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Budget (including currency): $2500 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Fusion360, blender, some lite video editing, starfield, outerworlds 2, etc.

Other details (, I have a 1440p 144hrz monitor and a razor mouse, I need a keyboard. I’m upgrading from a hp pavilion 15 the 2015 model(witch sucks), I’m planning on buying all of the components over the next 3-6 months,  what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at 1080p 120hrz or 1440p 60-100hrz , etc): 

 

 

As my name implies I’m a noob at pc building, and this will be my first desktop. Is $2500 a realistic price for what I wont? I would like to use the Corsair Carbide series 275R case. 

If anyone could  suggest what motherboard, ram, graphics card, power supply, cpu, etc. that would be great. also I would rather go above budget and future proof the build then cheep out and not be able to upgrade down the road.

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15 minutes ago, PC Building noob said:

Budget (including currency): $2500 USD

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Fusion360, blender, some lite video editing, starfield, outerworlds 2, etc.

Other details (, I have a 1440p 144hrz monitor and a razor mouse, I need a keyboard. I’m upgrading from a hp pavilion 15 the 2015 model(witch sucks), I’m planning on buying all of the components over the next 3-6 months,  what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at 1080p 120hrz or 1440p 60-100hrz , etc): 

 

 

As my name implies I’m a noob at pc building, and this will be my first desktop. Is $2500 a realistic price for what I wont? I would like to use the Corsair Carbide series 275R case. 

If anyone could  suggest what motherboard, ram, graphics card, power supply, cpu, etc. that would be great. also I would rather go above budget and future proof the build then cheep out and not be able to upgrade down the road.

When are you planning to build this? Also personally, I wold avoid that case, unless you use the 275R airflow, all other Corsair “275“ cases have awful airflow and are usually way to much money.

geometry is hard
b550 > x570

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7 minutes ago, Downkey said:

When are you planning to build this? Also personally, I wold avoid that case, unless you use the 275R airflow, all other Corsair “275“ cases have awful airflow and are usually way to much money.

As soon as possible but I don’t have the money and I plan on getting it one  peace at a time, and I mainly picked that case because it was in a top 10 list. What case would you recommend?

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11 minutes ago, PC Building noob said:

As soon as possible but I don’t have the money and I plan on getting it one  peace at a time, and I mainly picked that case because it was in a top 10 list. What case would you recommend?

I used the Corsair iCUE 4000X RGB --- the Ryzen 9 5900X I used idles 29C-39C, so it has plenty of airflow. If you want a bigger version, the 5000X is available. Same thing, just more room and can mount one more fan topside.

 

This is my build, BTW.... Close to your budget -- I did it for around $2650 after returning stuff I didn't need -- $150 of it was for parts that aren't listed (iCUE Core Commander XT and three Corsair LL120s). You can get similar cooling with less expensive fans. Also, some say the 5900X is overkill for gaming, and the 3600X / 3700X / 3800X / 3900X / 5600X are just as good for gaming and cost less too.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/An0maly1976/saved/#view=QMXyWZ

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8 minutes ago, PC Building noob said:

I plan on getting it one  peace at a time

Don't, for a bunch of reasons, but two big ones

  • If something comes DOA, you don't know until your outside the return window and you will have a much harder time diagnosing what's broken.
  • PC prices trend downwards overtime, so you'll either end up with slower parts than you would when you're building all at once or paying a decent amount more than a similarly spec'd system. There have been exceptions to this, but they're rare and overall the trend is still downward. 

Upgrading overtime is a different story, that's fine since you test the parts immediately (avoid the first big reason) and you enjoy it from the day you get it (effectively making the second point moot).

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11 minutes ago, PC Building noob said:

As soon as possible but I don’t have the money and I plan on getting it one  peace at a time, and I mainly picked that case because it was in a top 10 list. What case would you recommend?

Honestly, I’d come back when you have the money and are fully ready too buy everything, because this market is changing so much atm a list I give you now would be fully outdated due to stock and different prices 3 months down the line. 
 

Now If you do want an idea for cases, some good ones would be 

-P360A

-4000D airflow 

-Lian Li Lancool 215

 

Those are just 3 cases too give you a simple idea of what to look out for , good airflow, decent build materials, etc.

geometry is hard
b550 > x570

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10 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Don't, for a bunch of reasons, but two big ones

  • If something comes DOA, you don't know until your outside the return window and you will have a much harder time diagnosing what's broken.
  • PC prices trend downwards overtime, so you'll either end up with slower parts than you would when you're building all at once or a decent amount more than a similarly spec'd system. There have been exceptions to this, but they're rare and overall the trend is still downward. 

THIS. SO MUCH THIS. I wound up ordering a second RAM kit because the first one I ordered was going to cut it too close on the return window. I had ordered everything and then got a strong recommendation for a better motherboard, better case, and more cooling. Hence I went with what's on my list. Glad I did, too. Blew my intended $1500 budget sky-high, but this puppy idles at 29C-39C, usually runs 47-57C and hasn't topped 63C since I built it.

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10 minutes ago, PC Building noob said:

Thanks for all the reply’s I save up and come back in a month or six.

Unless, of course, you have a credit card with an appropriate amount of room on it. 🤣

 

I can hear you now... "AWAY, EVIL ONE! LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION! WE CAN FIND IT OURSELVES!"

 

Seriously, though, that's the only reason I was able to do mine when I did. I might add that prices on some of my parts have dropped since the build. Annoying, but that's the game, I guess.

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YEAH! Damn the torpedoes!

Full speed ahead!
Born to be wild, baby!

 

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