My first custom build

[Witherflux]

Budget (including currency): 2,500 usd

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: gaming and streaming 

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): right now for parts I have a gigabyte z590G motherboard, power supply and a asus tuff 3070ti. Im mainly looking at what cpu I should get or any potential upgrades I should do with the build. I'm looking for a mix of high quality and high fps.

Also any recommendations for any good monitors would be fantastic I will have a pcpartpickers list for you guys to look at

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2Y7rnt

[jaslion]

Did you buy that board? If so return it. The i5 12600k smashes the 11900k in every way and a 12600k + baord is the price of a 11900k.

 

 

[SpookyCitrus]

With 13th Gen being out now I'd recommend going that route instead of 11th Gen, hell even 12th Gen. No point in spending a budget like that on two generation old hardware. 

[NF-A12x25]

32 minutes ago, Witherflux said:

Budget (including currency): 2,500 usd

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: gaming and streaming 

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): right now for parts I have a gigabyte z590G motherboard, power supply and a asus tuff 3070ti. Im mainly looking at what cpu I should get or any potential upgrades I should do with the build. I'm looking for a mix of high quality and high fps.

Also any recommendations for any good monitors would be fantastic I will have a pcpartpickers list for you guys to look at

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2Y7rnt

return that board and get a 13th gen build, 11th gen is hot garbage

[Witherflux]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Did you buy that board? If so return it. The i5 12600k smashes the 11900k in every way and a 12600k + baord is the price of a 11900k.

 

 

Yes I bought the board cause I for myself I dont wanna spend the money on new gen stuff. Especially since the gigabyte z690 is double of what i paid for the current board i have now. Personally I don't believe it's necessary for what I do. I mainly just play overwatch and elden ring. I just need a good cpu for the board I have now that won't bottle neck my 3070ti 

[NF-A12x25]

2 hours ago, Witherflux said:

3 hours ago, jaslion said:

 

Yes I bought the board cause I for myself I dont wanna spend the money on new gen stuff.

That’s dumb, the new budget stuff (b660 plus a 12400f or even an i3-13100f for example) blows the old stuff out of the water and is very cheap. Return it if you can and get a cheap b660 board like the Bazooka from MSI, and a 12100 or 12400.

[Witherflux]

2 hours ago, NF-A12x25 said:

That’s dumb, the new budget stuff (b660 plus a 12400f or even an i3-13100f for example) blows the old stuff out of the water and is very cheap. Return it if you can and get a cheap b660 board like the Bazooka from MSI, and a 12100 or 12400.

Well for one thing I'm never getting msi products cause I've black listed their company and why would I cheap out on my gear and get an i3 that's just dumb. Of I would get new gen shit I would just get top of the line stuff but I way to expensive. With all these deals right now on Amazon and cyber Monday coming up I'm better off getting 11th gen stuff. Maybe in like 2 years I'll upgrade to 13th gen stuff but right now. The motherboard that would match my build and the cpu together would be half my budget

[NF-A12x25]

29 minutes ago, Witherflux said:

Well for one thing I'm never getting msi products cause I've black listed their company

Blacklisting companies is an interesting way to go about things, they make good motherboards but whatever

 

29 minutes ago, Witherflux said:

why would I cheap out on my gear and get an i3 that's just dumb

because the i3-12100f is an amazing gaming CPU? lmfao scoffing at an i3 just because it’s an i3 shows a lack of knowledge of PCs

 

29 minutes ago, Witherflux said:

With all these deals right now on Amazon and cyber Monday coming up I'm better off getting 11th gen stuff.

No you’re not, not at all. 11th gen is garbage whatever way you look at it.

 

29 minutes ago, Witherflux said:

The motherboard that would match my build and the cpu together would be half my budget

no it wouldn’t, no reason to spend more than $180 or so on a mobo unless you want to overclock (and I don’t think you’re really in a position to be overclocking, plus overclocking is useless on current-gen CPUs except for fun as they boost near their max frequencies.)

