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[Reflow4]

Budget (including currency): $1500

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, Day to day use

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): 

 

I'm going to be building a new PC soon and i need help 

 

my budget is around $1500 could go a little bit over

 

so i was looking at the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and the AMD 5700 XT 

 

could go with Intel and Nvidia 

 

[LIGISTX]

3 minutes ago, Reflow4 said:

Budget (including currency): $1500

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, Day to day use

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): 

 

I'm going to be building a new PC soon and i need help 

 

my budget is around $1500 could go a little bit over

 

so i was looking at the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and the AMD 5700 XT 

 

could go with Intel and Nvidia 

 

If it’s mainly for gaming, intel is a better option. 10700k will give you more FPS, and I would wait a few weeks for nvidia 3000 series and either get something like a 3070 or a good deal on a 2080 possibly. 

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1 minute ago, LIGISTX said:

If it’s mainly for gaming, intel is a better option. 10700k will give you more FPS, and I would wait a few weeks for nvidia 3000 series and either get something like a 3070 or a good deal on a 2080 possibly. 

I disagree. You will be paying more for an Intel setup, which could be the difference between a better gpu if you go AMD. Also if the op is aiming for 1440p then there won't be much in it if he is happy with a 5700XT or similar.

[LIGISTX]

1 minute ago, lee32uk said:

I disagree. You will be paying more for an Intel setup, which could be the difference between a better gpu if you go AMD. Also if the op is aiming for 1440p then there won't be much in it if he is happy with a 5700XT or similar.

I mean, I don’t think a 10700k is needed, but if he was planning on a 3900x... a 10600k is a great option, and priced well. That plus a 3070 would be a fantastic choice. 1440p depending on refresh rate, a 3070 would be perfect, a bit overkill but perfect. I have a 1080 @ 2050 in my secondary PC, at 1440p 165hz, I almost never actually clear 150fps. So a 3070/2080 tier card would allow for AAA games to run at Max settings and hit solid FPS targets. My 1080 is paired with a 4.6 ghz 6700k for reference. 

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11 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

I mean, I don’t think a 10700k is needed, but if he was planning on a 3900x... a 10600k is a great option, and priced well. That plus a 3070 would be a fantastic choice. 1440p depending on refresh rate, a 3070 would be perfect, a bit overkill but perfect. I have a 1080 @ 2050 in my secondary PC, at 1440p 165hz, I almost never actually clear 150fps. So a 3070/2080 tier card would allow for AAA games to run at Max settings and hit solid FPS targets. My 1080 is paired with a 4.6 ghz 6700k for reference. 

Still better value with AMD though. He could easily go with an R5 3600 for the short term and stick a 4xxx in later on. With Intel you would need a board with good VRM's if you wanted a better cpu later. He hasn't mentioned a monitor resolution though, so that would need to be determined first.

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PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$179.99 @ Best Buy
Motherboard	MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard	$149.99 @ B&H
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	$59.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$118.65 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$54.99 @ Newegg
Video Card	MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card	$779.99 @ Newegg
Case	Phanteks Eclipse P400A ATX Mid Tower Case	$74.98 @ Amazon
Power Supply	be quiet! Straight Power 11 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$109.90 @ B&H
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1528.48
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-19 06:34 EDT-0400

 

this should work just fine. 

reason why i went with this 2080 super model is because it's the cheapest even though it's the x trio surprisingly.

would go with a 10600k in this case, but sadly couldn't fit the same gpu with this budget, and in this case this will perform better than a 10600k with a worse gpu (obviously).

though i would highly recommend to wait for zen 3 and ampere and big navi. and that's what i would do.