Planning my 2nd ever pc build

[Luke94]

Budget (including currency): £3,000 - £4,000

Country: England

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: AAA games, rendering, photoshop/lightroom photo editing.

 

So I built my 1st pc about 7 years ago and it's about time I build a new system from scratch.

 

 

At the moment the parts I have chosen are:

 

AMD Ryzen 9500X (CPU)

ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero (MB)

Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4 3600 (RAM)

Gigabyte Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB (GPU)

 

(I already have 500GB M.2 for boot drive)

And 4TB samsung ssd for storage.

 

Is this a good all-round PC for what I want or am I overkill or under kill. need to change anything?

 

Any help is much appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

 

[Ryuikko]

Nothing seems too wrong with it, I'd look at getting a 3080 or similar since Adobe is favored by nvidia for most uses.

As for the cpu and therefore mobo, I'd be waiting for 13th gen and am5 since they're set to come out pretty soon, with iirc the release being (next week?)

[Luke94]

Thank you for you feedback. I can get the 3080 if you recommend that. I can also wait for the next gen that's not a problem.

[Luke94]

Just now, Luke94 said:

Thank you for you feedback. I can get the 3080 if you recommend that. I can also wait for the next gen that's not a problem.

Forgot to ask with 3080 would you recommend 3080ti or not. Also should I stick with the (16GB) or move to the (12GB) GPU?

[Dedayog]

6 minutes ago, Luke94 said:

Forgot to ask with 3080 would you recommend 3080ti or not. Also should I stick with the (16GB) or move to the (12GB) GPU?

May as well get the 3080TI, if you have the $4k.  You're paying for high end components, may as well keep things balanced.

 

Though your motherboard is very expensive, not sure what purpose it serves.

 

I guess we should ask... are you just grabbing what seems expensive and robust or not sure? We could shave this down to $2000 and it would perform almost the same.

[Bianks84]

17 minutes ago, Luke94 said:

AMD Ryzen 9500X (CPU)

Pretty sure you mean 5900X lol

 

Agreed with going with a 3080. Choosing between the 16G or 12G variants will depend on how your programs treat VRAM. Also depends on what resolution you game at, though it will scale with available VRAM no matter what.

I currently run a 3080 12GB and the highest VRAM utilization I've seen so far has been Doom Eternal at MAX settings on 1440p. Utilized about 10GB.

 

I DO NOT have much experience with photo editing, but I can't imagine it can use more than 12Gigs of VRAM. Again, I'm just guessing here.

 

3080 vs. 3080 Ti would depend on pricing near you. IMO I'd rather the 3080 over the Ti if the Ti was more than $50 more.

[Luke94]

12 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

May as well get the 3080TI, if you have the $4k.  You're paying for high end components, may as well keep things balanced.

 

Though your motherboard is very expensive, not sure what purpose it serves.

 

I guess we should ask... are you just grabbing what seems expensive and robust or not sure? We could shave this down to $2000 and it would perform almost the same.

Yeah honestly just went for what I thought was the best. I struggle with price to performance. So you're help could have me money and still get the same performance.

[Luke94]

13 minutes ago, Bianks84 said:

Pretty sure you mean 5900X lol

 

Agreed with going with a 3080. Choosing between the 16G or 12G variants will depend on how your programs treat VRAM. Also depends on what resolution you game at, though it will scale with available VRAM no matter what.

I currently run a 3080 12GB and the highest VRAM utilization I've seen so far has been Doom Eternal at MAX settings on 1440p. Utilized about 10GB.

 

I DO NOT have much experience with photo editing, but I can't imagine it can use more than 12Gigs of VRAM. Again, I'm just guessing here.

 

3080 vs. 3080 Ti would depend on pricing near you. IMO I'd rather the 3080 over the Ti if the Ti was more than $50 more.

Yeah I meant the 5900x aha

 

I have a 4k 144hz monitor so I would like to use that and get the most out of the monitor.

 

And okay I'll look into he GPU some more but definitely the 3080 it is