New Gaming Build

[Incredaboy59]

1. Budget & Location

4k or 5k on my budget. Location Southern California USA

 

2. Aim

100% Gaming. I play all sorts of games when I have time

CS:GO, MOBA's, MMORPGS, ARPGS, I like strategy games alot from Total War series and others like it.

 

3. Monitors

Not sure yet my Asus ROG Swift pg279q  pooped on me and sent it in for repairs hopefully since its still under warranty it'll get repaired and I can use the same one if not I'll have to buy another 2k or maybe 4k monitor but only plan on using one.

 

4. Peripherals

Keyboard and mouse too.

 

5. Why are you upgrading?

My 1st build i'll be donating to my younger brother and want to build another since there is new GPU's and CPU's.

[Cereal5]

Just go on pcpartpicker, turn on compatibility filter, and pick the most expensive stuff lol.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor  ($369.89 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H150i PRO 47.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($169.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus - ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($289.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($139.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($139.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 1.0TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($277.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 2TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($347.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($188.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Video Card: Asus - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB ROG Strix Gaming Advanced Video Card  ($1319.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair - Crystal 570X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case  ($170.10 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA T2 1000W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($147.98 @ Newegg Business) 
Keyboard: Logitech - G710 Plus Wired Gaming Keyboard  ($115.00 @ Amazon) 
Mouse: Logitech - G502 Proteus Spectrum Wired Optical Mouse  ($49.97 @ Amazon) 
Total: $3727.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-01 07:43 EDT-0400

 

You can probably spend $1500-2000 and still have a very capable machine, but there's an option for you.

[Starelementpoke]

I misread that and thought this build was going to your younger brother. Still, holy fuck dude you could buy a car.

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cNKTV6
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cNKTV6/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor  ($189.89 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master -     MasterLiquid Lite 240 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: MSI - X470 GAMING PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($124.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($249.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($162.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($78.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: PNY - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB XLR8 Video Card  ($429.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Case: Fractal Design - Define S ATX Mid Tower Case  ($89.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($78.01 @ Newegg) 
Monitor: Lenovo - L24q 23.8" 2560x1440 60Hz Monitor  ($190.96 @ Amazon) 
Total: $1650.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-01 07:48 EDT-0400

[RAM555789]

To be honest for a good GAMING only PC you don't even need to speed 4-5k on only the PC. You could spend the money on other things like keyboards, mouse, and monitors. Right now the best CPU on the market for pure gaming is the i7-8700k, and unfortunately its looking like we won't be getting 10nm (or AMDs 7nm) until sometime in 2019 otherwise I would say wait for Intel, or for AMD to pull out their newest CPUs. As for my current recommendation for a gaming only build here it is:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor  ($369.89 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i PRO 75.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($119.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus - ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($209.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($164.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($164.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($147.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($147.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Asus - GeForce RTX 2080 8GB ROG Strix Gaming OC Video Card  ($869.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair - 750D ATX Full Tower Case  ($149.99 @ B&H) 
Power Supply: Corsair - HX Platinum 750W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($129.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $2534.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-01 07:48 EDT-0400

[hconverse02]

1 minute ago, RAM555789 said:

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Why 2 drives and 2 separate things of ram? More expensive and doesn't make sense.

[Laughingman91]

Most builders will reccomend the i7 8700k processor as there's barely any improvent in more expensive and more core processors.

The 8700k can overclock to 5GHZ which is the peak of speed.
I would personally reccomend 8086k, these are 8700k chips selected on their factory tested overclocking ability.
Then there's the 9900k which is an improvement in technology on the 8086k. These can be overclocked slightly higher than the 8700k.
But in real-world gaming scenarios you are only getting about 5% improvement probably between all of these, if they're overclocked to the same speeds.

 

After the 8700k, you're spreading out into other uses of computers like streaming, video editing, 3D animation rendering, bitcoin mining lol.

So you could spend more money and be able to do more things, but you can just stick with the 8700k for gaming and keep tons of money in ur pocket.

I would also recommend to simply buy a pre-built Origin PC, with open loop watercooling, overclocked to be stable by pro builders.

That's where you can spend that sorta money and get a "best build".

[RAM555789]

3 minutes ago, hconverse02 said:

Why 2 drives and 2 separate things of ram? More expensive and doesn't make sense.

Populate RAM slots, and I was thinking that maybe he could run like RAID 0 on the SSDs, but you could go for higher capacity drives.

[hconverse02]

4 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

Populate RAM slots, and I was thinking that maybe he could run like RAID 0 on the SSDs, but you could go for higher capacity drives.

Just buy 4x8 kit, because that costs $50 less.  raid 0 on 2 the m.2 drives just means more possibility for failure or incompatibility.  Just use 1 high capacity drive and a much larger hdd.