Gaming Rig

[Castor124]

Hey guys, 

 

So I just started seriously getting into rig building, I tried my first hand at it about 4 years ago, built mine with what I thought was tricked out for the time (4790K that if needed i can provide more specs on), built my wife a computer that I really learned a lot about not putting only the cheapest parts I can find together. This led to a few weeks ago I upgraded both of our systems in similar fashion, but given that I will be on mine more upgraded my specs a fair bit more, but I am afraid I may have overspent on some parts and under spent on some, and created a bottleneck that may affect system performance down the road. (Right now it works amazingly compared to previous build, which was again, my first try.)

 

I want to clarify that this has already been built

 

My new build Specs:

CPU: I5-9600k

GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 super

Motherboard: MSI Z390-A PRO

Memory: Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3600 32GB (4x 8gb sticks)

Storage: Inland Premium 256GB SSD 3D NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive

PSU: PowerSpec 750 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX Fully Modular Power Supply

Cooling: Corsair H100I Platinum 280 AIO

Case: LIAN LI 205 ATX Mid Tower

Case fans config: Have AIO radiator positioned to the front as intake, 2 fans attached to the top and one to rear as exhaust.

As a side note, I looked up an MSI beginner guide (as well as r/overclock) and currently have the CPU overclocked to 4.9 with Vcore 1.27. I have been gradually stepping down the voltage, I was only able to get stable 5.0 at 1.39, anything lower caused a BSOD (Clock_Watchdog_Timeout)

 

The help I am mostly looking for, is will this system have issues with bottle necking, is overclocking on the board even going to offer any gains, and if anything is clearly going to under perform given other parts. My main usage will be gaming, and eventually streaming. I do not record or "content create' outside of streaming, so I wont be doing video editing or rendering. Any guides you can offer I am willing to read or watch, and I more want to learn for in the future and gaining knowledge on something I have recently come to have quite a bit of passion about. Thanks in advance for all the help and criticism you will provide, generally a good sport so even if your ripping me a new one, as long as I can learn it'll be okay. 

[CreativeName642]

I would go AMD... Cheaper for basically the same performance and even better performance in workstation applications. I recommend a Ryzen 7 3700X (This may not be within your budget, but I'm assuming it is because your have 2080 Super and 32gB of RAM) and an MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX. The rest looks good.

 

As for whether you have a bottleneck... with my suggestions you'll have 8 cores 16 threads which is better for streaming and you'll have better performance. There shouldn't be a problem.

 

If the R7 3700X is too expensive, then get a Ryzen 5 3600 (only has 6 cores and 12 threads, but should still stream the same) and an RTX 2060 Super

Edit: You need to have more storage. Even if you just put all your games on an HDD, it will be better than not having them at all.

[Fasauceome]

11 minutes ago, Castor124 said:

I do not record or "content create' outside of streaming, so I wont be doing video editing or rendering.

you've selected quite a lot of ram then

 

11 minutes ago, Castor124 said:

(4x 8gb sticks)

this config might offer a little more for your money:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$174.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Corsair H115i PRO 55.4 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$158.47 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Asus PRIME X570-P ATX AM4 Motherboard	$144.99 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory	$74.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$99.99 @ B&H
Video Card	EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card	$713.98 @ Newegg
Case	Lian Li LANCOOL 205 ATX Mid Tower Case	$79.98 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$98.98 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1576.37
	Mail-in rebates	-$30.00
	Total	$1546.37
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-13 14:05 EDT-0400

although I don't know if you're buying in the united states. Either way, AMD is pretty killer value right now.

[Castor124]

15 minutes ago, CreativeName642 said:

I would go AMD... Cheaper for basically the same performance and even better performance in workstation applications. I recommend a Ryzen 7 3700X (This may not be within your budget, but I'm assuming it is because your have 2080 Super and 32gB of RAM) and an MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX. The rest looks good.

 

As for whether you have a bottleneck... with my suggestions you'll have 8 cores 16 threads which is better for streaming and you'll have better performance. There shouldn't be a problem.

 

If the R7 3700X is too expensive, then get a Ryzen 5 3600 (only has 6 cores and 12 threads, but should still stream the same) and an RTX 2060 Super

Edit: You need to have more storage. Even if you just put all your games on an HDD, it will be better than not having them at all.

I apologize and will edit the original post for clarity, this has already been built. I do have another SSD plugged in, its an older crucial that is 250 GB, and its sata, i just dont know its full specs so I left it out. I do kind of regret not researching more into the CPU's from last year as I would have tried AMD. With this already built, would there be a noticeable performance gain if I were to switch (at this point, I cannot return the chip/mb for a refund or credit, so the performance gain would need to be worth the full investment)

[Castor124]

9 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

you've selected quite a lot of ram then

 

this config might offer a little more for your money:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$174.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Corsair H115i PRO 55.4 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$158.47 @ Amazon
Motherboard	Asus PRIME X570-P ATX AM4 Motherboard	$144.99 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory	$74.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$99.99 @ B&H
Video Card	EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card	$713.98 @ Newegg
Case	Lian Li LANCOOL 205 ATX Mid Tower Case	$79.98 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair TXM Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$98.98 @ Newegg
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1576.37
	Mail-in rebates	-$30.00
	Total	$1546.37
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-13 14:05 EDT-0400

although I don't know if you're buying in the united states. Either way, AMD is pretty killer value right now.

As I mentioned to Creative, the build has been completed. I went with 32gb because of not wanting to have empty slots, and the RGB is nice haha, but also to increase the length of time the computer will perform at a higher end. Im also including my response to creative in regard to swapping MB and CPU and if the performance gains would be enough to justify a swap:  I do kind of regret not researching more into the CPU's from last year as I would have tried AMD. With this already built, would there be a noticeable performance gain if I were to switch (at this point, I cannot return the chip/mb for a refund or credit, so the performance gain would need to be worth the full investment)

[CreativeName642]

Just now, Castor124 said:

I apologize and will edit the original post for clarity, this has already been built. I do have another SSD plugged in, its an older crucial that is 250 GB, and its sata, i just dont know its full specs so I left it out. I do kind of regret not researching more into the CPU's from last year as I would have tried AMD. With this already built, would there be a noticeable performance gain if I were to switch (at this point, I cannot return the chip/mb for a refund or credit, so the performance gain would need to be worth the full investment)

For streaming there is a performance gain (that i5 doesn't have hyperthreading and has fewer cores) but other than that, the i5 will probably get very, very slight performance in games. I do doubt that the i5 9600k can handle the 2080 Super, but I could be wrong.

[boggy77]

Keep it dor now and in a year or two when you notice it struggling, either throw a 9900k in, or switch to amd

[Fasauceome]

57 minutes ago, Castor124 said:

With this already built, would there be a noticeable performance gain if I were to switch

depends on if you stream with the GPU encoders or not