2.6K$ Pc List (for streaming, gaming, and editing)

[Jacob Does]

1 minute ago, Middcore said:

 

is this going inside a cubby in a desk or something? Those are really bad for airflow. I would just set the PC on the floor under the desk before I put it in a hotbox like that. 

 

Wait a minute, the NZXT H510 Elite doesn't even fit this. It's 210mm wide (and also 428mm deep). 

 

 

 

its going on a built in stand on my desk, near the floor but elevated around 6 inches or so. theres plenty of airflow around it. 

 

i used a inch tape measure to get rough measurments, but realized that my conversion or measuring was off by about 20-30mm in each direction. sorry for not mentioning, thats my bad

[Middcore]

Just now, Jacob Does said:

 

its going on a built in stand on my desk, near the floor but elevated around 6 inches or so. theres plenty of airflow around it. 

 

i used a inch tape measure to get rough measurments, but realized that my conversion or measuring was off by about 20-30mm in each direction. sorry for not mentioning, thats my bad

 

Well, 20-30mm in each direction would rule in or out a lot of cases here. What are the correct dimensions? 

[KaitouX]

I recommend you to use something like this as base instead of the one you posted. Just change the case, storage, GPU and/or add more ram if needed.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i7-13700F 2.1 GHz 16-Core Processor  ($349.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.90 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Z790 PG LIGHTNING ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory  ($91.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($97.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Crucial P3 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($189.99 @ Adorama)
Video Card: PNY VERTO GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB Video Card  ($589.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Corsair RM850e (2023) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1754.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-07 14:08 EDT-0400

[Jacob Does]

3 minutes ago, Middcore said:

 

Well, 20-30mm in each direction would rule in or out a lot of cases here. What are the correct dimensions? 

i can't get exact measurements, as every dimensions is larger than my 6 inch machinist ruler. i chose the case using the margin of error i had figured out by refrencing my current case

[Jacob Does]

2 minutes ago, KaitouX said:

I recommend you to use something like this as base instead of the one you posted. Just change the case, storage, GPU and/or add more ram if needed.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i7-13700F 2.1 GHz 16-Core Processor  ($349.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.90 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Z790 PG LIGHTNING ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot Viper Venom 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory  ($91.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($97.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Crucial P3 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($189.99 @ Adorama)
Video Card: PNY VERTO GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB Video Card  ($589.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case  ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Corsair RM850e (2023) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1754.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-07 14:08 EDT-0400

i chose the cpu, memory, and storage for what i needed currently, and as an upgrade from my current system. i wanted something that could last a good while before needing to upgrade (maybe besides the gpu)

thank you for the reccomondation though. i'll look into some of those parts as potential replacement parts in my current build

[Why_Me]

This allows you to stream with either Nvidia NVENC or Intel integrated graphics.

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/broadcasting-guide/

 

The 120mm fan goes inside the back of that case for a rear exhaust fan.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *Intel Core i7-13700 2.1 GHz 16-Core Processor  ($366.99 @ Best Buy) 
CPU Cooler: *Deepcool AG620 67.88 CFM CPU Cooler  ($43.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: *MSI B760 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($159.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: *G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  ($96.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: *Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($119.99 @ Adorama) 
Video Card: *MSI VENTUS 3X OC GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB Video Card  ($599.99 @ B&H) 
Case: *Fractal Design Focus 2 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: *Corsair RM750e (2023) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($99.99 @ Best Buy) 
Case Fan: *ARCTIC P12 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan  ($9.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1577.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-07 14:15 EDT-0400

 

A better look at those components.

 

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B760-GAMING-PLUS-WIFI  

 

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/230490/intel-core-i713700-processor-30m-cache-up-to-5-20-ghz/specifications.html  

 

https://www.deepcool.com/products/Cooling/cpuaircoolers/GAMMAXX-AG620-Dual-Tower-CPU-Cooler-1700-AM5/2022/15900.shtml  

 

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn850x-nvme-ssd#WDS200T2X0E  

 

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-4070-VENTUS-3X-12G-OC  

 

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/psu/cp-9020262-na/rme-series-rm750e-fully-modular-low-noise-atx-power-supply-cp-9020262-na  

 

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/focus/focus-2/black-tg-clear-tint/  

 

  

[Middcore]

3 minutes ago, Jacob Does said:

i can't get exact measurements, as every dimensions is larger than my 6 inch machinist ruler. i chose the case using the margin of error i had figured out by refrencing my current case

 

The case you have is also bigger than your "margin of error" dimension (473mm tall).

