Need help deciding-my first build (kinda)

MaFTB · December 13, 2021

Budget (including currency): $1000 usd or less (flexible, especially if there's a bigger upgradability path for the future on a more expensive CPU or GPU for example)

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Currently playing CS and Valorant but I'd like to go to other games, I've been limited heavily by my old hardware.

Other details

What I have:

Seasonic Prime TX-850 (850w titanium)

Gtx980 (good enough until I try going 3070/6800xt/6900xt if I can get lucky, not part of this budget)

2 noctua ippc 120mm 2000rpm

2 noctua ippc 140mm 3000rpm

Razer huntsman analog keyboard and Razer viper ultimate mouse

Asus 1080p 280hz display (planning on sticking to 1080p for a while)

Inland 480gb 2.5ssd

I care 0% about aesthetics and very little about sound. Currently running the 3000 fans at 2000 so it's not a piercing sound.

I'd like for the case to be able to water cool in the future but I'd likely just use the stock cooler or a cheap tower for now.

The story arc:

Went from gaming on a Sandy bridge laptop and added a 450 gts hand me down to it to a full ATX AM3+ rig with a phenom 2, put a FX8350 in it, overclocked to 4.8 stable. GPU was extremely bottlenecked. Overclocked to 4.96 and got a 20% or so FPS gain in Valorant, and now it hangs even at stock clocks. All in the span of 6 months, because someone decided to get me hooked on 1080p 60fps from a laptop's 900p 25fps.

So here I am, doing what I probably should have done in the beginning, and building ground up. Not afraid of older hardware (so like a Ryzen 2000 on a newer board that'll allow upgrading to 5000) if it means more bang for buck now and 2-3 years from now being able to go to a Ryzen 7 or 9 that'll keep up with a midrange in the future. At least, that's the thought process.

Thanks and sorry for the long winded post.

MaFTB · December 13, 2021

Tldr, need mb, CPU, ram, (maybe) cooler, and case under $1000

BiotechBen · December 13, 2021

7 minutes ago, MaFTB said:

Budget (including currency): $1000 usd or less (flexible, especially if there's a bigger upgradability path for the future on a more expensive CPU or GPU for example)

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Currently playing CS and Valorant but I'd like to go to other games, I've been limited heavily by my old hardware.

Other details

What I have:

Seasonic Prime TX-850 (850w titanium)

Gtx980 (good enough until I try going 3070/6800xt/6900xt if I can get lucky, not part of this budget)

2 noctua ippc 120mm 2000rpm

2 noctua ippc 140mm 3000rpm

Razer huntsman analog keyboard and Razer viper ultimate mouse

Asus 1080p 280hz display (planning on sticking to 1080p for a while)

Inland 480gb 2.5ssd

I care 0% about aesthetics and very little about sound. Currently running the 3000 fans at 2000 so it's not a piercing sound.

I'd like for the case to be able to water cool in the future but I'd likely just use the stock cooler or a cheap tower for now.

The story arc:

Went from gaming on a Sandy bridge laptop and added a 450 gts hand me down to it to a full ATX AM3+ rig with a phenom 2, put a FX8350 in it, overclocked to 4.8 stable. GPU was extremely bottlenecked. Overclocked to 4.96 and got a 20% or so FPS gain in Valorant, and now it hangs even at stock clocks. All in the span of 6 months, because someone decided to get me hooked on 1080p 60fps from a laptop's 900p 25fps.

So here I am, doing what I probably should have done in the beginning, and building ground up. Not afraid of older hardware (so like a Ryzen 2000 on a newer board that'll allow upgrading to 5000) if it means more bang for buck now and 2-3 years from now being able to go to a Ryzen 7 or 9 that'll keep up with a midrange in the future. At least, that's the thought process.

Thanks and sorry for the long winded post.

I've got an RX 480 8GB (1060 6GB equivalent) hooked up to an R5 2600X at 3.95 All core PBO boost, 3.65 base on an ASROCK B450 Pro4 and it gets stable 95fps in Forza horizon 4 on ultra and stable 70 at high in Fallout 76. Board supported Ryzen 3000 immediately and if I read their site correctly, will support Ryzen 5000. Absolutely rock solid VRMs on the board, can run 3.95ghz at 1.4v for 3hrs straight video encoding and doesn't break a sweat. All on stock cooler as well. RX 480 is at 1360 core clock and 2106 memory clock with unbeatable stability all around.

VEXICUS · December 17, 2021

There you go...

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor ($404.77 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler ($89.90 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Z690 Pro RS ATX LGA1700 Motherboard ($189.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot Viper Steel 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3733 CL17 Memory ($71.98 @ Amazon)
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case ($110.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $867.62
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-12-17 08:52 EST-0500

Jonathan Lee · December 17, 2021

Some nice parts to hold you until next time you want to upgrade:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor ($404.77 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 280 72.8 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($104.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard ($219.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($129.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact TG Light Tint ATX Mid Tower Case ($137.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $1102.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-12-17 16:57 EST-0500

100 over, some you can ditch the SSD if you don't want it. It is a super fast gen 4 drive that's not too much more than the premium gen 3 ones so I think it's worth grabbing