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florianerb
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Hello, 

 

My old iMac died about a month ago and I need a new computer, i play mainly competitive games as well as for work I video edit, color grade and do some modelling in blender. This was my first go at a build. With the monitors i like IPS and i need monitors with good Delta E's also planning on buying a calibrator as well. 

 

any advice welcome

 

Thanks.

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor £167.58 @ Aria PC
Motherboard Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard £107.99 @ Amazon UK
Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory £78.72 @ CCL Computers
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Purchased For £0.00
Video Card Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB GAMING OC Video Card £374.92 @ More Computers
Case Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case £114.99 @ Box Limited
Power Supply SeaSonic 520 W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply £55.47 @ Scan.co.uk
Case Fan Corsair LL120 RGB White with Lighting Node PRO 63 CFM 120 mm Fans £74.98 @ Amazon UK
Monitor BenQ GW2765HT 27.0" 2560x1440 60 Hz Monitor £258.72 @ Ebuyer
Monitor Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD-SA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor £549.95 @ CCL Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1783.32
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-12 19:13 GMT+0000  

 

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Video edeting, blender? GET those 12 Cores baby! Get second monitor later. Its wellllll worth it. This PC is essentially double performance in editing. And will last you much longer. Maybe you can get the nice Arorus screen and some crap from Ebay at first later resell the shit monitor and get a second decent one?

 

 

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The PSU you had is SHIIIT. The one I put in is rated A+ in our list and same price!

 

MOBO: ROG is fun but Tomahawk Max is the better/best cheap board for AM4. But dont oc the R9. That will need a better board. Annyway this is cheaper and has better VRM than the Asus does. Plus it supports AM4 right out of the box.

 

Fans: Do you really need RGB? If so get the Cooler master RGB fans. They are fine. Yes Corsair LL look cool and are silent but way to expensive. Those Noctua redux might not look like much but are a bit quieter than LL and move a bit air. At almost half the price :D 

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Hmbt3t

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£479.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£91.98 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£78.72 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB GAMING OC Video Card  (£374.92 @ More Computers) 
Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case  (£114.99 @ Box Limited) 
Power Supply: BitFenix Formula Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£66.53 @ CCL Computers) 
Case Fan: Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM 70.75 CFM 120 mm Fan  (£11.69 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM 70.75 CFM 120 mm Fan  (£11.69 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM 70.75 CFM 120 mm Fan  (£11.69 @ Amazon UK) 
Monitor: Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD-SA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor  (£549.95 @ CCL Computers) 
Total: £1792.13
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-12 19:36 GMT+0000

FOLDING MONTH 2021! GOGOGO and save on some heating costs 🙂

 

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PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £277.87 @ Aria PC
Motherboard MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard £88.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Memory Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory £64.51 @ CCL Computers
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Purchased For £0.00
Video Card Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB GAMING OC Video Card £374.92 @ More Computers
Case Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case £114.99 @ Box Limited
Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £61.97 @ Amazon UK
Case Fan Cooler Master MF120R ARGB 3in1 59 CFM 120 mm Fans £39.75 @ Amazon UK
Monitor BenQ GW2765HT 27.0" 2560x1440 60 Hz Monitor £258.72 @ Ebuyer
Monitor Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD-SA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor £549.95 @ CCL Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1831.67
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-12 21:02 GMT+0000  

 

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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£479.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£79.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£51.81 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Video Card: KFA2 GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB EX (1-Click OC) Video Card  (£449.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case  (£114.99 @ Box Limited) 
Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (£61.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Deepcool RF120M(5 in 1) 56.5 CFM 120 mm Fans  (£39.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Monitor: BenQ EX3501R 35.0" 3440x1440 100 Hz Monitor  (£479.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1758.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-13 02:23 GMT+0000

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Heatsink: Gelid Phantom Black GPU: Palit RTX 3060 Ti Dual RAM: Corsair DDR4 2x8GB 3000Mhz mobo: Asus X570-P case: Fractal Design Define C PSU: Superflower Leadex Gold 650W

 

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14 hours ago, boggy77 said:
PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £277.87 @ Aria PC
Motherboard MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard £88.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Memory Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory £64.51 @ CCL Computers
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Purchased For £0.00
Video Card Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB GAMING OC Video Card £374.92 @ More Computers
Case Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case £114.99 @ Box Limited
Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £61.97 @ Amazon UK
Case Fan Cooler Master MF120R ARGB 3in1 59 CFM 120 mm Fans £39.75 @ Amazon UK
Monitor BenQ GW2765HT 27.0" 2560x1440 60 Hz Monitor £258.72 @ Ebuyer
Monitor Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD-SA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor £549.95 @ CCL Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1831.67
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-12 21:02 GMT+0000  

 

3700x is not an option for edeting and competitive gaming. Wellok it is but at the same price point we can manage to get a noooice 3900x

FOLDING MONTH 2021! GOGOGO and save on some heating costs 🙂

 

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8 hours ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£479.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£79.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£51.81 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Video Card: KFA2 GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB EX (1-Click OC) Video Card  (£449.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case  (£114.99 @ Box Limited) 
Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (£61.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Deepcool RF120M(5 in 1) 56.5 CFM 120 mm Fans  (£39.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Monitor: BenQ EX3501R 35.0" 3440x1440 100 Hz Monitor  (£479.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1758.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-13 02:23 GMT+0000