[Jacob Does]

1 minute ago, Middcore said:

 

The case you have is also bigger than your "margin of error" dimension (473mm tall).

thats becuase i checked my old case height (173mm) which does fit, just i don't have access to the power button becuase its blocked by a metal bar. 

[Jacob Does]

3 minutes ago, Why_Me said:

This allows you to stream with either Nvidia NVENC or Intel integrated graphics.

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/broadcasting-guide/

 

The 120mm fan goes inside the back of that case for a rear exhaust fan.

 

would having integrated graphics, while using them to stream that is, not put more use on the cpu and cause issues in cpu heavy games while streaming? or am i misunderstand how integrated graphics work

[Why_Me]

Just now, Jacob Does said:

would having integrated graphics, while using them to stream that is, not put more use on the cpu and cause issues in cpu heavy games while streaming? or am i misunderstand how integrated graphics work

It helps lighten the load although a lot of streamers prefer using Nvidia NVENC.  Try them both while checking your frame rates to see which one you prefer. 

[Jacob Does]

1 minute ago, Why_Me said:

It helps lighten the load although a lot of streamers prefer using Nvidia NVENC.  Try them both while checking your frame rates to see which one you prefer. 

alright. i haven't looked in intergrated graphics much at all. i don't have a way to try them out, as my current pc has no intergrated graphics

[Why_Me]

8 minutes ago, Jacob Does said:

alright. i haven't looked in intergrated graphics much at all. i don't have a way to try them out, as my current pc has no intergrated graphics

Check after you purchase the components. And if your gpu ever goes bonkers you can still use your PC while trouble shooting your video card.

[Jacob Does]

1 minute ago, Why_Me said:

Check after you purchase the components. And if your gpu ever going bonkers you can still use your PC while trouble shooting your video card.

i have thought about it. though if my gpu does, i think i can mange to get some parts to test and game on an xbox while waiting to figure stuff out. though i will consider it before i purchase a cpu. haven't bought anything yet

[SorryBella]

8 hours ago, Jacob Does said:

upgrading from: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PbPJMv (5 years old now)

This is still really good. Upgrade, not drop. Format your SSD and use it to cache your HDD, the cost on your current SSD is the license cost for 1PC copy of Primocache. Or you can just not do that and have 3 tier of access time in hot-warm-cold storage, but even hot-cold storage dynamic on SSD-HDD gets tedious to me.

 

NVENC (best 1080p gaming, slightly worse stream quality):

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($268.99 @ B&H) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4 WiFi ax ATX AM4 Motherboard  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($30.00) 
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($49.99 @ B&H) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Video Card: Zotac GAMING Trinity OC GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB Video Card  ($1099.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse G300A (3 Fan) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM850e (2023) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 
Case Fan: Thermalright TL-C12C 66.17 CFM 120 mm Fan  ($6.59 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1700.44
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-07 21:41 EDT-0400

 

x264 (slightly worse 1080p gaming without tweaking your PBO2 settings, best stream quality on paper but can be worse especially in stream consistency on CPU and cache bounded titles like Overwatch and presumably Payday 3 if Overkill continue their CPU bounded optimizations):

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  ($319.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4 WiFi ax ATX AM4 Motherboard  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($30.00) 
Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($49.99 @ B&H) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 
Video Card: Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB Video Card  ($939.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Phanteks Eclipse G300A (3 Fan) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM850e (2023) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 
Case Fan: Thermalright TL-C12C 66.17 CFM 120 mm Fan  ($6.59 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1591.44
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-07 21:42 EDT-0400

[Jacob Does]

5 hours ago, SorryBella said:

This is still really good. Upgrade, not drop. Format your SSD and use it to cache your HDD, the cost on your current SSD is the license cost for 1PC copy of Primocache. Or you can just not do that and have 3 tier of access time in hot-warm-cold storage, but even hot-cold storage dynamic on SSD-HDD gets tedious to me.

