fine; you're only pushing 60hz.

[ddennis002]

31 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

no. You're using an RTX 2060, not 2080Ti. Even with 2080ti the bottleneck is only noticeable as frame rate shoot way past 60Hz, which is what the monitor has.

 

Do it with the CPU, much better quality for the same bitrate.

I know in the past AMD chips would hold down GPU performance

 

The monitor is 75hz not sure why parts picker lists it as 60hz.

 

Right now im using an i7 6600hq 4c/8t with 960M and cpu transcoding is way to slow so i been offloading to the GPU for transcoding in handbrake.

 

9 series cannot transcode HEVC 4k which is where I want to go to save file sizes and get better quality but i share my plex library with 5 others light usage max 2-3 streams at once so i want to make sure the computer is not bogged down during on the fly transcoding.

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, ddennis002 said:

I know in the past AMD chips would hold down GPU performance

 

The monitor is 75hz not sure why parts picker lists it as 60hz.

 

Right now im using an i7 6600hq 4c/8t with 960M and cpu transcoding is way to slow so i been offloading to the GPU for transcoding in handbrake.

 

9 series cannot transcode HEVC 4k which is where I want to go to save file sizes and get better quality but i share my plex library with 5 others light usage max 2-3 streams at once so i want to make sure the computer is not bogged down during on the fly transcoding.

still no major bottleneck at 75fps. You need 100+ to see a meaningful difference.

 

2700X is more than twice as fast as the 6700HQ, as long as you don't increase the number of streams it should be fine.

[ddennis002]

14 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Personally, I'd get a better monitor. You basically have the pixel density of a 24" 1080p monitor at that resolution and size.

Also, I'd swap out that SSD for something different:

This is just a little more: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/P4ZFf7/samsung-970-evo-500gb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-mz-v7e500bw

This has twice the storage: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/88bwrH/hp-ex920-1tb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-2yy47aaabc

The CPU you've chosen should be absolutely fine; you're only pushing 60hz.

For the price and resolution Im pretty happy with the monitor choice, also this monitor has decent specs and color accuracy. 

 

What is your reasoning for swapping the SSD? I get the bigger storage one but I wouldn't touch anything HP even if someone tried to pay me. The WD and Samsung is very similar specs and in my eyes not worth the change. Unless i'm overlooking something.

[ddennis002]

9 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

still no major bottleneck at 75fps. You need 100+ to see a meaningful difference.

 

2700X is more than twice as fast as the 6700HQ, as long as you don't increase the number of streams it should be fine.

Thanks for the input.

[dizmo]

8 minutes ago, ddennis002 said:

For the price and resolution Im pretty happy with the monitor choice, also this monitor has decent specs and color accuracy. 

 

What is your reasoning for swapping the SSD? I get the bigger storage one but I wouldn't touch anything HP even if someone tried to pay me. The WD and Samsung is very similar specs and in my eyes not worth the change. Unless i'm overlooking something.

The Samsung is a vastly superior drive for $10 more. The HP drives are also quite excellent; your loss I suppose.