Over the GPU we can debate, but why the Gaming plus mobo? Tomahawk has better VRM and I thing should be done for a 12 core

FOLDING MONTH 2021! GOGOGO and save on some heating costs 🙂

 

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8 minutes ago, Metallus97 said:

Over the GPU we can debate, but why the Gaming plus mobo? Tomahawk has better VRM and I thing should be done for a 12 core

the tomahawk is the same thing with a slightly better heatsink. navi generally doesn't do as well on professional work so the 2070 super will be the better choice there.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Heatsink: Gelid Phantom Black GPU: Palit RTX 3060 Ti Dual RAM: Corsair DDR4 2x8GB 3000Mhz mobo: Asus X570-P case: Fractal Design Define C PSU: Superflower Leadex Gold 650W

 

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4 minutes ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

the tomahawk is the same thing with a slightly better heatsink. navi generally doesn't do as well on professional work so the 2070 super will be the better choice there.

"...with a better heatsink" <- that's why I recommend it. Not much more expensive but will last longer/be better for 3900x

 

GPU: Depends on the used apps. But sure if OP needs cuda or something like that there is no way around the 2070s

FOLDING MONTH 2021! GOGOGO and save on some heating costs 🙂

 

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15 minutes ago, Metallus97 said:

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£51.81 @ Amazon UK) 

you are kinda negating the gains from 3700 to 3900 by saving £20 on much slower ram.

agree on the gpu, tomahawk and gaming plus and a pro are almost the same thing.

 

Edit: sorry, just saw it's not your build.

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5 minutes ago, Metallus97 said:

 

GPU: Depends on the used apps. But sure if OP needs cuda or something like that there is no way around the 2070s

Not just that, it's worth mentioning that Navi due to it's different architecture is actually a downgrade on certain hardware acceleration tasks that GCN used to excel at such as OpenCL, allied to the fact it no longer has HBM2.

 

A Vega64 can outperform the RX 5700XT on a handful of tasks, the Radeon 7 is still a much superior card on any sort of hardware acceleration.

 

Until AMD manages to bring drivers and new technologies that improves the RX 5700XT performance at 'workstation' tasks, this is primarily a gaming card and an RTX 2070 Super is certainly the safer bet here with how widely available CUDA is, will be only a matter of OP using the right software for the right hardware... the main issue I have when people just say "video editing" without stating with what software.

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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2 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

Not just that, it's worth mentioning that Navi due to it's different architecture is actually a downgrade on certain hardware acceleration tasks that GCN used to excel at such as OpenCL, allied to the fact it no longer has HBM2.

 

A Vega64 can outperform the RX 5700XT on a handful of tasks, the Radeon 7 is still a much superior card on any sort of hardware acceleration.

 

Until AMD manages to bring drivers and new technologies that improves the RX 5700XT performance at 'workstation' tasks, this is primarily a gaming card and an RTX 2070 Super is certainly the safer bet here with how widely available CUDA is, will be only a matter of OP using the right software for the right hardware... the main issue I have when people just say "video editing" without stating with what software.

Generaly your right, but idd put it:

Peeps need to buy the right hardware for the software they need or want to use :D

 

And yes VII is still verry nice at. compute. I use it for physic simulations folding and boinc

FOLDING MONTH 2021! GOGOGO and save on some heating costs 🙂

 

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Thanks for all the feedback i ending up putting this together i'm going over my budget a little bit but i don't want to loss the white RGB fans and look for this build

 

Also for me i want to stick with AMD for graphics as i do want to be able to use the card with my mac later down the line.

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor £479.87 @ CCL Computers
Motherboard MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard £89.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk
Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory £77.65 @ CCL Computers
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Purchased For £0.00
Video Card Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB GAMING OC Video Card £374.95 @ More Computers
Case Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case £109.88 @ CCL Computers
Power Supply EVGA B3 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply £65.71 @ CCL Computers
Case Fan Corsair LL120 RGB White with Lighting Node PRO 63 CFM 120 mm Fans £74.98 @ Amazon UK
Monitor Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD-SA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor £549.95 @ CCL Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1822.98
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-14 20:11 GMT+0000  

Any other suggestion before i order?

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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£479.87 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£89.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£77.65 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (Purchased For £0.00) 
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB GAMING OC Video Card  (£374.95 @ More Computers) 
Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case  (£109.88 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: BitFenix Formula Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£81.31 @ CCL Computers) 
Case Fan: Corsair LL120 RGB White with Lighting Node PRO 63 CFM 120 mm Fans  (£74.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Monitor: Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD-SA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor  (£549.95 @ CCL Computers) 
Total: £1838.58
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-15 00:12 GMT+0000
 

this PSU is better by ages, rated A+ on our list wich is friggin nice at under 100$!!
 

also don’t you want to have more storage?

beaindes that: sic build bro

 

posibilities to save money are for sure the RGB xD

I know the PSU is a bit more but the one you had in there is pretty meh and the Formular gold pretty nice! Well worth it for prolonging the live of the system/ better protections in the PSU etc

FOLDING MONTH 2021! GOGOGO and save on some heating costs 🙂

 

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