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My first time building and picking parts

Budget (including currency):£3000

Country:Uk 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming,Blender (modelling and animation as hobby)

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): 


https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/VLbrMb

Hello this is my first time building a pc and Any feedback or adjustments would be greatly appreciated

 

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15 minutes ago, Godzilla08 said:

Budget (including currency):£3000

Country:Uk 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming,Blender (modelling and animation as hobby)

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): 


https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/VLbrMb

Hello this is my first time building a pc and Any feedback or adjustments would be greatly appreciated

 

3090 is a little overkill for 1080p 144Hz so I would maybe bump up to 1440p 144Hz

 

the 750W PSU might become an issue I would advise 850W or 1000. And the RM series does use cheaper Chinese made parts compared to the RMx 

 

the motherboard might no support your CPU out of the box and you may need an older chip to update so I would look for something that will support the 5900x out of the box. It might do depends when it was produce. 

 

you may be better off saving some money and buying a 3080TI or 6950XT the latter having 16GB or VRAM instead of 12 which although modelling for a hobby will probably not need more VRAM is more VRAM.

 

Personally for a higher end build I would recommend a corsair HX1000 which was available on amazon UK for £155 but pricing does seem to have gone up today but keep a look out. 

 

I would also personally advise a higher end X570 board ideally with a diagnostics display (the 7 segment usually in the top right) which can make diagnostics easier and in my opinion are worth the extra money.

 

also save money buy buying a windows OEM key means you can't transfer it if you change motherboard but in my experience the ones on g2a tend to be retails keys and are thus transferrable. 

 

Found PSU at curry's unsure if they will deliver to you though, 

Edited by DigitalDoofus
added curry's link and windows advice

PC:

CPU: Ryzen 9 3900X @ 4.25GHz

RAM: 32GB Patriot Viper Steel 15-15-15-36 @ 3600MHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Master X570 

GPU: Powercolor RX 6800XT Liquid Devil 

SSD: 500GB 970 Evo Plus, 500GB Pioneer NVMe, 480GB BX500 SATA.

PSU: Corsair AX1600i 

Cooling: EKWB Watercooling 

Case: O11 Dynamic XL + EKWB Reflection distro plate 

 

Laptop: Framework Batch 10

I5-1135G7

24GB 2400MHz

500GB PM951

 

 

 

 

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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£356.89 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X53 73.11 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£114.63 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4S ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£137.41 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  (£129.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Black SN750 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£108.65 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£79.90 @ Alza) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card  (£1649.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: Corsair iCUE 4000X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case  (£99.98 @ AWD-IT) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2021) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£88.95 @ AWD-IT) 
Monitor: MSI Optix G27CQ4 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor  (£228.90 @ Alza) 
Total: £2995.29
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Ryzen 5700g @ 4.4ghz all cores | Asrock B550M Steel Legend | 3060 | 2x 16gb Micron E 2666 @ 4200mhz cl16 | 500gb WD SN750 | 12 TB HDD | Deepcool Gammax 400 w/ 2 delta 4000rpm push pull | Antec Neo Eco Zen 500w

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4 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£356.89 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X53 73.11 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£114.63 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4S ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£137.41 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  (£129.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Black SN750 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£108.65 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£79.90 @ Alza) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card  (£1649.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: Corsair iCUE 4000X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case  (£99.98 @ AWD-IT) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2021) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£88.95 @ AWD-IT) 
Monitor: MSI Optix G27CQ4 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor  (£228.90 @ Alza) 
Total: £2995.29
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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again I wouldn't trust an RM750 with a 5900X and a 3090. Especially with the fact the 3090 can current spike.

PC:

CPU: Ryzen 9 3900X @ 4.25GHz

RAM: 32GB Patriot Viper Steel 15-15-15-36 @ 3600MHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Master X570 

GPU: Powercolor RX 6800XT Liquid Devil 

SSD: 500GB 970 Evo Plus, 500GB Pioneer NVMe, 480GB BX500 SATA.

PSU: Corsair AX1600i 

Cooling: EKWB Watercooling 

Case: O11 Dynamic XL + EKWB Reflection distro plate 

 

Laptop: Framework Batch 10

I5-1135G7

24GB 2400MHz

500GB PM951

 

 

 

 

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Pretty unbalanced build, 5900X 3090 but then lots of meh parts (500GB drive !!?) and a really cheap monitor ...

