First time builder

[Eggmaster200]

Budget (including currency): no real budget, buying over time. Only limiting myself on individual part cost. 

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: basically a do anything PC

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: 

 

Case, a Corsair Crystal Series 680X airflow 

 

GPU a 2070 Super (eventually running a dual 2070 Super SLI setup)

 

CPU Ryzen 9 3900XT

 

Motherboard a Rog Strix 570E Gaming

 

RAM Tforce Extreem 16GB 4000MHZ (may buy two sets and run 32 GB)

 

Power Unit Corsair 1000w 80plus 

 

SSD a Samsung M2 2tb and 1tb

 

Cooler Master fan.

 

This is the design, going to be buying parts weekly until build is complete. Let me know what I should adjust though, idk if this whole build set up is compatible with parts selected. Will be buying windows 10 too, obviously that's going to be mandatory. 

[tkitch]

1) Don't waste your time and effort on SLI.  It's dead, and not coming back.

 

otherwise things seem reasonable enough.  If you're going 570, do you want to look at a 5900?

[Eggmaster200]

Just now, tkitch said:

1) Don't waste your time and effort on SLI.  It's dead, and not coming back.

 

otherwise things seem reasonable enough.  If you're going 570, do you want to look at a 5900?

I'd consider it, is it a better option from a functionality standpoint or from a cost perspective? Either way I'd consider anything.

[tkitch]

3900's aren't especially cheap, so if you can score a 5900 at MSRP, you're not going much higher on price, and getting a notable generational upgrade.

[Eggmaster200]

4 minutes ago, tkitch said:

3900's aren't especially cheap, so if you can score a 5900 at MSRP, you're not going much higher on price, and getting a notable generational upgrade.

I see, I did do some looking and the ones in stock are about 800. I can keep looking, maybe put it to the end of the build. I guess worst case I'd maybe consider an R7 5800X?

[tkitch]

SRP for a 5900x is about 550ish.  800 is a scalper.

[curiousmind34]

Any reason for the 2070 super? Do you already have it?

Otherwise 30-series (when in stock) is going to be a better deal.

Also, drop the 4000mhz ram, go for 32gb of 3600mhz ram

[Eggmaster200]

5 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

Any reason for the 2070 super? Do you already have it?

Otherwise 30-series (when in stock) is going to be a better deal.

Also, drop the 4000mhz ram, go for 32gb of 3600mhz ram

The only reason for the 2070 is that from what i can tell it's worth the money at less than 1k on the current market. Unless you know of a better GPU at less than 1k. I'm open to suggestions. 

[Eggmaster200]

12 minutes ago, tkitch said:

SRP for a 5900x is about 550ish.  800 is a scalper.

Oh, 100 percent scalping. The alternative is getting on a waiting list and idk how what kind of ETA there would be. 

[curiousmind34]

1 minute ago, Eggmaster200 said:

The only reason for the 2070 is that from what i can tell it's worth the money at less than 1k on the current market. Unless you know of a better GPU at less than 1k. I'm open to suggestions. 

If you are buying a 2070 super for 1000, and cannot get a 5900x, get a prebuilt. Either wait for graphics card prices to fall or get a prebuilt, overpaying for last-gen graphics cards makes no sense.

[Eggmaster200]

3 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

If you are buying a 2070 super for 1000, and cannot get a 5900x, get a prebuilt. Either wait for graphics card prices to fall or get a prebuilt, overpaying for last-gen graphics cards makes no sense.

I'm seeing one for 650. Like I said, if you know of any GPU at or around that price point then I'm open to suggestions. It doesn't have to be an Nvidia.

[curiousmind34]

5 minutes ago, Eggmaster200 said:

I'm seeing one for 650. Like I said, if you know of any GPU at or around that price point then I'm open to suggestions. It doesn't have to be an Nvidia.

If you can find it for 650 it might actually not be that bad.
 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xNF8cT

CPU: Intel Core i9-10850K 3.6 GHz 10-Core Processor  ($384.99 @ B&H) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black 82.51 CFM CPU Cooler  ($99.95 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI Z490-A PRO ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  ($169.99 @ B&H) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($159.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($106.79 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card  ($650.00) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P360A ATX Mid Tower Case  ($69.98 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($84.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1726.68
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-27 22:06 EDT-0400

Here is what I would go with. The 3900x is not really worth it for $500, I would get a 10850k

[Eggmaster200]

42 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

If you can find it for 650 it might actually not be that bad.
 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xNF8cT

CPU: Intel Core i9-10850K 3.6 GHz 10-Core Processor  ($384.99 @ B&H) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black 82.51 CFM CPU Cooler  ($99.95 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI Z490-A PRO ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  ($169.99 @ B&H) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($159.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($106.79 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card  ($650.00) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P360A ATX Mid Tower Case  ($69.98 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($84.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1726.68
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-27 22:06 EDT-0400

Here is what I would go with. The 3900x is not really worth it for $500, I would get a 10850k

This seems like a solid design. Have you ran this build? It's cheaper than my configuration by a lot it seems like. Definitely interested in this build. 

[Eggmaster200]

1 hour ago, curiousmind34 said:

If you can find it for 650 it might actually not be that bad.
 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xNF8cT

CPU: Intel Core i9-10850K 3.6 GHz 10-Core Processor  ($384.99 @ B&H) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S chromax.black 82.51 CFM CPU Cooler  ($99.95 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI Z490-A PRO ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  ($169.99 @ B&H) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($159.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($106.79 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card  ($650.00) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P360A ATX Mid Tower Case  ($69.98 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  ($84.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1726.68
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-27 22:06 EDT-0400

Here is what I would go with. The 3900x is not really worth it for $500, I would get a 10850k

Looking it all over, I'd probably still go with a Western Digital but I'll snag a black 850 2TB and go all the way. I shouldn't need the heat sink since the motherboard has one built in, correct?

[curiousmind34]

6 hours ago, Eggmaster200 said:

Looking it all over, I'd probably still go with a Western Digital but I'll snag a black 850 2TB and go all the way. I shouldn't need the heat sink since the motherboard has one built in, correct?

The sn850 is a pcie 4 ssd, it will still run fast but not on pcie 4 speeds since the 10850k does not support pcie 4.0.

Instead I would go for the sn750, which is still faster than the sn550, but will not be bottlenecked by your motherboard since it is a pcie 3.0 ssd. https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Fkprxr/western-digital-sn750-2-tb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-wds200t3x0c

It does not require a chunky heatsink, so that is not a problem.