First build! Help!

[Tdoublej100]

So this is going to be my first computer build. I currently game on a ROG laptop and am wanting some more power and display quality. My current set up lacks sufficient number of usb ports for my peripherals and has a pretty poor start up time. Graphics quality isnt too bad but Iwant to be able to max out the quality. I play league of legends and starcraft 2 but when I play other games I enjoy games that are visualy enjoyable to play like subnautica or crysis. My goal of this build was to be able to play on the highest graphics settings on the games I enjoy playing as well as some of the new games coming out. Heres the build ive put together so far.

 

Razer - BlackWidow Chroma V2 Wired Gaming Keyboard

MSI - Optix G27C2 27.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor

Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit

EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Cooler Master - MasterBox Lite 5 ATX Mid Tower Case

Asus - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB ROG STRIX Video Card

Samsung - 860 Evo 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory

Asus - ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard

Cooler Master - MasterLiquid ML240L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor

[FastRDust]

1 minute ago, Tdoublej100 said:

So this is going to be my first computer build. I currently game on a ROG laptop and am wanting some more power and display quality. My current set up lacks sufficient number of usb ports for my peripherals and has a pretty poor start up time. Graphics quality isnt too bad but Iwant to be able to max out the quality. I play league of legends and starcraft 2 but when I play other games I enjoy games that are visualy enjoyable to play like subnautica or crysis. My goal of this build was to be able to play on the highest graphics settings on the games I enjoy playing as well as some of the new games coming out. Heres the build ive put together so far.

 

Razer - BlackWidow Chroma V2 Wired Gaming Keyboard

MSI - Optix G27C2 27.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor

Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit

EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Cooler Master - MasterBox Lite 5 ATX Mid Tower Case

Asus - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB ROG STRIX Video Card

Samsung - 860 Evo 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory

Asus - ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard

Cooler Master - MasterLiquid ML240L RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor

Everything seems fine but there was something Finnicky with Windows 10 OEM... but i don't know what.

[Tdoublej100]

I forgot to mention this build comes in around $2000. Im not against paying more or less but like this price point. 

[Tdoublej100]

1 minute ago, FastRDust said:

Everything seems fine but there was something Finnicky with Windows 10 OEM... but i don't know what.

Would you recommend using a different OS?

[FastRDust]

6 minutes ago, Tdoublej100 said:

Would you recommend using a different OS?

Maybe just not an OEM version, if i remember correctly this is a one time key so reinstalling windows will render it useless.

if you have a normal key then you can use an microsoft account to login and it will be added to your account and can be reused

 

Still i'm not a 100% sure about the OEM part

But i am 100% sure about hte Microsoft account part

[Tdoublej100]

Just now, FastRDust said:

Maybe just not an OEM version, if i remember correctly this is a one time key so reinstalling windows will render it useless.

if you have a normal key then you can use an microsoft account to login and it will be added to your account and can be reused

 

Still i'm not a 100% sure about the OEM part

But i am 100% sure about hte Microsoft account part

Ty!

[LukeSavenije]

not bad, but you can do better. assuming it's america you're talking about? let me know what currency and country so I can take a look myself, becouse some parts have better alternatives or are just too much

[Tdoublej100]

3 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

not bad, but you can do better. assuming it's america you're talking about? let me know what currency and country so I can take a look myself, becouse some parts have better alternatives or are just too much

I am in america yes so the american dollar. I mainly want to optimize the rig using similarly priced items of different brands or something. If a component is bottlenecking the build of course I would like to change that out. 

[LukeSavenije]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor	$264.90 @ OutletPC
CPU Cooler	be quiet! - Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler	$66.49 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard	MSI - X470 GAMING PRO CARBON ATX AM4 Motherboard	$149.99 @ B&H
Memory	G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	$164.89 @ OutletPC
Storage	Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$86.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$58.89 @ OutletPC
Video Card	Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB AORUS Video Card	$729.99 @ Newegg
Case	be quiet! - Pure Base 600 w/Window (Black/Orange) ATX Mid Tower Case	$97.00 @ Amazon
Power Supply	EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$79.99 @ Amazon
Operating System	Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit	$94.89 @ OutletPC
Monitor	MSI - Optix G27C2 27.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor	$252.00 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$2076.02
	Mail-in rebates	-$30.00
	Total	$2046.02
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-31 11:39 EDT-0400

this is something I came up with. you could pay 100 dollars less when you drop the windows 10 licence. you can actually run it just fine without activating (or activate it your own way, but that's not allowed to tell you how on the forum). I have different reasons why I changed some parts

 

1tb ssd is a little much, 500 will probebly fit your needs.