 

 

the plan for my old pc is its going to a friend who plays alot of the games i currently play, but has no pc. he's using a first generation xbox one. so, my plan is to reformat my 6tb hard drive (i forgot to add it to the current pc build list) and he'll be getting the 500 gig boot drive and 2TB storage. 

currently i think the list i've put together after all the help from here will be good for the foreseeable future, along with potential storage or GPU upgrades as time goes on. looking over alot of the lists people have reccomended me, the list i've been putting together has improved drastically. (originally i chose an air cooler, but a friend told me i should go for an AIO for a higher end CPU such as the one i chose)

[SorryBella]

1 minute ago, Jacob Does said:

currently i think the list i've put together after all the help from here will be good for the foreseeable future, along with potential storage or GPU upgrades as time goes on. looking over alot of the lists people have reccomended me, the list i've been putting together has improved drastically. (originally i chose an air cooler, but a friend told me i should go for an AIO for a higher end CPU such as the one i chose)

Id love to see it, i kinda missed it from the floods of comments.

[Jacob Does]

1 minute ago, SorryBella said:

Id love to see it, i kinda missed it from the floods of comments.

this is the current PC parts list i put together after the comments here:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/C9hnHG

i was able to find a 4070 cheaper than what was listed there, and the person who offered to get my the gpu bought it already so i'm locked in there. this would be an upgrade alone from my old system, which it wasn't until recently where i couldn't tab out of red dead online or else my pc would almost lock up that 

[Jacob Does]

should also probobly mention, i have been trying to not go with any RBG, as its gonna be out of my sight about 80% of the time. id rather go performance and a black scheme for it so it just, blend in. more so than my current build

[SorryBella]

7 minutes ago, Jacob Does said:

this is the current PC parts list i put together after the comments here:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/C9hnHG

i was able to find a 4070 cheaper than what was listed there, and the person who offered to get my the gpu bought it already so i'm locked in there. this would be an upgrade alone from my old system, which it wasn't until recently where i couldn't tab out of red dead online or else my pc would almost lock up that 

Why the AM4 when you can get LGA1700 or AM5 with DDR5 RAM for the total price you got? I'm fine with the 4070, that's a decently positioned card albeit still very overpriced because of Nvidia MSRP. If its at the 500$ that 7800XT is now, its a no brainer to me at 1080p or if you need Nvidia specific feature personally. Also, D41 rip-off that's more expensive than the actual Jonsbo D41. 0/10.

 

Intel (QSV has a slight advantage to NVENC in quality in H.264, so if you stream on Kick or Twitch i would ditch the GPU streaming for Intel iGPU on OBS):

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i7-13700 2.1 GHz 16-Core Processor  ($366.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte B760 AORUS ELITE AX ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($179.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory  ($109.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($97.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital Black SN850X 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($299.99 @ Adorama) 
Video Card: NVIDIA Founders Edition GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB Video Card  ($599.00) 
Case: Jonsbo D41 Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case  ($91.99 @ Newegg Sellers) 
Power Supply: MSI MPG A850G PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($139.99 @ Amazon) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Home Retail - Download 64-bit  ($129.98 @ Walmart) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 PST 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fans 5-Pack  ($32.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $2083.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-08 03:05 EDT-0400

 

AM5:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($399.00 @ B&H) 
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler  ($34.90 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard  ($179.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  ($96.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($87.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Black SN850X 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($299.99 @ Adorama) 
Video Card: NVIDIA Founders Edition GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB Video Card  ($599.00) 
Case: Jonsbo D41 Mesh ATX Mid Tower Case  ($91.99 @ Newegg Sellers) 
Power Supply: MSI MPG A850G PCIE5 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($139.99 @ Amazon) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Home Retail - Download 64-bit  ($129.98 @ Walmart) 
Case Fan: ARCTIC P12 PST 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fans 5-Pack  ($32.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $2092.81
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-08 03:07 EDT-0400

[Jacob Does]

Just now, SorryBella said:

Why the AM4 when you can get LGA1700 or AM5 with DDR5 RAM for the total price you got? I'm fine with the 4070, that's a decently positioned card albeit still very overpriced because of Nvidia MSRP. If its at the 500$ that 7800XT is now, its a no brainer to me at 1080p or if you need Nvidia specific feature personally. Also, D41 rip-off that's more expensive than the actual Jonsbo D41. 0/10.

