Looking to build a pc for the first time.

[Papertowel24]

Budget: $2300

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender modeling, games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Control, R6S, MK11, and doing some video editing.

Other details: Upgrading from an Alienware X51 R2 that has 8gb of ram, 750ti, I5-4460. I have never built a pc before. I don't really care about running things at 4k resolution because I have a 1080p monitor and my internet can only stream up to 1080p video.  Also, 1tb of storage for games is not enough for me.

 

Parts List:

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

I'd advise waiting for GPU prices to come down. Other than that, seems OK.

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Papertowel24 said:

Budget: $2300

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender modeling, games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Control, R6S, MK11, and doing some video editing.

Other details: Upgrading from an Alienware X51 R2 that has 8gb of ram, 750ti, I5-4460. I have never built a pc before. I don't really care about running things at 4k resolution because I have a 1080p monitor and my internet can only stream up to 1080p video.  Also, 1tb of storage for games is not enough for me.

 

Parts List:

Looks good, but a 850 Watt power supply is overkill, though it will mean you wont have to upgrade ever.

[SorryBella]

15 minutes ago, Papertowel24 said:

I have never built a pc before.

Well then you havent heard of the great shortage of GPU. Dont buy GPU now, wait until this all blow over.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($389.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($84.90 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  ($84.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Team T-Force Cardea Zero Z330 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($92.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB Founders Edition Video Card  ($699.99 @ Best Buy)
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  ($94.99 @ Best Buy)
Power Supply: MSI 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1752.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-09-05 20:51 EDT-0400

[Somerandomtechyboi]

34 minutes ago, Papertowel24 said:

Budget: $2300

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender modeling, games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Control, R6S, MK11, and doing some video editing.

Other details: Upgrading from an Alienware X51 R2 that has 8gb of ram, 750ti, I5-4460. I have never built a pc before. I don't really care about running things at 4k resolution because I have a 1080p monitor and my internet can only stream up to 1080p video.  Also, 1tb of storage for games is not enough for me.

 

Parts List:

Semi decent

The parts themselves are decent

But some stuff is really overpriced (psu case ram) and some parts are kinda quesitionable (2tb sata ssd)

 

 

Since its your first time you are most likely not overclocking so you can get away with downgrading the cooler to a less expensive dual tower like the phantom or fuma 2

 

Rams are just horribly overpriced cause corsair + rgb tax, silicon power i think makes some cheap rgb rams, 32gb is around 130$, and you arent losing much performance from 3200mhz ram btw

 

Board is prob overkill so go for a b550m pro vdh wifi or ds3h ac (cheaper wifi boards)

 

Ditch both ssds and swap them for a mushkin pilot e 2tb nvme ssd

 

Swap the case for a p400a to save abit more money, i also suggest adding an extra fsk fans for exhaust

 

Swap for a cheaper psu such as 850w revolution df or 750w capstone

[Downkey]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($389.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Scythe FUMA 2 51.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Silicon Power 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($94.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB Founders Edition Video Card  ($699.99 @ Best Buy)
Case: Metallic Gear Neo Air ATX ATX Mid Tower Case  ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Enermax Revolution D.F. 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1659.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-09-05 21:24 EDT-0400

[Papertowel24]

26 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Ditch both ssds and swap them for a mushkin pilot e 2tb nvme ssd

I kind of don't want to use only 1 drive for my stuff because the last time I did that on my current pc, the drive failed and everything was gone (luckily it was backed up but still...). I want one to keep a game library, and one to keep the windows system, video files and blender files one.

 

47 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

Well then you havent heard of the great shortage of GPU. Dont buy GPU now, wait until this all blow over.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($389.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($84.90 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  ($84.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Team T-Force Cardea Zero Z330 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($92.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB Founders Edition Video Card  ($699.99 @ Best Buy)
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  ($94.99 @ Best Buy)
Power Supply: MSI 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1752.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-09-05 20:51 EDT-0400

I don't think I can really wait for the gpu prices to come back down. I'm in a situation where some of my games don't run as smooth as they used to and my current pc is also having trouble keeping up with editing software, high poly models in blender (although, that might just be a blender problem and not my pc), and in general, my system keeps freezing up at times and I have to force restart for anything to work again.

[SorryBella]

2 minutes ago, Papertowel24 said:

I don't think I can really wait for the gpu prices to come back down. I'm in a situation where some of my games don't run as smooth as they used to and my current pc is also having trouble keeping up with editing software, high poly models in blender (although, that might just be a blender problem and not my pc), and in general, my system keeps freezing up at times and I have to force restart for anything to work again.

Oof. At around 1300$ all you can find on ebay scalpers are 3070 and 3070Ti. I would highly recommend you to still keep going to find MSRP gpu drops on best buy and microcenter, but if its urgent you really dont have much of a choice.

[Papertowel24]

12 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

Oof. At around 1300$ all you can find on ebay scalpers are 3070 and 3070Ti. I would highly recommend you to still keep going to find MSRP gpu drops on best buy and microcenter, but if its urgent you really dont have much of a choice.

Tbh, if saving even $200 on a gpu at microcenter is the only possibility right now, I'll take the 8 hour drive to one just to save that kind of money.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

32 minutes ago, Papertowel24 said:

I kind of don't want to use only 1 drive for my stuff because the last time I did that on my current pc, the drive failed and everything was gone (luckily it was backed up but still...). I want one to keep a game library, and one to keep the windows system, video files and blender files one.

Then just buy 2 1tb pilot e ssds instead of 1 2tb ssd

Simple solution

[SorryBella]

3 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Then just buy 2 1tb pilot e ssds instead of 1 2tb ssd

Simple solution

Not pcie efficient, and youre only saving 5$.

[Papertowel24]

10 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Then just buy 2 1tb pilot e ssds instead of 1 2tb ssd

Simple solution

I'm thinking about instead just going with a 1tb m.2 and a 7200rpm hard drive with at least 2tb to store a game library since as I originally said, 1tb of space for gaming is just not working for me at the moment.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

10 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

Not pcie efficient, and youre only saving 5$.

Op wants 2 ssds

48 minutes ago, Papertowel24 said:

I kind of don't want to use only 1 drive for my stuff

^^^

 

And sata ssds are not that much cheaper than an nvme ssd