first build since 2011

[yogi1978]

Budget (including currency): £6500 

Country: England

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: racing sim, fps games 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): 

this will be a complete new build and my first since 2011. i have since been gaming on console's ps and xbox and i feel some what restricted now. i am looking to get back into pc gaming and sim racing. i am also thinking of streaming some of my gaming sessions.

 

the build i a looking to do: CASE - HYTE Y60 or 1st Player Steampunk SP7

                                          Processor - i9 13900KF

                                          ram - 64bg DDR5  Kingston Fury 5600mhz 2x32

                                          mothetboard - ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI ATX

                                          GPU - PNY GeForce RTX 4080 16GB VERTO

                                          M.2 - ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 BLADE 1TB PCIe Gen4x4 M.2 2280 SSD

                                          HDD - seagate 4TB barracuda

                                          AIO - MSI MPG CORELIQUID K360 CPU AIO Cooler

                                          PSU - Corsair RM1000e 1000W Fully Modular 80 Plus Gold Power Supply

 peripherals: monitor - AOC Gaming G2490VXA 144hz x 3

                     msi gaming mouse and wired keyboard

                                    next level racing f-gt cockpit

                                    moza r16 wheel base

                                    moza fsr formula wheel

                                    moza CRP peddles 

                                    50inch samsung tv for the racing sim rig

 

streaming gear will come later when i have got use to pc gaming once again lol.

 

now i have listed the build do you think there is anything different i should do or change. it all falls into the budget(just).

 

i am looking to purchase this lot in the next month or 2.

 

cheers in advance

[dizmo]

Does 64GB of RAM help you at all? IMO it's kind of overkill.

I'd go for an ultrawide long before I'd go for three separate monitors, especially for what you're doing. Why have to deal with the black bars?

Is the HDD for mass storage? I wouldn't put games on it. Your budget should allow you to have at least 2TB of SSD storage for games.

 

Generally it's best to wait until you're ready to build, before asking for advice. Pricing and availability can change quite significantly even in a small space of time like that.

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Queen Chrysalis]

A lot of this could be done away with without any real hit to performance.  For what you wanna play this would get you there far more cost effectively:

• 13900k is meme-tier overkill.  The i5 already has 14 cores, you'll never use all of them, let alone how ever many cores the 9 has.  And they're the same cores. It'll boost to almost 5GHz with PBO enabled.
• Same goes for 64GB of RAM.  32GB is already way more than enough.  I did DDR5 in this because you seem keen on spending a lot on this, but frankly DDR4 would owrk the same.
• z-series motherboards are kinda pointless now that precision boost will take your CPU to it's max frequency more efficiently and with better temps without overclocking.  You can barely see the graphics on this one when the cooler is installed, but frankly I think it looks cool with the case and GPU.
• For DDR5 RAM 6000MHz is worth it.
• 7900XTX is a better value than the 4080 and it will be better in newer games with how much VRAM it has.
• The corsair RMe series use inferior caps to the regular RM.  This bequiet unit is only 20 pounds more and it's overall a better buy.
• I could not find that case PCPP, but if you really want iit go for it, but you can spend a lot less on the case.  But it's just a taste thing.
• Three screens is probably not where it's at, but if you want it go for it, no big deal.  If it were me, I'd prefer a single ultrawide.  It's quite immersive.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-13500 2.5 GHz 14-Core Processor  (£242.25 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: Alpenföhn Dolomit Premium 54.5 CFM CPU Cooler  (£67.89 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: ASRock B760M PG SONIC WiFi Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  (£166.00 @ MoreCoCo) 
Memory: Kingston Renegade Silver 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL32 Memory  (£157.48 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Kingston KC3000 2.048 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (£157.99 @ MoreCoCo) 
Video Card: PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB Video Card  (£1087.98 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case: Aerocool Aero One Mini Eclipse MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£56.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: be quiet! Pure Power 11 FM 1000 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£158.22 @ Amazon UK) 
Monitor: LG 34WP65C-B 34.0" 3440 x 1440 160 Hz Curved Monitor  (£395.96 @ Laptops Direct) 
Total: £2490.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-02-15 22:24 GMT+0000

 

 

[yogi1978]

hi all, I finally decided on my build. 

 

I went with - corsair 5000D AIRFLOW

                      I7 13700kf

                      gigabyte aero RTX 4070ti 

                      64gb ddr4 corsair vengeance rub pro 3600

                      corsair 2TB MP600 

                      ASUS ROG Strix 850w

                      EVGA CLCx AIO 360mm 

 

I decided to go for a more expensive rig for my sim racing set-up

 

V-RIG multi position sim racing rig

MOZA R16

MOZA FSR steering wheel

MOZA gear shifter H BOX

MOZA Handbreak

ASETEK Invicta peddles

 

I also have 49 inch ultra wide Asus monitor for sim racing

I use a 49 inch QLED tv for normal gaming and 2 x 27inch koorui monitors(one as a hardware monitor and the other as an over head display for the slim rig.