Rate My Build

[Roadwarrior82]

Its been a long time since I have built a new computer, so I just wanted to see how I did with this one. Some of it was built with the idea of it being in a wall mounted case,

Board: ASUS ROG Strix Z390-E

CPU: I5-9600K

Memory: 16gb Corsair Vengence RGP Pro 3200MHz

HD: Samsung 970 Evo M.2(250gb for OS mainly) and Samsung Evo 840 SSD(250Gb for programs, etc), and an old Seagate Barracude 7200.14 2Tb (for mostly just storage of pics and videos)

GPU: ASUS ROG Strix Vega64 O8G Gaming

Power Supply: ASUS ROG Thor 850w

CPU Cooler: Coolermaster ML120L RGB

Monitors: 2x Samsung C27F396 27" Curved monitors

Case: Thermaltake P3 Wall Mounted

 

I built it mostly to game, although I do the odd little thing in photoshop and illustrator, and once in a blue moon some video stuff in premiere. And wanted to have something pretty solid for getting into VR as I also just bought an Oculus rift. Seems to run pretty much any games with max settings really well, as so far so good with the Oculus. Just curious if there is anything I should have done differently, or if I did a pretty decent job.

[LukeSavenije]

2 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Board: ASUS ROG Strix Z390-E

overpriced

 

3 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

HD: Samsung 970 Evo M.2(250gb for OS mainly)

look into the crucial p1

 

3 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Samsung Evo 840 SSD

hope you already have it?

 

3 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

GPU: ASUS ROG Strix Vega64 O8G Gaming

except if you can find a really good deal on one, no

 

3 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Power Supply: ASUS ROG Thor 850w

overpriced seasonic prime

 

4 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

CPU Cooler: Coolermaster ML120L RGB

120? i've seen air coolers better

 

you can do much better, what's your budget?

[emosun]

3 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

anything I should have done differently

literally doesn't matter as it's already built

 

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

 

you can do much better, what's your budget?

it's done already apparently , so thread doesn't quite have any direction

[xKyric]

5 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

I built it mostly to game, although I do the odd little thing in photoshop and illustrator, and once in a blue moon some video stuff in premiere. And wanted to have something pretty solid for getting into VR as I also just bought an Oculus rift. Seems to run pretty much any games with max settings really well, as so far so good with the Oculus. Just curious if there is anything I should have done differently, or if I did a pretty decent job.

Looks like a great build to me.
Considering how powerful your Vega 64 is, I would think about purchasing a high refresh rate monitor.  

[Roadwarrior82]

I was just trying to see if I built a decent system. As I said, I hadnt built a computer in probably 7 years. So just curious as to kinda "What Next", or if I made a massive mistake with any part. 

 

AS for the ML120 cooler, my goal is to do a custom watercooling setup, but that will have to wait a little bit. So the 120 was just kind of a "lets get something to get me up and running and that will work till I go custom cooling.

 

And a friend had suggested monitors as well. Watched a couple videos which also made me think that may be next. 

[SupaKomputa]

nice build, all i care is the vega 64.

[Roadwarrior82]

I had originally built it with a RX580, but then I saw the price since they were blowing out the Vega64's so I ended up changing to that. Plus it works better with my plans to eventually do custom watercooling since I think I found a waterblock for it. 

[Jurrunio]

6 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

CPU: I5-9600K

Adobe suite cares about single thread performance above all else so not a huge problem I guess, but would have much preferred the i7s and i9s.

 

7 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Board: ASUS ROG Strix Z390-E

Only worth $150 or less when new if it's not a Strix

 

8 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

GPU: ASUS ROG Strix Vega64 O8G Gaming

Adobe stuff prefers Nvidia CUDA compute more than OpenGL (which is the only choice for Radeons)

 

9 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Power Supply: ASUS ROG Thor 850w

Way more expensive than a Seasonic Prime Platinum unit with a power meter, and your machine doesnt pull more than 450w even in max overclocks without BIOS modding the graphics card (of which you might see 550w) so you could have bought a lower wattage unit as well.

 

12 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

CPU Cooler: Coolermaster ML120L RGB

Aside from not giving more cooling power than many larger air coolers (ML-L is one of the worst among AIOs in the first place) at a higher price, ML-L aren't well built. Leaky tubings and whiney pumps are among them.

 

2 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

So just curious as to kinda "What Next",

CPU and the board goes first

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Board: ASUS ROG Strix Z390-E

Extremely overpriced motherboard, underwhelming VRM and Power Phases solutions, over all built quality is at best so-so, half of what you're paying is simply that "ROG" branding.

5 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

CPU: I5-9600K

Poor value processor, already is showing to be a limiting factor for the highest end gaming, lack of hyper-threading and lower cache makes this CPU noticeable worse than an i7 8700K, even with an overclock I wouldn't consider it worthy to bother with given it's premium price tag.

 

6 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Memory: 16gb Corsair Vengence RGP Pro 3200MHz

Standard good specs for nowadays memory, 16gb high frequency and decent timings, aesthetics are personal taste, I'd say so far the best purchase.

 

7 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

HD: Samsung 970 Evo M.2(250gb for OS mainly) and Samsung Evo 840 SSD(250Gb for programs, etc), and an old Seagate Barracude 7200.14 2Tb (for mostly just storage of pics and videos)

Very good storage settings, prioritizing high end SSD storage for OS and core programs, HDD for mass storage where speed is not as important, this is a good value orientated storage setup with good SSD/HDD used.

 

8 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

GPU: ASUS ROG Strix Vega64 O8G Gaming

Mediocre GPU to spend on, the VEGA 64 barely is an upgrade from the VEGA 56 but costs considerable more, add the ROG Strix over-price on top of it you could have achieved a RTX 2060 for much less and have similar performance.

 

10 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Power Supply: ASUS ROG Thor 850w

This is a Seasonic Prime Platinum 850W with an absurd over-price on top of the already expensive price tag only for the "ROG" branding, the PSU is fine if you don't mind spending more just for a branding. You system also could work off a 550W unit so extra spending wasn't needed.

 

11 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

CPU Cooler: Coolermaster ML120L RGB

Underwhelming AiO, for it's price you can could get a lot better (performance and acoustic wise) air coolers.

 

12 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Monitors: 2x Samsung C27F396 27" Curved monitors

Display also is personal preference but if I had say, a single 3440x1440p ultrawide might have fit better unless you have specific good usage for separated monitors.

 

12 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Case: Thermaltake P3 Wall Mounted

Not really my style of case, but it's still pretty I'd say.

 

13 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

I built it mostly to game, although I do the odd little thing in photoshop and illustrator, and once in a blue moon some video stuff in premiere.

This build should be fine for gaming, even though it could be considerable better considering what you paid for, Vega64 unfortunately doesn't provide any where near the Hardware Acceleration nVidia does with CUDA at Adobe software, if this is something you truly use you should have considered a different GPU.

 

14 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

And wanted to have something pretty solid for getting into VR as I also just bought an Oculus rift.

In my humble opinion VR is a scam not worth bothering with.

 

15 minutes ago, Roadwarrior82 said:

Just curious if there is anything I should have done differently, or if I did a pretty decent job

I'll give it a 5/10, because while the computer is capable by all means, you over-spend on brands and weird 'mixes', could have made more without spending a dime extra.