Building a PC

[pf53]

I’m planning to build a gaming computer. I’d like to know if this is a good list of parts, if everything will fit in the case, and if anyone has any recommendations for parts to change. I also want to make sure it stays overall cool and quite. Here’s what I have chosen:

AMD - Ryzen 7 1700X 3.4GHz 8-Core Processor


Corsair - H60 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Asus - STRIX B350-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard

Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory

Kingston - A400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

Asus - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card


Deepcool - TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case


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


Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit

Thank you

 

[Barty1884]

Some comments:

1. For strictly gaming, the 1700X isn't too great a choice IMO. Intel's offerings are the "better" gaming chips (by a varying margin, depending on the title), with something liek the Ryzen5 1600 being a great choice based on "value" and not strictly performance.

With the 1700X, I'd hope you had the additional workloads to justify it, as the gaming performance is not going to be any better (and may actually be worse) than a chip available for roughly half the price (R5 1600).

2. The H60 is a pretty "budget" cooler, and the stock fans are not overly quiet. You could just replace the fans, but that makes the cost of the H60 outright a little tough to justify. A quality air cooler (Noctua NH-D15 or similar) should performance the same, if not better than an H60, without the additional potential "fail" point of an AIO. Not sure whether it fits in the Tesseract though.

3. A 120GB fills up fast, even if you only intend to put your OS on there, it'll still fill up fast unless you want to spend a decent amount of time keeping the storage level under control. A 240-256GB SSD would be smarter option IMO.

Otherwise, the balance of the components are solid. A 1070 is a great card, and you've chosen a quality PSU too.

What resolution do you intend to game at? Some of the 1070s are priced in a weird place. The cheapest one today is $390, with most in the $420 range. If you're playing at 1440p/>60Hz, a 1080 may be a better consideration, considering there are 1080 options available right around $500.

 

[pf53]

Some comments:

1. For strictly gaming, the 1700X isn't too great a choice IMO. Intel's offerings are the "better" gaming chips (by a varying margin, depending on the title), with something liek the Ryzen5 1600 being a great choice based on "value" and not strictly performance.

With the 1700X, I'd hope you had the additional workloads to justify it, as the gaming performance is not going to be any better (and may actually be worse) than a chip available for roughly half the price (R5 1600).

2. The H60 is a pretty "budget" cooler, and the stock fans are not overly quiet. You could just replace the fans, but that makes the cost of the H60 outright a little tough to justify. A quality air cooler (Noctua NH-D15 or similar) should performance the same, if not better than an H60, without the additional potential "fail" point of an AIO. Not sure whether it fits in the Tesseract though.

3. A 120GB fills up fast, even if you only intend to put your OS on there, it'll still fill up fast unless you want to spend a decent amount of time keeping the storage level under control. A 240-256GB SSD would be smarter option IMO.

Otherwise, the balance of the components are solid. A 1070 is a great card, and you've chosen a quality PSU too.

What resolution do you intend to game at? Some of the 1070s are priced in a weird place. The cheapest one today is $390, with most in the $420 range. If you're playing at 1440p/>60Hz, a 1080 may be a better consideration, considering there are 1080 options available right around $500.

Thank you so much? What graphics card do you recommend with 1440 and 60 Hz? 1080 or R5 or anything else

 

[pf53]

Some comments:

1. For strictly gaming, the 1700X isn't too great a choice IMO. Intel's offerings are the "better" gaming chips (by a varying margin, depending on the title), with something liek the Ryzen5 1600 being a great choice based on "value" and not strictly performance.

With the 1700X, I'd hope you had the additional workloads to justify it, as the gaming performance is not going to be any better (and may actually be worse) than a chip available for roughly half the price (R5 1600).

2. The H60 is a pretty "budget" cooler, and the stock fans are not overly quiet. You could just replace the fans, but that makes the cost of the H60 outright a little tough to justify. A quality air cooler (Noctua NH-D15 or similar) should performance the same, if not better than an H60, without the additional potential "fail" point of an AIO. Not sure whether it fits in the Tesseract though.

3. A 120GB fills up fast, even if you only intend to put your OS on there, it'll still fill up fast unless you want to spend a decent amount of time keeping the storage level under control. A 240-256GB SSD would be smarter option IMO.

Otherwise, the balance of the components are solid. A 1070 is a great card, and you've chosen a quality PSU too.

What resolution do you intend to game at? Some of the 1070s are priced in a weird place. The cheapest one today is $390, with most in the $420 range. If you're playing at 1440p/>60Hz, a 1080 may be a better consideration, considering there are 1080 options available right around $500.

Also when it comes to a cooler I don’t know what to use. Any recommendations as to a good cooler that’s not only quite but will keep the system cool

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

[If you were going Ryzen 7,] I would recommend the R7 1700. It comes with the better Wraith Max cooler with the red LED.

You're on the right track with GPUs.

GTX 1070
GTX 1070 Ti (Oct 26th)
RX Vega 56 (for the right price. haha..)
RX Vega 64 (same..)
GTX 1080

Other than that the i5-8600K (if you don't mind waiting 'til they're in stock) is a superior gaming CPU, on par with the i7-7700K.

 

[pf53]

[If you were going Ryzen 7,] I would recommend the R7 1700. It comes with the better Wraith Max cooler with the red LED.

You're on the right track with GPUs.

GTX 1070
GTX 1070 Ti (Oct 26th)
RX Vega 56 (for the right price. haha..)
RX Vega 64 (same..)
GTX 1080

Other than that the i5-8600K (if you don't mind waiting 'til they're in stock) is a superior gaming CPU, on par with the i7-7700K.

Thank you for the advice. Are you listing some good graphics cards randomly or in order? I can wait for one to come out and price isn’t an issue. Which would you recommend out of all of them?

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

They were almost in order, except the GTX 1070 Ti is supposed to be better than the RX Vega 56. I recommend all of them, whichever fits your budget and that you like.

 

[pf53]

They were almost in order, except the GTX 1070 Ti is supposed to be better than the RX Vega 56. I recommend all of them, whichever fits your budget and that you like.

Thank you I appreciate it