First Gaming PC

Joseph_Z · February 28, 2019

Hey all,

I am in the market for a gaming PC; I'm sick of gaming on a MacBook air. Unfortunately, I have next to no knowledge of the process or components. To combat this I plan on ordering a build from Origin. I know I'm paying a premium and building a PC is easy but I don't trust myself to do it. I have planned out a potential rig below; any advice or recommendations would be highly recommended.

Case Fans: Corsair RGB Premium Fans.

Power Supply: 1000 Watt EVGA SuperNOVA G3

Motherboard: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI AC)

Processors: Intel Core i7 9700K 8-Core 3.6GHz (4.9GHz TurboBoost)

Graphic Cards: Single 8GB GeForce RTX 2080 Founder's Edition

Memory: 32GB ORIGIN PC DDR4 Powered by Kingston 3000MHz (2 X 16GB)

Operating System Drive #1 (Primary): 250GB Samsung 970 EVO PLUS PCIe NVMe M.2

Hard Drive #2: Free Promo Upgrade: 500GB Seagate BarraCuda SSD

NunoLava1998 · February 28, 2019

I would not get 32GB, 16GB is very much fine, and you can go for a 650W or 750W powersupply instead of a 1000W one.

Otherwise very decent and you really did do your research on this one (unless Origin recommended it for you)

NunoLava1998 · February 28, 2019

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Aimi · February 28, 2019

1000W PSU seems to be a bit excessive with the rest of the specs. Also might want to pick the i9 over the i7.

mxk · February 28, 2019

7 minutes ago, Joseph_Z said:

Case Fans: Corsair RGB Premium Fans.

Power Supply: 1000 Watt EVGA SuperNOVA G3

Motherboard: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI AC)

Processors: Intel Core i7 9700K 8-Core 3.6GHz (4.9GHz TurboBoost)

Processors: Intel Core i9 9900K 8-Core 3.6GHz (5.0GHz TurboBoost)

Graphic Cards: Single 8GB GeForce RTX 2080 Founder's Edition

Memory: 32GB ORIGIN PC DDR4 Powered by Kingston 3000MHz (2 X 16GB)

Operating System Drive #1 (Primary): 250GB Samsung 970 EVO PLUS PCIe NVMe M.2

Hard Drive #2: Free Promo Upgrade: 500GB Seagate BarraCuda SSD

It's good you're asking.

1) 1000 watts is Overkill and the g3 isn't a great power supply

2) the maximus xi sucks at overclocking for it's price

3) you probably don't need a 9900k, a 9700k is fine but it depends on what you're doing

4) the GPU is dine

5) 16gb or RAM is fine for gaming and light editing, 32 is better for very heavy content creation

6) maybe get a bigger hard drive? The 250 SSD is fine but 500gb isn't that much for HDD space

Fasauceome · February 28, 2019

For your consideration, some notes on why the price premium may not be warranted:

The 1000w PSU is gratuitous.

The NVMe drive doesn't affect any standard gaming PC functions.

The i9 9900k is the best CPU for gaming but carries a price tag to match, when even an i5 9600k is pretty good for gaming.

32GB of ram is excessive for gaming.

If you were to build yourself, you'd save a lot more off the price tag than just the cost of the building and warranty service

Findiculous · February 28, 2019

17 minutes ago, Joseph_Z said:

Hey all,

I am in the market for a gaming PC; I'm sick of gaming on a MacBook air. Unfortunately, I have next to no knowledge of the process or components. To combat this I plan on ordering a build from Origin. I know I'm paying a premium and building a PC is easy but I don't trust myself to do it. I have planned out a potential rig below; any advice or recommendations would be highly recommended.

Case Fans: Corsair RGB Premium Fans.

Power Supply: 1000 Watt EVGA SuperNOVA G3

Motherboard: ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI AC)

Processors: Intel Core i7 9700K 8-Core 3.6GHz (4.9GHz TurboBoost)

Processors: Intel Core i9 9900K 8-Core 3.6GHz (5.0GHz TurboBoost)

Graphic Cards: Single 8GB GeForce RTX 2080 Founder's Edition

Memory: 32GB ORIGIN PC DDR4 Powered by Kingston 3000MHz (2 X 16GB)

Operating System Drive #1 (Primary): 250GB Samsung 970 EVO PLUS PCIe NVMe M.2

Hard Drive #2: Free Promo Upgrade: 500GB Seagate BarraCuda SSD

The origin "premium" can be a bit high compared to its competitors. Also you could go for the ASUS Z390-E rather than the Maximum Hero. Both have wifi but without the premium for the Maximus.

As its your first build, you may even consider previous gen CPU without overclocking if its not something you intend to do.

With the DDR4 you want 16GB really. 32GB isnt required. Also default speeds for DDR4 as lower than 3000MHz so unless you intend to overclock (enable or want to know how to enable) XMP) you dont need 3000MHz.

A larger hard drive (1TB minimum for storage) if you plan on gaming. 500GB will be eaten up quite quickly if you own a few games.

Edit: For the storage, im talking about HDD 1TB rather than telling you to get a 1TB SSD

12 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

I would not get 32GB, 16GB is very much fine, and you can go for a 650W or 750W powersupply instead of a 1000W one.

Otherwise very decent and you really did do your research on this one (unless Origin recommended it for you)

Agreed on both points here

10 minutes ago, Aimi said:

1000W PSU seems to be a bit excessive with the rest of the specs. Also might want to pick the i9 over the i7.

The i7 performs just as well as the i9 and since this is a first time build without a 2080ti, an i9 might be overkill.

Cyracus · February 28, 2019

I mean, you get the right parts you'd be saving quite a bit, or getting a better pc, but...

4 minutes ago, Joseph_Z said:

Processors: Intel Core i7 9700K 8-Core 3.6GHz (4.9GHz TurboBoost)

Processors: Intel Core i9 9900K 8-Core 3.6GHz (5.0GHz TurboBoost)

pretty sure you need to pick just one of these. For gaming a 9700k should be sufficient, 9900k should stay sufficient longer

5 minutes ago, Joseph_Z said:

Power Supply: 1000 Watt EVGA SuperNOVA G3

700W would suffice to handle peak loads, then again don't know what PSUs origin's offering atm, here's the tier list, for that kind of system tier a or s would probably be best to look at https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/986897-psu-tier-list-30/

8 minutes ago, Joseph_Z said:

Operating System Drive #1 (Primary): 250GB Samsung 970 EVO PLUS PCIe NVMe M.2

Hard Drive #2: Free Promo Upgrade: 500GB Seagate BarraCuda SSD

probably a good plan to add more storage space, spinning disk drives are cheap and simple to install, origin should offer those too if you're concerned about messing even that up. I usually recommend a 120gb ssd for OS, then don't put anything else on it, makes it real easy to clean install the OS if needed

NunoLava1998 · February 28, 2019

I'm assuming you're paying about 2k for this. For about 2,300$, you can build a top of the line PC that's 200% overkill and will definitely last long:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor ($299.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($161.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($114.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Intel - 660p Series 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($119.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card ($1349.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Fractal Design - Define R6 Black TG ATX Mid Tower Case ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($73.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $2300.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-02-28 15:13 EST-0500