First new computer since 2012

[Inkweaver]

Hello All,

 

So, bit of background. Something they don't tell you when you graduate from college, your choices become the difference between a phone plan and eating, so building my computer in late 2012 made upgrading anything difficult after 2015 when I graduated. I also lost my friend computer guru, so this time I am on my own.

 

I regularly play some of the lower demand games, including Fallout 4, Skyrim, and other low demand games (such as those from blizzard, not including Overwatch).  I mod my games fairly regularly, I have enb on both skyrim and fallout 4. I regularly repair textures and try to increase my visuals will ignoring the sacrifice in FPS, lately with the new location and higher temperatures inside my house I have noticed a drop in my computers performance.

 

Old Computer:

AMD FX-6300 Size Core Processor 3.50 Hz

AMD M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard (got in 2014 when my motherboard crashed)

16 Gbytes of DDR3 Ram,

            2X Ballistix Sport 4GB Single DDR3 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) UDIMM 240-Pin Memory

            2X HyperX 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory

AMD Radeon R9 270X Gaming 2GB GDDR5

WD Blue 1TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch Desktop Hard Drive

No SSD

 

I love this comp, it has gotten me through some very rough patches in my life. I have cleaned it and replaced its heat paste, and been routine about it enough to ensure my friends did it with me on a cleaning day.  With that said, I have put a 50% load into pagefile, max out my GPU into 100% utilization and beat my poor cpu into submission with Fallout 4.

 

So, I gave myself a budget of between 800$ and 1200$. I have raviniously watch all of Linus Tech Tips youtube videos as I am able and have decided that in my nearly one man agency.... I would post what I have in mind for advice as I build my funds.

(As with everything in life, list is subject to changes in stock and unforseen "new upgrade drops")

 

AMD RYZEN 5 2600X 6-Core 3.6 GHz (4.2 GHz Max Boost) Processor

 

GIGABYTE X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING AM4 AMD X470 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

 

x2, CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3000 Memory

 

Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 240 AIO CPU Liquid Cooler, White Led Pump, FEP Tubing, Dual 120mm Air Balance MF, Dual Dissipation Technology (first step into "Liquid cooled", super excited.)

 

SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-76E250B/AM (my first SSD, so excited)

 

CORSAIR SF Series SF450 450W 80 PLUS GOLD Active PFC Haswell Ready SFX SFX12V Micro ATX Full Modular Power Supply

 

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 GV-N1060WF2OC-3GD 3GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Video Card (the best price vs. performance I have been told)

 

(Note, the Processor, Motherboard and Ram are all a combo currently in my regions newegg.  All names are taken directly from my cart with newegg.)

 

Case and other case fans are subject to my particular taste on a particular day.

 

I welcome any feedback, I am relatively new to solo computer building, I refuse to do anything without WAY to much research.  good reliable websites for parts, relative upgrades or downgrades or anything else anyone is interested in I would love to hear. Oh, and I would like to mention, this is a future upgrade anticipating the drop of "Fallout 76", as my computer can barely run a passable Fallout 4, 76 would murder it.

 

With appreciation if you made it this far,

Inkweaver, New user and computer hopefull

[Inkweaver]

Oh, I forgot to mention.  I am a 1080p gamer on a single monitor (as I destroyed my secondary monitor a while back) I would love to jump to two maybe three but I am not sure what that would mean and never considered it building just me.

[LienusLateTips]

Scrap the AIO get a air cooler. The AIO has leaking issues.

[CerberusFlame99]

Personally Ive always been a fan of Corsair AIOs. Ive never had one fail me. Also, I would get a higher wattage Powersupply especially if you plan on overclocking your rig. go with a 600-750W psu. If you have the extra funds, get  a 1070 to future proof your build for a bit longer. But thats only if you can get the extra necessary funds. Other than that, It seems like a decent system.

[ManuKnife]

6 minutes ago, JDE said:

Scrap the AIO get a air cooler. The AIO has leaking issues.

Do you have any evidence to backup this claim? I've never had an AIO or Custom loop leak and it's much more rare for them to than you'd think. So unless I'm missing something about this specific AIO, I encourage Ink to go with the AIO as their first step into liquid cooling.

 

As for the system as a whole, it's well balanced however, I'd advise either getting a bigger SSD or dropping your HDD into the system as 250GB isn't all that huge considering how big modern game are getting.

[CerberusFlame99]

7 minutes ago, ManuKnife said:

Do you have any evidence to backup this claim? I've never had an AIO or Custom loop leak and it's much more rare for them to than you'd think. So unless I'm missing something about this specific AIO, I encourage Ink to go with the AIO as their first step into liquid cooling.

 

I second this. Ive never seen an AIO leak. Also I thought the whole 1TB drive into the new system was a given. I'd also suggest one of THESE for speeding that HDD up a bit now that optane supports secondary drives, but its by no means required

[ManuKnife]

2 minutes ago, CerberusFlame99 said:

 

I second this. Ive never seen an AIO leak. Also I thought the whole 1TB drive into the new system was a given. I'd also suggest one of THESE for speeding that HDD up a bit now that optane supports secondary drives, but its by no means required

Well, personally, I've ditched all of my HDDs (they were too loud). As for optane, Ink is using Ryzen, so they can't use it, correct?

[CerberusFlame99]

2 minutes ago, ManuKnife said:

Well, personally, I've ditched all of my HDDs (they were too loud). As for optane, Ink is using Ryzen, so they can't use it, correct?

I thought they came up with a way but I may be mistaken. Maybe I just misread this article?

[ManuKnife]

2 minutes ago, CerberusFlame99 said:

I thought they came up with a way but I may be mistaken. Maybe I just misread this article?

Interesting, I didn't know about this. It looks possible however it isn't officially supported and may have complications so it's really up to Ink on whether the 'chance' is worth it. Anyway, let's stop hijacking their thread haha

[CerberusFlame99]

2 minutes ago, ManuKnife said:

Interesting, I didn't know about this. It looks possible however it isn't officially supported and may have complications so it's really up to Ink on whether the 'chance' is worth it. Anyway, let's stop hijacking their thread haha

Which is again why I said its by no means necessary. Just a concept he might like

[Inkweaver]

I appreciate the help, i looked into air cooled alternatives with the same price point, it just seemed fun to try the water cooled so I will keep your advice in mind.

 

As for SSD, originally it was intended to contain my OS, maybe two games. I was going to steal the 1 terabyte from the other system just as a workstation drive to work at home with. I am glad it seems like a good build. I will look into seeing if I can increase the size of my SSD.

 

I thiught you shouldn't get a PSU that is to large for the watts in your system?

[Guest]

You don't really need an X470 chipset for the 6 core Ryzen. I would look at a cheaper B350 such as the ASRock Pro 4 etc. You might need a bios update if you are unlucky, but you can also request a boot kit from AMD if need be. Or if cheaper then the R5 1600/X will work out of the box.

 

Why the SFX psu ? Most cases require an ATX psu unless you plan on going with a small form factor case ? in which case you would need a different board.

 

Try and aim for the 6GB GTX 1060 or go with an RX 580 if cheaper.