 

I'd suggest this

- Better board with fancy features

- 32 GB RAM 3600CL16

- 2TB NVme

- 1000W PSU 

- Very good 1440p IPS 240Hz monitor

- And then a 3080 allowing to pay all of the above for like 5% performance less ..


Ends up £100 more due to the monitor, but eventually all the gaming goodness is only seen on the screen isn't it ? 🙂

 

PS eventually this build looks pretty close to my rig (main differences is that I have a X570 board and  I use an ultrawide 1440p..), and I can confirm it's real good ! 

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/xsPcxs

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£356.89 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X53 73.11 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£114.63 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£219.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  (£170.57 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Black SN850 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£231.30 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 12GB LHR 12 GB GAMING Z TRIO Video Card  (£969.59 @ Newegg UK) 
Case: Corsair iCUE 4000X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case  (£99.98 @ AWD-IT) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2021) 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£139.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Home OEM 64-bit  (£88.90 @ Alza) 
Monitor: Alienware AW2721D 27.0" 2560x1440 240 Hz Monitor  (£697.03 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £3088.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-05-20 12:22 BST+0100

System : AMD R9 5900X / Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO/ 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance 3600CL18 ASUS TUF Gaming AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX OC Edition GPU/ Phanteks P600S case /  Eisbaer 280mm AIO (with 2xArctic P14 fans) / 2TB Crucial T500  NVme + 2TB WD SN850 NVme + 4TB Toshiba X300 HDD drives/ Corsair RM850x PSU/  Alienware AW3420DW 34" 120Hz 3440x1440p monitor / Logitech G915TKL keyboard (wireless) / Logitech G PRO X Superlight mouse / Audeze Maxwell headphones

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1 hour ago, PDifolco said:

Pretty unbalanced build, 5900X 3090 but then lots of meh parts (500GB drive !!?) and a really cheap monitor ...

 

I'd suggest this

- Better board with fancy features

- 32 GB RAM 3600CL16

- 2TB NVme

- 1000W PSU 

- Very good 1440p IPS 240Hz monitor

- And then a 3080 allowing to pay all of the above for like 5% performance less ..


Ends up £100 more due to the monitor, but eventually all the gaming goodness is only seen on the screen isn't it ? 🙂

 

PS eventually this build looks pretty close to my rig (main differences is that I have a X570 board and  I use an ultrawide 1440p..), and I can confirm it's real good ! 

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/xsPcxs

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  (£356.89 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X53 73.11 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£114.63 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£219.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  (£170.57 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital Black SN850 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£231.30 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 12GB LHR 12 GB GAMING Z TRIO Video Card  (£969.59 @ Newegg UK) 
Case: Corsair iCUE 4000X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case  (£99.98 @ AWD-IT) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2021) 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£139.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Home OEM 64-bit  (£88.90 @ Alza) 
Monitor: Alienware AW2721D 27.0" 2560x1440 240 Hz Monitor  (£697.03 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £3088.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-05-20 12:22 BST+0100

First thank you for the adjustments to it. I was getting a bit confused and spent a while switching out parts until I decided to put some posts out and get some help from others about areas to improve 


The fact it’s a bit over £3000 is fine and if there’s anything else that may add to the budget but will help then feel free to let me know since I have some extra cash to add if needed 

 

 

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51 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

32 GB RAM 3600CL16

Overclocked 3000/3200 ballistix does 4000 cl16 ~1.5v, 4600+ cl18 ~1.6v if you tune em right and just get lucky with binning along with good board and cooling

 

3600 cl16 ballistix bin is good but i dont think youll notice much diff in overclocking unless you are trying 5000+ or something which is just not worth the effort, but is fun if you happen to be an oc nut like me, imo with the prices of 3600 cl16 being so stupidly high you might aswell grab some b die bin (3200 c14, 3600 16-16-16, 4000 cl18+) and overclock the balls off that, they will beat ballistix due to timings being better and also scale well with volt, although for 32gb theyll be dual rank which is pretty hard to run at high speed if you dont have a really good ram oc board

 

 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/T8wpKp

Rather barebones but futureproof build, most of the parts can be used for the next few build iterations so only need to swap cpu + board + ram for next platform upgrade and gpu if you wanna upgrade that too

 

If you wanna make your build more flashy you can get liquid freezer 360 argb which are pretty much the top performing aios at this point in time and rgb rams wise theres a 3000 cl16 rgb pro kit at 100£, just set 3200 in bios and that should work w/o tweaks, but you may need to slightly increase volt if its unstable like 1.37-1.4v

 

Btw theres also 4000 cl18 team extreem argb if you are interested in ram oc with side bonus of more bling, though pretty much worthless if you plan on not using a fan and running below 1.6v

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12 minutes ago, Godzilla08 said:

First thank you for the adjustments to it. I was getting a bit confused and spent a while switching out parts until I decided to put some posts out and get some help from others about areas to improve 


The fact it’s a bit over £3000 is fine and if there’s anything else that may add to the budget but will help then feel free to let me know since I have some extra cash to add if needed 

 

 

Thanks !

