Need help building my first PC

[DES7OY3R]

Budget (including currency): $2000

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Valorant, CS:GO, GTA, Battlefield, COD, Apex Legends

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 don't know whether or not to get;

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - Ryzen 9 5000 Series Vermeer (Zen 3) 12-Core 3.7 GHz Socket AM4 105W Desktop Processor - 100-100000061WOF

Intel Core i9-11900K - Core i9 11th Gen Rocket Lake 8-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1200 125W Intel UHD Graphics 750 Desktop Processor - BX8070811900K

Intel Core i7-10700KF Desktop Processor 8 Cores up to 5.1 GHz Unlocked Without Processor Graphics LGA1200 (Intel 400 Series chipset) 125W

Motherboard:
ASRock B460M Pro4/ac LGA 1200 Intel B460 SATA 6Gb/s Micro ATX Intel Motherboard (IF I BUY INTEL CPU)

I don't know which GPU to get 
RAM should I get 16GB or 32GB

Please build me a PC around these parts or a completely different build.

 

 

[RONOTHAN##]

I wouldn't consider the 11900k, it's way too expensive for what it is, and it's a pain to cool. Also the B460 board you chose wouldn't allow you to overclock memory, something that does give a very tangible performance improvement. The 10700kf should only be in the running if it's a really good deal on black Friday (~$150). The CPU I would actually go with for this list would be the i5 12600k. It is cheap and outperforms every one of those CPUs in gaming. 

 

For gaming, 16GB of RAM is fine, with 32 being for if you're a Chrome tab hoarder or are just overall careless with your memory usage, or do something in production. 

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/47PHkX

 

There's a full system with that CPU, and you still have $1000 to buy a GPU, so either a 3070 if you go scalped, or a 3080 if you get lucky and find one for MSRP. Either one of those would give you a very killer gaming rig.

[DES7OY3R]

3 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

I wouldn't consider the 11900k, it's way too expensive for what it is, and it's a pain to cool. Also the B460 board you chose wouldn't allow you to overclock memory, something that does give a very tangible performance improvement. The 10700kf should only be in the running if it's a really good deal on black Friday (~$150). The CPU I would actually go with for this list would be the i5 12600k. It is cheap and outperforms every one of those CPUs in gaming. 

 

For gaming, 16GB of RAM is fine, with 32 being for if you're a Chrome tab hoarder or are just overall careless with your memory usage, or do something in production. 

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/47PHkX

 

There's a full system with that CPU, and you still have $1000 to buy a GPU, so either a 3070 if you go scalped, or a 3080 if you get lucky and find one for MSRP. Either one of those would give you a very killer gaming rig.

What about AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - Ryzen 9 5000 Series Vermeer (Zen 3) 12-Core 3.7 GHz Socket AM4 105W Desktop Processor - 100-100000061WOF

[DES7OY3R]

5 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

I wouldn't consider the 11900k, it's way too expensive for what it is, and it's a pain to cool. Also the B460 board you chose wouldn't allow you to overclock memory, something that does give a very tangible performance improvement. The 10700kf should only be in the running if it's a really good deal on black Friday (~$150). The CPU I would actually go with for this list would be the i5 12600k. It is cheap and outperforms every one of those CPUs in gaming. 

 

For gaming, 16GB of RAM is fine, with 32 being for if you're a Chrome tab hoarder or are just overall careless with your memory usage, or do something in production. 

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/47PHkX

 

There's a full system with that CPU, and you still have $1000 to buy a GPU, so either a 3070 if you go scalped, or a 3080 if you get lucky and find one for MSRP. Either one of those would give you a very killer gaming rig.

RTX 3070 Master
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - Ryzen 9 5000 Series Vermeer (Zen 3) 12-Core 3.7 GHz Socket AM4 105W Desktop Processor - 100-100000061WOF

[RONOTHAN##]

4 minutes ago, DES7OY3R said:

What about AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - Ryzen 9 5000 Series Vermeer (Zen 3) 12-Core 3.7 GHz Socket AM4 105W Desktop Processor - 100-100000061WOF

It's a good gaming CPU, I own one, but unless you have a need for all the cores, the 5800X performs very similarly, so you might as well save the ~$200. Also, the 12600k does perform on par with the 5800x in multithread and beats all AMD CPUs in single core (what matters for gaming). If you do animation/virtualization/large code renders/any workload that can use the ton of cores, then yeah get the 5900X, but the 12600k is a better gaming CPU by a significant margin.

[adarw]

3 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

It's a good gaming CPU, I own one, but unless you have a need for all the cores, the 5800X performs very similarly, so you might as well save the ~$200. Also, the 12600k does perform on par with the 5800x in multithread and beats all AMD CPUs in single core (what matters for gaming). If you do animation/virtualization/large code renders/any workload that can use the ton of cores, then yeah get the 5900X, but the 12600k is a better gaming CPU by a significant margin.

keep in mind9 mobos are expensive for 12th gen.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

With availability being what it is on GPUs it's not really a great time to built right now. Hold off if you can is my advice

[RONOTHAN##]

Just now, adarw said:

keep in mind9 mobos are expensive for 12th gen.

Not by that much. Most people spend ~$150 on a motherboard for a system in this price range, and a very solid Z690 board with DDR4 functionality costs $200. 

[DES7OY3R]

16 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Not by that much. Most people spend ~$150 on a motherboard for a system in this price range, and a very solid Z690 board with DDR4 functionality costs $200. 

AMD RYZEN™ 7 5800X Processor
or
AMD RYZEN™ 9 5900X Processor

[RONOTHAN##]

3 minutes ago, DES7OY3R said:

AMD RYZEN™ 7 5800X Processor
or
AMD RYZEN™ 9 5900X Processor

For just gaming and you have a set budget, the 5800X all the way. I'd still argue the 12600k is the better CPU for this build though

[DES7OY3R]

19 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

For just gaming and you have a set budget, the 5800X all the way. I'd still argue the 12600k is the better CPU for this build though

Can you help with a GPU if i were to get either 5800x or 5900x

[RONOTHAN##]

21 minutes ago, DES7OY3R said:

Can you help with a GPU if i were to get either 5800x or 5900x

It depends on what you get with the rest of the system. A 3070 would be a pretty good fit, though you'll probably have to buy a scalped GPU.