New PC for Weather Simulations and Gaming

[Kevinjr12]

Budget (including currency):  ~1700 pounds (for parts listed below)

Country: UK

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

1. Weather simulations (no GPU acceleration for the sims to be done)

2. 1440p gaming (want at least 60fps), prefer ability for good ray tracing performance (so Nvidia GPU)

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): 

Starting Idea:

CPU: 13700KF (want at least 16 cores)

CPU Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 (or would Deepcool AK/AG620 be ok for air cooler?)

Motherboard: MSI Mag B760 Tomahawk Wifi (suggestions here would be particularly helpful)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5 5200 CL40 (what's a good speed and CL for DDR5? Is there a reason why DDR4 would be better?)

GPU: RTX 3070

Storage: WD Black SN850 1TB, Teamgroup 2TB (Looking for a fast boot drive, and larger storage that is still M.2 NVME because lots of read writing with the simulations)

Power Supply: Corsair RM 1000x (would 850W be enough?)

 

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

[Gokul_P]

You are overpaying for a gpu that will barely able to handle raytracing at 1440P anyways. 

[Kevinjr12]

1 hour ago, Gokul_P said:

You are overpaying for a gpu that will barely able to handle raytracing at 1440P anyways. 

what would you recommend?

[brob]

If the weather sims are multi-threaded the 7900X may offer better performance if the sim software cannot use efficiency cores.

 

The Deepcool AK620 & AG620 should be fine for running an i7-13700KF with stock settings.

 

[Gokul_P]

4 minutes ago, Kevinjr12 said:

what would you recommend?

what is the prize of that 3070 

[Kevinjr12]

12 minutes ago, brob said:

If the weather sims are multi-threaded the 7900X may offer better performance if the sim software cannot use efficiency cores.

 

The Deepcool AK620 & AG620 should be fine for running an i7-13700KF with stock settings.

 

The sim software can make use of efficiency cores. Thanks for the note about the cooler!

[Kevinjr12]

11 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

what is the prize of that 3070 

530 pounds for 3070. Looks like cheapest 3060ti is 420 pounds. 3070 ti is 600, 3080 is 700.

[Gokul_P]

10 minutes ago, Kevinjr12 said:

530 pounds for 3070. Looks like cheapest 3060ti is 420 pounds. 3070 ti is 600, 3080 is 700.

You could get a 6800Xt for 570 pounds it will be better than 3070Ti 

[Dukesilver27-]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/HDy6zf

CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor  (£398.99 @ Technextday)
CPU Cooler: Deepcool AG620 BK ARGB 67.88 CFM CPU Cooler  (£64.98 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI PRO Z690-A WIFI DDR4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  (£199.97 @ Box Limited)
Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£77.47 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Kingston NV2 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (£50.95 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: ASRock OC Formula Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB Video Card  (£716.39 @ Newegg UK)
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  (£83.99 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£108.08 @ Box Limited)
Total: £1700.82