After rechecking, the monitor is maybe overkill, it's 240Hz you 'll need 165Hz max, then you could get a less expensive one (under £500), ot with £800 you can get an ultrawide one

System : AMD R9 5900X / Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO/ 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance 3600CL18 ASUS TUF Gaming AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX OC Edition GPU/ Phanteks P600S case /  Eisbaer 280mm AIO (with 2xArctic P14 fans) / 2TB Crucial T500  NVme + 2TB WD SN850 NVme + 4TB Toshiba X300 HDD drives/ Corsair RM850x PSU/  Alienware AW3420DW 34" 120Hz 3440x1440p monitor / Logitech G915TKL keyboard (wireless) / Logitech G PRO X Superlight mouse / Audeze Maxwell headphones

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Revised Setup List for you, I would drop the high end parts down one notch. No need for a 3090 when gaming. 

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/gYcjnt

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£284.95 @ AWD-IT) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler  (£89.94 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£200.42 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory  (£201.97 @ Newegg UK) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£103.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£42.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING LE iCX3 Video Card  (£1406.10 @ Box Limited) 
Case: Corsair iCUE 4000X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case  (£99.98 @ AWD-IT) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£89.99 @ Box Limited) 
Monitor: Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor  (£304.90 @ Alza) 
Total: £2825.22
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-05-20 17:16 BST+0100

 

This build is the same budget but with a much better display, more balanced GPU and CPU. 32GB of good ram and a 1tb SSD

 

Hope this was helpful, I tried to keep the same look of your build.

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Definitely get a better power supply. While 750 watts is technically enough Nvidia 30 series cards have really big power spikes so its better to be safe. You may also want to upgrade in the future so a higher watt power supply would be a great addition. 

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Here is the list I made. I'm not sure if the motherboard is good enough but I feel that the other parts are. You may also want to consider waiting to buy a graphics card because of the release of the RTX 40 series that is coming out hopefully soon. If the rumors are true, the RTX 4070 is better than the 3090 Ti, if you do want to get one, I recommend pre ordering a 40 series card as soon as you can. The PCPartPicker list comes out to be £2218 

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9XJGJM

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  ($387.86 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($159.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($214.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  ($149.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($159.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($67.98 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING LE iCX3 Video Card  ($1299.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Corsair 5000D AIRFLOW ATX Mid Tower Case  ($169.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair HX Platinum 850 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($154.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $2765.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-05-20 14:08 EDT-0400

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1 hour ago, kylemarshmallow said:

Here is the list I made. I'm not sure if the motherboard is good enough but I feel that the other parts are. You may also want to consider waiting to buy a graphics card because of the release of the RTX 40 series that is coming out hopefully soon. If the rumors are true, the RTX 4070 is better than the 3090 Ti, if you do want to get one, I recommend pre ordering a 40 series card as soon as you can. The PCPartPicker list comes out to be £2218 

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/9XJGJM

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  ($387.86 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($159.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($214.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  ($149.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($159.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($67.98 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING LE iCX3 Video Card  ($1299.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Corsair 5000D AIRFLOW ATX Mid Tower Case  ($169.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair HX Platinum 850 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($154.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $2765.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-05-20 14:08 EDT-0400

Why not just use the UK option for pcpartpicker ? Also that list comes to £2691.

 

The MSI X570 Gaming Edge is one of the worst boards you can buy, so that should be avoided at all costs. 

 

The psu is a bit of a luxury. An RMx or similar good quality Gold rated unit is more than enough.

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On 5/20/2022 at 3:22 PM, lee32uk said:

Why not just use the UK option for pcpartpicker ? Also that list comes to £2691.

 

The MSI X570 Gaming Edge is one of the worst boards you can buy, so that should be avoided at all costs. 

 

The psu is a bit of a luxury. An RMx or similar good quality Gold rated unit is more than enough.

Oh thanks for telling me that, I didn't even know there was a UK option for it. I will remember that for next time.

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