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Greetings,

Long story short, cpu aio leaked on my x99-pro motherboard and now it won't boot. I want to take the opportunity to upgrade. Only issue, I haven't kept up with the new stuff so I'm looking for suggestions please.

This pc was built in 2015. I have about $700 USD for new cpu, cooling, and mobo. Prumary use is gaming. Have oculas rift so mobo needs at least 4x usb 3 or higher.

I Have a cooler master v1000 power supply, 

run single rtx 2070 armor 8g oc vid,

Cooler Master Silencio 652S - Silent Mid Tower Case with three Silencio FP 120 Fans. 

Current configuration in image. Thanks in advance.

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Plus a bonus pic of aio

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And mobo

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Ouch, I'm going to assume that you're not looking to get another AIO after that incident.

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i5-10600KF 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor $277.50 @ B&H
CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler $74.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard MSI MPG Z490 GAMING EDGE WIFI ATX LGA1200 Motherboard $199.99 @ Best Buy
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL14 Memory $99.99 @ Newegg
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $652.38
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-26 12:50 EDT-0400  

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PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $279.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler $74.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $179.99 @ B&H
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL14 Memory $99.99 @ Newegg
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $634.87
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-26 12:19 EDT-0400  
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Desktop: Intel Core i9-9900K | ASUS Strix Z390-F | G.Skill Trident Z Neo 2x16GB @ 3200MHz CL14 | EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER XC Ultra | Corsair RM650x | Fractal Design Define R6

Laptop: 2018 Apple MacBook Pro 13"  --  i5-8259U | 8GB LPDDR3 | 512GB NVMe

Peripherals: Leopold FC660C w/ Topre Silent 45g | Logitech MX Master 3 & Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed | HIFIMAN HE400se & iFi ZEN DAC | Audio-Technica AT2020USB+

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@JPCreek If its for gaming, the top option in @Mateyyy's options above is going to be your best bet FPS wise. AMD is incredibly competent and beats intel at anything heavily multithreaded, but currently a 10600 is a FPS chart topper. Its hard to say at what point in the future more cores will beat out raw GHz for gaming, but currently GHz is still king, and Intel has the GHz. 3700x is a bomb CPU though, so either option would be a great choice.

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

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1 hour ago, Mateyyy said:

Ouch, I'm going to assume that you're not looking to get another AIO after that incident.

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i5-10600KF 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor $277.50 @ B&H
CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler $74.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard MSI MPG Z490 GAMING EDGE WIFI ATX LGA1200 Motherboard $199.99 @ Best Buy
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL14 Memory $99.99 @ Newegg
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $652.38
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-26 12:50 EDT-0400  

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PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $279.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler $74.90 @ Amazon
Motherboard Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $179.99 @ B&H
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL14 Memory $99.99 @ Newegg
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total $634.87
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-26 12:19 EDT-0400  

I'm thinking about this. Yes another aio, but different brand. Old one lasted 5 years...lets roll the dice. Also the kf version of the cpu is not available. I also did a step up in speed and amount of ram, and picked a different mobo. Thoughts?

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35 minutes ago, JPCreek said:

I'm thinking about this. Yes another aio, but different brand. Old one lasted 5 years...lets roll the dice. Also the kf version of the cpu is not available. I also did a step up in speed and amount of ram, and picked a different mobo. Thoughts?

120mm AIOs offer very poor performance for the money. For the same price you could get an NH-U12S chromax.black which will be quieter, infinitely more reliable and better in terms of cooling performance. 

 

4000MHz CL19 results in worse latency than 3200MHz CL14, and I'm pretty sure that kit's not even Samsung B-die like the 3200 C14 kit, so it'd be a downgrade.

 

I went with the KF since the regular K was out of stock on PCPP. If you can get your hands on the K then sure, get that.

 

The Z490 Gaming Edge WIFI is just better than the Aorus Elite. Since they're both at the same price, I don't see any point in going with the Elite really.

Desktop: Intel Core i9-9900K | ASUS Strix Z390-F | G.Skill Trident Z Neo 2x16GB @ 3200MHz CL14 | EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER XC Ultra | Corsair RM650x | Fractal Design Define R6

Laptop: 2018 Apple MacBook Pro 13"  --  i5-8259U | 8GB LPDDR3 | 512GB NVMe

Peripherals: Leopold FC660C w/ Topre Silent 45g | Logitech MX Master 3 & Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed | HIFIMAN HE400se & iFi ZEN DAC | Audio-Technica AT2020USB+

Display: Gigabyte G34WQC

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43 minutes ago, JPCreek said:

I'm thinking about this. Yes another aio, but different brand. Old one lasted 5 years...lets roll the dice. Also the kf version of the cpu is not available. I also did a step up in speed and amount of ram, and picked a different mobo. Thoughts?

I agree, 120 AIO's are just not very good... 240 is really the lower limit of what is worth it. I would get a noctua air cooler every day (assuming it fits in your case, 120 AIO's are best suited for itx cases where you can't fit a big air cooler... your not ITX so your fine) over a 120 AIO, or even a 140 AIO,

 

RAM speed starts to give really diminishing returns after about 3600 MHz. If you can get a nice kit of low latency 3200, 3400 or 3600, that would be a pretty nice spot to be, plus it won't be nearly as much money.... 200 for RAM is not cheap in todays day and age.

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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