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Hi everyone.

 

First time posting, I hope this is in the right place.

 

I'm planning on building a new pc in the new year and would like some advice if you don't mind helping me out. I'm not looking at a specific budget but don't want to over spend.

 

The pc will be driving four 1080 monitors (already owned) that will have several chrome tabs open. Up to 30 tabs, I'm a trader so I need to have several open. This is currently driven by a single R9 290 with the fourth driven by the motherboard on my i5 haswell.

 

I will also want to do some gaming being able to run the latest games at highish settings.

 

I would quite like to entertain the idea of running a big 4k TV in the future as this will give me the real estate the 4 monitors give me that I need for my trading and it would be cool to game at 4k, however if this pushes up the price too much I'm fine sticking with the 4 1080 monitors.

 

I will not need a PSU however as the current one is 1200w. Massive overkill and quite a funny story - I paid £30 for it from one of those dodgy eBay sites that lists returned items 'not tested'. It turned up and didn't work, returned it as it was still in warranty and got a new unit sent to me ?.

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1 minute ago, Nuggy1980 said:

I will not need a PSU however as the current one is 1200w.

Which one ? Not all 1200W PSUs are equally good.

What's your entire current specs ? We can't really recommend you anything if we don't know what are you using now.

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2 minutes ago, Nuggy1980 said:

Hi everyone.

 

First time posting, I hope this is in the right place.

 

I'm planning on building a new pc in the new year and would like some advice if you don't mind helping me out. I'm not looking at a specific budget but don't want to over spend.

 

The pc will be driving four 1080 monitors (already owned) that will have several chrome tabs open. Up to 30 tabs, I'm a trader so I need to have several open. This is currently driven by a single R9 290 with the fourth driven by the motherboard on my i5 haswell.

 

I will also want to do some gaming being able to run the latest games at highish settings.

 

I would quite like to entertain the idea of running a big 4k TV in the future as this will give me the real estate the 4 monitors give me that I need for my trading and it would be cool to game at 4k, however if this pushes up the price too much I'm fine sticking with the 4 1080 monitors.

 

I will not need a PSU however as the current one is 1200w. Massive overkill and quite a funny story - I paid £30 for it from one of those dodgy eBay sites that lists returned items 'not tested'. It turned up and didn't work, returned it as it was still in warranty and got a new unit sent to me ?.

Hey, welcome to the forums! Could you specify your budget and country so i could help you sir?

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Right.

 

The current PC is a haswell i5-4670k 

8gb ram

Motherboard is a MSI z87 g45 gaming

HDD is a crucial ct525mx300ssd

AMD R9 290

PSU is a pc power and cooling silencer mk 3 1200w platinum.

 

That's all I can see and I'm not that techie so I hope it helps ?

 

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2 minutes ago, Nuggy1980 said:

 

Right.

 

The current PC is a haswell i5-4670k 

8gb ram

Motherboard is a MSI z87 g45 gaming

HDD is a crucial ct525mx300ssd

AMD R9 290

PSU is a pc power and cooling silencer mk 3 1200w platinum.

 

That's all I can see and I'm not that techie so I hope it helps ?

 

For a cheap upgrade, I'd get an extra 8gb or ram, a 500gb ssd and a 1660super

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1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

For a cheap upgrade, I'd get an extra 8gb or ram, a 500gb ssd and a 1660super

That would be the best option really, however the old parts are going to go into a cheap PC for the kids so I will really need an entire new PC except for the monitors and PSU. I should have made that clear sorry.

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1 minute ago, Nuggy1980 said:

Oh and the budget isn't really an Issue. I just don't want to over spend for performance I don't need. My requirements are outlined in the first post ?

budget? 1000+ or 1500 or 2000

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neat build for under 1500 dollars: 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $309.99 @ Best Buy
CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition 57.3 CFM CPU Cooler $39.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard Asus PRIME X570-PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $234.98 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill Trident Z Neo 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $99.99 @ Newegg
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $147.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $64.99 @ Newegg
Video Card Asus Radeon RX 5700 8 GB STRIX Gaming OC Video Card $399.99 @ Amazon
Case NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case $69.98 @ Amazon
Case Fan Anidees AI-Tesseract 30.54 CFM 120 mm Fans $44.90 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1412.80
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-15 09:57 EST-0500  