I chose the g2 becouse of the longer warrenty and higher tier in the ltt psu tier list

I swapped out the 2700x for a 2700 becouse you can overclock the difference.

the x470 pro carbon becouse I like it personally

the dark rock 4 becouse I am more of a air cooler fan and it will cool really good.

the pure base 600 becouse you can get a good looking case for that pricepoint

A 1080 ti becouse it performs better. and I kept the monitor there becouse I don't know that much about monitors.

this would be my choise.

[Tdoublej100]

7 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor	$264.90 @ OutletPC
CPU Cooler	be quiet! - Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler	$66.49 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard	MSI - X470 GAMING PRO CARBON ATX AM4 Motherboard	$149.99 @ B&H
Memory	G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	$164.89 @ OutletPC
Storage	Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$86.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$58.89 @ OutletPC
Video Card	Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB AORUS Video Card	$729.99 @ Newegg
Case	be quiet! - Pure Base 600 w/Window (Black/Orange) ATX Mid Tower Case	$97.00 @ Amazon
Power Supply	EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$79.99 @ Amazon
Operating System	Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit	$94.89 @ OutletPC
Monitor	MSI - Optix G27C2 27.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor	$252.00 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$2076.02
	Mail-in rebates	-$30.00
	Total	$2046.02
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-31 11:39 EDT-0400

this is something I came up with. you could pay 100 dollars less when you drop the windows 10 licence. you can actually run it just fine without activating (or activate it your own way, but that's not allowed to tell you how on the forum). I have different reasons why I changed some parts

 

1tb ssd is a little much, 500 will probebly fit your needs.

I chose the g2 becouse of the longer warrenty and higher tier in the ltt psu tier list

I swapped out the 2700x for a 2700 becouse you can overclock the difference.

the x470 pro carbon becouse I like it personally

the dark rock 4 becouse I am more of a air cooler fan and it will cool really good.

the pure base 600 becouse you can get a good looking case for that pricepoint

A 1080 ti becouse it performs better. and I kept the monitor there becouse I don't know that much about monitors.

this would be my choise.

Awesome! Thank you for the recommendation! Im new to overclocking so I have to wonder if planning to overclock to make up the difference and switching to a fan over water cooling is going to cause any problems. In my lack of experience I always thought water cooling was a better option. Im also willing to keep the 2700x since the difference is fairly minimal. The case and power supply are a nice improvement aswell.

[LukeSavenije]

1 minute ago, Tdoublej100 said:

Awesome! Thank you for the recommendation! Im new to overclocking so I have to wonder if planning to overclock to make up the difference and switching to a fan over water cooling is going to cause any problems. In my lack of experience I always thought water cooling was a better option. Im also willing to keep the 2700x since the difference is fairly minimal. The case and power supply are a nice improvement aswell.

somethimes watercooling will make a difference. but I just don't like to add another failure rate in a build if it isn't needed.

[Tdoublej100]

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

somethimes watercooling will make a difference. but I just don't like to add another failure rate in a build if it isn't needed.

I didnt even realise they arent as reliable. Thank you!

[LukeSavenije]

Just now, Tdoublej100 said:

I didnt even realise they arent as reliable. Thank you!

you don't understand me right, they are as reliable as a air cooler. but if there's going to be somehting wrong with it, there's a bigger chance of something going less wrong than with a water cooler. water and electronics don't go that good together

[Tdoublej100]

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

you don't understand me right, they are as reliable as a air cooler. but if there's going to be somehting wrong with it, there's a bigger chance of something going less wrong than with a water cooler. water and electronics don't go that good together

I understand now. That could be very bad.