Another PC build dec 2019

[loppantorkel]

I'm again thinking about buying a new PC. Old one is from 2010 with many parts exchanged over the years, but I've been very happy with my old one which still holds up very well, which is why I've been hesitant to buy a new one, because why? Now we've got a game like Cyberpunk coming in a while. There's no rush to get a new PC since it's not out yet, but I'm still on win 7 so, I have to do some research anyway...

 

So.. while I'm not forced to buy a new PC just yet, I'd love to hear some input on this build. One thing I appreciate is if it's somewhat future proof and whatever bottlenecks there might be, are upgradable ones. I'm not tied to any brands, but my current AMD Phenom II X6 has been great through the years and I like that they try to keep the same architecture...

I'm not into overclocking, building or troubleshooting...

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Phanteks Eclipse P400A RGB Black

ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER DUAL EVO

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X CM

Masterliquid ML240L Komplett Edition

HyperX Fury RGB DDR4 2666MHz 16GB

Kingston A2000 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD

Kingston A2000 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD

Gigabyte X570 AORUS Elite, Socket-AM4

Corsair TX650M, 650W PSU

Windows 10 Home

Cost : 2034€ Prebuilt and tested.

Any thoughts and input appreciated.

[Radium_Angel]

47 minutes ago, loppantorkel said:

Windows 10 Home

Depending on how you get going to get your OS, there are better ("better") versions of Win10 out there with less spying/telemetry/stupid garbage built in.

[loppantorkel]

28 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Depending on how you get going to get your OS, there are better ("better") versions of Win10 out there with less spying/telemetry/stupid garbage built in.

That does sound interesting. Win 10 Pro OA would be such a thing maybe?

[Radium_Angel]

3 hours ago, loppantorkel said:

That does sound interesting. Win 10 Pro OA would be such a thing maybe?

Or SAIC, or LTSB/C or Enterprise

 

All of those things reduce the BS baked into Windows 10.

Or, if you don't need DX12...there is Windows "9" aka, Windows 8.1 Industry Embedded Pro with a Win7 skin on top. LTT did a review of it, but I found it beforehand, it's the only MS OS I will use. All the advantages of Win10 (DX12 aside) with none of the drawbacks. No BS telemetry, only security updates, clean and bloat-free, no live tiles, no store, none of that crap.

[loppantorkel]

53 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Or SAIC, or LTSB/C or Enterprise

 

All of those things reduce the BS baked into Windows 10.

Or, if you don't need DX12...there is Windows "9" aka, Windows 8.1 Industry Embedded Pro with a Win7 skin on top. LTT did a review of it, but I found it beforehand, it's the only MS OS I will use. All the advantages of Win10 (DX12 aside) with none of the drawbacks. No BS telemetry, only security updates, clean and bloat-free, no live tiles, no store, none of that crap.

I don't really need anything, and I'm not excited about where things are heading with OSs. Otoh, I'm also using IOS for any important stuff, and I'll keep my win7 PC for as long as it keeps going, so a new Win10 PC that I use for nothing but weekend gaming - what kind of data would MS get from me? How relevant is this issue to me?

 

edit: LTSB seems not available for normal consumers...

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, loppantorkel said:

what kind of data would MS get from me?

*everything*

Win10 phones home with so much data it's hard to believe people put up with this.

 

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15188636/microsoft-windows-10-data-collection-documents-privacy-concerns

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/282263-microsoft-windows-10-data-collection

https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-windows-10-still-telling-microsoft-what-youre-doing-even-if-you-dont-want-it-to/