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Daniboy125
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Hi guys,

 

I'm after a bit of advice. I've been a mac user for about 15 years (sorry) but am now looking to build my first PC which I'd like to double up as both a gaming and work horse. I'm a graphic designer, so as far as work goes it's predominantly Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator and Photoshop) or Affinity applications being used. Very, very occasionally some video editing.

 

I've been looking a a few online configurators and have a rough idea of what I want but thought it may be worth me posting in here to just double check I'm not overlooking anything. As I said I'm an absolute novice in terms of builds, so please excuse any daft choices.

 

I'm based in the UK. Budget wise I'm hoping around the £1500 mark should be able to get me a machine that performs really well with both work and gaming. I'd also like to take into consideration whether or not I'm backing myself into a corner for future proofing? As far as I can tell I'm not.

 

So the  I want to run by everyone is the Motherboard, CPU, GPU and RAM (as I've seen in comments on various videos a little about the RAM speed and what works best with the AMD CPU).

Motherboard - ASUS TUF X470-PLUS GAMING (DDR4, 6Gb/s, CrossFireX)

CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.4GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)

RAM - 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 16GB)

GPU - NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 SUPER

 

At the moment I'm running an AOC 4k 60Hz display, but I plan on a 1440p 144hz monitor in the very near future which wont be so wasted on a gaming setup. As far as gaming is concerned, it would mainly be first person shooters. At the moment I'm on console but would love to get back on a PC. Games such as Battlefield, Apex, COD, etc.

 

This configuration along with the rest of the components needed pretty much comes out bang on at the £1500 mark I'm aiming for.

 

Does anyone have any further advise or comments on this? Or just some reassurance would be nice :)

 

Thank you.

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26 minutes ago, Daniboy125 said:

Motherboard - ASUS TUF X470-PLUS GAMING (DDR4, 6Gb/s, CrossFireX)

This is bad. They only good board with TUF Gaming branding on it is the X570 TUF Plus, on any other chipset so far they are just entry level boards with a new sheet of paint and plastic.

 

MSI B450 ATX boards can flash their BIOS for 3rd gen compatibility without needing a CPU, or you could get a Max board which are supposedly preflashed and don't always need BIOS update before it works with 3rd gen. If you want to upgrade to CPUs with more cores, High end X470 (like the Crosshair VII Hero, Gaming 7 or M7 AC) or X570 TUF/Aorus Elite will be the way to go.

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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15 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

This is bad. They only good board with TUF Gaming branding on it is the X570 TUF Plus, on any other chipset so far they are just entry level boards with a new sheet of paint and plastic.

 

MSI B450 ATX boards can flash their BIOS for 3rd gen compatibility without needing a CPU, or you could get a Max board which are supposedly preflashed and don't always need BIOS update before it works with 3rd gen. If you want to upgrade to CPUs with more cores, High end X470 (like the Crosshair VII Hero, Gaming 7 or M7 AC) or X570 TUF/Aorus Elite will be the way to go.

Thank you for your response. So the X570-PLUS would be a good substitute? 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Daniboy125 said:

Thank you for your response. So the X570-PLUS would be a good substitute? 

If you like Asus so much, yes

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:

If you like Asus so much, yes

No brand loyalties. Just a rather limited list of options on that particular configurator and I lean to wards getting everything at the same time and same place. There was a Gigabyte in the list but not sure what the difference would be.

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19 minutes ago, Daniboy125 said:

No brand loyalties. Just a rather limited list of options on that particular configurator and I lean to wards getting everything at the same time and same place. There was a Gigabyte in the list but not sure what the difference would be.

Gigabyte Aorus Elite is arguably better since it has more ports in the rear I/O section.

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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