My First PC Build

[Jaydos06]

Hey Crew,

I've been wanting to build my own PC for awhile now and have finally decided to do it.

Budget (including currency):  looking around $2500 AUD

Country:  Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: looking at more of a gaming PC that will run all games well at high quality, with the option for upgrading later on 

Other details: I already own a Samsung 32-inch 4K Ultra HD Curved Monitor and a Mouse, but will need a keyboard and OS

if there are any websites that could help that would be good aswell

 

Cheers

 

[Zmimgo]

What kind of games are you going to playing? Do you know the refresh rate or color depth of your monitor?

[Jaydos06]

I will be playing all kinds of games, Rainbow 6 siege, COD Cold war, Assassins creed Valhalla,

I don't of the top of my head, would have to do a little research for Refresh rate or colour depth

[SorryBella]

12 minutes ago, Jaydos06 said:

I already own a Samsung 32-inch 4K Ultra HD Curved Monitor and a Mouse, but will need a keyboard and OS

Yeah, you gonna be GPU bottlenecked regardless. For the GPU, get it near the MSRP i listed or wait up on building it. For OS, remember that gray market is cheaper than going with normal keys.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($225.00 @ Amazon Australia)
Motherboard: MSI B560M PRO-VDH Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  ($128.00 @ JW Computers)
Memory: G.Skill Flare X 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($120.00 @ Skycomp Technology)
Storage: Western Digital Blue 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($135.00 @ Centre Com)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB Founders Edition Video Card  ($1100.00)
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P300A Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex III ARGB Pro 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($139.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Mouse: Glorious PC Gaming Race MODEL O Wired Optical Mouse  ($79.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Total: $2005.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-08-24 18:06 AEST+1000

[KKLawrence]

So with pcpartpicker you can search through a lot of sites and it will display a good price, but if you do thorough searching you may find better prices that are somehow not listed there. But anyway, it's maybe the best website to get a good overview over the cost of the system

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/YgTp7X

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($398.77 @ JW Computers) 
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports CPU Cooler  ($49.00 @ Mwave Australia) 
Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($148.77 @ JW Computers) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  ($140.44 @ Amazon Australia) 
Storage: Western Digital SN750 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($109.00 @ Centre Com) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($68.00 @ BPC Technology) 
Video Card: Palit GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GamingPro Video Card  ($1287.00 @ Mighty Ape) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P360A ATX Mid Tower Case  ($119.00 @ PCCaseGear) 
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($109.00 @ Scorptec) 
Keyboard: Kingston HyperX Alloy Core RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard  ($79.00 @ JW Computers) 
Total: $2507.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-08-24 18:12 AEST+1000

 

AMD is faster then comparable intel CPU's at the moment, so with your budget, I'd go AMD.

For AMD, 3600MHz Ram is recommended, so thats always neat to have.

I'd go for a boot drive SSD with cache (like the SN750, Samsung 970 Evo plus or else) and a game drive HDD, as most games will have fast enough load times on HDD anyways.

I'll explain the GPU later.

For Cases, you want a good airflow case that will allow your components to be operated at low temperatures. This will mean, that the fans won't have to work as much an be therefore quieter than some "quiet" cases, that have worse airflow. The Phanteks Case is a solid case and well enough made for its price, also good airflow.

For PSU, even with a 3080 you may only need a 750w PSU, thats why I only put a 750w unit in there. The quality of the PSU is more important than the pure wattage rating. A no name PSU with 1000w may perform worse then a quality 750w one.

For keyboards, I don't know the market as well, but this one has good reviews and RGB, so yay. Maybe have a look into some cheaper mechanical keyboards.

 

GPU: Damn the market is fucked right now, but you can still get one. I honestly don't think, that you will get a 3080 at 1500$ even. But the Nvidia 3070TI or AMD RX 6800XT perform both pretty good. If you can get the 6800XT for 1300$, then do so. It is closer to the 3080 in it's performance. But if you only can get the 3070TI, then take it. It is a great 1440p card, so you may have to lower your resolution ingame to 1440p or even in Windows. But then you can have a smooth game experience. The jump from 1440p to 2160p in quality is barely noticeable, but pixelcountwise it is double the pixels and therefore way more gpu-intensive.

[More Spencer]

59 minutes ago, Jaydos06 said:

Hey Crew,

I've been wanting to build my own PC for awhile now and have finally decided to do it.

Budget (including currency):  looking around $2500 AUD

Country:  Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: looking at more of a gaming PC that will run all games well at high quality, with the option for upgrading later on 

Other details: I already own a Samsung 32-inch 4K Ultra HD Curved Monitor and a Mouse, but will need a keyboard and OS

if there are any websites that could help that would be good aswell

 

Cheers

 

4 bucks over budget, sorry mate

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/bvV2vf

CPU: Intel Core i5-10600K 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($329.00 @ JW Computers)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master MASTERLIQUID ML240L RGB V2 65.59 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($93.01 @ Zotim)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B460M DS3H Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  ($149.00 @ Scorptec)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  ($140.44 @ Amazon Australia)
Storage: Western Digital Green 240 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($44.00 @ Centre Com)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($68.00 @ BPC Technology)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GAMING Twin Edge OC Video Card  ($879.00 @ PLE Computers)
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P360A ATX Mid Tower Case  ($119.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: EVGA BR 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($183.28 @ Amazon Australia)
Total: $2004.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-08-24 18:54 AEST+1000

[Somerandomtechyboi]

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/KZJp7X

Curb the horribly mismatched mobo, cpu cooler, and ram, but atleast it will perform well

 

You will want to overclock the ram

If you dont overclock the cpu i suggest undervolting it instead cause its a k cpu

 

Gpu is up to you, maybe you can get 3060ti?