Advice on new build

[Mehlstaub]

Hi there,

I am planning a new system for my wife, which its main purpose will be gaming and like 5% Photoshop. 

 

I have selected these parts

Seagate BarraCude Compute 4TB HDD

Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250 GB (m.2 SSD for OS)

Patriot Burst 480 GB SATA SSD (faster drive or cache for HDD)

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Boxed

G.Skill Trident Z RGB DIMM KIT 16GB DDR4 3000 RAM

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8GB

MSI X470 Gaming Plus Board

SilverStone Primera PM01-FX white (not interchangeable du to unicorn ;)) 

Corsair RM650x 650 Watt PSU

 

I would to know what your are thinking about my parts selection.

 

Greetings Mehlstaub

 

[karsnoordhuis]

Not bad at all although you might want a better cooler for your processor

[Mehlstaub]

3 minutes ago, karsnoordhuis said:

Not bad at all although you might want a better cooler for your processor

Any recommendations?

[Jurrunio]

Price difference between 2600 and 2600x is quite significant and they differ with the more expensive -X model having XFR and PBO support, which acts like an auto-overclocking tool (but not as good as manual overclocking still). Consider the 2600 if you dont mind manaully tuning it.

 

There should be B450 boards offering the same performance as the X470 Gaming Plus. For example, the MSI B450-A Pro and Tomahawk.

 

Also try fit in a 1070ti or 1080, they give a noticeable performance uplift with small price increase on top of the 1070.

[karsnoordhuis]

Cheap, basic, good enough: cooler master hyper 212 evo. 

[Mehlstaub]

6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Price difference between 2600 and 2600x is quite significant and they differ with the more expensive -X model having XFR and PBO support, which acts like an auto-overclocking tool (but not as good as manual overclocking still). Consider the 2600 if you dont mind manaully tuning it.

 

There should be B450 boards offering the same performance as the X470 Gaming Plus. For example, the MSI B450-A Pro and Tomahawk.

 

Also try fit in a 1070ti or 1080, they give a noticeable performance uplift with small price increase on top of the 1070.

Thanks a lot. Ditched the X470 for the Tomahawk and will try to get a 1070ti 

[jiyeon]

34 minutes ago, karsnoordhuis said:

Cheap, basic, good enough: cooler master hyper 212 evo. 

Not in 2018 when you have the Arctic Freezer 33 eSports One, Cryorig H7, M9i, and Scythe Mugen.

[DocSwag]

Seems pretty solid. The main thing I would change is to save some money and get a 1tb SATA SSD instead of a 250gb 960 evo + 480gb SATA SSD. NVMe drives don't improve boot times or app launch times by any noticeable amount and you're much better off spending the extra cash on a faster, slower SSD.

 

As well, if you're not interested in OCing you might want to look into an i5 8400 or something instead.