First PC! Thoughts?

[thefrijoles]

Budget (including currency): $1,000 usd

Country: US of A

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  Light Gaming (for example: LoL) and school.

Oth.er details Upgrading from a very old family PC that should be better at handling multiple tasks.

 

Current List:

 

Note: I know Im not getting the 3060 but a man can dream.

[DobertRownySr]

It looks good!

Best Buy should be restocking this week. You might be able to snag one if you follow an alert bot.

[Radium_Angel]

Warning:

 

Unpopular opinion ahead:

G.Skill are trash. It's the riceboy of the RAM world. Buy something else.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

if you are going intel, get a 11400f. its a good upgrade over the 10th gen equivalent.

btw, the link in the yellow box embeds here, could you please post that?

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

G.Skill are trash. It's the riceboy of the RAM world. Buy something else.

what?

Theyre known to be the best, in compatibility,  especially their trident z series.

I know linus at some point said that they use g.skill trident z, for their test benched because its the only kits that they got to run ant xmp on bassically everything.

[medievalcow]

1 minute ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

if you are going intel, get a 11400f. its a good upgrade over the 10th gen equivalent.

btw, the link in the yellow box embeds here, could you please post that?

 

I was going to suggest this. It's only $25 more for the CPU and $23 more for the MB, but it's a significant upgrade over the 10400f

 

Intel Core i5-11400F 2.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (BX8070811400F) - PCPartPicker
ASRock B560M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard (B560M-HDV) - PCPartPicker

 

[PorkishPig]

8 minutes ago, thefrijoles said:

Note: I know Im not getting the 3060 but a man can dream.

If you're not sure you'll be able to buy a GPU, make sure you have a backup plan. I'd suggest grabbing an i5-11400 to have an iGPU. You'll have the added benefit of being able to use QuickSync once you do get a GPU.

[Radium_Angel]

3 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

what?

Theyre known to be the best, in compatibility,  especially their trident z series.

I know linus at some point said that they use g.skill trident z, for their test benched because its the only kits that they got to run ant xmp on bassically everything.

I've had g.skill RAM before, and under the fancy heat spreaders were two *entirely* different types of RAM modules, which caused untold amount of issues.

I've had nothing but bad luck with g.skill in other builds as well, to the point I refuse to use them.

 

But like I said, unpopular opinion. 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

I've had g.skill RAM before, and under the fancy heat spreaders were two *entirely* different types of RAM modules, which caused untold amount of issues.

I've had nothing but bad luck with g.skill in other builds as well, to the point I refuse to use them.

 

But like I said, unpopular opinion. 

like in the same kit?
thats weird. Ive never heard of that happening before.

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

like in the same kit?
thats weird. Ive never heard of that happening before.

Just, brand new, sealed kit. My system went ape when I put them in, all manner of errors. Took the sticks out, noticed 1 was green and 1 was blue (the board the RAM chips were soldered on to) popped the heatspreaders off, fond out different sticks underneath, including different manuf of the RAM chips.

 

Returned, got a replcement set.

Same thing.

Trashed it, went with crucial for that build.

 

Had other issues with g.skill as well, just overall flaky, don't like them one bit

[dizmo]

Not bad, but as others have said I'd probably get a CPU with an iGPU and run that while you wait for a video card to come around. Otherwise you're unable to use your current system until you get one...at which point you might as well wait and not build one at all.

 

Some other things I'd change:

• There's usually better coolers for not much more. I can't recall what the cheaper ones are, but Noctua for example makes coolers you can get around $50 - $60. Not that this CPU will get that hot.
• Get RAM that's at 3200mhz or better and CL16 or lower.
• Drop the SSD for something from another brand, in 1TB capacity. You'll run out of space pretty quickly with only 500GB of storage on hand.

10 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Warning:

 

Unpopular opinion ahead:

G.Skill are trash. It's the riceboy of the RAM world. Buy something else.

Riceboy? WTF do you mean by that? That doesn't even make sense.

4 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

I've had g.skill RAM before, and under the fancy heat spreaders were two *entirely* different types of RAM modules, which caused untold amount of issues.

I've had nothing but bad luck with g.skill in other builds as well, to the point I refuse to use them.

 

But like I said, unpopular opinion. 

I've had G.Skill in 3 or 4 builds, never had a single problem so...

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, dizmo said:

Not bad, but as others have said I'd probably get a CPU with an iGPU and run that while you wait for a video card to come around. Otherwise you're unable to use your current system until you get one...at which point you might as well wait and not build one at all.

 

Some other things I'd change:

• There's usually better coolers for not much more. I can't recall what the cheaper ones are, but Noctua for example makes coolers you can get around $50 - $60. Not that this CPU will get that hot.
• Get RAM that's at 3200mhz or better and CL16 or lower.
• Drop the SSD for something from another brand, in 1TB capacity. You'll run out of space pretty quickly with only 500GB of storage on hand.

Riceboy? WTF do you mean by that? That doesn't even make sense.

I've had G.Skill in 3 or 4 builds, never had a single problem so...

Like I said, unpopular opinion.

 

And riceboy: All fancy with pretty bodykit (heatspreaders, etc), and no performance (the aforementioned issues)

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Just, brand new, sealed kit. My system went ape when I put them in, all manner of errors. Took the sticks out, noticed 1 was green and 1 was blue (the board the RAM chips were soldered on to) popped the heatspreaders off, fond out different sticks underneath, including different manuf of the RAM chips.

 

Returned, got a replcement set.

Same thing.

Trashed it, went with crucial for that build.

 

Had other issues with g.skill as well, just overall flaky, don't like them one bit

thats weird. 

like i said, this is the only time ive ever seen a problem like that.

ive seen same product, speed, cl, but difffrent chip in 2 diffrent kits, but never in the same kit.

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

thats weird. 

like i said, this is the only time ive ever seen a problem like that.

ive seen same product, speed, cl, but difffrent chip in 2 diffrent kits, but never in the same kit.

Bad batch? Certainly possible. Got them from BestBuy at the time. But it was enough for me to swear them off.

[BondiBlue]

46 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Warning:

 

Unpopular opinion ahead:

G.Skill are trash. It's the riceboy of the RAM world. Buy something else.

Honestly that sounds like a bad experience, not something that's indicative of a bad company. I've had plenty of luck with G.Skill RAM - I've got some in my main desktop and it's been rock solid. 

[FireAbyss111802]

52 minutes ago, thefrijoles said:

Budget (including currency): $1,000 usd

Country: US of A

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:  Light Gaming (for example: LoL) and school.

Oth.er details Upgrading from a very old family PC that should be better at handling multiple tasks.

 

Current List:

 

Note: I know Im not getting the 3060 but a man can dream.

i have a very similar build to you, and it looks good to me. I would get a better cooler like a CM hyper 212 black edition or be quiet cooler. I would get ddr4-3000 or higher memory, and the cpu could be an 11400 or 11400f if you can fit it in the budget. 

[Downkey]

Change the PSU, get a B560 mobo with 3200MHZ CL16 - 14 RAM. Rest looks fine.