Power VS Uber Power PC build advise

[RytisR]

Budget: circa €3,000

Country: Ireland

Use: graphics design, 4K video editing, 3D modeling and rendering. Adobe & Autodesk

 

Hi All,

 

My current MSI laptop is ancient and is overheating dramatically effecting performance with excel barely working :D About time I upgraded. Looking to build my first PC and need help. I have researched and come up with 2 builds, powerful and very powerful PC. I think! As this is my first build I have no clue if I am even on the right path and will it be enough power for required use. Not a gamer so that is not a priority.

 

Key items:

Overall performance for task at hand

Compatibility of components

Power supply capacity

Custom water cooling. Will I benefit from it? Very dear stuff 

Also best case for each build. I have narrowed down to Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic and Phanteks Eclipse P500A D-RGB

 

Note1: Price base on purchase in Europe, all shipped to Ireland

 

PC built 1 - €2,173.51

CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8 Cores €349

GPU - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 ti €700  (price assumed)

Motherboard - MSI MAG X570 TOMAHAWK €185.48

RAM - G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 €233.70

SSD - Western Digital Black SN850 500 GB €152.99

HDD - Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM, 256MB cache €64.99

Power - Corsair HXi 750 W 80+ €169.99

Case - Phanteks Eclipse P500A D-RGB €174.99

Cooling - Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black €142.37

 

PC built 2 - €3,871.95

CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core €499

GPU - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 €850.00 (price assumed)

Motherboard - MSI MEG X570 UNIFY ATX AM4 €328.30

RAM - G.Skill Trident Z RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 €418.20

SSD - Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB €274.99

HDD - Western Digital Black 4 TB 3.5" 7200RPM, 256MB cache €229.00

Power - Corsair AXi 1200 W 80+ €299.99

Case - Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic €172.47

Custom Cooling – EK €800 (price allowance)

 

Looking for value build here. Also with option to upgrade components in the future if needed.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks

Rytis

 

 

[SupaKomputa]

SN850 is expensive, get sn750 instead.

WD Black is a waste of money, just get a regular 7200rpm.

[Downkey]

better than both lists, while being cheaper 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£514.99 @ AWD-IT) 
CPU Cooler: Scythe FUMA 2 51.17 CFM CPU Cooler  (£52.27 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE V2 ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£134.95 @ More Computers) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  (£188.45 @ Newegg UK) 
Storage: Western Digital SN750 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£108.47 @ Ebuyer) 
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB Founders Edition Video Card  (£850.00) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case  (£83.82 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£106.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Total: £2039.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-05-20 17:01 BST+0100

[RytisR]

50 minutes ago, Downkey said:

better than both lists, while being cheaper 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£514.99 @ AWD-IT) 
CPU Cooler: Scythe FUMA 2 51.17 CFM CPU Cooler  (£52.27 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE V2 ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£134.95 @ More Computers) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  (£188.45 @ Newegg UK) 
Storage: Western Digital SN750 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£108.47 @ Ebuyer) 
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB Founders Edition Video Card  (£850.00) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case  (£83.82 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£106.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Total: £2039.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-05-20 17:01 BST+0100

Many thanks for the list. Couple of questions.... Will 32gb ram be enough? Am i loosing any key feature downgrading from MSI MEG X570 UNIFY ATX Motherboard? For CPU i understand the higher rate single core is better for games is it the same for designer/developer software? That is why i gone for the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core

 

Also very hard to get components to Ireland at a reasonable rate, especially I am struggling to get GPU.

[Downkey]

55 minutes ago, RytisR said:

Many thanks for the list. Couple of questions.... Will 32gb ram be enough? Am i loosing any key feature downgrading from MSI MEG X570 UNIFY ATX Motherboard? For CPU i understand the higher rate single core is better for games is it the same for designer/developer software? That is why i gone for the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core

 

Also very hard to get components to Ireland at a reasonable rate, especially I am struggling to get GPU.

I would think that 32GB is enough. if you really want 64GB go for it, although it is expensive. Only real feature you lose with the X570 board to the B550 board is the extra GEN4 ports. With b550 you can only run one gen4 drive. Very little sacrifice while saving 100.

Well the 5900x also has a bit better multicore than the 3900x, with the better single core, which makes the 5900x the better choice overall imo.