This is my final form (version 7.0)

[kewtz]

Budget (including currency): $3000

Country: USA (but no Microcenter)

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Some video editing (Davinci), Spotify, TeamSpeak, Discord, FF (multiple tabs/instances), Chrome (multiple tabs), Microsoft Teams, PowerBI, multiple desktops, Twitch streaming. Games include Dota2, GTAV, Flight Sim, Borderlands 3, Valorant, WoW to name a few...CyberPunk probably. I'm aiming for 1440p gaming.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 
I'm refreshing my current build which is in the Fractal Design R4. I've gone back and forth on if I want to do an ITX build, get a different ATX case, blah blah. At the end of the day I can save a few bucks going ATX and keeping my existing case which is mint. I've had the hardest time deciding the motherboard and power supply. I'm particularly interested in feedback on my choices there.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  ($549.99)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($184.98 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  ($229.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($114.99 @ B&H)
Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($114.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB Founders Edition Video Card  ($699.99)
Power Supply: EVGA P2 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($169.94 @ Office Depot)
Monitor: Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor  ($419.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $2684.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-19 09:13 EST-0500

 

[boggy77]

Looks good. There are probably cheaper but as good power supplies out there, corsair rmx and bequiet straight power come to mind.

One of the ssds i would get pcie gen 4.

Otherwise looks good

[CommanderAlex]

34 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

Looks good. There are probably cheaper but as good power supplies out there, corsair rmx and bequiet straight power come to mind.

That power supply is a platinum rated efficiency which seems pretty reasonable for the price. I purchased my EVGA P2 850W for around $150 a couple years ago before the big boom in crypto mining and low supplies of high wattage PSUs. 

 

Perhaps a B550 ATX motherboard from ASRock or MSI as that seems a bit pricy just for the "ROG" markup...

[kewtz]

1 minute ago, CommanderAlex said:

Perhaps a B550 ATX motherboard from ASRock or MSI as that seems a bit pricy just for the "ROG" markup...

This particular board had the I/O I was after and good VRM.

 

[CommanderAlex]

2 minutes ago, kewtz said:

This particular board had the I/O I was after and good VRM.

That's fine then if that is what you are looking for in a motherboard. PCPartPicker can be used to filter out what you want with the I/O selection but I assume you already used this feature. 

[VeganJoy]

230 bucks for 32gb of ram that isnt b die is a little bit of a waste, since you can get 2x16gb of b-die trident z rgb/neos for that price. as for the monitor, at the 400 dollar price point i'd be looking at monitors that use that nano-ips panel, like the dell s2721dgf and the many LGs, when theyre on sale theyre ~370 bucks and seem to get the most praise for ips panels

[kewtz]

2 hours ago, VeganJoy said:

230 bucks for 32gb of ram that isnt b die is a little bit of a waste, since you can get 2x16gb of b-die trident z rgb/neos for that price.

I might be off with the RAM.

I was looking at videos from GN about RAM kits that may provide 5-10% performance boosts, and doing a 4x8 may outperform 2x16, but I may not have picked dual rank memory.

I'm not sure how to pick that based on PCPP filters. I just know that the Trident Z Neo stuff is well respected.

[VeganJoy]

20 minutes ago, kewtz said:

I might be off with the RAM.

I was looking at videos from GN about RAM kits that may provide 5-10% performance boosts, and doing a 4x8 may outperform 2x16, but I may not have picked dual rank memory.

I'm not sure how to pick that based on PCPP filters. I just know that the Trident Z Neo stuff is well respected.

indeed, dual rank is especially good for ryzen due to the fclk stuff. if you look at hardware unboxed's video on this, 2x16gb does better than 4x8gb iirc, due to the imc overhead associated with 4 physical sticks. regardless, its not a big difference but 2x16gb is always cheaper than 4x8gb for the same ICs, you can get the 2x16gb flavor of the dimms in your pcpp list for 160-170 bucks. neos are as well respected as any other dimms afaik, theyre exactly the same as normal trident z aside from the heatspreaders

[kewtz]

41 minutes ago, VeganJoy said:

dual rank is especially good for ryzen due to the fclk stuff.

Stupid question, how can you tell if memory is dual-rank or not?

[VeganJoy]

30 minutes ago, kewtz said:

Stupid question, how can you tell if memory is dual-rank or not?

these days, 8gb dimms are single rank 99% of the time (probably 100%, i think they stopped making dual rank 8gb a few years ago but ya never know) and 16gb dimms are dual rank 99% of the time (very rarely you can find random kits that are single rank 16gb dimms which are weird, only sticks i've heard of recently that have any chance of being srdr are ballistix 2x16gb but i dont think that's very common). 32 and 64gb dimms are always dual rank due to the required densities. if you wanna check, thaiphoon burner can probably tell you, in addition to lots of other things about your dimms.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

5 hours ago, CommanderAlex said:

Perhaps a B550 ATX motherboard from ASRock or MSI as that seems a bit pricy just for the "ROG" markup...

not a rog markup. its one of the best b550 boards