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Budget (including currency): $1400-1600 NZD

 

Country: New Zealand

 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Web browsing, watching video/streams, some gaming, will be on 24/7, 365. Used to game mostly on PC but have decided to mostly use consoles where I can, would still like my PC to be decent for when its infeasible or more convenient than a console.

 

Other details: My current system serves me well (its an i5-4670k and has an RTX 2070 in it which I will just be swapping into the new build), but its fairly old, and I believe the PSU is failing. I considered just taking it in to get looked at/cleaned and the PSU replaced (if that is indeed the problem), but I also thought if I can just get a cheap enough new build, might wanna do that instead, so I went to where I usually get systems built and they quoted me the system below for $1410 NZD (includes Win 10 and labour).

 

Intel Rocket Lake Core i5-11400F
ASUS PRIME B560 PLUS
Corsair CMK16GX4M2Z3200C16 Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Designed for AMD Ryzen
Seagate Barracuda 510 250GB PCIe NVMe SSD
Corsair Carbide 175R RGB Tempered Glass Mid-Tower Case
Silverstone ST65F-GS 650W Full Modular 80Plus Gold Power Supply

 

Is this system worth it for what I want? Are there any parts that are kind of crappy? Is it going to run well? My current system has a large heatsink and noctua fan which I've noticed is missing from this quote.

One thing I requested was that the system run fairly quite/silent when idle/browsing/watch video, will this be the case?

Another concern I had was the power supply, I've never had a Silverstone before, is it going to be reliable?

Oh also, its been a quite a while since I've done anything like this, but ram being designated as for team red/blue is new to me, is that going to be a probem?

 

Thanks.

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i would consider a different power supply such as the corsair rm, enermax revolution df, or msi agf. however, looks good to me, nice choices otherwise!

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38 minutes ago, Ridguard said:

Budget (including currency): $1400-1600 NZD

 

Country: New Zealand

 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Web browsing, watching video/streams, some gaming, will be on 24/7, 365. Used to game mostly on PC but have decided to mostly use consoles where I can, would still like my PC to be decent for when its infeasible or more convenient than a console.

 

Other details: My current system serves me well (its an i5-4670k and has an RTX 2070 in it which I will just be swapping into the new build), but its fairly old, and I believe the PSU is failing. I considered just taking it in to get looked at/cleaned and the PSU replaced (if that is indeed the problem), but I also thought if I can just get a cheap enough new build, might wanna do that instead, so I went to where I usually get systems built and they quoted me the system below for $1410 NZD (includes Win 10 and labour).

 

Intel Rocket Lake Core i5-11400F
ASUS PRIME B560 PLUS
Corsair CMK16GX4M2Z3200C16 Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Designed for AMD Ryzen
Seagate Barracuda 510 250GB PCIe NVMe SSD
Corsair Carbide 175R RGB Tempered Glass Mid-Tower Case
Silverstone ST65F-GS 650W Full Modular 80Plus Gold Power Supply

 

Is this system worth it for what I want? Are there any parts that are kind of crappy? Is it going to run well? My current system has a large heatsink and noctua fan which I've noticed is missing from this quote.

One thing I requested was that the system run fairly quite/silent when idle/browsing/watch video, will this be the case?

Another concern I had was the power supply, I've never had a Silverstone before, is it going to be reliable?

Oh also, its been a quite a while since I've done anything like this, but ram being designated as for team red/blue is new to me, is that going to be a probem?

 

Thanks.

I would change the power supply to be honest to Corsair rm, but everything else seems fine

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So there would be nothing wrong with that ram then?

And it should be quiet?

 

I just talked to a friend of mine about it, is it worth waiting for DD5 to be a thing, or not really?

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22 minutes ago, Ridguard said:

So there would be nothing wrong with that ram then?

And it should be quiet?

 

I just talked to a friend of mine about it, is it worth waiting for DD5 to be a thing, or not really?

While ddr5 is going to be a thing for the near future you don't have to worry about it since it's definitely required new cpu, mobo, chipset and of course ram, and your ram choice is definitely good, unless of course you mean to just wait for the whole upgrade until newer cpu that supports ddr5 come to the Market, and in that case i leave it to you and others

Are you really have the urge to upgrade or not...

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35 minutes ago, Liam danu said:

While ddr5 is going to be a thing for the near future you don't have to worry about it since it's definitely required new cpu, mobo, chipset and of course ram, and your ram choice is definitely good, unless of course you mean to just wait for the whole upgrade until newer cpu that supports ddr5 come to the Market, and in that case i leave it to you and others

Are you really have the urge to upgrade or not...

 

Its sort of up in the air, even though I'm pretty sure I have a PSU thats going bad, I'm not fully certain thats the problem. Its possible I could chance it and wait and be able to upgrade later without issue and sell my old system then, or it could go wrong. Or I could just get it looked at/replaced.

 

I realize this is probably a hard question to really answer, but is it likely I could get a similar powered build and price when ddr5 is a thing?

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1 hour ago, Ridguard said:

 

Its sort of up in the air, even though I'm pretty sure I have a PSU thats going bad, I'm not fully certain thats the problem. Its possible I could chance it and wait and be able to upgrade later without issue and sell my old system then, or it could go wrong. Or I could just get it looked at/replaced.

 

I realize this is probably a hard question to really answer, but is it likely I could get a similar powered build and price when ddr5 is a thing?

To be Frankly honest, kinda is, because next gen ram technology almost always have very high starting point compared to let's say cpu and gpu, also there's a lot of rumor going on that alder lake (o think it was the name) was going to require atx12vo, so new type of psu standard which no one know how the price is going to compare against normal atx psu, i hope it didn't differ much...

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Alright.

From what I can gather, it's not really worth waiting on DDR5, now I just need to have a think on weather its really worth it to build new or fix up my old system.

 

I sent the same question about the ram back to them before I posted on here, they offered me G.Skill Ripjaws V 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 instead for no price difference. From what I can gather theres not much difference, but I'll take opinions.

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