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New high-end gaming, streaming build, looking for recommendations.

Scooty_Malone
By Scooty_Malone
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Hey there folks, first time on this forum. I'm planning on building a new high-end PC next month, and it's been at least 4 years since I've built my own, so I'm a little out of the loop with current tech and advances that have been made. Here's what I'm looking for:

 

1. Budget & Location

I have a budget of $2,500-3,000 USD, I live in North America.

2. Aim

I plan on getting into streaming on a single PC, or potentially using my old PC as a streaming platform, but that's not essentially a necessity.

3. Monitors

I already have a pair of 3-year old 1080p 24" 60hz monitors, but I'm looking to get at least one monitor that runs at 144hz minimum. Preferrably also at 2560x1440 resolution

4. Peripherals

No peripherals, just the desktop and a monitor.

5. Why are you upgrading?

My current PC is about 4 years old, and I'm still stuck on an LGA 1150 board with an i5 4690k. I do have a GTX 1070 as well, and oftentimes I've got more recent games like Modern Warfare maxing out my CPU at 100%, while barely breaking 40% of my GPU load. On top of all that, any game that's been released in the last year, I'm wholly incapable of livestreaming it, and I want to change that. I've waited about as long as I can, but this PC just can't seem to run most modern games at anything higher than medium. Also, to be quite honest, even if I wasn't having these problems, it's just been so long since I've built a rig that I feel it's time for me to dive back in and get something nicer for myself.

Note: I've never used watercooling before, and even if it's not entirely necessary for my new build, I would like to include it because I simply want to learn how to install and maintain watercooling firsthand.

 

I'm not terribly picky about aesthetics, and as much as I like building nice looking things, I value function over form, so any RGB that might be included in anything will simply be a bonus, but not a necessity.

 

Sorry if I shouldn't be posting this here, I've only just recently discovered Linus' channel and forums. Thanks for reading!

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i think its on the ryzen 9 3950x +RTX2080TI territories lol

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor $499.99 @ Best Buy
CPU Cooler Corsair H115i PRO 55.4 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $136.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard ASRock X570 Taichi ATX AM4 Motherboard $279.99 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $129.99 @ Newegg
Storage Sabrent Rocket 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $119.98 @ Amazon
Video Card MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card $1249.00 @ Walmart
Case Phanteks ECLIPSE P600S ATX Mid Tower Case $144.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply Antec 850 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $146.99 @ SuperBiiz
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $2707.92
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-15 00:58 EST-0500  

You can change to 3950x but 3900x is enough to stream in one platform.

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Thanks a ton for the list! It all looks good to me. Only other thing I might ask is, I'm looking for a monitor that would go well with all this. Preferrably 144hz, 2560x1440 (What is this even called? 2k? UHD?) Monitors are probably the peripheral that I am least knowledgable about, and I wouldn't mind going a little over budget to pick up a nice one.

 

Essentially, I'm mainly just looking to make the jump from 60hz to 144hz.

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28 minutes ago, Scooty_Malone said:

Thanks a ton for the list! It all looks good to me. Only other thing I might ask is, I'm looking for a monitor that would go well with all this. Preferrably 144hz, 2560x1440 (What is this even called? 2k? UHD?) Monitors are probably the peripheral that I am least knowledgable about, and I wouldn't mind going a little over budget to pick up a nice one.

 

Essentially, I'm mainly just looking to make the jump from 60hz to 144hz.

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
Monitor Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD-SA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor $549.99 @ Newegg
Monitor Asus ROG SWIFT PG279QZ 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor $549.99 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1099.98
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-15 01:36 EST-0500  

It's QHD monitor and choose one from above.

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