Help for new build - AMD or Intel?

Gergelyc · November 23, 2019

Hi Guys,

First of all, thank you for taking the time and helping out. I am not a native english speaker so I apologize for spelling or grammatical mistakes.

Based on the Sticky:

1. Budget & Location

Roughly 2200 euros

Germany / EU

2. Aim

Gaming:

Cities Skylines with lots of mods (high amount of RAM?)

Civilization 6 (with mods)

No FPS or Reflex based games (I am horrid at them)

Able to run Cyberpunk 2077 quite well

I wish to do some videoediting maybe? So nothing work or even hobby related. Let’s leave the door open

I will be needing to do a lot of studying on it, but let’s be real this build will be overkill for Word and PPT.

3. Monitors

I wish to use one display, never had anything above 1080p 60hz, so aiming for something along the lines of 2k 144hz 27 inch min.

4. Peripherals

I have brand new (5 months old) razer Blackwidow Tournamen v2 and mouse, and a Logitech 5.1 speaker system (good enough). Yeti Microphone

5. Why are you upgrading?

My current computer is an i5-4790k with GTX 780. It is old... and exteremely noisy even after several attempts to clean it. So time to upgrade it.

Important

I have little care for RGB. So I prefer performance over looks. Mouse and keyboard are enough RGB for me

I will most likely NEVER overlock nor will use PCI 4.0 in forseaable future

What I care about is Silence so that is the only reason I added Noctua D15

My main goal asking you guys if you can recommend for my use case more fitting components that might be cheaper. P.S.: I am not against Intel so if they drop prices in 9700k in near weeks and I can get a significant (-100 euro) discount on a CPU I switch.

Questions?

3900x / 3700x or i9700k or 9900k? (Again I will never overlock)

Motherboard recommendations? For intel I have no idea what to take.

Will I see performance increase from 660p or should I just go Sata SSD for what I am currently doing?

Do I need noctua D15?

I am really unexperienced with Power supply, is that a good choice? Do I need 650w?

Recommendation for other monitor? I chose this one as might play games with my GF so I do not wish to buy a TN panel with bad viewing angles. Nor curvature. It seemed like a reasonable choice.

NXZT case was chooseN as I saw that all front connectors are with 1 connector not power, reset each etc. I liked that, but if you have better recommendation I am open!

Since I don’t play lag intenstive games and the computer will be in a room where it has no LAN access I am okay buying a wifi card. Should I get one on the motherboard? Pro-cons would interest me. My thought process was that I’ll get Wifi-6 expansion card whenever the technology gets there.

Thank you!

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	€329.00 @ Caseking
CPU Cooler	Noctua NH-D15 CHROMAX.BLACK 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler	€99.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Motherboard	Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard	€214.90 @ Caseking
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	€154.25 @ Amazon Deutschland
Storage	Intel 660p Series 1.02 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	€117.89 @ Mindfactory
Video Card	MSI GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB VENTUS OC Video Card	€530.90 @ Alza
Case	NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case	€77.13 @ Amazon Deutschland
Power Supply	Corsair RM (2019) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	€94.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Wireless Network Adapter	TP-Link Archer T6E AC1300 PCIe x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter	€38.25 @ Amazon Deutschland
Monitor	MSI Optix MPG27CQ 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor	€512.70 @ Amazon Deutschland
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	€2169.82
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-23 20:36 CET+0100

Vishera · November 23, 2019

Here is a better one (3600MHz CL16 RAM,Gigabit Wi-Fi,TLC NVME SSD,Case with plenty of airflow,Tier A PSU,Triple fan GPU for silence,and good motherboard for cheap):

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	€329.00 @ Caseking
CPU Cooler	Noctua NH-D15 CHROMAX.BLACK 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler	€99.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Motherboard	MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard	€112.87 @ Amazon Deutschland
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory	€158.40 @ Mindfactory
Storage	Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	€139.00 @ Amazon Deutschland
Video Card	Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card	€521.36 @ Alza
Case	Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case	€99.89 @ Alternate
Power Supply	BitFenix Formula Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply	€89.90 @ Caseking
Wireless Network Adapter	Asus PCE-AC88 PCIe x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter	€72.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Monitor	MSI Optix MPG27CQ 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor	€512.70 @ Amazon Deutschland
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	€2135.92
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-23 21:05 CET+0100