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I7-8700k 

Asus ROG strix Rtx 2070

Gskill RGB ram - 32 GB

Corsair H100i cpu cooler

Samsung 970 EVO m.2 nvme- 500gb

Evga 650 80+ Gold - power supply 

Asus maximus xi hero

 

Hi I’m planning on a new build, got pretty much everything listed above except for the case. Any thoughts? Or advice? 

PC will primarily be used for gaming / video editing, both with moderate usage nothing too crazy.

Let me know your thoughts, or if I should swap any of the parts with something else.

Much appreciated!

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Just now, Jason1987 said:

I7-8700k 

Asus ROG strix Rtx 2070

Gskill RGB ram - 32 GB

Corsair H100i cpu cooler

Samsung 970 EVO m.2 nvme- 500gb

Evga 650 80+ Gold - power supply 

Asus maximus xi hero

 

Hi I’m planning on a new build, got pretty much everything listed above except for the case. Any thoughts? Or advice? 

PC will primarily be used for gaming / video editing, both with moderate usage nothing too crazy.

Let me know your thoughts, or if I should swap any of the parts with something else.

Much appreciated!

Excluding the case what's your budget? What games you want to play? Resolution and Refresh Rate? 

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1. RGB cost money without making things run faster

 

2. 280mm rad coolers are better value for their performance comparing to 240mm

 

3. EVGA G3 is no good

 

4. Asus Maximus boards are overpriced and overrated (if we haven't bashed it enough.

 

5. 970 Evo is bad value, you can get HP EX920 or Adata SX8200 for example with twice the capacity and similar speed. 

 

6. RTX 2070 itself is kinda bad value. Either push it to the 2080 or Radeon VII, or downgrade to the RTX 2060 if you're just playing at 1080p targeting 80-100fps in AAA games.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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35 minutes ago, Jason1987 said:

I7-8700k 

Asus ROG strix Rtx 2070

Gskill RGB ram - 32 GB

Corsair H100i cpu cooler

Samsung 970 EVO m.2 nvme- 500gb

Evga 650 80+ Gold - power supply 

Asus maximus xi hero

 

Hi I’m planning on a new build, got pretty much everything listed above except for the case. Any thoughts? Or advice? 

PC will primarily be used for gaming / video editing, both with moderate usage nothing too crazy.

Let me know your thoughts, or if I should swap any of the parts with something else.

Much appreciated!

Adobe for video editing? The answer will affect our CPU choice. Also 4K or 1080p? That will affect RAM choices.

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23 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

1. RGB cost money without making things run faster

 

2. 280mm rad coolers are better value for their performance comparing to 240mm

 

3. EVGA G3 is no good

 

4. Asus Maximus boards are overpriced and overrated (if we haven't bashed it enough.

 

5. 970 Evo is bad value, you can get HP EX920 or Adata SX8200 for example with twice the capacity and similar speed. 

 

6. RTX 2070 itself is kinda bad value. Either push it to the 2080 or Radeon VII, or downgrade to the RTX 2060 if you're just playing at 1080p targeting 80-100fps in AAA games.

Yes I was kinda thinking the same. The Asus board might be overkill. Tbh, I kinda want rgb despite it having no added value. I just want all those colours lol...

 

what would you recommended for cpu cooler / power supply? 

 

also what if I swap the board with Asus prime Z390-a?

 

lastly if I downgrade to rtx 2060 wouldn’t it be wise to downgrade the cpu to i5 9600k as well? 

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28 minutes ago, BurstHearts said:

Just add a 1 or 2 TB HDD because of your editing and games (even if you don't have that many games it will be good for the editing because for your own or clients temporary backup and also your stockfootage)

Thank you!

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OK I have 2 options for you, and I'll explain the advantages of both below (because if I were in this position I'm not sure which one I'd go with. Since I'm more of a gamer than an editor I'd probably go with the more gaming oriented choice).

