My Next PC

[MrCJLambert]

Budget (including currency): Unlimited (Won't be bought for at least 2 months)

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mainly AAA games at 1080P Max Settings and Streaming. Currently have 2 MSI OPTIX G241 24" 1920X1080 IPS panels and will be adding a 3rd so I will be gaming at 5760x1080 in some games.

Other details I will be upgrading to a Razer Blackwidow V3 Pro and a Deathadder V2 Pro so no peripherals needed. I have added the fans because I want to stay in the Asus, Corsair and Razer RGB groups as much as posssible and it'd really annoy me to have different fans: 

 

Here's what I'm thinking of getting so far:

 

CPU: RYZEN 9 5950X SIXTEEN CORE 4.9GHZ (SOCKET AM4) PROCESSOR (£749.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)

CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE H115i ELITE CAPELLIX 97 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£171.47 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£453.67 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  (£273.49 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£95.32 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£364.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Asus GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB STRIX GAMING OC Video Card (£869.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: Corsair iCUE 4000X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case  (£107.79 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair HX Platinum 1000 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£198.67 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case Fan: Corsair iCUE QL120 41.8 CFM 120 mm Fan  (£29.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Corsair iCUE QL120 41.8 CFM 120 mm Fan  (£29.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Corsair iCUE QL120 41.8 CFM 120 mm Fan  (£29.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Corsair iCUE QL120 41.8 CFM 120 mm Fan  (£29.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Corsair iCUE QL140 50.2 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£33.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Corsair iCUE QL140 50.2 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£33.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £3473.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Does anyone have any better suggestions for cases with a similar style?

Would this be a good case if I decide to go for a customer loop with CPU and GPU cooling?

Would this be a good case if I decided to go for hard-line tubing?

Does anyone have any experience with any of the products in this list? If so, what's your experience been? (Yes I know 3080s are in short supply and the 5950X hasn't been released)

Would this make a good Micro-ATX build? If so, any case recommendations?

Thank you in advance,

CJ

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, MrCJLambert said:

Won't be bought for at least 6 months

could ask again when it's closer to purchasing date

since things may change and what not

 

it's very overkill for games, would be my feedback

[emosun]

well you definitely selected the most expensive parts you could find , whether or not that translates to actual value I think might be the big debate here

[SupaKomputa]

$40 for a fan, sigh.

[FavoringWinter]

For 1080p that is really overkill, but if you have unlimited budget, try and get a nice 4k/1440p monitor so you can really take advantage of the system. We need to see full reviews of the new amd chips, but since you are getting it in six months, check back here again to see

[MrCJLambert]

7 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

could ask again when it's closer to purchasing date

since things may change and what not

 

it's very overkill for games, would be my feedback

Great, Cheers for your feedback.

Overkill is kinda my thing haha

[MrCJLambert]

6 minutes ago, emosun said:

well you definitely selected the most expensive parts you could find , whether or not that translates to actual value I think might be the big debate here

TBH I'm just looking for peak performance. It's not going to be a value-optimised build.

[MrCJLambert]

7 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

$40 for a fan, sigh.

Extra 60FPS per fan with that RGB, Right?

[emosun]

Just now, MrCJLambert said:

TBH I'm just looking for peak performance. It's not going to be a value-optimised build.

If you want peak performance then look into a supermicro server board and skip buying consumer video game parts.

You might get a slight gain atm but in the future the machine will be far slower than something with 2 or 4 cpu's vs what you've selected.

[MrCJLambert]

7 minutes ago, Hackerman25 said:

For 1080p that is really overkill, but if you have unlimited budget, try and get a nice 4k/1440p monitor so you can really take advantage of the system. We need to see full reviews of the new amd chips, but since you are getting it in six months, check back here again to see

Cheers for the feedback. I'm debating upgrading to a 4K monitor TBH.

[manikyath]

presuming this is a "business investment", i'll keep the usual performance per dollar rant short:

you're actually spending a serious amount of money on 'vanity' stuff, as long as you're aware that RGB fans dont make your system faster, despite what intel performance charts may claim, that's your choice to make.

 

past that, i'd make the suggestion to go for 2x16GB RAM sticks, instead of 4x8GB, this *would* allow you to upgrade to 64GB in the future, would you so desire.

i'm also not really sure about the specific SSD choice of going 500GB+2TB, but i presume you'll have a better view on your storage needs than i have.

past that, echoing what was said: things may change the next 6 months.

 

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

look into a supermicro server board

categorically incorrect. thats a whole different class of hardware that will actually be terrible for a gaming rig in so many ways you may as well run a 1st gen ryzen.

[MrCJLambert]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

If you want peak performance then look into a supermicro server board and skip buying consumer video game parts.

You might get a slight gain atm but in the future the machine will be far slower than something with 2 or 4 cpu's vs what you've selected.

Cheers for the advice, But personally, I'd rather not go for a multi-cpu setup.

[emosun]

3 hours ago, manikyath said:

categorically incorrect. thats a whole different class of hardware that will actually be terrible for a gaming rig in so many ways you may as well run a 1st gen ryzen.

Incorrect as you would need to know the system load of a game 10 years from now vs currently. Which is why my machine can be 11 years old and still work just fine.

[MrCJLambert]

1 hour ago, manikyath said:

presuming this is a "business investment", i'll keep the usual performance per dollar rant short:

you're actually spending a serious amount of money on 'vanity' stuff, as long as you're aware that RGB fans dont make your system faster, despite what intel performance charts may claim, that's your choice to make.

 

past that, i'd make the suggestion to go for 2x16GB RAM sticks, instead of 4x8GB, this *would* allow you to upgrade to 64GB in the future, would you so desire.

i'm also not really sure about the specific SSD choice of going 500GB+2TB, but i presume you'll have a better view on your storage needs than i have.

past that, echoing what was said: things may change the next 6 months.

 

categorically incorrect. thats a whole different class of hardware that will actually be terrible for a gaming rig in so many ways you may as well run a 1st gen ryzen.

Yeah I completely understand about the price-to-performance advice. It's not really a business investment, more a PC that I can be proud of. I'm just a fan of the QL fans and I'm a sucker for RGB haha.

Cheers for the advice. I currently have 2x16GB Sticks of Vengeance Pro in my current machine so I might just get another identical set, and a cheaper set for when I give my current PC to my GF.

 

As for the storage, I currently only use ~250GB of my C drive and ~600GB of my D drive in my current PC. I already have a 500GB M.2 SSD ATM so that could be swapped over from my current build.

 

Cheers for the very informative reply.

[manikyath]

3 hours ago, emosun said:

Incorrect as you would need to know the system load of a game 10 years from now vs currently. Which is why my machine can be 11 years old and still work just fine.

supermicro has some very silly problems that make their motherboards very unfit for a gaming rig. even calling their "workstations" a "workstation" is a very crude statement.

among the bigger issues:

- boot times are several minutes at best, close to half an hour if you get into the really funky stuff.

- anything single cpu will perform identical to or worse than (because server cpu and lower clock speed) its desktop counterpart

- anything dual cpu will have notable latency issues, causing games to run slower (this was a 1st gen threadripper issue too)

- overall lack of I/O options you'd want in a desktop, such as decent on-board audio

- being locked into SSI-EEB or bigger - essentially limits case options to "approaching zero"

- really wonky header layout, pcie slot layout, and generally very little concern for cpu cooler compatibility.

[Crunchy Dragon]

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