First build

[igneous_ignoramous]

Budget (including currency): $1300

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, small video edits, music production

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 upgrading from my prebuilt lenovo y710 that's running an i7-6700, gtx 1070, 16gb single DIMM ram at 2133mhz, 256gb ssd and 2tb hard drive. I mostly use it for music production, but when I do game it's either Halo MCC or Overwatch and I'm usually able to get between 110 to 120fps in OW, max 60 in MCC. I've already ordered parts and feel like I did a decent job picking parts but am having a few doubts about my choices. I've got everything but my MB, case, and both storage drives in, but they're all shipped. Want to make sure that I didn't make a screwy decision in my parts since it's my first build. I'm including a 1070 in the list because I plan on swapping it in from my current computer to the new one. Any tips or recommendations or things I may have missed in terms of compatibility?

[Herman Mcpootis]

i don't know why you're asking when you already bought everything, since there's not much we can change after that anyway.

[curiousmind34]

MB, go for Z490. A Z490-a pro should work. For storage, I would replace the larger drive witth an sn550

[igneous_ignoramous]

1 hour ago, curiousmind34 said:

MB, go for Z490. A Z490-a pro should work. For storage, I would replace the larger drive witth an sn550

See I thought about that but I was told that western digital nvme ssds weren't as reliable as the samsung drive. And I had a really slim budget to build with otherwise I would have gone with a z490 board. Specially after learning that the board I chose can't do overclocking and it has a really low memory limit. Thought I did enough research but a lot of the deeper intricacies popped up after I ordered everything. My first time ever even attempting something like this so when I saw that I got real worried that everything else might be screwed.

[igneous_ignoramous]

1 hour ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

i don't know why you're asking when you already bought everything, since there's not much we can change after that anyway.

I just wanted to make sure man. It's my first build, or even first time trying something like this so I thought I'd go and get opinions on things even though it's after-the-fact.

[curiousmind34]

 

7 hours ago, igneous_ignoramous said:

See I thought about that but I was told that western digital nvme ssds weren't as reliable as the samsung drive. And I had a really slim budget to build with otherwise I would have gone with a z490 board. Specially after learning that the board I chose can't do overclocking and it has a really low memory limit. Thought I did enough research but a lot of the deeper intricacies popped up after I ordered everything. My first time ever even attempting something like this so when I saw that I got real worried that everything else might be screwed.

Both of the drives have the same warranty of 5 years and 1200 Terabytes written. If you didn’t want to overclock or be on a z series board you could have gotten an i9 10900 and saved a few bucks.