First build

[Anon5325]

Budget (including currency): $1500 - $2000 CAD

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Fortnite, Valorant, Warzone 2, Elden Ring

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): I'm planning on playing on a 1440p 144hz monitor. For fps games i'm hopping to get around 144hz for games like Elden Ring under 100fps is fine. My build so far is https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/TqfmPF.

I know I could get way better parts for this price but I really love the aesthetic and i'm willing to lose some performance over it (I increased my budget a bit for it). Do you think i'll achieve the frames I'm looking for at 1440p? Are there any potential issues? Is it future proof? and is there anything i'm straight up paying way too much for? Thanks, I appreciate the help.

 

[OddOod]

Welcome to the forums!

The SSD is wildly overpriced. Go for a sabrent 2TB. Especially since Samsung has had some terrible firmware problems with their 980 drives
I highly recommend avoiding AIOs in favor of decent tower coolers, and even if you are going with an AIO, 470$ is a truly ridiculous price to pay for it. 

[Anon5325]

8 minutes ago, OddOod said:

Welcome to the forums!

The SSD is wildly overpriced. Go for a sabrent 2TB. Especially since Samsung has had some terrible firmware problems with their 980 drives

Thanks for the welcome!
Good to know, I've now changed it to your recommendation, thanks for that.
 

9 minutes ago, OddOod said:

I highly recommend avoiding AIOs in favor of decent tower coolers, and even if you are going with an AIO, 470$ is a truly ridiculous price to pay for it. 

I put in the wrong cooler sorry about that here's the updated list, what do you think? https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/PFPv6D.

Also it says that they're may be compatibility issues and says something about BIOS, ss that something to worry about? I've heard theres a small chance of that happening but i'm not sure.

Thanks again.

[QuantumSingularity]

you will be much happier with this:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 4.7 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($275.95 @ shopRBC) 
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 280 A-RGB 68.9 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($169.99 @ Memory Express) 
Motherboard: ASRock B650M Pro RS Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($153.04 @ Vuugo) 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  ($169.97 @ Newegg Canada) 
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($90.50 @ shopRBC) 
Video Card: ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($898.99 @ PC-Canada) 
Case: NZXT H510 Elite ATX Mid Tower Case 
Power Supply: Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($184.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Case Fan: NZXT AER RGB 2 52.44 CFM 120 mm Fan 
Case Fan: NZXT AER RGB 2 52.44 CFM 120 mm Fan 
Total: $1943.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-08-01 11:00 EDT-0400

 

Going with AM4 and RTX 3070, you are not sacrificing performance - you are cutting it in half.

[Anon5325]

2 minutes ago, QuantumSingularity said:

you will be much happier with this:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 4.7 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($275.95 @ shopRBC) 
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 280 A-RGB 68.9 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($169.99 @ Memory Express) 
Motherboard: ASRock B650M Pro RS Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($153.04 @ Vuugo) 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  ($169.97 @ Newegg Canada) 
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($90.50 @ shopRBC) 
Video Card: ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB Video Card  ($898.99 @ PC-Canada) 
Case: NZXT H510 Elite ATX Mid Tower Case 
Power Supply: Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($184.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Case Fan: NZXT AER RGB 2 52.44 CFM 120 mm Fan 
Case Fan: NZXT AER RGB 2 52.44 CFM 120 mm Fan 
Total: $1943.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-08-01 11:00 EDT-0400

It looks good but I have a couple questions if you don't mind.

Doesn't an mATX board look weird in an ATX case? also isn't the 6950xt for like 4k It feels like overkill, and on top of that it doesn't show the case price but with that added + the 2 case fans it'll be like $200 over my budget.

[Why_Me]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($172.50 @ shopRBC) 
CPU Cooler: *Deepcool AG400 BK ARGB 75.89 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.99 @ Memory Express) 
Motherboard: MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  ($69.97 @ Newegg Canada) 
Storage: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($78.98 @ Amazon Canada) 
Power Supply: *Corsair RM750e (2023) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($134.99 @ PC-Canada) 
Total: $491.43
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-08-01 11:10 EDT-0400

[QuantumSingularity]

6 hours ago, Anon5325 said:

It looks good but I have a couple questions if you don't mind.

Doesn't an mATX board look weird in an ATX case? also isn't the 6950xt for like 4k It feels like overkill, and on top of that it doesn't show the case price but with that added + the 2 case fans it'll be like $200 over my budget.

With the current state of the modern games no GPU is an overkill for 1440p. I have the pre-refresh version the 6900XT and it feels perfect for 1440p because i also use a 165Hz monitors. You can play at 1440p even on GTX 1070, but the frames are gonna be an issue. For the price that thing goes over there with you guys, it's a crime not to get that card. 8GB of VRAM are getting progressively unfitting even for 1080p, let alone 1440p. 

As for the case - it's just an usual mid-tower case. It's not full tower so any motherboard inside looks good. BUT beware - It's one of the cases, if not THE CASE with THE WORST airflow on the market right now. The entire purpose of this case is showoff and no actual performance. Everything you put in there will slowly cook itself, even if it is a simply GTX 1060. Any case with solid front panel is bad for airflow(i also have a case with solid glass front panel), but this one really is on a whole another level of suffocation.