First build in years!

[JBIZZL3Y]

Budget (including currency): $3000 CAD

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, mostly AAA story driven games, video editing, photo editing, general use

Other details: Will need a monitor and keyboard, but am leaving them out of the budget. Upgrading from a Alienware m15 (2015ish) 970m & i7 4710hq.

 

So after using my m15 for 5 or so years it's finally giving up the ghost.. 

 

I've been planning a system for a little while and watching the Ryzen 3000 series with interest and was awaiting the new GPU releases from team red and green..

The parts I've put together were chosen for video/photo editing and gaming.

I wanted to put together a system with a good set of features like PCIE gen 4, future overclocking ability, USB C etc. And to be able to play games at higher presets at 1440P with decent refresh rates.

 

Now I know Ryzen 5000 isn't out yet and will certainly wait for the release until I decided on CPU, for now I've earmarked the 3600x. same goes for GPU.. I'd like to go for a 3080 but getting one seems almost impossible atm so I'm considering a 6800XT or 6900XT (price and availability dependent).

 

For now I'd like to hear opinions on the general system, anything I'm missing or other options etc

Thanks!

 

The system in mind:

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($303.50 @ shopRBC) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE H100i RGB PRO XT 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($159.50 @ Vuugo) 
Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($498.50 @ Vuugo) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($189.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Storage: Corsair MP600 Force Series Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($473.98 @ Amazon Canada) 
Storage: Western Digital Black 4 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($199.50 @ Vuugo) 
Video Card: 3080  ($1100.00) Ishh
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case  ($134.18 @ Vuugo) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($164.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($134.94 @ shopRBC) 
 

 

 

SSD might be a little overkill.. I'm just sick of the slugishess of my laptop and would like a little bit of "futureproof-ness" then the HD is for my photo/video library general use etc

 

RAM and CPU cooler are also pretty flexible.. I want to go 32GB and figure 3200mhz is a good speed for Ryzen. RGB wise I'm not super fussed, it would be nice to have some lighting in the case but it doesn't need to be crazy!