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insanse
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Hi All :)

 

I'm planning on upgrading my PC, since my old one is ~5 years old and the CPU is a huge bottleneck. I mainly play competitive games like CS:GO & League of legends, but I do also enjoy an occasional single player game like RDR2, Mass Effect, GTAV. My current setup is a i7-6700k (not OC), 1080TI and DDR4 @ 2400Mhz. Since I don't have a 4K monitor, or even a 2K one, i'm planning on moving only my 1080TI to the new setup (+ the fact that it's literally impossible to buy a GPU atm). I play at 1080p with a 144hz monitor (planning on getting a 240Hz one soon). I actually have 3 144hz monitors.
For work, I mainly use the home PC to spin up a couple of VMs to access various environments.

 

By budget for the new PC (including the GPU at some point) is ~2500€.

Since I'm kind of future proofing my build, I'm planning on buying a 5900x, rather than a 5800x or a 5600x with a X570 motherboard, DDR4 ram @ 3200Mhz and a NVME Gen4.
In general, would you have any recommendations on this build? Is it maybe worth waiting for Zen4, having in mind that Zen3 is the last CPU on the AM4 platform. I tend to upgrade every 5 to 6 years, so i'd really like to make this build future proof, similar to the old ones.
As mentioned above, I'm probably getting a 5900x with a X570 MB (Probably the Asus ROG Strix Gaming-E). I saw in a couple of topics people NOT recommending GB. Any reason for that? Is there maybe an alternative MB to the one i've chosen but for a cheaper price? What would the RAM recommendations be?
Case will be a mid-tower one, no class or anything, no RGB required. Planning on getting a Noctua CPU cooler, but not sure which one. 

When I do get the GPU upgrade (probably beginning of 2021), i'll go for the RTX3080 or the 6800XT (or 3080ti if there is one by then). Will a 850W PSU be sufficient?

 

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This would be my suggestion. Honestly, i'm struggling to get a 2500€ build together without spending money on "useless" stuff like RGB. Honestly idk what you could do with the rest of the money that makes sense. I'd probably just save it towards buying a better monitor. You could probably ditch the HDD and go for another 2TB SSD for SSD-only storage. So here is my suggestion:

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black 55 CFM CPU Cooler €72.89 @ Alza
Motherboard Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard €181.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Memory Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory €154.88 @ Amazon Deutschland
Storage Corsair MP600 Force Series Gen4 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive €175.00 @ Amazon Deutschland
Storage Western Digital Blue 2 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive €51.53 @ Amazon Deutschland
Case Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case €95.90 @ Computeruniverse
Power Supply Enermax Revolution D.F. 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply €128.08 @ Alternate
Case Fan Noctua S12A PWM chromax.black.swap 63.27 CFM 120 mm Fan €26.70 @ Computeruniverse
Case Fan Noctua S12A PWM chromax.black.swap 63.27 CFM 120 mm Fan €26.70 @ Computeruniverse
Case Fan Noctua S12A PWM chromax.black.swap 63.27 CFM 120 mm Fan €26.70 @ Computeruniverse
Case Fan Noctua S12A PWM chromax.black.swap 63.27 CFM 120 mm Fan €26.70 @ Computeruniverse
Custom AMD Ryzen 5 5900X €549.00
Custom AMD Radeon RX 6800XT €649.00
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total €2164.98
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-04 10:14 CET+0100  

 

Also keep in mind that Zen3 will release tomorrow, so Zen4 is still a long time away. If your CPU is not doing what you want it to do, i'd suggest upgrading with Zen3.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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Thank you for the suggestion.

I've ditched HDD's 5 years ago and i'm never buying one of those again 😅 I might move my 1TB Samsung SSD from the old PC.
On the MB side - do GB/Aorus have a version with 2 LAN ports and 2 NVM.e slots. I'm also planning on ditching SATA SSDs on going entirely to NVM.e. 
Also, is it not worth getting the Samsung 980 Pro, rather than MP600?
 

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13 minutes ago, insanse said:

Also, is it not worth getting the Samsung 980 Pro, rather than MP600?

No. Samsung does the same as always and charges extra just for being samsung. In terms of performance you won't notice any difference.

 

13 minutes ago, insanse said:

I've ditched HDD's 5 years ago and i'm never buying one of those again 😅 I might move my 1TB Samsung SSD from the old PC.
On the MB side - do GB/Aorus have a version with 2 LAN ports and 2 NVM.e slots. I'm also planning on ditching SATA SSDs on going entirely to NVM.e.

New list with another mobo, no HDD, and included a 2TB NVMe mass storage SSD. The B550 Tomahawk has a 2.5Gbit and a 1Gbit ethernet port. Just remember to put the PCIe 4 SSD in the top M.2 slot because the bottom one is only PCIe 3. I actually use the same SSD setup i suggested now. You could probably reduce the MP600 to a 500GB model as you have 2TB more SSD storage on the other drive. I did the same.

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black 55 CFM CPU Cooler €72.89 @ Alza
Motherboard MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard €146.89 @ Alza
Memory Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory €154.88 @ Amazon Deutschland
Storage Corsair MP600 Force Series Gen4 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive €175.00 @ Amazon Deutschland
Storage Sabrent Rocket Q 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive €229.99 @ Amazon Deutschland
Case Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case €95.90 @ Computeruniverse
Power Supply Enermax Revolution D.F. 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply €128.08 @ Alternate
Case Fan Noctua S12A PWM chromax.black.swap 63.27 CFM 120 mm Fan €26.70 @ Computeruniverse
Case Fan Noctua S12A PWM chromax.black.swap 63.27 CFM 120 mm Fan €26.70 @ Computeruniverse
Case Fan Noctua S12A PWM chromax.black.swap 63.27 CFM 120 mm Fan €26.70 @ Computeruniverse
Case Fan Noctua S12A PWM chromax.black.swap 63.27 CFM 120 mm Fan €26.70 @ Computeruniverse
Custom AMD Ryzen 5 5900X €549.00
Custom AMD Radeon RX 6800XT €649.00
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total €2308.43
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-04 11:06 CET+0100  

 

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