First Build since 2004

[Greadwan]

Budget (including currency): $5000 CAD

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Anno 1800, Doom Eternal, CS GO, Rocket League, and any game I find interesting. Programs; MT4, Photoshop, and whatever software my daughter uses for digital art. 

Other details

Im Rafal, my Game handle is usually Greadwan, at least it was from the DAoC and WoW days. Honestly its been a long time since Ive built a gaming rig and since I played any games. I use to play Unreal, DAoC, WOW, Battlefield, call of duty, Wolfenstein and such. I've been gaming ever since buying my first 486dx 25Mhz windows 3.11 gaming machine for DOOM, yes Im old hahah. My most recent gaming build was a Pentium 4 with a Zalaman reserator cpu water cooler and ATI's Radeon 128MB 9700PRO. That must of been back in 2004 or something like that, long long time ago since ive built a gaming desktop. Ive had few gaming laptops, Alienware, but now I've decided its time to build a new gaming Desktop, man how things have changed I have to re-learn most of it and get up to speed with all the new tech that's out, all the new cooling options wow. Well I started by ordering a case O11D Dynamic XL, I haven't decided on GPU yet or a monitor, most likely an RTX 3080/90, and probably a custom water cooling in the future, For now I think for CPU cooling ill stick Air cooling or maybe an AIO, but undecided on which one. Started ordering my parts, so as they arrive and the build is done Ill show it off in the Build Logs page. 

 

 

Component		Selection		Price
CPU			AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor	$998.50	Buy
CPU Cooler			Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler	$109.95	Buy
Motherboard			Gigabyte X570 AORUS MASTER ATX AM4 Motherboard	$429.99	Buy
Memory			G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$309.99	Buy
Memory			G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory	$309.99	Buy
Storage			Seagate BarraCuda Pro 8 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$272.08	Buy
Storage			Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$249.30	Buy
Video Card			MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card	$999.99	Buy
Case			Lian Li O11D XL-W ATX Full Tower Case	$248.50	Buy
Power Supply			Corsair RMx (2018) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	$194.99	Buy
Operating System			Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit	$179.50	Buy
Monitor			Gigabyte G27QC 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor	$419.99	Buy
Total:				$4722.77

 

 

 

 

Edited October 11, 2020 by Greadwan
Updated using PCpartPicker and added GPU and Monitor

[mahyar]

well in terms of building there is not that much changed so you don't need to learn a lot. I suggest you use pc part picker for choosing its way more convenient  

[Random_Person1234]

If possible, could you wait for zen 3?

[Greadwan]

yup, im definitely waiting for zen 3. 5900x or even 5950x.

[Random_Person1234]

16 minutes ago, Greadwan said:

yup, im definitely waiting for zen 3. 5900x or even 5950x.

Nice, enjoy your build.