Planning a 3000$ (CAD) Workstation/Gaming PC build for Black Friday

[TheWesker]

Budget (including currency): Up to 3000$ (including a new monitor and before taxes/shipping)

Country: Canada

Aim: Gaming PC / Workstation (Latest Triple-A games and VMWare Workstation)

Monitors: dual 24-inch 1080p monitors (60Hz and 75Hz). I want to upgrade one of my monitors to a 240Hz 1080p monitor.

Peripherals: I already have everything else including Windows.

Additional information: I want to buy everything from newegg.ca AND/OR amazon.ca

 

I made a new list that I plan on buying on Black Friday:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/TheWesker/saved/pJqC8d

 

Case: Fractal Design Pop Air ATX Mid Tower Case ($119.99 @ Newegg Canada)

Motherboard: MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 ATX LGA1700 ($229.99 @ Newegg Canada)

GPU: Asus TUF-RX6800XT-O16G-GAMING Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB ($868.86 @ Amazon Canada)

RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 ($129.99 @ Newegg Canada)

Storage: Kingston KC3000 2.048 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($246.99 @ Newegg Canada)

CPU: Intel Core i7-13700K ($579.99 @ Newegg Canada)

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black ($139.95 @ Amazon Canada)

PSU: Corsair RM850 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX ($144.99 @ Newegg Canada)

Monitor: ViewSonic XG2431 23.8" 1920 x 1080 240 Hz ($407.98 @ Amazon Canada)

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Sub-Total: $2868.73

 

Please give me your suggestions to optimize the build. Thanks in advance  

 

[TheWesker]

Can someone review my build please? I know I already made a post for this build last month, but I ended up waiting for Black Friday deals and I also increased my budget this time.

[brob]

The build is fine.

 

USB-C is an added cost part in Pop cases. It's not expensive and with getting, https://www.newegg.ca/fractal-design-fd-a-usbc-001/p/N82E16811994093

 

Could save a bit using an AK620 CPU cooler and DDR4-3200 CL 16 memory. Could also get a less expensive NVMe drive. All quibbles that won't make a great deal of difference.

 

[TheWesker]

What about the monitor? Should I change it? Is 400$ too much for a 1080p 240Hz? Should I go with a 144Hz instead to save money or get a higher resolution? I'm not sure if I'll notice enough of a difference to justify the extra cost of 240Hz.

[brob]

51 minutes ago, TheWesker said:

What about the monitor? Should I change it? Is 400$ too much for a 1080p 240Hz? Should I go with a 144Hz instead to save money or get a higher resolution? I'm not sure if I'll notice enough of a difference to justify the extra cost of 240Hz.

 

The 6800 XT will do a nice job with a 1440 monitor.

[fred82]

Hello all

It seems in Canada there is no interesting deal right now no discounts

You thiink guys that here frieday or monday they will have better deals?

[TheWesker]

10 hours ago, fred82 said:

Hello all

It seems in Canada there is no interesting deal right now no discounts

You thiink guys that here frieday or monday they will have better deals?

I know, but Black Friday hasn't officially started yet. I'm hoping we'll get better deals this Friday because the price of the rx 6800 xt just went back up to 1200$ from 868$ today. If we don't I'll probably end up waiting some more for Boxing Day. Plus, the new AMD 7900 GPUs will be out by then.

[TheWesker]

I replaced a few components (CPU,CPU Cooler, GPU,SSD) and I'm now saving 282$ with this new list.

I think this will be my final PC parts list: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/TheWesker/saved/64Y3wP

 

Case: Fractal Design Pop Air ATX Mid Tower Case ($124.99 @ Newegg Canada)

Motherboard: MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 ATX LGA1700 ($219.99 @ Newegg Canada)

GPU: ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 V2 OC (LHR) ($759.99 @ Newegg Canada)

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 ($109.99 @ Newegg Canada)

Storage: SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280 2TB PCIe Gen 3.0 x4, NVMe (SSD) ($199.99 @ Newegg Canada)

CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF ($529.99 @ Newegg Canada)

CPU Cooler: DeepCool AK620 ($89.99 @ Newegg Canada)

PSU: Corsair RM850 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX ($144.99 @ Newegg Canada)

Monitor: ViewSonic XG2431 23.8" 1920 x 1080 240 Hz ($406.98 @ Amazon Canada)

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Sub-Total: $2586.90