Help for my first build.

krami · October 29, 2017

Hi,

I’m planning to build a pc for gaming but also for a bit of professional use (photo and video editing) but it will clearly not be its main use and multitasking.

Where? In Belgium (€)

I need a full build with monitors and a keyboard.

For the monitors I was thinking about an ultrawide plus a smaller monitor with the same height.

And for the keyboard any good mechanical keyboard will make it.

What I want is a machine that I can easily be upgrade with the years, which can run all types of actual games. Maybe I will mod it, install a custom water loop and overclocking it (never done before but I really want to).

I don’t have a precise budget but I think a single 1080ti is more than enough for gaming and I don’t need too fancy features just a solid long lasting pc and easily upgradable.

If you understand, I do not know much about pc building but it’s something I’m really exciting about so thanks for helping me and giving some advices and explanations about your parts choices.

One question: it is soon black friday, is it really interesting to wait for this date to order?

PS: Sorry for my bad English.

Anghammarad · October 29, 2017

Hi there...

as for where... I whole heartedly can point to this shop: https://www.alternate.be/ (I use their .de pendant for over 20 years now)

Else depending on the budget you need to chose between AMD Ryzen or Intel.

The new Coffee Lake CPUs are better as the AMD ones in Per Core performance. In Multicore performance the highend Threadripper from AMD is the way to go.

As a personal point of view for an upgrade from my system (see the signature), I would go for a Fatal1ty board again with z370 chipset and a core i5 8600k with at least 16 gb ram (in my case preferably ADATA).

For watercooling and custom loops I'm right now the wrong person to ask =) I can point to Jayz2cents youtube channel. He has some good guides and hints for custom loop watercooling.

heimdali · October 29, 2017

"Upgrading over years" is unlikely to work the way you might expect because newer CPUs require different sockets, which would require you to buy a new board, and since that either won´t be compatible with your RAM, or you´d want faster RAM, you´d be buying new RAM as well.

If you want to do that, you may want a good case, a good PSU and good storage because that is what you´ll keep over the years.

You might consider getting a HP Z400 or the like with an x5690 off ebay and just adding the graphics card, though others would need to say if that would be sufficient for the gaming you´re planning. It could save you lots of hassle and money over time. Some of the Z400 already come with water cooling.