New PC

[Winnie Pooh]

GIGABYTE Graphics Card|GIGABYTE|NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER|8 GB|
256 bit|PCIE 3.0 16x|GDDR6|Memory 15500 MHz|GPU 1845 MHz|
Dual Slot Fansink|1xHDMI|3xDisplayPort|N208SGAMINGOCWHITE-8GD          

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 6C/12T, 4.4 GHz, 36 MB, AM4, 95W, 7nm, BOX           

MSI Motherboard B450 TOMAHAWK MAX AM4 4DDR4 HDMI/DVI/M.2 ATX         

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro Series schwarz, DDR4-3600, CL18 - 16 G        

Samsung SSD 860 EVO SATA III 2.5 inch 1 TB - MZ-76E1T0B/EU         

PHANTEKS Eclipse P400S Midi-Tower, Tempered Glass,                                
Corsair PSU CX650M 650W 80+BRONZE S.MODULAR ATX EU 

 

Planning to build a new PC. These are the parts I have picked out. A friend of mine told me to get a better CPU. Should I? I am near my budget but if necessary I can spend a little more. 

[jctappel67]

If this is purely a gaming PC, then you don't need anything more than a 3600x. If you're running applications that would benefit significantly from more cores, then a better CPU might be in the cards.

[Entropy.]

20 minutes ago, Winnie Pooh said:

GIGABYTE Graphics Card|GIGABYTE|NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER|8 GB|
256 bit|PCIE 3.0 16x|GDDR6|Memory 15500 MHz|GPU 1845 MHz|
Dual Slot Fansink|1xHDMI|3xDisplayPort|N208SGAMINGOCWHITE-8GD          

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 6C/12T, 4.4 GHz, 36 MB, AM4, 95W, 7nm, BOX           

MSI Motherboard B450 TOMAHAWK MAX AM4 4DDR4 HDMI/DVI/M.2 ATX         

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro Series schwarz, DDR4-3600, CL18 - 16 G        

Samsung SSD 860 EVO SATA III 2.5 inch 1 TB - MZ-76E1T0B/EU         

PHANTEKS Eclipse P400S Midi-Tower, Tempered Glass,                                
Corsair PSU CX650M 650W 80+BRONZE S.MODULAR ATX EU 

 

Planning to build a new PC. These are the parts I have picked out. A friend of mine told me to get a better CPU. Should I? I am near my budget but if necessary I can spend a little more. 

Okay, first of all, get rid of the 3660x, use a 3600, unless the prices are exactly the same it isn't worth it. Find some better RAM, CL 18 is meh so try to get ripjaws 3600mhz cl 16. Switch from a 860 evo to a sabrent rocket (The blue cheaper one, it's just a fast and reliable nvme, but you can find cheaper if you prefer, like the 660p or crucial p1) Get a Phateks P300a, and get 3 more case fans, which will do a 3 on 1, positive airflow config, 3 fans in the front drawing air in, 1 exhaust.  Otherwise looks good

[Fasauceome]

7 minutes ago, Brok3n But who cares? said:

CL 18 is not acceptable

3600 CL18 is the same latency as 3200 CL16, which is definitely "acceptable"

[Entropy.]

7 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

3600 CL18 is the same latency as 3200 CL16, which is definitely "acceptable"

I WILL find a keyboard, and I WILL headsmash it

 

[Entropy.]

6 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

3600 CL18 is the same latency as 3200 CL16, which is definitely "acceptable"

I WILL find a keyboard, and I WILL headsmash it

 

[Winnie Pooh]

17 hours ago, Brok3n But who cares? said:

Okay, first of all, get rid of the 3660x, use a 3600, unless the prices are exactly the same it isn't worth it. Find some better RAM, CL 18 is meh so try to get ripjaws 3600mhz cl 16. Switch from a 860 evo to a sabrent rocket (The blue cheaper one, it's just a fast and reliable nvme, but you can find cheaper if you prefer, like the 660p or crucial p1) Get a Phateks P300a, and get 3 more case fans, which will do a 3 on 1, positive airflow config, 3 fans in the front drawing air in, 1 exhaust.  Otherwise looks good

So I found some ram that has cl 16 (G.SKILL PC memory - DDR4 16GB (2x8GB)TridentZ RGB Neo AMD 3600MHz CL16 XMP2) but the problem is, at least how i understood it is that this ram only goes with x570 motherboards so I looked for that and i found ASUS X570 P. Are these good? 

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8 minutes ago, Winnie Pooh said:

So I found some ram that has cl 16 (G.SKILL PC memory - DDR4 16GB (2x8GB)TridentZ RGB Neo AMD 3600MHz CL16 XMP2) but the problem is, at least how i understood it is that this ram only goes with x570 motherboards so I looked for that and i found ASUS X570 P. Are these good? 

It will go with any board that supports DDR4. There is no 'X570' only Ram. That doesn't mean it will run at 3600MHz with every cpu/board combo. With a 3000 series cpu and B450 board it should be fine though.