First PC build

Theturtlepanda · September 16, 2021

Budget (including currency): around $1,500 USD for the PC

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: It will mostly be for gaming. Games like war thunder, enlisted, red dead redemption 2, skyrim, minecraft, and other similar games.

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): I'm planning on buying the components as they go on sale and try to get on the waiting list for the GPU to avoid the price gouging that's happening. I plan on playing at 1440 and 144Hz.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JLWBMv

Somerandomtechyboi · September 16, 2021

14 minutes ago, Theturtlepanda said:

Budget (including currency): around $1,500 USD for the PC

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: It will mostly be for gaming. Games like war thunder, enlisted, red dead redemption 2, skyrim, minecraft, and other similar games.

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): I'm planning on buying the components as they go on sale and try to get on the waiting list for the GPU to avoid the price gouging that's happening. I plan on playing at 1440 and 144Hz.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JLWBMv

Very weird cpu, cooler, and board choice

Why a k cpu but a whimpy overpriced cooler + a non ocable b560 board?

Btw 11600k is the same price as a 5600x so might aswell go for a 5600x instead and get better efficiency + cheaper board

4400mhz cl19 partriot viper is around 120$ so if you actually bother to tune your rams (no they most likely wont run out of the box at their rated speed) then go for that instead, otherwise just get 3200mhz cl16

980 is a decent drive but its just overpriced asf, go for a kingston a2000 instead, ~95$ and has dram cache unlike the 980

P300a is a good case choice but only comes with 1 fan so i def wouldnt pick it anymore, not at that pricepoint atleast, go for a montech x1 (no need to add extra fans), neo air (exhaust fan needed), or focus g (exhaust fan needed), fan wise if you need to add fans go for arctic p12, great value great performing fans, i think they are on par with the more expensive noctua stuff

Psu is ok but kinda eh value, go for a 700w neoeco gold or 750w capstone (if you can find em)

For the love of god do not pay full price for a garbage os, you can get w10 keys for 20$ from sites like scdkey, even has youtuber promos so you can get a discount, you could go ebay keys but those are completely random keys

Im not sure on peripherals sine im not a peripherals guy

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RONOTHAN## · September 16, 2021

I'm just gonna say, don't buy parts over time. If one part is dead, you won't know until you get all your parts and build the system, and by then you may be out of the return window. Plus, sales on computer parts are very weird, and if you want sales, you're gonna need to be very fluid with your parts list, since it's almost always on last gen hardware. If you're gonna wait for a sale, wait till Black Friday, and make the parts list a week before to adjust for the prices at that time, since prices vary so wildly on PC parts.

Out of the parts you picked, none are bad, and is a decent parts list. There are some things that I would personally change, like the memory to 3600MHz instead, the SSD to a WD SN750, buy a Windows 10 key on eBay or just run it with the watermark, and case to a P400a digital, but there are reasons to go with the ones you did.