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First PC Build ($3,500 Budget)

This is my first time ever building a PC, I think I did pretty well choosing out the parts. Let me know if you think I should swap anything out or if this build is ready to go. I'm looking to stick to a white theme so if you have any better options color wise, also let me know 🙂 Also wondering if anyone has a similar build and what your FPS is on warzone with 1440p low settings

Budget: $3,500

Country: United Sates

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly Warzone and other fps games

Build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MFyqBj

 

 

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Warzone gives you a worse experience when you run low settings, literally all the textures look like garbage, crapping down on your experience of both seeing and visuals. There's no point in buying all that to play at low settings either.

Get a cheaper card, that card is horribly overpriced - and if you have such budget to spend, spend it on the QD-OLED. The motherboard is also overkill.

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About what id recommend 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/sKCFKp

The 12700k is surprisingly chea0 right now being only ~30 bucks more than the 12700f, so it's pretty worth it to get it.

Z690 because since you have an unlocked cpu, might as well. Although oc on 12th gen dosent Give you a lot of perfromance at all.

White kit of 32gb ram.

Better ssd for cheaper .

The main money sink is the gpu. That's an outrageously priced gpu since it's over 200 dollars more then a 3080 while netting slight perfromance upgrade. I'd get a 3080 instead.

1000 watt psus usually are overkill for a system. You would be fine with a quality 850 from someone like corsair with the addition of white braided cables. Just multiplied the cost of the fan by 7 since I was too lazy to add them individually.

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You don't need anywhere near that many fans.

I wouldn't get an MSI motherboard. They're not great and they're customer service is trash.

I'd probably go with a DDR4 based motherboard, there aren't really worthwhile gains with DDR5 yet and the price is substantially higher.

 

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6 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I wouldn't get an MSI motherboard. They're not great and they're customer service is trash.

I'd probably go with a DDR4 based motherboard, there aren't really worthwhile gains with DDR5 yet and the price is substantially higher.


...but you'd go with a Gigabyte board, a far worse company in terms of product quality and software (BIOS is cheeks). I wouldn't disagree on the customer service side of the things, but MSI boards are great for the most part. I've gone through various on both LGA 1700 and AM4, no issues at all. Heavy overclocking and then some.

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27 minutes ago, Motifator said:


...but you'd go with a Gigabyte board, a far worse company in terms of product quality and software (BIOS is cheeks). I wouldn't disagree on the customer service side of the things, but MSI boards are great for the most part. I've gone through various on both LGA 1700 and AM4, no issues at all. Heavy overclocking and then some.

I've had far better luck with their products than any of my MSI stuff, as have the people I've suggested Gigabyte/MSI to.

I bought the board because I got it for $100 and it was brand new in the box, and m-ITX boards on the used market are not common.

CPU: Ryzen 9 5900 Cooler: EVGA CLC280 Motherboard: Gigabyte B550i Pro AX RAM: Kingston Hyper X 32GB 3200mhz

Storage: WD 750 SE 500GB, WD 730 SE 1TB GPU: EVGA RTX 3070 Ti PSU: Corsair SF750 Case: Streacom DA2

Monitor: LG 27GL83B Mouse: Razer Basilisk V2 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Speakers: Mackie CR5BT

 

MiniPC - Sold for $100 Profit

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CPU: Intel i3 4160 Cooler: Integrated Motherboard: Integrated

RAM: G.Skill RipJaws 16GB DDR3 Storage: Transcend MSA370 128GB GPU: Intel 4400 Graphics

PSU: Integrated Case: Shuttle XPC Slim

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

Budget Rig 1 - Sold For $750 Profit

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CPU: Intel i5 7600k Cooler: CryOrig H7 Motherboard: MSI Z270 M5

RAM: Crucial LPX 16GB DDR4 Storage: Intel S3510 800GB GPU: Nvidia GTX 980

PSU: Corsair CX650M Case: EVGA DG73

Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

OG Gaming Rig - Gone

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CPU: Intel i5 4690k Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 Motherboard: MSI Z97i AC ITX

RAM: Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR3 Storage: Kingston Fury 240GB GPU: Asus Strix GTX 970

PSU: Thermaltake TR2 Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX

Monitor: Dell P2214H x2 Mouse: Logitech MX Master Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red

 

 

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