NEED HELP WITH FIRST BUILD!

[Plushellii]

This is my first build and I’m finally going to pc master race after being on consoles my whole life. The thing that finally pushed me over was Nintendo’s garbage online service. I’ve watched maybe 15 hours of building tutorials over the past 2 weeks and I think I’m 90% ready. I just need somebody who is experienced to look over my build plan on pcpartpicker.com.

My pc components are at the bottom of this paragraph. Also can you guys also tell me if this build would be good for vr, heavy gaming on high frame rates like 100FPS or more on 1440p on games like portal 1 and 2, gta 5, battle field and other games coming out these days. Thank you so much to anyone who trys to help me out, I really appreciate it!

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor	$159.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	ARCTIC - Freezer 33 eSports ONE (Black/Red) CPU Cooler	$31.98 @ Newegg
Motherboard	MSI - B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard	$105.00 @ OutletPC
Memory	G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	$134.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Kingston - A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$39.49 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$58.89 @ OutletPC
Video Card	MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 GB Video Card	$394.00 @ Newegg
Case	Deepcool - TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case	$49.99 @ B&H
Power Supply	EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply	$79.89 @ OutletPC
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1114.22
	Mail-in rebates	-$60.00
	Total	$1054.22
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-15 19:15 EST-0500

 

 

[r2724r16]

Check out this build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mt3fGG

 

I changed a few things like the PSU, motherboard, SSD, graphics card (EVGA has amazing customer service while MSI's customer service is garbage), and case.

 

This PC isn't suitable for 1440p high refresh rate gaming (unless you drop the graphical settings) but it is suitable for VR.

[DarkEnergy]

Looks pretty good. A couple of things, I'd swap the seagate for a WD, and get a better SSD, something from Samsung. 860 EVO or similar, the Kingston is quite slow. The case looks dated but that's personal preference. I think you can get cheaper prices on some of those parts, so check it out. Not sure about the cpu cooler. 

[r2724r16]

2 minutes ago, DarkEnergy said:

Looks pretty good. A couple of things, I'd swap the seagate for a WD, and get a better SSD, something from Samsung. 

Seagate Barracuda HDDs have been more reliable in my past experiences, not sure about you. And for the SSD, I'm not sure why you're being so biased. Samsung isn't the only company that makes good SSDs.

[DarkEnergy]

2 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

Seagate Barracuda HDDs have been more reliable in my past experiences, not sure about you. And for the SSD, I'm not sure why you're being so biased. Samsung isn't the only company that makes good SSDs.

The SSD is just a recommendation, there's many other good SSD's out there including the crucial one you mentioned. I had to mention something other than what OP posted. Also:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2089464/three-year-27-000-drive-study-reveals-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-makers.html

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2017/

 

I might just be salty because I've had a seagate drive fail for a stupid reason. It's hard finding somewhat reliable sources for information. That's what I've come up with. It looks like general internet consensus leans towards WD but there's also some sources reporting higher WD failure rates. I try to rely on opinions on the internet for this because, for instance, those sources mainly have higher end HDD's, and less consumer based ones. 

[r2724r16]

2 minutes ago, DarkEnergy said:

I try to rely on opinions on the internet for this because, for instance, those sources mainly have higher end HDD's, and less consumer based ones. 

Seagate is actually doing better in the enterprise space than WD.

[BurritoBoi]

I would get a better SSD, a Samsung 870 Evo is pretty good. I would change the case to something nicer, but that is purely opinion, and the Heatsink is all or nothing, it's not worth $32 for a cooler just as good as the Wraith Stealth Cooler.

[BurritoBoi]

If you want to do VR and GTA 5 at 100fps I would upgrade the CPU to Ryzen 7

[Plushellii]

I have one more question I would like help with. Some ryzen 5 series of cpu’s Have more gigahertz than some of the newer ryzen 7 cpu’s. Does that make them more powerful or not? Is there other factors that play into raw power there than threads and cores? And if one cpu has a higher total gigahertz than another cpu does that make it more powerful? Thank you very much for any help provided!