 

First:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor $405.75 @ Vuugo
Motherboard ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard $100.10 @ Vuugo
Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $212.99 @ Newegg Canada
Storage Samsung - 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $168.75 @ Vuugo
Storage Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $48.99 @ Newegg Canada
Video Card Zotac - GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB GAMING Video Card $459.50 @ Vuugo
Case Corsair - 200R ATX Mid Tower Case $59.99 @ Canada Computers
Power Supply Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $79.99 @ Canada Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $1586.06
  Mail-in rebates -$50.00
  Total $1536.06
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-22 17:03 EDT-0400  

 

Second:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU Intel - Core i7-9700K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $518.75 @ Vuugo
CPU Cooler ARCTIC - Freezer 33 eSports ONE (Black/Red) CPU Cooler $47.92 @ Amazon Canada
Motherboard Gigabyte - Z390 AORUS ELITE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $219.00 @ Canada Computers
Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $212.99 @ Newegg Canada
Storage Samsung - 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $168.75 @ Vuugo
Storage Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $48.99 @ Newegg Canada
Video Card Zotac - GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB GAMING Video Card $459.50 @ Vuugo
Case Corsair - 200R ATX Mid Tower Case $59.99 @ Canada Computers
Power Supply Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $79.99 @ Canada Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $1845.88
  Mail-in rebates -$30.00
  Total $1815.88
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-22 17:27 EDT-0400  
 
So the first build is going to do slightly better in video editing, even in Premiere Pro.

 

The second build will do slightly worse in Premiere Pro, but MUCH better in other Adobe applications like Photoshop or Aftereffects and in gaming.

 

The second build is nearly $300 more, and for that extra $300 you're really only getting a few extra FPS (when paired with the 2060. HOWEVER if you upgrade to a more powerful GPU later, the performance differential will be even bigger) and a big boost in other Adobe applications. So if it's worth that to you, then go with that. Otherwise the 2700x build is the better value proposition.

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4 minutes ago, Jason1987 said:

Yes that will be great! 

Price im looking max $2k (CAD)

this close enough? it'll do great in your tasks

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor $399.99 @ Memory Express
CPU Cooler Cooler Master - Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition 57.3 CFM CPU Cooler $49.75 @ Vuugo
Motherboard Gigabyte - Z390 UD ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $161.50 @ Vuugo
Memory G.Skill - Aegis 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $202.99 @ Newegg Canada
Storage Crucial - P1 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $91.07 @ shopRBC
Storage Seagate - BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive $114.50 @ shopRBC
Video Card XFX - Radeon VII 16 GB Video Card $929.99 @ Newegg Canada
Case Fractal Design - Focus G (White) ATX Mid Tower Case $69.98 @ Amazon Canada
Power Supply Corsair - TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $89.99 @ Canada Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $2129.76
  Mail-in rebates -$20.00
  Total $2109.76
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-22 17:06 EDT-0400  

 

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13 minutes ago, Jason1987 said:

Yes I was kinda thinking the same. The Asus board might be overkill. Tbh, I kinda want rgb despite it having no added value. I just want all those colours lol...

 

also what if I swap the board with Asus prime Z390-a?

You would be much better off ditching the Asus Motherboard and picking up something else for less. MSI and Gigabyte do much more competitive boards right now. Better RGB on the boards themselves too

CPU
Intel® Core i9 9900K 8 Core 16 Threads
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG Strix Z390-E
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB
Graphics Card
MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio

1st Drive

500GB Samsung 970 EVO NVME 

2nd Drive

1TB Samsung 970 EVO NVME
3rd Hard Disk
480GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 450MB/sW)
4th Hard Disk
2TB 3.5" SEAGATE SSHD, SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM

5th Hard Disk
2TB 3.5" SEAGATE SSHD, SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET 
Processor Cooling
Corsair H150i Pr 360mm AIO

Case:

Lian Li O11 Air

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor $316.38 @ Amazon Canada
CPU Cooler Cooler Master - MasterLiquid ML120L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $65.99 @ Newegg Canada
Motherboard MSI - X470 GAMING PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $189.99 @ Memory Express
Memory G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $251.99 @ Newegg Canada
Storage ADATA - XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $119.99 @ Amazon Canada
Storage Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $74.50 @ Vuugo
Video Card Zotac - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB GAMING AMP Video Card $929.00 @ Canada Computers
Power Supply SeaSonic - FOCUS Gold 450 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $94.99 @ Amazon Canada
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $2067.83
  Mail-in rebates -$25.00
  Total $2042.83
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-22 17:10 EDT-0400  
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type Item Price
CPU Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $479.99 @ Amazon Canada
CPU Cooler Corsair - H100i PRO 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $149.99 @ Amazon Canada
Motherboard Asus - ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $379.99 @ Amazon Canada
Memory G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $251.99 @ Newegg Canada
Storage Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $159.99 @ Canada Computers
Video Card Asus - GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB Video Card $719.00 @ Canada Computers
Power Supply EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $124.99 @ Canada Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $2295.94
  Mail-in rebates -$30.00
  Total $2265.94
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-22 17:11 EDT-0400  

