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[CreativeName642]

Budget (including currency): $1300 USD

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Modern Warfare, Halo Infinite, Valorant

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory
Storage: Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME (updated)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB
Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular

 

Total: $1150.43
 

 

 

[Jonathan Lee]

For multiplayer games, I hear having an 8 core CPU helps out with reducing frame stutters and pacing (smoother gaming experience). You can consider going to 5800X or 10700/11700 (intel is a better deal right now imo). For the SSD, I typically recommend going with a boot SSD with dram. Here are some options:

Kingston A2000

Silicon Power A80

ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro

ADATA XPG GAMMIX S7

 

For 1080p, the 1660 will be good, but it might struggle in higher resolutions.

[heli1337]

24 minutes ago, CreativeName642 said:

Budget (including currency): $1300 USD

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Modern Warfare, Halo Infinite, Valorant

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB NVME SSD
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB
Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular

 

Total: $1148.93
 

 

 

Nice build in total, if i could be you i would pick other NVM like SX8200 From ADATA

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1 hour ago, Helly Benchmarking said:

Nice build in total, if i could be you i would pick other NVM like SX8200 From ADATA

I would suggest avoiding that SSD since they changed the spec to make it slower.

[CreativeName642]

21 minutes ago, c00face said:

Get rid of the Seasonic Focus PSU. It's not good.

I've never known a Seasonic PSU to not be good. What exactly do you think is wrong with it?

[CreativeName642]

35 minutes ago, c00face said:

The 850w rated gold trips consistently when pairing with RTX cards. In your case, it should be fine. But I wouldn't buy it as Tomhardware gave it an average rating because it used terrible fans and had a OCP that can easily be triggered. It's not bad per se, but it isn't great either. You can do better than the focus. Especially if you plan on reusing that PSU for future builds, I wouldn't skip out on it. Get yourself a good PSU that is 850w Gold+ that you'll be able to use 4-5 years later with your new build as newer GPU becomes more power hungry. Lovelace from nVidia is speculated to draw 550watts.
 

 

Ok, but the chances of me ever getting a 3090 are slim, considering by the time I can afford that I'll probably be looking at 40 or 50 series cards. 

[YoungBlade]

44 minutes ago, c00face said:

The 850w rated gold trips consistently when pairing with RTX cards. In your case, it should be fine. But I wouldn't buy it as Tomhardware gave it an average rating because it used terrible fans and had a OCP that can easily be triggered. It's not bad per se, but it isn't great either. You can do better than the focus. Especially if you plan on reusing that PSU for future builds, I wouldn't skip out on it. Get yourself a good PSU that is 850w Gold+ that you'll be able to use 4-5 years later with your new build as newer GPU becomes more power hungry. Lovelace from nVidia is speculated to draw 550watts.

There's no way that Lovelace GPUs will draw 550 watts. First, you'd need 4 PCIe power connectors for that (8+8+8+6) - which is just insane - and second, no cooling solution on Earth, bar custom liquid, could cool that. Unless suddenly all graphics cards are going to require liquid cooling - which isn't going to happen - or someone has come up with some crazy-good, better-than-liquid air-cooling tech - which they haven't - graphics card makers are not going to make cards that draw 550 watts.