 

 

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3 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

Then go for something like this

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/NtVDjp

So no hdd? runnin r7 3700x at stock cooler. plz no. Otherwise that could work too

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1 minute ago, SavageNeo said:

neat build for under 1500 dollars: 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $309.99 @ Best Buy
CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition 57.3 CFM CPU Cooler $39.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard Asus PRIME X570-PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $234.98 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill Trident Z Neo 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $99.99 @ Newegg
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $147.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $64.99 @ Newegg
Video Card Asus Radeon RX 5700 8 GB STRIX Gaming OC Video Card $399.99 @ Amazon
Case NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case $69.98 @ Amazon
Case Fan Anidees AI-Tesseract 30.54 CFM 120 mm Fans $44.90 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1412.80
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-15 09:57 EST-0500  

 

 

Looks good to me. Would this allow me to game at 4k if I did decide to replace the 4 monitor setup with a large 4k TV? Like I said, if that would add a lot price wise to the build I would just stay with the 4 1080 monitors.

 

The most critical thing for me is to have a lot of desktop for my work, 4k gaming would be nice but not essential.

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3 minutes ago, Nuggy1980 said:

can spend 2000 if its needed. Do you think I will need to spend that much for what I want to do with the PC?

If you really want to play 4k then yes.

 

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So no hdd? runnin r7 3700x at stock cooler. plz no. Otherwise that could work too

People have different storage requirements. A 500gb ssd should be standard in any build. Itcs up to the op to get more than that.

3700x works with the stock cooler. If the op is not interested in overclocking or in a super silent system the stock cooler is ok.

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1 minute ago, SavageNeo said:

If you really want to play 4k then yes.

 

dont you think X570 is little bit overkill for Game and CHrome?

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| RAM: 8GB LPDDR3 |

| Storage: 128GB SSD | 

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PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $309.99 @ Best Buy
CPU Cooler Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $129.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard Asus PRIME X570-PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $234.98 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill Trident Z Neo 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $99.99 @ Newegg
Memory G.Skill Trident Z Neo 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $99.99 @ Newegg
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $147.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $64.99 @ Newegg
Video Card Asus GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB STRIX GAMING Advanced Video Card $749.99 @ Newegg
Case NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case $69.98 @ Amazon
Case Fan Anidees AI-Tesseract 30.54 CFM 120 mm Fans $44.90 @ Amazon
Case Fan Anidees AI-Tesseract 30.54 CFM 120 mm Fans $44.90 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1997.69
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-15 10:05 EST-0500  

 

Better gpu. More ram since higher budget, so why not?. More fans to keep your case and system cool. Better cpu cooler.

 

Nice pc case.

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instead of 4K why dont you go 1440P? its still heavy for 4k gaming especially those high-end titles

 ican cut down the price but might be cant do 4k. at maximum 1440P

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3 minutes ago, Wolfycapt said:

dont you think X570 is little bit overkill for Game and CHrome?

Well the prime pro, is preatty good fro the price. Good vrm, and rgb ofc,

 

But for 2000 dollar budget it could be okay, since you could upgrade your cpu later better with x570 than b450

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1 minute ago, Wolfycapt said:

instead of 4K why dont you go 1440P? its still heavy for 4k gaming especially those high-end titles

I just need a lot of desktop space for my work so the option really is buy a big TV or keep the 4 monitors. I wouldn't want to buy 4 new 1440P monitors.

 

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Optimised @SavageNeo 's build a bit.

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $309.99 @ Best Buy
CPU Cooler Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $129.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard $199.99 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $74.98 @ Amazon
Storage Silicon Power A80 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $109.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $64.99 @ Newegg
Video Card EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card $719.99 @ Newegg
Case NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case $69.98 @ Amazon
Case Fan Anidees AI-Tesseract 30.54 CFM 120 mm Fans $44.90 @ Amazon
Case Fan Anidees AI-Tesseract 30.54 CFM 120 mm Fans $44.90 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total (before mail-in rebates) $1789.70
  Mail-in rebates -$20.00
  Total $1769.70
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-15 10:12 EST-0500  

 

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35 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

So no hdd? runnin r7 3700x at stock cooler. plz no. Otherwise that could work too

What's wrong with the Wraith Prism? I'm running it currently on my 3900x without issue.

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