I was able to save money by going with Ryzen, downsizing the cooler, and going with a different PSU that in the end allowed me to add to RTX 2080 to the build while being slightly over $2000 CAD but cheaper than your original build. Though you might want to change the PSU to a different higher wattage unit if you have enough in your budget.

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1 minute ago, Hotseff said:

CPU Cooler Cooler Master - MasterLiquid ML120L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $65.99 @ Newegg Canada

really? are you going to waste your money on a cooler that is about as good as a stock 2700 cooler?

1 minute ago, Hotseff said:

Motherboard MSI - X470 GAMING PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $189.99 @ Memory Express

i can get much better at that price

 

2 minutes ago, Hotseff said:

Power Supply SeaSonic - FOCUS Gold 450 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $94.99 @ Amazon Canada

ah, we're going to see it catch fire too with pumping too much load through it and even if you would get the good wattage see it killing either itself or the card because a focus can't handle ocp properly?

 

3 minutes ago, Hotseff said:

Motherboard Asus - ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $379.99 @ Amazon Canada

the most overpriced line on z390, hero code and formula have the vrms worse than a z390 UD

 

4 minutes ago, Hotseff said:

Power Supply EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $124.99 @ Canada Computers

woohoo, another psu that'll fail because it has faulty protections, 2/3 units in Aris's testing died during the opp test and were so hot the otp should've triggered

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16 minutes ago, Jason1987 said:

The Asus board might be overkill.

it's not overkill, just heavy Asus tax. Same reason to put the Z390-A option down.

 

16 minutes ago, Jason1987 said:

 

what would you recommended for cpu cooler / power supply? 

Cooler-wise, if you go with the paste 8700k then the 280mm rad Corsair H110i (and variants), EVGA CLC280, NZXT X62 as the costly but RGB alternative. The soldered 9700k can do with worse coolers like the Dark Rock Pro 4, though of course there's upper limit of better cooling as far as daily use of an 8700k or 9700k goes.

 

As for PSU

750w is as much as you need for a single GPU system considering 9900k + 2080ti draw up to 600w. This system atm wont draw more than 450w no matter what.

 

20 minutes ago, Jason1987 said:

lastly if I downgrade to rtx 2060 wouldn’t it be wise to downgrade the cpu to i5 9600k as well? 

Premiere pro is heavy on the CPU. For a pure editing system even 9900k + 2060 makes sense.

 

3 minutes ago, Hotseff said:

CPU Cooler Cooler Master - MasterLiquid ML120L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $65.99 @ Newegg Canada

might as well go air cooling like the Cryorig H7 Quad Lumi or Deepcool Gammaxx GT at that point, small AIOs perform far from what the price suggests

 

4 minutes ago, Hotseff said:

Motherboard MSI - X470 GAMING PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $189.99 @ Memory Express

Even B450 boards do better

 

5 minutes ago, Hotseff said:

Power Supply SeaSonic - FOCUS Gold 450 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $94.99 @ Amazon Canada

Not even a good price + will go past its output rating at times

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

Not even a good price + will go past its output rating at times

that's not the problem... it should be allowed to do a little higher, but turn off when reaching a certain point

 

spoiler: it doesn't

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1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

video editing, it's nice to have 16 gigs of high speed vram

That is true, but he did say he was doing 1080p editing with the option to do 4K later. Another snippet from Pudget, and this is assuming Heavy GPU Effects:

 

Footage Resolution 1080p 4K 6K 8K+
Minimum VRAM capacity 4GB 6GB 8GB 10GB+
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That is true, but he did say he was doing 1080p editing with the option to do 4K later. Another snippet from Pudget, and this is assuming Heavy GPU Effects:

 

Footage Resolution 1080p 4K 6K 8K+
Minimum VRAM capacity 4GB 6GB 8GB 10GB+

i know, but inside the budget it's really nice to have

 

and with a vii you truely have something special and powerful

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