First Time Building PC

[Yoyoshi]

Hey All, this is my first time building a PC from the bottom up so I'm looking for any advice. I've done some research and looked around at other builds, to come up with this list of components, but i'm not sure if I've selected the best value components.

My budget is between $2000-2500 CAD. The main purpose of this build is gaming, with games such as MMOs, COD, Red Dead Redemption 2 etc. I currently have three monitors with 144hz 1080p. In the future i'll consider maybe upgrading some of these monitors to 1440p. Please give your thoughts or any changes you would make.

 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($419.00 @ Canada Computers) 
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($199.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($91.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Storage: Silicon Power A80 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($87.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($229.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($99.99 @ Canada Computers) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card  ($749.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case  ($129.99 @ Memory Express) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($144.99 @ Best Buy Canada) 
Total: $2153.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-17 15:10 EST-0500

[Viper9]

Instead of two M.2 SSD maybe just buy one 2TB or at least two Samsung SSD instead of this cheap Silicon Power. And instead of GeIL memory I would choose G.Skill or Corsair. 

[Zando_]

5 minutes ago, Viper9 said:

Instead of two M.2 SSD maybe just buy one 2TB or at least two Samsung SSD instead of this cheap Silicon Power. And instead of GeIL memory I would choose G.Skill or Corsair. 

Samsung SSDs are nice but generally more expensive than competitor's drives that are as fast or faster. Also it's much easier to run one as your boot drive and have the other as a dedicated game drive/project disk (depending on if you're gaming or editing). 

7 minutes ago, Viper9 said:

And instead of GeIL memory I would choose G.Skill or Corsair.

Choose what is cheapest if you're going for value, even super eeh looking RAM like Team Group's stuff is fine, no issues at all (I've personally built 5 PCs so far with their stuff). 

 

 

Here's my tweak on your build list:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/J7fC8M

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($419.00 @ Canada Computers) 
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($199.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  ($95.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Storage: Silicon Power A80 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($87.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($179.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($99.99 @ Canada Computers) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card  ($749.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case  ($129.99 @ Memory Express) 
Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($109.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Total: $2072.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-17 15:32 EST-0500

3600Mhz CL16 RAM because it's faster and only $4 more. Timings aren't the best (16-19-19-39), but still acceptable and you can probably manually pull those down. SX8200 Pro instead of the 970 Evo because it's as fast (actually barely, barely faster in most metrics) but $40 or so less. TXM Gold 550W because it's an excellent unit, you don't need as much wattage as the PSU you had picked, and it comes out cheaper.