My first ever build

[MandTrule]

Budget (including currency): ~$2500 CAD

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, Streaming (COD being the only particularly strenuous game I was planning on playing)

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): 

Build on pcpartpicker

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor

Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite AX V2 (Canda computers had a save 50 dollars deal so it seemed worth it)

CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU Cooler

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory

Storage: Addlink S70 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive

Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB Video Card

Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (I don't really care about looks, so I just put in a random cheap case. I may end up just finding a used one on Kijiji)

Power Supply: Corsair CV 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit

Case Fans: be quiet! Pure Wings 2 87 CFM 120 mm Fan (again, don't really care but they're duber cheap so it seemed reasonable)

 

Total (according to the website): CAD $2388

 

The CPU is more expensive than the Ryzen 5 5600x I was initially planning on getting, but I figured if I spend a few hundred bucks more I'd be able to use it for much longer before replacing it, so it'd make it run better and potentially save me money in the long run. 

I decided on the Radeon RX video card because it's cheaper than the Geforce RTX ones and it's actually in stock some in some places (unlike the Geforce RTX ones). 

I'm not picky about the screens and I'll probably only be using one or two, so I didn't bother to include them on the build (yet.) 

I've only ever played on my brother's old alienware laptop and a laptop I got for school two and a half years ago, so I'm sick and tired of only being able to play limited games and I wanted to go all-in on a PC.

 

Mainly, I just want to make sure I'm not wasting oodles of money on this build, make sure it works, and see if there's anything I should change. I'm definitely not in a hurry, thinking of waiting until July or November to find things on sale. Any recommendations on what to change, or what's good?

 

Cheers

[cm992]

I wouldn't go with anything above a Ryzen 5800X for gaming and streaming. Getting a 5900X won't provide any "future proofing" value over the 5800X in my opinion. Everything else looks good. Maybe put the difference you save from going 5800X over 5900X into a better power supply or a 144hz display. Since you said you're waiting until July or November consider RTX again at that point, DLSS in cold war and now warzone is a nice fps boost, maybe an RTX 3060 (12GB). Hopefully availability is better by then. I really recommend 144hz or 240hz monitors if you play fps games like cod etc.

[YoMz]

your power supply... don't cheap out on that part of your build... the minimum recommendation for your CPU + GPU combo alone is already at 650W and you are trying to make do with a 550W Bronze...  get atleast a 650W gold rated fully modular  PSU for your build...

[MandTrule]

2 hours ago, YoMz said:

your power supply... don't cheap out on that part of your build... the minimum recommendation for your CPU + GPU combo alone is already at 650W and you are trying to make do with a 550W Bronze...  get atleast a 650W gold rated fully modular  PSU for your build...

Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks!