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Looking at to upgrade/ build a new PC.
Currently got a PC that bought for like £400 and spent another 250 in upgrading CPU and cooler from a ryzen 3 2000 series and cheap air cooler to a Ryzen 5 3600 and a corsair 240mm AIO Cooler
Current PC specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X with Corsair 280mm iCue AIO Cooler
Motherboard: ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING (AM4)
Memory: 2X8GB DDR4 3200mhz (Patriot or Viper... cant recall)
GPU: Palit GTX 670
Storage: Samsung SSD 860 QVO 1TB (SATA (SSD))
PSU: EVGA 500W but is just 80 plus (not sure on model)
Case: Cougar Panzer (Mid Tower) - not sure on exact model but not RGB version
Extras: 2x120cm RGB Fans got off amazon
was okay to edit and render videos but now wanna game more and the gtx670 barely handles anything with intense load without crashing. Tried OC to the max it would manage stable but only so much can do.
So long story short. Got some money coming in and small chunk is gonna go into the PC as wanna really get more indepth with PC gaming with racing games as well as my love of farmming simulator. So wanna get a nice "top end" PC that will last for the some time. Yes, I would like to get the RTX 4000 or 5000 series (whatever they are gonna call it) but chances of actual getting stock at normal price is optimistic.
So made a list with help of PC Part Picker. I am a regular follower of likes of Gamers Nexus and Jayz2cents. Overall budget is over 3K because included 2 monitors, PC Picker was finding it at £290 each but found some on eBay NEW with a reputable seller for a cheaper price.
Specs is
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor £504.98 @ Scan.co.uk
COOLER: Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler - £131.94 @ Aria PC
Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard | £229.99 @ CCL Computers
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-4000 CL18 Memory ] £350.40 @ Newegg UK
Storage: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive - £178.43 @ Scan.co.uk X 2 for 4tb
GPU: Asus GeForce RTX 3080 10GB LHR 10 GB ROG STRIX GAMING OC V2 Video Card £949.99 @ Novatech
Case: [Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case | £125.00 @ Currys PC World
PSU: Asus ROG STRIX G 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply | £155.99 @ Amazon UK
Extra Case Fans: Corsair iCUE SP120 RGB ELITE 47.7 CFM 120 mm Fan £9.99 @ AWD-IT
Corsair iCUE SP120 RGB ELITE 47.7 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack - £39.89 @ Amazon UK X2 for 7 additional fans
Monitor: ViewSonic ELITE XG270QC 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor | £242.00 X2
Keyboard: Asus ROG Strix Flare (Cherry MX Red) RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard | £141.17 @ Amazon UK
Mouse : Asus P704 ROG CHAKRAM Wireless Optical Mouse | £129.90 @ Amazon UK
TOTAL: £3649.99 or around 2,900 exlcuding mouse, keyboard and monitors
So, thinking got a good set up here. Went with a Full tower, mainly because got room and like the look of it (no plans for water cooler with hard of soft tubing) Hence why going for an addition 7 fans (10 in total) for a 1 rear, 3 top, 3 bottom, 3 side for good airflow. Plan to do some overclocking as well with both GPU and CPU, From what I can gather, even in with normal OC and pushing things to the max with stability estimate power usage can get into the 800W range but that with having everything turned up. So wanna give myself that extra 20% head room to not strain the power supply.
Also went for RGB, mainly corsair besides the ram, so can change the colours a bit and dont mind the look of it.
Initial budget was around the more £2500 range, pushing 2750 for the PC itself with no monitors or periphials. Already got a mic and stream deck and a elgato wave 3 mic with a arm. but dont mind spending that little extra, espeically with GPU prices coming down gradually (here in the UK at least) from 1,200 for even the lower end 3080 to like 900 for the cheapest I can find Palit 3080 for 890.
Just wanna have fun with the PC, especially with building it instead of getting cheap PC from Facebook Marketplace last year. But not too sure where I be overspending currently (BESIDES THE GPU) even with the monitor and periphials. wanted a good 1440p monitor and liking the curved monitors but not sure if 2 curved montitors is good or what. Know can get away with gaming a mid tower case and save couple quid. In terms of USB Usage, just gonna be the usual streaming stuff and that and to very soon get a big external SSD if I need to move about and wanna still have the footage to use where I can'tuse my own PC like going away or whatever.
