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7 minutes ago, katixea said:

Thanks a bunch! Does the rest of my parts list look okay?

Did you get that cooler for the RGB? Don't buy Windows at full price. There's places you can get OEM keys for cheap. 

If you didn't get that cooler for the RGB, here's a double tower that is $5 cheaper and it'll have more room for OC if you wanted to do that later.

Other than that, it looks good. 3600 might be a little faster than you need on Comet Lake, but there's nothing wrong with that. The 3200 kit of that same ram is the same cost.

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Budget (including currency): 1,700 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: playing and streaming cod, minecraft, valorant, csgo, fnaf, phasmophobia

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): 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WNNNMv

I want to play at 1440p, and I just wanted some opinions on this list. Is it balanced? Is there anything I should change? Also, pcpartpicker says "The motherboard M.2 slot #1 requires an Intel Rocket Lake-based CPU. When an Intel Rocket Lake-based CPU is not used, the M.2 slot is disabled." I'm not quite sure what this means, is it worrisome? Thanks

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3 minutes ago, tkitch said:

Basically, as the message said:
Without an 11th gen CPU, the first m.2 (NVME) slot will be disabled.

 

If that's important?  That's up to you.

Whats the m.2 slot for, and do I need it? I'm just wondering if an 11th gen is required

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4 minutes ago, katixea said:

Yes but it didn't make much sense

The M.2 slot is for your SN550.

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

Project Hot Box

CPU 13900k, Motherboard Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX, RAM CORSAIR Vengeance 4x16gb 5200 MHZ, GPU Zotac RTX 4090 Trinity OC, Case Fractal Pop Air XL, Storage Sabrent Rocket Q4 2tb, CORSAIR Force Series MP510 1920GB NVMe, CORSAIR FORCE Series MP510 960GB NVMe, PSU CORSAIR HX1000i, Cooling Corsair XC8 CPU block, Bykski GPU block, 360mm and 280mm radiator, Displays Odyssey G9, LG 34UC98-W 34-Inch,Keyboard Mountain Everest Max, Mouse Mountain Makalu 67, Sound AT2035, Massdrop 6xx headphones, Go XLR 

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CPU i9-9900k, Motherboard, ASUS Rog Maximus Code XI, RAM, 48GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB 3200 mhz (2x16)+(2x8) GPUs Asus ROG Strix 2070 8gb, PNY 1080, Nvidia 1080, Case Mining Frame, 2x Storage Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB, PSU Corsair RM1000x and RM850x, Cooling Asus Rog Ryuo 240 with Noctua NF-12 fans

 

Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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1 minute ago, katixea said:

thanks, so basically I have to get an 11th gen cpu? Is there any way around this?

Use slot 2 and don't use Sata_1 for your HDD. Slot 1 is only PCIE 4.0 which Comet Lake doesn't support.

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I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

Project Hot Box

CPU 13900k, Motherboard Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX, RAM CORSAIR Vengeance 4x16gb 5200 MHZ, GPU Zotac RTX 4090 Trinity OC, Case Fractal Pop Air XL, Storage Sabrent Rocket Q4 2tb, CORSAIR Force Series MP510 1920GB NVMe, CORSAIR FORCE Series MP510 960GB NVMe, PSU CORSAIR HX1000i, Cooling Corsair XC8 CPU block, Bykski GPU block, 360mm and 280mm radiator, Displays Odyssey G9, LG 34UC98-W 34-Inch,Keyboard Mountain Everest Max, Mouse Mountain Makalu 67, Sound AT2035, Massdrop 6xx headphones, Go XLR 

Oppbevaring

CPU i9-9900k, Motherboard, ASUS Rog Maximus Code XI, RAM, 48GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB 3200 mhz (2x16)+(2x8) GPUs Asus ROG Strix 2070 8gb, PNY 1080, Nvidia 1080, Case Mining Frame, 2x Storage Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB, PSU Corsair RM1000x and RM850x, Cooling Asus Rog Ryuo 240 with Noctua NF-12 fans

 

Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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7 minutes ago, katixea said:

Thanks a bunch! Does the rest of my parts list look okay?

Did you get that cooler for the RGB? Don't buy Windows at full price. There's places you can get OEM keys for cheap. 

If you didn't get that cooler for the RGB, here's a double tower that is $5 cheaper and it'll have more room for OC if you wanted to do that later.

Other than that, it looks good. 3600 might be a little faster than you need on Comet Lake, but there's nothing wrong with that. The 3200 kit of that same ram is the same cost.

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

Project Hot Box

CPU 13900k, Motherboard Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX, RAM CORSAIR Vengeance 4x16gb 5200 MHZ, GPU Zotac RTX 4090 Trinity OC, Case Fractal Pop Air XL, Storage Sabrent Rocket Q4 2tb, CORSAIR Force Series MP510 1920GB NVMe, CORSAIR FORCE Series MP510 960GB NVMe, PSU CORSAIR HX1000i, Cooling Corsair XC8 CPU block, Bykski GPU block, 360mm and 280mm radiator, Displays Odyssey G9, LG 34UC98-W 34-Inch,Keyboard Mountain Everest Max, Mouse Mountain Makalu 67, Sound AT2035, Massdrop 6xx headphones, Go XLR 

Oppbevaring

CPU i9-9900k, Motherboard, ASUS Rog Maximus Code XI, RAM, 48GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB 3200 mhz (2x16)+(2x8) GPUs Asus ROG Strix 2070 8gb, PNY 1080, Nvidia 1080, Case Mining Frame, 2x Storage Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB, PSU Corsair RM1000x and RM850x, Cooling Asus Rog Ryuo 240 with Noctua NF-12 fans

 

Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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You should go with 2x8Gb 3200 cl14/cl16. RAM with frequencies higher than 3200Mhz is pretty useless. You should care about Cas Latency (cl..)

Get a really good CPU like the i9-11900k. Which is 11th gen. 

The price on the HDD is not significant and you have to account 400$ for your GPU.

Do not buy Windows 10 Pro. I dont think you will need the "Pro" part of Windows and you can buy keys for MUCH cheaper.

The rest seems pretty balenced.

 

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Just now, Hamster Homie said:

You should go with 2x8Gb 3200 cl14/cl16. RAM with frequencies higher than 3200Mhz is pretty useless. You should care about Cas Latency (cl..)

Get a really good CPU like the i9-11900k. Which is 11th gen. 

The price on the HDD is not significant and you have to account 400$ for your GPU.

Do not buy Windows 10 Pro. I dont think you will need the "Pro" part of Windows and you can buy keys for MUCH cheaper.

The rest seems pretty balenced.

 

thanks for the advice! i'll make sure to consider

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4 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

Did you get that cooler for the RGB? Don't buy Windows at full price. There's places you can get OEM keys for cheap. 

If you didn't get that cooler for the RGB, here's a double tower that is $5 cheaper and it'll have more room for OC if you wanted to do that later.

Other than that, it looks good. 3600 might be a little faster than you need on Comet Lake, but there's nothing wrong with that. The 3200 kit of that same ram is the same cost.

Gotcha! thanks for the help

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2 minutes ago, Hamster Homie said:

You should go with 2x8Gb 3200 cl14/cl16. RAM with frequencies higher than 3200Mhz is pretty useless. You should care about Cas Latency (cl..)

If OP goes with that ram, it's $159 for 3600 mhz, or $159 for 3200 mhz.

2 minutes ago, Hamster Homie said:

Get a really good CPU like the i9-11900k. Which is 11th gen. 

That would blow their budget out of the water.

2 minutes ago, Hamster Homie said:

The price on the HDD is not significant and you have to account 400$ for your GPU.

Even with this, if OP doesn't go with a full price key and goes OEM, they have $50 left over in their budget after accounting for GPU. That would leave just enough to step up to an 11700k, but it's not a big step up. 

 

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

Project Hot Box

CPU 13900k, Motherboard Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX, RAM CORSAIR Vengeance 4x16gb 5200 MHZ, GPU Zotac RTX 4090 Trinity OC, Case Fractal Pop Air XL, Storage Sabrent Rocket Q4 2tb, CORSAIR Force Series MP510 1920GB NVMe, CORSAIR FORCE Series MP510 960GB NVMe, PSU CORSAIR HX1000i, Cooling Corsair XC8 CPU block, Bykski GPU block, 360mm and 280mm radiator, Displays Odyssey G9, LG 34UC98-W 34-Inch,Keyboard Mountain Everest Max, Mouse Mountain Makalu 67, Sound AT2035, Massdrop 6xx headphones, Go XLR 

Oppbevaring

CPU i9-9900k, Motherboard, ASUS Rog Maximus Code XI, RAM, 48GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB 3200 mhz (2x16)+(2x8) GPUs Asus ROG Strix 2070 8gb, PNY 1080, Nvidia 1080, Case Mining Frame, 2x Storage Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB, PSU Corsair RM1000x and RM850x, Cooling Asus Rog Ryuo 240 with Noctua NF-12 fans

 

Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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Just now, IkeaGnome said:

If OP goes with that ram, it's $159 for 3600 mhz, or $159 for 3200 mhz.

That would blow their budget out of the water.

Even with this, if OP doesn't go with a full price key and goes OEM, they have $50 left over in their budget after accounting for GPU. That would leave just enough to step up to an 11700k, but it's not a big step up. 

 

I agree, I'm keeping my cpu and ram as it is.

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You not considering Ryzen ?

 

I would look for a cheap W10 key instead of paying full price for it. Places that sell game codes usually sell Windows.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($399.99 @ Newegg) 
CPU Cooler: Scythe FUMA 2 51.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($149.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($149.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($104.99 @ Lenovo) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($185.00 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card 
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  ($84.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: MSI MPG A-GF 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($89.99 @ B&H) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit  ($139.88 @ Other World Computing) 
Total: $1364.81
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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