[Witherflux]

7 minutes ago, NF-A12x25 said:

Blacklisting companies is an interesting way to go about things, they make good motherboards but whatever

 

because the i3-12100f is an amazing gaming CPU? lmfao scoffing at an i3 just because it’s an i3 shows a lack of knowledge of PCs

 

No you’re not, not at all. 11th gen is garbage whatever way you look at it.

 

no it wouldn’t, no reason to spend more than $180 or so on a mobo unless you want to overclock (and I don’t think you’re really in a position to be overclocking, plus overclocking is useless on current-gen CPUs except for fun as they boost near their max frequencies.)

The fact you and a bunch of other people are soo new gen crazy when the thing came out 15 days ago. Shows that you only go with what tech influencers say is good. Yet I've seen plenty of great builds with 11th gen gear. Just cause it's not the new shiny thing on the block does not me it's not good.

[NF-A12x25]

Just now, Witherflux said:

The fact you and a bunch of other people are soo new gen crazy when the thing came out 15 days ago. Shows that you only go with what tech influencers say is good. Yet I've seen plenty of great builds with 11th gen gear. Just cause it's not the new shiny thing on the block does not me it's not good.

No, I go with what is the best bang for the buck. 11th gen ran hot and didn’t perform very well. 12th gen was a great advancement, and I bought in when it was released. (12700KF) I will upgrade when my CPU no longer performs well enough in current games.

 

It’s just dumb to plan a whole new build on old hardware, especially when that old hardware wasn’t even good when it was released.

[Witherflux]

2 minutes ago, NF-A12x25 said:

No, I go with what is the best bang for the buck. 11th gen ran hot and didn’t perform very well. 12th gen was a great advancement, and I bought in when it was released. (12700KF) I will upgrade when my CPU no longer performs well enough in current games.

 

It’s just dumb to plan a whole new build on old hardware, especially when that old hardware wasn’t even good when it was released.

Then I will go with 10th stuff but im not over spending for a i9 13th cpu. Cause for me personally i want their flagship and I've look on Amazon and bestbuy and just the cpu and motherboard I would want is around 1100usd

 

[NF-A12x25]

4 minutes ago, Witherflux said:

Then I will go with 10th stuff but im not over spending for a i9 13th cpu. Cause for me personally i want their flagship and I've look on Amazon and bestbuy and just the cpu and motherboard I would want is around 1100usd

buying flagship for gaming is dumb, the 13600K is just as good for gaming as is the 13900K, the only people who need those extra cores are content creators, video editors, data crunchers, etc.

 

If you REALLY want to keep your board, an 11900K would obviously be best, but an i3 12th gen will equal it in most games except at extremely high frame rates (say 1080p low settings with a really good GPU), and a 13th gen i5 will beat it.

[Witherflux]

1 minute ago, NF-A12x25 said:

buying flagship for gaming is dumb, the 13600K is just as good for gaming as is the 13900K, the only people who need those extra cores are content creators, video editors, data crunchers, etc.

 

If you REALLY want to keep your board, an 11900K would obviously be best, but an i3 12th gen will equal it in most games except at extremely high frame rates, and a 13th gen i5 will beat it.

I'm sorry if I came off aggressive my big thing is just with price of everything right now. Since I can't really find a good motherboard that would look good in my build. I'm going with a nier automata build and color scheme and I can't find a board that would match that color scheme under 200$. That's why I went with a older gen motherboard. Specifically gigabyte. I mean hell all the fans in my pc is going to cost me 300$ alone since I'm getting 12 fans for a push pull system on my radiator 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 hour ago, NF-A12x25 said:

Blacklisting companies is an interesting way to go about things, they make good motherboards but whatever

Actually old msi is pretty trash, bclk era and older their boards were meh, meager fsb capabilities or just meh vrms or something like that. Even had an h55m-e33 just die on me while ocing and only a terrible board dies on a light 4ghz oc

 

But after the bclk/fsb era theyre boards have gotten pretty good, z97 and onwards just like asrock which also used to have trash boards but that was coupled with trash bioses, also started getting good z97 and onwards

