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[Aquarius]

Budget (including currency): $1100 without GPU

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: AAA and Competitive FPS gaming in games like COD Cold War, Modern Warfare, Warzone and Apex Legends. Also looking into starting a YouTube channel with edited videos so I want to be prepared for video editing and recording.

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, etc): I am hoping to play at 1080p high refresh rate while recording competitive fps games as well as 1440p gaming. I have a PCPartPicker list already.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/nbtBnL

 

[ramava]

Looks like a solid build. Only thought I had was that you may benefit from 32 GB of RAM when doing video editing. I can't say for sure though as my experience with it is pretty limited and all been done on a much slower machine than you're building (or than I have now).

[FireAbyss111802]

12 minutes ago, Aquarius said:

Budget (including currency): $1100 without GPU

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: AAA and Competitive FPS gaming in games like COD Cold War, Modern Warfare, Warzone and Apex Legends. Also looking into starting a YouTube channel with edited videos so I want to be prepared for video editing and recording.

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, etc): I am hoping to play at 1080p high refresh rate while recording competitive fps games as well as 1440p gaming. I have a PCPartPicker list already.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/nbtBnL

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hZffz7

Little over budget, but improved by a lot.

[Aquarius]

3 minutes ago, ramava said:

Looks like a solid build. Only thought I had was that you may benefit from 32 GB of RAM when doing video editing. I can't say for sure though as my experience with it is pretty limited and all been done on a much slower machine than you're building (or than I have now).

Okay, I changed it to some Team Tforce Delta RGB RAM for only 60 bucks more. Hopefully that will help.

[Aquarius]

Just now, FireAbyss111802 said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hZffz7

Is there anything i could downgrade to keep it under 1100. If not its fine just wondering.

[FireAbyss111802]

Just now, Aquarius said:

Is there anything i could downgrade to keep it under 1100. If not its fine just wondering.

you could go with an i7... but  you lose 2 cores. Also, since this is an Intel build, you could get 3000mhz ram. You would need a good gpu like a 3080, so I added 100 watts to ur current psu.

[Aquarius]

1 minute ago, FireAbyss111802 said:

you could go with an i7... but  you lose 2 cores. Also, since this is an Intel build, you could get 3000mhz ram. You would need a good gpu like a 3080, so I added 100 watts to ur current psu.

I think ill go with the 3000mhz ram but ill keep the improved PSU since id rather have some breathing room and a quality unit.

[FireAbyss111802]

2 minutes ago, Aquarius said:

I think ill go with the 3000mhz ram but ill keep the improved PSU since id rather have some breathing room and a quality unit.

I changed out your SSD because the M..2 NVME ones can quintuple (yes, quintuple) the read/write speeds. SATA SSDs are faster than HDDs, but are significantly slower than NVME.

[Aquarius]

1 minute ago, FireAbyss111802 said:

I changed out your SSD because the M..2 NVME ones can quintuple (yes, quintuple) the read/write speeds. SATA SSDs are faster than HDDs, but are significantly slower than NVME.

yeah i was planning on using the ssd for main games and booting and then use the hard drive for recordings and games i don't play so often. would that be good?

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i9-10850K 3.6 GHz 10-Core Processor  ($329.99) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Le Grand Macho RT 73.6 CFM CPU Cooler  ($79.98 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z490-P ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  ($162.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Silicon Power GAMING 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($154.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Silicon Power A80 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($119.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($55.49 @ Amazon) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400A Digital ATX Mid Tower Case  ($89.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 PE 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($106.89 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1100.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-06-01 22:53 EDT-0400

Much better board, heatsink, ssd and psu.

[brob]

42 minutes ago, Aquarius said:

Is there anything i could downgrade to keep it under 1100. If not its fine just wondering.

 

Stick with the OP build. If you want to overclock a higher performance cpu cooler would be good. NH-U12A if you want air or Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 if you want an aio.