My 1st ever build

[P1ckleR111ck32]

Budget (including currency): £2,000

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming - Rainbow Six Siege, Dead By Daylight, Apex Legends. Workstation - Video Editing, Music Production, Digital Illustration, Animation, 3D Modelling, Unreal Engine.

Other details: I finished building this pc back in June 2020, It was built for the purpose of being my university computer and since it was to be MY FIRST personal desktop and not one paid for by my parents I also decide it should look cool and perform well in modern gaming titles. I wasn't going for balls to the walls and I bought the parts individually as I could afford them, originally budgeting for £1,500 and better than Xbox One performance at 1080p High settings. I quite like my system and if I had more budget and options (newer parts are out now) I would have spent £3,000 on it so glad that didn't happen. Anyway rate my system, parts choice for 1st time builder looking at 2019 and earlier parts, parts spec for workstation tasks (listed above) and gaming performance.

 

Link to PC Part Picker List of parts:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/P1ckleR111ck32/saved/DpMz7P

 

[dean_5234]

So you've already built it?

Also, you probably should've gone for 3rd gen Ryzen if this was in June 2020

[Tech is my middle name]

Yeah you should have gone 3rd gen and you went overkill on the cooling the 2600x is really cool using the stock cooler.

[P1ckleR111ck32]

25 minutes ago, davemc said:

So you've already built it?

Also, you probably should've gone for 3rd gen Ryzen if this was in June 2020

Yeah it is already built now and I did want to get a Ryzen 3 processor but A. couldn't afford it at the time B. didn't have a computer or USB handy to do BIOS flashing with C. My motherboard is "Ryzen 2000 Series Ready" and finally D. I got really really impatient of waiting for parts lol.

[P1ckleR111ck32]

9 minutes ago, Tech is my middle name said:

Yeah you should have gone 3rd gen and you went overkill on the cooling the 2600x is really cool using the stock cooler.

I know the cooling is overboard but really wanted the radiator for the flex as stupid as it is, not to mention I can easily drop in a 3rd gen or 5th gen ryzen chip now and I still don't have to worry about cooling the newer denser chips.

[Tech is my middle name]

2 minutes ago, P1ckleR111ck32 said:

I know the cooling is overboard but really wanted the radiator for the flex as stupid as it is, not to mention I can easily drop in a 3rd gen or 5th gen ryzen chip now and I still don't have to worry about cooling the newer denser chips.

Lol at this point just flex on a random discord server with your aio lol