Thoughts on my first build

[neon_kuri]

Hi guys,

 

I wanted some thoughts on my first build. Since I'm in college, I got a Louqe Ghost S1 and waiting for that to arrive. But I was wondering if my thermals are going to be sufficent. I wanted to keep it aircooled, so I can take it as a carry-on on the plane because I don't trust airports. I'm loading it with the parts below. I was mostly concerned with thermals of the PC, especially with the new founder's edition card coolers. Any thoughts???

 

CPU: Intel I7-8700k

Motherboard: MSI Performance Gaming Intel Coffee Lake B360 LGA 1151 DDR4 Onboard Graphics Mini-ITX Motherboard (B360I Gaming Pro AC)

CPU Cooler: Noctua L-Type NH-L9x65

RAM: GSKILL Tridentz RGB 16GB PC4 25600

Storage: Samsung Evo 960 500GB M.2

               Seagate Barracuda 2TB 2.5"

Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 Founder's Edition

PSU: SilverStone Technology SST-SX650-G 650W SFX Fully Modular 80 Plus Gold PSU 

[mikedrewsmy]

4 minutes ago, neon_kuri said:

Hi guys,

 

I wanted some thoughts on my first build. Since I'm in college, I got a Louqe Ghost S1 and waiting for that to arrive. But I was wondering if my thermals are going to be sufficent. I wanted to keep it aircooled, so I can take it as a carry-on on the plane because I don't trust airports. I'm loading it with the parts below. I was mostly concerned with thermals of the PC, especially with the new founder's edition card coolers. Any thoughts???

 

CPU: Intel I7-8700k

Motherboard: MSI Performance Gaming Intel Coffee Lake B360 LGA 1151 DDR4 Onboard Graphics Mini-ITX Motherboard (B360I Gaming Pro AC)

CPU Cooler: Noctua L-Type NH-L9x65

RAM: GSKILL Tridentz RGB 16GB PC4 25600

Storage: Samsung Evo 960 500GB M.2

               Seagate Barracuda 2TB 2.5"

Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 Founder's Edition

PSU: SilverStone Technology SST-SX650-G 650W SFX Fully Modular 80 Plus Gold PSU 

Don't go for the B360 with that 8700k.

 

Either u go Z370 for the motherboard, or just use a non K cpu with a H370 motherboard.

2080, i would go for a 3rd party rather than founders edition.

For the PSU use a 750w instead of the 650w. 

[Wh0_Am_1]

Welcome to the LTT forums! I would wait until we learn a bit more about the 2080 to consider purchasing, also Intel is about to drop the 9700k, possibly even before the 2080, but assuming all goes well with the 2080... I would recommend grabbing a z370 because the k series is wasted on that board, and the MOSFETs bottleneck even the 8400, I would also recommend getting the NH-D15 from Noctua instead because the CPU is going to run hot, also a slightly better PSU would also probably be worth your money.

[mayonnaiseblackhole]

4 minutes ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

Welcome to the LTT forums! I would wait until we learn a bit more about the 2080 to consider purchasing, also Intel is about to drop the 9700k, possibly even before the 2080, but assuming all goes well with the 2080... I would recommend grabbing a z370 because the k series is wasted on that board, and the MOSFETs bottleneck even the 8400, I would also recommend getting the NH-D15 from Noctua instead because the CPU is going to run hot, also a slightly better PSU would also probably be worth your money.

Yah it is not worth it buying a high end system right now

[ANLIN]

You should take a z370 motherboard and as far as GPU I concerned we still don't have enough information about the rtx so I don't know if it is a good idea

And that PSU is fine as long as you are not overclock it too much and use SLI but I do recommend an 850w PSU if going for SLI

As far as cooling I recommend and much more better cooling the Noctua L-Type NH-L9x65 is a low end cooling solution normally used in i3 and i5 which is not a k series

If you could you can also go for an atx motherboard other than a mini it since atx will provide better overclocking capabilities

[Streetguru]

37 minutes ago, neon_kuri said:

 

What monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

Probably better off with an R5 2600 for the soldered IHS and possibly lower power draw while gaming.

 

Just get a 1070ti/1080/ti mini most likely, the 20 series doesn't even have real benchmarks yet.

[DocSwag]

Either get an 8700 if you don't want to OC or a Z370 board if you do.

 

Assuming it's for gaming, the NVMe SSD is a bit of a waste of money. For that price, you might even be able to buy a 1tb drive like the MX500 or 860 evo

 

Other than that, it looks pretty solid! Though I would wait for reviews of the 2080 before fully committing to it over, say, a 1080 ti

[neon_kuri]

Thanks for the help. I kinda already preordered the 2080 on launch day, so I've already commited to that. @Streetguru My monitor is 240hz, 1080p with G-sync. @DocSwagI've gotten used to having the NVMe SSDs in my laptop for a while and kinda wanna stick with it, plus I got a 2 tb drive as back up. @ANLIN Thank You for the recommendation, I might wanna overclock later if the thermals play into my hand, but as of now I'm not looking at an SLI cause its not possible with the case I got. 

 

@Wh0_Am_1 Do you have any motherboard recommendations in the mini-ITX side. That's what I was afraid of actually. And cooling as well. But I have no knowledge on how the 2080 vapor cooling works. From my computer engineering classes on cooling, theoretically it is a good cooling solution especially with the openess of the Louqe ghost and plus it won't really breath onto my motherboard because it is on the other half of the case. I linked the website to the case below for reference.

 

http://louqe.com/

[Streetguru]

16 minutes ago, neon_kuri said:

I kinda already preordered the 2080 on launch day

RIP

 

Appears to be hardly faster than a 1080, is about equal with a 1080ti
https://videocardz.com/77763/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-3dmark-timespy-result-leaks-out

[ANLIN]

And it's pricey so not worth the money huh

Well the price will drop after some time so it is good to buy it after some time of the release

[DocSwag]

7 hours ago, neon_kuri said:

I've gotten used to having the NVMe SSDs in my laptop for a while and kinda wanna stick with it, plus I got a 2 tb drive as back up.

Ultimately it's your decision but if it's just for OS and apps there really isn't any difference. If you're transferring large files or, say, using the disk as a scratch disk for video editing I could see it being useful.

 

Either way, though, the 960 Evo tends to be a bit expensive. At the very least you could get a similar performing ex920, 970 Evo, sx820, or wd black 3d most likely for cheaper.