1st PC build

[NerveRSA]

Budget (including currency): R30 000 willing to go 5k over in ZAR with the precaution of waiting another month(My currency might probably be pretty irrelevant since the prices are pretty static) 

Country: South Africa 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Call of Duty 1080p high @165 fps or 1440p medium/high @80-100 fps streaming but not on the regular just for vod recordings

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): 

Mobo: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS 

CPU: R7 5700g (going with this because I'm planning on buying it in October and my GPU only in Jan/Feb and will use this to play games like Val or CSGO at tops 1080p medium 100fps) 

CPU cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE_BK 140mm PWM Aluminium & Copper Dual-Fan Premium High-End CPU Cooler 

PSU: Super Flower SF-650F14HG(BK) Leadex III Gold 650W 80 Plus Gold Fully Modular Black Desktop Power Supply 

Ram: G.Skill F4-3600C16D-32GVKC Ripjaws V 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4-3600MHz 

 

GPU: need advice

 

Will have 5 120mm case fans with speeds 600-1500 in a meshify C case

 

NOT LOOKING TO OVERCLOCK MAYBE THE GPU have enough in budget to go up to 3070Ti

 

 

[Bombastinator]

Just general stuff.  I can’t speak to specific parts choices.

 

The bigger the gpu the more wattage you will need for your PSU. With the PSU you have specced I wouldn’t be super confident with more than a 3060.  Ymmv though.  The bigger intel GPUs have a rep for not working as well with 1080p stuff and prefer 1440p or higher.  They’ll work, they’re just optimized for bigger resolutions. I personally can’t recognize differences in fps over 120hz.  I’m old and slow though. 

[NerveRSA]

7 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

The bigger the gpu the more wattage you will need for your PSU. With the PSU you have specced I wouldn’t be super confident with more than a 3060.  Ymmv though. 

I've been up and down between sites like PC part picker and those VS sites and spec sites. As far as what I have been seeing the 650w was gonna be perfect. I was going to go with the 3060Ti but unfortunately since our prices are static they're too closely priced to a 3070Ti and I'd rather get the 3070Ti and just not overclock on anything. Maybe just use XMP on the RAM but that's it

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hWMRrr

 

Here it says 504 and my initial thought was get 600 and the 650 was about 15% more so I bought that instead 

[Dr0idGh0sT]

You are over spending on some parts and under spending on others, Your build needs little more balancing.

Avoid buying 970 Evo Plus and WD blue at any cost right now! Manufacturers are changing parts and making those drives run slower...

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XH2p7X

[NerveRSA]

1 hour ago, Dr0idGh0sT said:

You are over spending on some parts and under spending on others, Your build needs little more balancing.

Avoid buying 970 Evo Plus and WD blue at any cost right now! Manufacturers are changing parts and making those drives run slower...

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/XH2p7X

I'm not buying those drives at all. I'm going with either crucial or XPG I just put them there to see about how much power the the WHOLE system is gonna need from the PSU. 

 

Also I already bought most of the parts like my mobo tuf X570 which was on special for less than the tomahawk B550, the cooler was marked down by 20% where I can still resell for a profit and buy a much better liquid cooler in the future. 

[Dr0idGh0sT]

51 minutes ago, NerveRSA said:

I'm not buying those drives at all. I'm going with either crucial or XPG I just put them there to see about how much power the the WHOLE system is gonna need from the PSU. 

 

Also I already bought most of the parts like my mobo tuf X570 which was on special for less than the tomahawk B550, the cooler was marked down by 20% where I can still resell for a profit and buy a much better liquid cooler in the future. 

Than that's good. 

Definitely get 750W PSU and you are good to go.

Hopefully, You have bought drives before they started replacing parts in it...

[NerveRSA]

53 minutes ago, Dr0idGh0sT said:

Than that's good. 

Definitely get 750W PSU and you are good to go.

Hopefully, You have bought drives before they started replacing parts in it...

That would probably be the case considering gaming on PC isn't on such a big scale in my country 

[Bombastinator]

7 hours ago, NerveRSA said:

I've been up and down between sites like PC part picker and those VS sites and spec sites. As far as what I have been seeing the 650w was gonna be perfect. I was going to go with the 3060Ti but unfortunately since our prices are static they're too closely priced to a 3070Ti and I'd rather get the 3070Ti and just not overclock on anything. Maybe just use XMP on the RAM but that's it

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hWMRrr

 

Here it says 504 and my initial thought was get 600 and the 650 was about 15% more so I bought that instead 

Stuff I’ve been seeing lately says 750 for 3070 with hot cpu, 850 for 3080, 1000 for 3090 with hot cpu.  It gets fuzzy though and is affected buy what cpu there is, how good the PSU is, and how likely spiking from what thing is.  These are more upper end of what might possibly be useful rather than what you might get away with.  Kind of depends where you want to err

[Bombastinator]

:DANGER OFF TOPIC:

Just noticed the OP’s handle.  Haven’t talked to someone with rsi issues in many years. Last I heard wacky “ergonomic” keyboards had been ditched in favor of merely adjusting seat height and keyboard location occasionally.  Any movement on that one?