Building a gaming Pc

[Bread4Loaf728]

Hello, I was planning on building a gaming pc. Now it's going to be pure gaming. I can spend between 1700-1800 dollars I would like a motherboard with wifi as well just in case I can't get a wired connection. Do you have any suggestions, please either just comment the list or make a pcpartpicker list. Thank you so much. I'm sorry if I'm asking for too much. Thank you again. I also I don't care about rgb really at all, but no ugly cases or milk cartons.

[DailyProcrastinator]

7 minutes ago, Bread4Loaf728 said:

Hello, I was planning on building a gaming pc. Now it's going to be pure gaming. I can spend between 1700-1800 dollars I would like a motherboard with wifi as well just in case I can't get a wired connection. Do you have any suggestions, please either just comment the list or make a pcpartpicker list. Thank you so much. I'm sorry if I'm asking for too much. Thank you again. I also I don't care about rgb really at all, but no ugly cases or milk cartons.

I'm assuming your currency is USD? Also, are you needing peripherals like a keyboard/mouse and a monitor?

[brob]

Do you need a monitor and other peripherals?

[DailyProcrastinator]

This build is great for 1440p gaming, with your budget I kept to a black/white theme, if you need peripherals aesthetics can be sacrificed. The motherboard is a z370 WiFi motherboard.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$358.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Deepcool - CAPTAIN 240EX WHITE 153.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$72.19 @ Newegg
Motherboard	Gigabyte - Z370 AORUS GAMING WIFI (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$129.89 @ OutletPC
Memory	G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$109.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Western Digital - Blue 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive	$83.66 @ OutletPC
Video Card	EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB iCX GAMING Video Card	$784.98 @ Newegg
Case	Fractal Design - Meshify C White TG ATX Mid Tower Case	$86.49 @ Newegg
Power Supply	EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$73.89 @ OutletPC
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1720.08
	Mail-in rebates	-$20.00
	Total	$1700.08
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-06 21:36 EST-0500

 

[LogicWeasel]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($358.99 @ Amazon) 
CPU Cooler: Scythe - Kotetsu 79.0 CFM CPU Cooler  ($35.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus - TUF Z390-PLUS GAMING (WI-FI) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($168.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($124.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($87.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($58.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card  ($789.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Phanteks - Eclipse P300 Tempered Glass (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA NEX 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($75.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $1751.70
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-06 21:36 EST-0500

This was fun to make.  We'll start here (as you can tell making things generic and can swap things in/out as OP gives more specifics). 

If you find the case ugly can always swap that out easily.

[MandoPanda]

Intel:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$358.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$94.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI - Z370-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$99.89 @ OutletPC
Memory	Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	$144.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$82.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$58.89 @ OutletPC
Video Card	Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB Gaming OC 11G Video Card	$704.98 @ Newegg
Case	NZXT - H500 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case	$62.19 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair - RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$94.99 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1717.90
	Mail-in rebates	-$15.00
	Total	$1702.90
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-06 23:10 EST-0500

 

 

 

 

Ryzen:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor	$265.60 @ OutletPC
CPU Cooler	Corsair - H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$99.99 @ Corsair
Motherboard	Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$158.29 @ OutletPC
Memory	Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	$144.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$82.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$58.89 @ OutletPC
Video Card	Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB Gaming OC 11G Video Card	$704.98 @ Newegg
Case	NZXT - H500 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case	$62.19 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair - RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$94.99 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$1672.91
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-06 23:13 EST-0500

 

[MandoPanda]

1 hour ago, JM21 said:

Western Digital - Blue 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive

Should look for a cached drive. Cacheless drives are no good.

[LogicWeasel]

12 hours ago, MandoPanda said:

Should look for a cached drive. Cacheless drives are no good.

 

I'd check that logic if I were you:

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/WD-Blue-3D-SATA-M2-500GB-vs-Samsung-840-Evo-500GB/m325788vsm1519

While I would say that I picked a much faster NVMe drive for my proposed build, that WD Blue 500GB M.2 is not a trash SSD and it's only averaging 1% slower than an 840 Evo of same capacity (which we all full-well know has a cache).

 

The drive does have cache, it's a re-brand of the Sandisk Ultra 3D TLC.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3230382/storage/wd-blue-3d-ssd-review.html

[LogicWeasel]

12 hours ago, MandoPanda said:

Intel:

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor	$358.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$94.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI - Z370-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	$99.89 @ OutletPC

 

Ryzen:

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor	$265.60 @ OutletPC
CPU Cooler	Corsair - H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler	$99.99 @ Corsair
Motherboard	Asus - Prime X470-Pro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$158.29 @ OutletPC

 

The motherboards you picked don't even have built-in WiFi.  OP asked specifically for that feature. 

(Didn't even throw in an adapter card to compensate?)

[MandoPanda]

6 hours ago, LogicWeasel said:

 

I'd check that logic if I were you:

Check out my signature. Our Lord and Savior can't even recommend a cacheless or "d-ramless" drive. I understand that your drive appears to have a cache, I just can't find any info on it.

 

6 hours ago, LogicWeasel said:

a much faster NVMe drive

nvme speed difference from sata is negligible in day to day tasks. A serious benefit from nvme comes from large sustained file transfers and other productivity work.

[LogicWeasel]

1 hour ago, MandoPanda said:

I understand that your drive appears to have a cache, I just can't find any info on it.

Can't find any info on it... really???  Did you click on either of my links, because they appear to qualify as info.  It took me 5 seconds of google-time to find those links explaining all about that drive and it's cache-having status.

 

It's not exactly like Western Digital is a no-name brand.  They're not a major player in SSD's I'll grant you but it's not like their products come out of nowhere with no english review sites covering them.

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nvme speed difference from sata is negligible in day to day tasks. A serious benefit from nvme comes from large sustained file transfers and other productivity work.

Sure, but if it doesn't break the bank, why build a slower computer?  A lot of the last-stage optimization is waiting on OP to give more input in this thread anyhow.

In the meantime I still had the budget room to put an RTX 2080 in the build rather than last-gen Pascal with no future promise of ray-tracing.

[Herman Mcpootis]

8 hours ago, LogicWeasel said:

 

I'd check that logic if I were you:

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/WD-Blue-3D-SATA-M2-500GB-vs-Samsung-840-Evo-500GB/m325788vsm1519

that's not the SSD he was referring to, that was the older WD blue SSD. But it still has a DRAM cache.

[MandoPanda]

48 minutes ago, LogicWeasel said:

Can't find any info on it... really???  Did you click on either of my links,

Holy Gaben, you are a salty boy. I did click on the links, I saw no specs on how much cache there is. I saw that it said something about it performing fast when the Samsung's cache ran out. Then I saw some marketing bullshit about some special named cache technology on the Sandisk version, but not actual information. Even though you have channeled the divinity of Google and been enlightened to the answer within seconds, you still haven't listed the amount of cache or other details on it.