[Witherflux]

22 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Actually old msi is pretty trash, bclk era and older their boards were meh, meager fsb capabilities or just meh vrms or something like that. Even had an h55m-e33 just die on me while ocing and only a terrible board dies on a light 4ghz oc

 

But after the bclk/fsb era theyre boards have gotten pretty good, z97 and onwards just like asrock which also used to have trash boards but that was coupled with trash bioses, also started getting good z97 and onwards

My main thing with msi right now is their on going problems with their aio and how poorly they are handling the situation. They sent out broken aios and now everyone is returning them and it's not even just in the us it's in the entire world. They offer advance rma to people only in Canada and the US which I feel is pretty shitty seeing their HQ is located in Taiwan. Not only that but I've had msi products in a previous build I did and they were just kind of lack luster in performance 

[Needfuldoer]

If you're not going to switch platforms, I think you'd be better off with an i7 11700k instead of that i9. They have the same number of cores and almost the same stock clock speeds, but the i7 is $70 cheaper right now. The i9 might theoretically overclock slightly better, but I don't think it's worth the extra cost.

 

As for the other parts, they're all fine. You're spending a lot more on aesthetics than I would (my PC is just a black box that sits under my desk), but taste is subjective and there's nothing wrong with that. If you didn't already have the motherboard, and you're buying everything new anyway, I'd recommend going current-gen because the parts aren't that much more expensive and you'd get a lot more performance for your money. (11th gen to 12th was a big step up, finally.)

 

Your 3070ti is going to be plenty of GPU for several years to come.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/f6CLKp

 

I also flagged the parts you already have as "purchased" in the list so they don't add to the total.

[jaslion]

14 hours ago, Witherflux said:

Yes I bought the board cause I for myself I dont wanna spend the money on new gen stuff. Especially since the gigabyte z690 is double of what i paid for the current board i have now. Personally I don't believe it's necessary for what I do. I mainly just play overwatch and elden ring. I just need a good cpu for the board I have now that won't bottle neck my 3070ti 

Still a 12600k + b660 board is cheaper than the 11900k and faster. A 12400 + b660 board is even cheaper and just as fast.

 

Id just get that. 11th gen is a bad price and falls behind in every aspect. The i9 is very very poor value a its the i7 but a tiny bit faster for A LOT more

[Witherflux]

5 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

If you're not going to switch platforms, I think you'd be better off with an i7 11700k instead of that i9. They have the same number of cores and almost the same stock clock speeds, but the i7 is $70 cheaper right now. The i9 might theoretically overclock slightly better, but I don't think it's worth the extra cost.

 

As for the other parts, they're all fine. You're spending a lot more on aesthetics than I would (my PC is just a black box that sits under my desk), but taste is subjective and there's nothing wrong with that. If you didn't already have the motherboard, and you're buying everything new anyway, I'd recommend going current-gen because the parts aren't that much more expensive and you'd get a lot more performance for your money. (11th gen to 12th was a big step up, finally.)

 

Your 3070ti is going to be plenty of GPU for several years to come.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/f6CLKp

 

I also flagged the parts you already have as "purchased" in the list so they don't add to the total.

Thank you this is all I was really looking for. Someone to give me a good recommendation for a cpu for the platform I have. I have had the motherboard for awhile just never got around to buying a cpu for it cause I didn't know which one to go with. That's why I came here. But everyone is just new gen crazy. When it's just not realistic for what I want. I only game and it's very light gaming at that 

[Witherflux]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Still a 12600k + b660 board is cheaper than the 11900k and faster. A 12400 + b660 board is even cheaper and just as fast.

 

Id just get that. 11th gen is a bad price and falls behind in every aspect. The i9 is very very poor value a its the i7 but a tiny bit faster for A LOT more

My big thing was I'm going for a white and black build and I can't really find a nice looking motherboard that would go with my build for less than like 400$ right now and I don't really need all those cores since I'm only doing light gaming