 

Intel (QSV has a slight advantage to NVENC in quality in H.264, so if you stream on Kick or Twitch i would ditch the GPU streaming for Intel iGPU on OBS):

 

 

i found that since i wanted to go for higher ram so i can multi task more, the DDR5 ram i was looking at was more expensive that what i would like for the ram. i'm happy with the list i've made, and i think besides the case, which i'm still iffy on. i need the case to fit a specific area

[Why_Me]

44 minutes ago, Jacob Does said:

this is the current PC parts list i put together after the comments here:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/C9hnHG

i was able to find a 4070 cheaper than what was listed there, and the person who offered to get my the gpu bought it already so i'm locked in there. this would be an upgrade alone from my old system, which it wasn't until recently where i couldn't tab out of red dead online or else my pc would almost lock up that 

Don't be offended but that's a horrible build. AM4 with your budget is nuts to say the least. NZXT boards are overpriced junk, $185 AIO for a cpu that gets beat like a rented mule by less expensive cpu's including the i7 12700/12700. btw no idea why someone would need a 1000W psu for that build when a 750W will do just fine. 

 

[SorryBella]

30 minutes ago, Jacob Does said:

i found that since i wanted to go for higher ram so i can multi task more, the DDR5 ram i was looking at was more expensive that what i would like for the ram. i'm happy with the list i've made, and i think besides the case, which i'm still iffy on. i need the case to fit a specific area

64GB is 100$ away, Just go for the same model and with all the savings i did there we can do it at your budget. And for streaming 32GB is already more than enough, you need to rework your workflow if you keep hitting pagefile on it.

[Why_Me]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *Intel Core i7-13700 2.1 GHz 16-Core Processor  ($366.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: *Deepcool AK620 68.99 CFM CPU Cooler  ($64.79 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: *MSI PRO Z790-A WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($219.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: *G.Skill Ripjaws S5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory  ($179.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: *Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($119.99 @ Adorama) 
Storage: *Western Digital Black SN850X 4 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($299.99 @ Adorama) 
Video Card: *MSI VENTUS 3X GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB Video Card  ($799.99 @ B&H) 
Case: *Lian Li LANCOOL 216 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($99.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: *Corsair RM850e (2023) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($129.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $2281.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-09-08 04:01 EDT-0400 

 

A better look at that board and case.

 

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-Z790-A-WIFI  

 

https://lian-li.com/product/lancool-216/     

 

[Jacob Does]

48 minutes ago, Why_Me said:

Don't be offended but that's a horrible build. AM4 with your budget is nuts to say the least. NZXT boards are overpriced junk, $185 AIO for a cpu that gets beat like a rented mule by less expensive cpu's including the i7 12700/12700. btw no idea why someone would need a 1000W psu for that build when a 750W will do just fine. 

i know a lower Wattage PSU would be a better choice, but i'm choosing it more for future proofing. in the case i may need to upgrade to a different cpu, gpu, or motherboard in the future. 

i'll look into a am5 build, and i chose the cooler just becuase i liked the look of it best honestly. 

[Jacob Does]

40 minutes ago, SorryBella said:

64GB is 100$ away, Just go for the same model and with all the savings i did there we can do it at your budget. And for streaming 32GB is already more than enough, you need to rework your workflow if you keep hitting pagefile on it.

i'll look into a build for it. my current build is 32, and even just running two instances of my Browser its hitting 50 percent. granted, i am a tab hog, so i have like 20 tabs open at any time doing research