New Gaming and Development Rig

[rezurrection666]

I am looking to build a new system for my both gaming and my professional development work. I would love to hear your feedback on the system I spec'd out below and to hear any recommendations/suggestions. I am hoping to overclock both CPU and GPU, what would could I expect to get out from this? 

 

Budget (including currency): £3,000 - £3,500 (GBP)

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CoD, MS Flight Sim, GTA V, Cyberpunk 2077, Dirt 5

Other details PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i9-11900K 3.5 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£481.99 @ Technextday) 
CPU Cooler: Fractal Design Celsius S36 Blackout 87.6 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£124.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Thermal Compound: Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme 2 g Thermal Paste  (£18.51 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS XIII HERO ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  (£399.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£108.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£119.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£226.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING LE iCX3 Video Card  (£1437.32 @ CCL Computers) 
Case: Fractal Design Torrent ATX Mid Tower Case  (£163.14 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS PX 850 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£157.30 @ More Computers) 
Case Fan: Fractal Design Dynamic X2 GP-14 68.4 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£22.92 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £3260.15
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-09-29 20:56 BST+0100

 

Thanks all in advance :)

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Thats a lot of motherboard, cpu and ssd there......

 

Something more like this would be better, saves a lot

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/FJRcJf

[Jonathan Lee]

There are cheaper drives that perform the similar to 970 evo. Also, I would just stick to 1 2 TB drive for now. If you want to stick with a 1 TB & 2 TB that's fine. Motherboard is overkill for most people so you can save money there.

 

For the intel side, I would go for the 10850K instead with a Z490 board (not Z590 cause top m.2 slot would be disabled). Example:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i9-10900KF 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor  (£399.99 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: Fractal Design Celsius S36 Blackout 87.6 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£124.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z490 AORUS ELITE AC ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  (£201.35 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£108.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Mushkin Pilot-E 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£200.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING LE iCX3 Video Card  (£1449.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Case: Fractal Design Torrent ATX Mid Tower Case  (£163.14 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS PX 850 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£157.30 @ More Computers) 
Total: £2806.74
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-09-29 22:21 BST+0100

 

For AMD side, I would go 5900X with a good B550 board (X570 if you want multiple gen 4 nvme drives). Example:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£480.04 @ Infinite Computing) 
CPU Cooler: Fractal Design Celsius S36 Blackout 87.6 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£124.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£222.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£108.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Mushkin Pilot-E 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£200.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING LE iCX3 Video Card  (£1449.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Case: Fractal Design Torrent ATX Mid Tower Case  (£163.14 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS PX 850 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£157.30 @ More Computers) 
Total: £2908.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-09-29 22:22 BST+0100

 

You can also consider more ram, since it's still under budget. It's not too hard to upgrade later so I wouldn't worry about that too much right now. 32GB will be plenty for most people.

 

Also, most CPU's are pretty heavily tuned to run at their max capacity. There's not too much to be had manually overclocking now. If you want to try it out though, both builds I recommended are overclockable.