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Hey all. Looking to do a first time build to replace an ancient Asus laptop. not exactly sure of budget, around 1400-1700. Gaming of course. I wanna be able to play at least most games on ultra. Ive been watching lot of LTT videos but I must say Im still very anxious about it. I am located in Wisconsin, USA.

 

Had something like this in mind

 

May or may not get a lesser monitor to save $ and then add a better one later.

 

Thoughts and suggestions?

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7 minutes ago, mark84 said:

 

Hello,

 

Something quite better for less :

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $174.99 @ Walmart
Motherboard MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard $99.99 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory $84.99 @ Amazon
Storage Crucial MX500 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive $107.99 @ Amazon
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $53.98 @ Newegg
Video Card MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card $739.89 @ B&H
Case Cougar MX330-G ATX Mid Tower Case $44.00 @ Newegg
Power Supply Phanteks AMP 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $89.99 @ Amazon
Optical Drive Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer $19.85 @ Amazon
Monitor AOC CQ27G1 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor $249.99 @ Amazon
Keyboard Thermaltake CHALLENGER PRIME Wired Gaming Keyboard $29.99 @ Amazon
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $1695.65
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-02-05 02:54 EST-0500  

 

And buy a W10 key from ebay etc

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Yeah, there's no point in going over what is wrong with your initial picks. Plouffe's configuration is much better in every way except for the case, which is junk compared to the Enthoo Pro.

 

I would personally avoid curved monitors though. Had some 'meh' experiences with them. You're better off buying the AOC 24G2U or a 144Hz QHD not curved monitor.

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Asus VG245HE 24" 1080p 75hz | Logitech X-540 5.1 | Logitech G710+ MX Brown | Logitech G502 Hero | Logitech G440

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10 minutes ago, mark84 said:

Hey all. Looking to do a first time build to replace an ancient Asus laptop. not exactly sure of budget, around 1400-1700. Gaming of course. I wanna be able to play at least most games on ultra. Ive been watching lot of LTT videos but I must say Im still very anxious about it. I am located in Wisconsin, USA.

 

Had something like this in mind

 

Thoughts and suggestions?

Don't get an Intel CPU, the R5 3600 is legit nearly identical in gaming performance, and better in multi-core workloads. Also AM4 is not a dead platform, where as there is no upgrade path on that Z390 motherboard for a new gen CPU. That or wait for the new gen of Intel CPU's.

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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($309.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($99.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport AT 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($59.08 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial MX500 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($107.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card  ($719.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Cougar MX330-G ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.00 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($78.36 @ B&H) 
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  ($19.85 @ Amazon) 
Monitor: AOC CQ27G1 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor  ($249.99 @ Amazon) 
Keyboard: Velocifire TKL78 Wired Standard Keyboard  ($29.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1719.23
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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tweak, dropped HDD for better CPU and lowered the price of certain components. 

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That case is a waste of space for the hardware you have though I guess it's cheap for what it is, the HDD is an SMR one which means bad write speeds even by HDD standards (more than 64MB cache at this capacity will be SMR), no SSD so it sucks in responsiveness, Crappy board only worth $120 at most, two CPU coolers of which the better one is only enough (not great) for overclocking the 9600KF, and the 240HZ monitor that I assure you, will not run above 100Hz at this setup with adaptive sync enabled in games normally you would want to run at ultra settings.

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In the current market, I'd recommend going for a RX 5700 XT now, and upgrading later.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($174.99 @ Walmart) 
Motherboard: MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($99.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  ($84.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Silicon Power A80 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($72.98 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($82.28 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB MECH OC Video Card  ($379.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cougar MX330-G ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.00 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Phanteks AMP 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($89.99 @ Amazon) 
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer  ($19.85 @ Amazon) 
Monitor: AOC CQ27G1 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor  ($249.99 @ Amazon) 
Keyboard: Redragon K582 SURARA Wired Gaming Keyboard  ($46.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1346.04
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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I would avoid the 5700 XT until AMD gets their shit together. It's a good time to buy Nvidia cards.

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