360 Hz PC build

[funn3r]

Budget (including currency): 4000 - 5000$

Country: Czech Republic

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CS:GO, DayZ, HotS, WoW other e-sport titles

Other details:

Hi, i was planning to build new pc when Ampere, RDNA2 and ZEN3 comes out.

My target was 240Hz gaming pc for competitive gaming, but with release of new 360 Hz monitors i want to switch to that.

 

Parts what i will 100% buy

Fractal Design Meshify S2 Light TG

Be quiet! Straight Power 11 - 650 -> 850 W (wattage depends on CPU and GPU)

4x Noctua NF-A14 iPPC-3000 PWM

Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black

ASUS PG259QN or same variant from Alienware

Samsung 870 QVO 2TB - For game library

Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1 TB - For system and recent games

 

My biggest question is wait for RDNA2, ZEN3 or i9 11900K ?

Or just buy 3070, 3080 or 3090 and pair it with current i9 10900K ?

I will also take advices for peripherals, i like Steelseries Sensei Ten shape (had old Steelseries Sensei).

I also looked at Fnatic Gear Streak, Cherry MX Brown as keyboard.

 

Thank you.

[jaslion]

8 minutes ago, funn3r said:

Budget (including currency): 4000 - 5000$

Country: Czech Republic

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CS:GO, DayZ, HotS, WoW other e-sport titles

Other details:

Hi, i was planning to build new pc when Ampere, RDNA2 and ZEN3 comes out.

My target was 240Hz gaming pc for competitive gaming, but with release of new 360 Hz monitors i want to switch to that.

 

Parts what i will 100% buy

Fractal Design Meshify S2 Light TG

Be quiet! Straight Power 11 - 650 -> 850 W (wattage depends on CPU and GPU)

4x Noctua NF-A14 iPPC-3000 PWM

Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black

ASUS PG259QN or same variant from Alienware

Samsung 870 QVO 2TB - For game library

Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1 TB - For system and recent games

 

My biggest question is wait for RDNA2, ZEN3 or i9 11900K ?

Or just buy 3070, 3080 or 3090 and pair it with current i9 10900K ?

I will also take advices for peripherals, i like Steelseries Sensei Ten shape (had old Steelseries Sensei).

I also looked at Fnatic Gear Streak, Cherry MX Brown as keyboard.

 

Thank you.

For both ssds I would just recommend 2 2tb SX8200's will be the same combined price or even cheaper and you will just not notice the difference in gaming between it and the bit faster 970 evo. But it will be a lot faster than the very slow and just not recommended 870 qvo. (really not a good ssd at all).

 

If you can wait do so. If not get a 10600k + a decent gpu. You really do not need more for those games at all. Do wait for reviews on the new nvidia cards as we only know the performance they are saying it has and not the actual performance.

 

Also I do mean it with the 10600k give it maybe a slight oc nudge and you have 10900k gaming performance for way less money. None of those games utilize the 10600k fully so there is just no difference between a 10900k and a 10600k part from clockspeed which is easily solved with a very minor oc. It also comes with the bonus of just being easier to oc due to the far lower power consumption. A 10900k for gaming is just so far beyond overkill you won't get your moneys worth out of it by the time it falls far behind the rest.

 

On the part of 240hz vs 360hz. Just get a 240hz or 144hz or whatever monitor. The difference between 144hz and 240hz was already so small and almost only noticeable by players that basically do it for a living that a move to 360hz is just silly and you won't notice it part from the monitors being first gen tech thus having some nasty display artifacting and being dumb expensive.

 

For peripherals I just go with the standard g502 wireless + whatever keyboard is comfy for you combo.

[WereCat]

Zdar... 

 

right now going with Intel is the best choice for very high refresh rate gaming, how well will Zen3 actually perform... we shall see about that. If you can wait then definitely do so and then decide. 

Nothing wrong with your current CPU though. 

[funn3r]

28 minutes ago, jaslion said:

For both ssds I would just recommend 2 2tb SX8200's will be the same combined price or even cheaper and you will just not notice the difference in gaming between it and the bit faster 970 evo. But it will be a lot faster than the very slow and just not recommended 870 qvo. (really not a good ssd at all).

 

If you can wait do so. If not get a 10600k + a decent gpu. You really do not need more for those games at all. Do wait for reviews on the new nvidia cards as we only know the performance they are saying it has and not the actual performance.

 

Also I do mean it with the 10600k give it maybe a slight oc nudge and you have 10900k gaming performance for way less money. None of those games utilize the 10600k fully so there is just no difference between a 10900k and a 10600k part from clockspeed which is easily solved with a very minor oc. It also comes with the bonus of just being easier to oc due to the far lower power consumption. A 10900k for gaming is just so far beyond overkill you won't get your moneys worth out of it by the time it falls far behind the rest.

 

On the part of 240hz vs 360hz. Just get a 240hz or 144hz or whatever monitor. The difference between 144hz and 240hz was already so small and almost only noticeable by players that basically do it for a living that a move to 360hz is just silly and you won't notice it part from the monitors being first gen tech thus having some nasty display artifacting and being dumb expensive.

 

For peripherals I just go with the standard g502 wireless + whatever keyboard is comfy for you combo.

SSDs are my weakest point, because multiple type of NAND MLC, TLC, QLC etc. Then some has DDR buffer other has SLC caches. Is there some table like PSU list for SSDs ? I chose sata ssd because of LTT video 

 

[jaslion]

3 hours ago, funn3r said:

SSDs are my weakest point, because multiple type of NAND MLC, TLC, QLC etc. Then some has DDR buffer other has SLC caches. Is there some table like PSU list for SSDs ? I chose sata ssd because of LTT video 

 

Not really. Basically what you want at least in an ssd is a dram cache and then a decently sized slc portion. This is to prevent speeds tanking to hard drive speeds when writing to cache if the Dram buffer fills up. If you go sata just get a MX500 from crucial or a WD blue. Solid good options. Then for the 970 evo nvme drive I would just get a SX8200 drive. Faster than sata but still cheap and you will not notice the difference between it and the 970 evo.