New Gaming Rig

[DarthStriker]

Shout out to my amazing wife who sneakily stashed money away for months to surprise me on my bday with the money needed to buy a new Gaming Rig, 

My last rig I built 10 years ago and have not done any pc gaming for years as it was just to old to do any real gaming.

My New Rig consist of

Phanteks P400A Case

MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus Motherboard

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core, 12-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor with Wraith Stealth Cooler

G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3600MHz CL16

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 Super GAMING

Samsung 970 EVO 500GB - NVMe

EVGA 650 GQ, 80+ GOLD 650W

OC C27G1 27" Curved Frameless Gaming Monitor FHD 1080p, 1800R VA Panel, 1ms 144Hz, FreeSync

 

Haven't bought it yet, going to this weekend, if you guys have any suggestions I am always opened, have changed hardware 2 or 3 times already. 

[Zando_]

First suggestion, swap out that 970 Evo for an ADATA SX8200 Pro. Very slightly faster in most tests, and it's cheaper. 

IDK much on the PSU but IIRC those are decent units. Something like a TX550/650M or similar would be a good option too, if you can fit it in the budget after swapping around SSDs. 

The 2070 Super is a damn solid card, though if you don't need/want the RTX features and improved NVENC encoder, the 5700 XT is about as fast and usually $100 or so cheaper. 

[boey]

swap the x570 for a msi b450 tomahawk max and get a 1440p 144hz monitor 

 

[DarthStriker]

No Arguments on the monitor, but The Tomahawk max is sold out on both newegg and Amazon, but surprisingly best buy has it, my question is why would I switch for that other than a $55 price difference? 

[shark103]

28 minutes ago, DarthStriker said:

No Arguments on the monitor, but The Tomahawk max is sold out on both newegg and Amazon, but surprisingly best buy has it, my question is why would I switch for that other than a $55 price difference? 

X570 is just not needed, especially for r5 3600. If not Tomahawk then search for b450-a pro

[DarthStriker]

But x570 does come with gen 4 pcie which I realize is brand new and there are not many products for it yet but still down the road if I want to upgrade (insert part here) I can

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, DarthStriker said:

But x570 does come with gen 4 pcie which I realize is brand new and there are not many products for it yet but still down the road if I want to upgrade (insert part here) I can down the road 

PCIe 4.0 is currently only useful for even faster NVMe SSDs AFAIK. As far as the actual PCIe slots, I think the 2080 Ti/Titan RTX are the only cards to come close to pushing the full bandwidth of PCIe 3.0 x16, I don't know if even they can push it hard enough to be bottlenecked yet. Meaning you'll have to buy a 2080 Ti or better in the future for PCIe 4.0 to even matter for anything other than SSDs. 

[DarthStriker]

what I am thinking is in a few years when Nvidia releases there next Gen cards, I am willing to bet they will use Gen 4 PCIE which means all I will have to do is maybe a BIOS update and I can buy a new card and use it without having to purchase a whole new board. I realize this is all wishful thinking but still if spending an extra $50 now may save more from buying a differnet/new board later then I think it would be worth it. 

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, DarthStriker said:

what I am thinking is in a few years when Nvidia releases there next Gen cards, I am willing to bet they will use Gen 4 PCIE which means all I will have to do is maybe a BIOS update and I can buy a new card and use it without having to purchase a whole new board. I realize this is all wishful thinking but still if spending an extra $50 now may save more from buying a differnet/new board later then I think it would be worth it. 

Now that's a damn good point  

Just make sure to get a solid X570 board that'll be a good user experience so you won't want to upgrade it anyways lol. Take a good look at reviews before buying one, mobos always shuffle between gens. For example, ASUS' TUF board has been crappy for the past few gens, but the X570 one is excellent. Or the ASRock Taichi, an absolutely godly X470 mobo but the X570 one has issues with the chipset fan being annoyingly loud (and there's others with the same features in that price range so you're better off getting one of those). 

[DarthStriker]

Yeah I was actually looking at getting the  ASUS TUF x570 board and the reason i switched is the MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus Motherboard has way better reviews, not saying the TUF board is a bad board but looking at the reviews the MSI X570 Gaming seems to be a better/safer bet. 

[Guest]

3 hours ago, DarthStriker said:

what I am thinking is in a few years when Nvidia releases there next Gen cards, I am willing to bet they will use Gen 4 PCIE which means all I will have to do is maybe a BIOS update and I can buy a new card and use it without having to purchase a whole new board. I realize this is all wishful thinking but still if spending an extra $50 now may save more from buying a differnet/new board later then I think it would be worth it. 

Why would you have to update your bios ? A pcie 4.0 gpu will work fine in a pcie 3.0 slot.