RTX 3060 Future-proofed build

Dima_Sungurov · October 9, 2020

Budget (including currency): 90000 RUB (about 1200 USD), future GPU upgrade to RTX 3060 (or similar in RDNA 2) included in the budget.

Country: Russia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Single-threaded applications (yes, Black MIDIs are my thing), 4K video editing in medium complexity, maybe a bit of standard 1440p gaming too.

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

You didn't expected me here? Sure I didn't, but here I am 3 years later with another build suggestion, this time it is birthday special build. Yep, after all of those "considerations" from earlier, I'm now seriously considering to get a new build, after multiple complaints from me that ~~ruined my experience~~ made angry, trying to do something on it. That build consists of i5-3470, 8 GB of single channel DDR3 1600, 960 GiB ADATA SU650 SSD (will be reused for my new PC as well), 1 TiB Western Digital Green HDD, GTX 1050 Ti (also being reused up until more budget Ampere or RDNA 2 wouldn't come out).

As I said a bit earlier, I will game at 1440p (when it's time to get a new monitor to use in dual-monitor combination), but not high refresh, since I'm not really into E-Sports gaming.

Now before Zen 3 shenanigans would appear, no, I'm not going to get just for higher "single-threaded performance" (although one of the workloads I specified, do heavily relies on it for MIDI stuff), but most importantly, the prices for it I suspect here would be through the roof (basically, even more expensive than 3rd gen at launch).

And now, into the parts (for those who can't see the picture, I'll say them here)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 OEM - 17999 RUB (about 234.46 USD)

Motherboard: MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus - 13499 RUB (about 175.83 USD)

RAM: Neo Forza ENCKE 32 GB (2x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 (16-18-18-36) - 10999 RUB (about 143.27 USD)

Cooler: Deepcool GAMMAX 400 V2 - 2150 RUB (about 28 USD)

PSU: Cougar GX-F750 [CGR GD-750] - 7399 RUB (about 96.37 USD)

New HDD: Western Digital Blue 2 TiB 5400 RPM [WD20EZAZ] - 4499 RUB (about 58.6 USD)

Case: AeroCool Sentinel - 4299 RUB (about 56 USD)

Total cost - 60844 RUB (about 792.9 USD)

I'm open to your suggestions, since I know not everything is perfect, like overkill PSU for my needs (should be at least Rank B with at least 6 ports coming from PSU though), questionable RAM with concerns about overclocking it to 3600 MHz. You can suggest parts through other Russian retail stores (I used DNS for it, make sure to choose Saratov when you're choosing the city, since I'm living in that region), but keep in mind those have to provide some sort of shipping (except maybe for the case, I'll order it from DNS, because 1 RUB shipping)! At best, I'm ready to spend up to 65000 RUB excluding the GPU upgrade.

About OEM over BOX variant matter, I'd better invest in a cooler, since the difference is 1600 RUB.

Hardware Unboxed's VRM testings proves, that it can indeed perform the same as MAG B550M Mortar, and it costs the same, so I grabbed the Gaming Plus one.