New gaming PC (first self build)

[Estolon]

Budget (including currency): Not strictly existing, but should be 'reasonable' (2500 - 3000€), Euro

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Path of Exile, New World, Minecraft, upcoming Elden Ring, potential other upcoming titles like Assassins Creed.

Other details fresh build, no existing parts

 

Hi,

 

it's time for an upgrade. My current computer is about 6 or 7 years old (GTX 970, i5-4690K) and at its limits for a while now (I'm running newer games on minimum settings to achieve decent enough FPS (~60)).

 

I'm not really experienced with hardware, so this the part list is the result of me watching ltt and reading some things on the internet. This time around I also want to build this computer myself for the first time.

 

Timeframe will be within the next ~2 months.

 

I have been looking at alder lake, but that is a bit out of the reason for now (5000€+ with DDR5 etc.), so I decided to go Ryzen 7 5800X (only about 50€ more than 5600X). For the GPU I'm looking around 3080ish (3090 would be nearing alder lake). On that I don't have a specific one in mind yet (for reasons ...), but something like Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming OC 10G (Rev. 2.0) (in list below) or ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 V2 OC.

 

Parts I'm generally not quite sure about are PSU (partpicker and another calc I checked say that 750 would be enough, but if I decide to overclock a bit, e.g. using XMP profile, I think 850 would be safer?) and whether I want 2x PCI 4.0 M.2 or only 1 and 1x 3.0 (512GB system drive + 1TB extra + maybe some additional 2.5" later on). Also depends on the final motherboard of course.

 

For the case I picked Phanteks Eclipse P500A D-RGB. It looks modest (I don't need intense RGB) and decently build friendly. Are the 3x 140mm front fans + the AIO with 2x 280mm enough for cooling (just now saw that the comments on the NZXT X63 are not all that positive)?

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/74z4RT

 

Thanks for looking at my list and hopefully enlighten me on how good or bad I did :)

 

[krakek]

20 minutes ago, Estolon said:

Budget (including currency): Not strictly existing, but should be 'reasonable' (2500 - 3000€), Euro

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Path of Exile, New World, Minecraft, upcoming Elden Ring, potential other upcoming titles like Assassins Creed.

Other details fresh build, no existing parts

 

Hi,

 

it's time for an upgrade. My current computer is about 6 or 7 years old (GTX 970, i5-4690K) and at its limits for a while now (I'm running newer games on minimum settings to achieve decent enough FPS (~60)).

 

I'm not really experienced with hardware, so this the part list is the result of me watching ltt and reading some things on the internet. This time around I also want to build this computer myself for the first time.

 

Timeframe will be within the next ~2 months.

 

I have been looking at alder lake, but that is a bit out of the reason for now (5000€+ with DDR5 etc.), so I decided to go Ryzen 7 5800X (only about 50€ more than 5600X). For the GPU I'm looking around 3080ish (3090 would be nearing alder lake). On that I don't have a specific one in mind yet (for reasons ...), but something like Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming OC 10G (Rev. 2.0) (in list below) or ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 V2 OC.

 

Parts I'm generally not quite sure about are PSU (partpicker and another calc I checked say that 750 would be enough, but if I decide to overclock a bit, e.g. using XMP profile, I think 850 would be safer?) and whether I want 2x PCI 4.0 M.2 or only 1 and 1x 3.0 (512GB system drive + 1TB extra + maybe some additional 2.5" later on). Also depends on the final motherboard of course.

 

For the case I picked Phanteks Eclipse P500A D-RGB. It looks modest (I don't need intense RGB) and decently build friendly. Are the 3x 140mm front fans + the AIO with 2x 280mm enough for cooling (just now saw that the comments on the NZXT X63 are not all that positive)?

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/74z4RT

 

Thanks for looking at my list and hopefully enlighten me on how good or bad I did

 

Looks ok, though there is probably space to optimise it costs wise.

[iMxmo]

• ADL (DDR4) route would be cheaper, and provide similar if not faster gaming performance.
• Could go cheaper on the PSU. Would be fine on a Rev D.F. 850W. 
• Make the list a few days before purchase, as if we make one now it'll most likely change within 2 months.
• PCPP has a Germany site, why use the US one?
   

[Estolon]

1 hour ago, iCypticx said:

• ADL (DDR4) route would be cheaper, and provide similar if not faster gaming performance.
• Could go cheaper on the PSU. Would be fine on a Rev D.F. 850W. 
• Make the list a few days before purchase, as if we make one now it'll most likely change within 2 months.
• PCPP has a Germany site, why use the US one?
   

Hmm, going ADL with DDR4 would have the benefit of being able to upgrade to DDR5 and probably keeping the CPU (would go i5 12600K). Would it make sense to go with 4000Mhz or 4400Mhz (instead of 3600Mhz) in that case?

Something like this?: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/D3dZgt

(For CPU cooler I'd probably go with Alpenföhn Gletscherwasser 280mm or 360mm, that's not available in the list though. Additionally 3 fans front and 1 back. GPU would stay about the same as does drives.)

 

For the PSU, sure, that is a consideration (though it's not exactly the money sink with this ). Revolution doesn't exist in the picklist.

 

The timeframe was actually meant as 'over the course of 2 month' (I'll be buying the parts when I see a 'good' price).

 

And for the list, well, aside from mainly being for the parts, ... erm, lets say, I did see that 

 

Also, I'm not really sure I want to go with Win11 yet or still Win10 for now.

[iMxmo]

My speculation is by the time DDR5 will become mainstream enough and mature to the point where it'll become a reasonable option for HEDT you'll probably be in the next motherboard generation anyway. 

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Something like this?: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/D3dZgt

Looks fine, will probably change by that 2month time period you mentioned