Build for wife

[Jupsik]

Hey, 

So wife finally agreed to allow me to build her a pc for the off chance that she is willing to play civ 6 or destiny 2 or something like that with me. She'd be playing on a 1440p 144hz monitor. 

 

So I was thinking the following:

- Ryzen r 5 3600

- accompanying cooler

- MSI B450 Gaming plus max

- G.Skill Trident Z RGB Series, DDR4-3466, CL 16 - 16 GB Dual-Ki

- SAPPHIRE NITRO+ RX 5700 XT

- 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO

- most likely a corsair RM 750 W 80 plus gold psu (or something similar)

- all of the above in a fractal meshify case.

 

the aim would be that her pc would more or less be equivalent to my own (which is currently using a ryzen 1600x and most likely a bottlenecked 1080ti). 

So my question is:

- would the above build be more or less equivalent to my own and is the 5700 xt any good. I have done almost 0 research on the gpu's and would thus rely on you guys for the recommendation; and

- is there something that you would change in the build above. 

 

 

 

[Jumballi]

1080 ti is not bottlenecked on that cpu, far from it, you need to go way way way back to actually bottleneck.

the nvidia 2070 super is more powerful than 5700 xt, but is $100 more.

I have the 2080 non super, which is about 10% more performance than the 2070 super, and am getting 100-120fps at 1440p high settings.

 

if your wife is not so much a gamer as yourself, take the cpu for yourself and give your wife your old cpu/ram/motherboard. It’ll work just as fine if she isn’t as keen on these things.

[GloriousPain]

okay okay okay, calm down dude. That's pretty killer for a PC  "she might decide to use to play with me"  if anything I'd give yourself the 3600.

 

Then give her your main platform, get her like a 1650 Super, 1660 Super, 570, 580 or a 5500. A good PSU... and probably a more specific storage array, like an NVMe 1TB SSD (sabrent rocket coming to mind) that costs similar to the Samsung 860 evo

[tech.guru]

Happy wife is happy life.

 

Give her that PC and see if takes interest to play with you in games. If she gets hooked she won't give you such a hard time for spending so much time playing games.

 

This is the real reason why you say

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So wife finally agreed to allow me to build her a pc for the off chance that she is willing to play civ 6 or destiny 2 or something like that with me

Don't listen to others they don't understand.

Good luck man, rooting for ya!

[dizmo]

Sounds pretty overkill for the intended application, but the parts selection is good.

I'd only get that RAM if the price is decent. Otherwise just get a cheaper set of 3200mhz.

[Jupsik]

On 1/2/2020 at 10:22 AM, GloriousPain said:

okay okay okay, calm down dude. That's pretty killer for a PC  "she might decide to use to play with me"  if anything I'd give yourself the 3600.

 

Then give her your main platform, get her like a 1650 Super, 1660 Super, 570, 580 or a 5500. A good PSU... and probably a more specific storage array, like an NVMe 1TB SSD (sabrent rocket coming to mind) that costs similar to the Samsung 860 evo

Just wanted to thank you for the feedback :D. Am to lazy to swap out my cpu /mobo, but she's now got a 3600 combined with a 1660 super. Seems to be working very well.