Advice and Experience Required

[Balokun]

Hey!

I´ve been out-of-date instead of up-to-date with hardware for a couple years and need some advice and explanations, if anyone finds some time to do so! Much appreciated
I will jump straight into the topics:

These are the planned specs:
MSI MPG Z490 GAMING CARBON 
Intel Core i9-10900K, LGA1200, 3.70 GHz, 20MB, Boxed

2x Corsair 16GB (2 x 8GB) Vengeance RGB PRO - TUF Gaming Edition, DDR4 3200MHz, 

Samsung 1TB 980 PRO SSD, M.2 2280, PCIe 4.0, NVMe, 7000/5000 MB/s
A-Data 2TB XPG SX8200 PRO SSD, M.2 2280, PCIe 3.0, 3D TLC, 3500/3000 MB/s

Asus HYPER M.2 X16 Gen 4 CARD -lisäkortti, 4 x M.2 paikka, PCIe 4.0/3.0 x16

PSU IS NOT DECIDED YET
CPU COOLER NOT DECIDED YET
Am I missing smth?

1.) I was planing to go all out with a RTX3090, but its expensive and not worth double the price of the 3080, imo.
-> Is a 3080Ti in sight? Any common pattern when they usually release those after the stock ones?
-> According to a PSU calculator, combined with a 10900k and some little things, a 750w PSU would be enough. Is that true?
-> Should I consider other choices than a 3090? Is it a crazy idea?
Let me know!



2.) I was wanting/planing to build my new PC with only M.2 NVMe drives, in this case 2 of them. One with 2TB 3500/3500for windows, data, etc and one with 1TB 7000/5000 for games and applications. For that I planned to use an ASUS PCIe slot expander where one can put 4x NVMe.
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/Accessories/HYPER-M-2-X16-CARD-V2/
Are there any downsides to that? I couldnt find any downsides. Would that work as 2 drives, would it compete with a GPU for PCIe bandwith?


**Little edit: Where would you guys savve a ton of money?

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

It'll be a very nice system that's for sure.

 

Basically, if you can afford it then there's nothing to worry about. 

 

It will future proof you for a good while to, I think. 

 

Certainly, a 3090 is very expensive - but, if you don't think you are going to get anywhere near approaching pushing it hard, then the 3080 is probably the more sensible option as it's still a beast but not as ridiculously priced.

 

Maybe, some people might tell you to get a bit more RAM as you are going all in for a top end set up...but I'm not really tech savvy enough to offer my personal opinion on that one.

[Moonzy]

1 hour ago, Balokun said:

Is a 3080Ti in sight?

Rumors have been popping up

No official confirmation though

 

1 hour ago, Balokun said:

According to a PSU calculator, combined with a 10900k and some little things, a 750w PSU would be enough. Is that true?

I mean, if you could afford a 3080, you can fork out a bit more for a good 850W PSU and not have to worry about tripping ocp during load spikes

 

1 hour ago, Balokun said:

Should I consider other choices than a 3090? Is it a crazy idea?

It's super dumb, but I would hold out still, the 10gb on 3080 is borderline dumb, especially when rumors point to 20gb 3080ti

 

1 hour ago, Balokun said:

Are there any downsides to that? I couldnt find any downsides. Would that work as 2 drives, would it compete with a GPU for PCIe bandwith?

I think the newer CPU have 20 lanes? 

So you're using some CPU lanes depending on which slot you use

 

You could run x4 from CPU, and another x4 from chipset, it would work just fine

While your GPU gets x16

 

One thing to note is that your CPU is only pcie gen3, so there's that

It doesn't really matter today, though

[Akurai]

this is what i plan to get and but like to have advice or suggestion about it
CPU - Intel Core i9-9900K
GPU - Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
MB - ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero Motherboard
RAM - Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz DDR4

Monitor - 3x ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q 27" G-Sync IPS
Mouse - Logitech G903
Keyboard - Patriot Viper V770 Mechanical RGB
Headset - Steelseries Arctis 7

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3 hours ago, Balokun said:

CPU COOLER NOT DECIDED YET


**Little edit: Where would you guys savve a ton of money?

If you can wait for delivery, I have been very impressed with the SNOWMAN coolers available on AliExpress, such as the M-T4. Really no need to pay too much here.