High End New Build

xxmalachaixx · March 31, 2022

Budget (including currency): 4000USD/4992.46CAD/3609.28EUR

Country: U.S.A.

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming Rig/I would like to try streaming on this rig

Overwatch/Overwatch 2/Apex/Runescape/OBS(I guess if this will be a streaming/gaming rig)/Elden Ring

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you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Legitimately everything I own is way out of date (Built in 2014). I'm going all in on the build, so my current pc is not relevant. My peripherals will be upgraded at another point (I believe there's a separate forum altogether).

I'm by far someone who understands the hardware standpoint of building a PC, therefor I'm asking for any help here. That said I'm using the Glorious AMD Gaming/Streaming Build template. This seems more then reasonable to me, however my buddy keeps trying to convince me the Intel i7 outclasses this cpu entirely, and that just in general right now isn't a good time to buy a new pc. Per him there is a new generation of graphics cards coming, that makes buying anything on the market at this time irrelevant. I can't understand that, hence why I'm here. My biggest question would be is there anything on here (or the Intel version of this build) that could be upgraded or in fact is better than what is listed? I'm not entirely married to the AMD build, I don't mind going Intel, I'm just going off what I seen on LTT Youtube, where it seems AMD is the leading cpu right now. All in all, I'm looking for something that will last me at around 4-5 years with moderate to good performance, as saving up roughly a grand a year isn't very hard for me, for my next build. Also I feel the need to point out that I would be wanting to play future AAA games as well, not just the 2 I listed in the above section. Therefore I don't want to say: Is this future proof? Just looking for something that would withstand the test of time as of right now, with the current knowledge we have of the market. The last thing I would like to mention is, if possible, if what my friend said is true, is to have this pc ready for the release of OW2. I'm not committed to that, but it would be nice. That should wrap everything up, I appreciate your time and thank you in advance!

Queen Chrysalis · April 1, 2022

Future proofing is by far fools errand and a fool's investment. That being said, this is about as good of a computer as you can buy. None of the game's you;ve listed really need all this hardware, As OW, val, apex and such are relatively low in resource demand. ER is a little higher but it's really just because it's still being fixed. You could definitely spend A LOT less money and still have something great for 5 years. The idea of every setting being cranked to ultra being a must is farse and quite often can't even be distinguished from medium, especially if the game has good art design (most games are made to appeal to many customers, and console players are stuck with the same hardware for 7 years), as is the conception that just stacking CPU cores is gonna give you better game performance.

I also don't see a monitor listed. MOST IMPORTANT COMPONENT. If $4000 is your budget $800 should go to a monitor, $300 should go to mkb/headset, and $300 to $500 should go to a SUPER nice, supportive chair. You could cut that out of your budget for the tower easily and have something that games, pretty much identically for quite some time.

brob · April 1, 2022

Intel currently has the gaming crown, but either will give you excellent performance.

I do have some suggestions for minor improvements.

The Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 AIO. Not as important for the AMD, but can make a real difference with the Intel.

A gen 4, higher performance NVMe drive. Perhaps a KC3000 or Firecuda 530. Other decent drives include 980 Pro, SN850., And MP600 Pro XT.

Consider a higher capacity PSU, especially for the Intel build.

The Intel build could be made less expensive going with DDR4. Otherwise, one could improve performance with a higher speed and/or lower CL memory kit.