New Personal PC

Crazybutlazy · July 10, 2020

Budget (including currency): 600-700 usd

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Any games, python,MATLAB, and LabVIEW programming. I am a physics student, so any computational workload that could stem from that, I will likely be doing it.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):

Currently am using a xps 9560 i5 hooked up to an aorus gaming box 1070 through thunderbolt 3.

It is awful, as the xps has a horrible power throttling issue that I am done trying to fix (repaste, thermal pads, undervolt....) and ends up running at 800 mhz on all cpu cores more often than not.

Have a 3440x1440 monitor that runs at 100hz that I want to power. I know the 1070 probably isnt good enough for that, but I don't want to upgrade my GPU yet.

I currently have all of the storage media I need at the moment, and I have access to a windows 10 license through my university.

I want to build a smaller tower (dorm living...), either micro atx or mini itx depending on what is most practical here.

I think having a water cooled CPU would be dope. No matter what I want this thing to be relatively quiet if possible. My current setup (laptop and egpu) is loud as hell.

I haven't built a computer in 8 years, and I am not very familiar with what the latest motherboard/cpu hardware is good and what parts are compatible with what. I know that I want this to be an AMD build, preferably 6 cores or more if possible.

I appreciate any help that you guys are willing to give me. I would also greatly appreciate a link to a resource that helps me figure out what modern features are desirable so that I don't miss out on anything new that has developed since I was last in the know about pc hardware.

Crazybutlazy · July 10, 2020

8 minutes ago, Not Wills said:

Any preferences on size?

I definitely want a smaller pc. I've had my eye on r/sffpc for a while but I really don't know how practical those builds are (cost and performance). I'd definitely want to keep it on the smaller side without sacrificing too much. Mid tower is the largest i'd want. I want to go smaller if I can.