May gona OC with the ram but just want to have no worries with utalising my PC with streams or content work and to not get bogged down as I am currently with my PC (RAM wise).
CURRENT SOFTWARE USAGE:
For my content work I uses Adobe Premier Pro for my video editing and renders and Adobe Photoshop for my thumbnails.
Sorry to be long winded but wanna just explain what my needs are
Currently got a PC that bought for like £400 and spent another 250 in upgrading CPU and cooler from a ryzen 3 2000 series and cheap air cooler to a Ryzen 5 3600 and a corsair 240mm AIO Cooler
Current PC specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X with Corsair 280mm iCue AIO Cooler
Motherboard: ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING (AM4)
Memory: 2X8GB DDR4 3200mhz (Patriot or Viper... cant recall)
GPU: Palit GTX 670
Storage: Samsung SSD 860 QVO 1TB (SATA (SSD))
PSU: EVGA 500W but is just 80 plus (not sure on model)
Case: Cougar Panzer (Mid Tower) - not sure on exact model but not RGB version
Extras: 2x120cm RGB Fans got off amazon
was okay to edit and render videos but now wanna game more and the gtx670 barely handles anything with intense load without crashing. Tried OC to the max it would manage stable but only so much can do.
So long story short. Got some money coming in and small chunk is gonna go into the PC as wanna really get more indepth with PC gaming with racing games as well as my love of farmming simulator. So wanna get a nice "top end" PC that will last for the some time. Yes, I would like to get the RTX 4000 or 5000 series (whatever they are gonna call it) but chances of actual getting stock at normal price is optimistic.
So made a list with help of PC Part Picker. I am a regular follower of likes of Gamers Nexus and Jayz2cents. Overall budget is over 3K because included 2 monitors, PC Picker was finding it at £290 each but found some on eBay NEW with a reputable seller for a cheaper price.
Specs is
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor £504.98 @ Scan.co.uk
COOLER: Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler - £131.94 @ Aria PC
Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard | £229.99 @ CCL Computers
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-4000 CL18 Memory ] £350.40 @ Newegg UK
Storage: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive - £178.43 @ Scan.co.uk X 2 for 4tb
GPU: Asus GeForce RTX 3080 10GB LHR 10 GB ROG STRIX GAMING OC V2 Video Card £949.99 @ Novatech
Case: [Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case | £125.00 @ Currys PC World
PSU: Asus ROG STRIX G 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply | £155.99 @ Amazon UK
Extra Case Fans: Corsair iCUE SP120 RGB ELITE 47.7 CFM 120 mm Fan £9.99 @ AWD-IT
Corsair iCUE SP120 RGB ELITE 47.7 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack - £39.89 @ Amazon UK X2 for 7 additional fans
Monitor: ViewSonic ELITE XG270QC 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor | £242.00 X2
Keyboard: Asus ROG Strix Flare (Cherry MX Red) RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard | £141.17 @ Amazon UK
Mouse : Asus P704 ROG CHAKRAM Wireless Optical Mouse | £129.90 @ Amazon UK
TOTAL: £3649.99 or around 2,900 exlcuding mouse, keyboard and monitors
So, thinking got a good set up here. Went with a Full tower, mainly because got room and like the look of it (no plans for water cooler with hard of soft tubing) Hence why going for an addition 7 fans (10 in total) for a 1 rear, 3 top, 3 bottom, 3 side for good airflow. Plan to do some overclocking as well with both GPU and CPU, From what I can gather, even in with normal OC and pushing things to the max with stability estimate power usage can get into the 800W range but that with having everything turned up. So wanna give myself that extra 20% head room to not strain the power supply.
Also went for RGB, mainly corsair besides the ram, so can change the colours a bit and dont mind the look of it.
Initial budget was around the more £2500 range, pushing 2750 for the PC itself with no monitors or periphials. Already got a mic and stream deck and a elgato wave 3 mic with a arm. but dont mind spending that little extra, espeically with GPU prices coming down gradually (here in the UK at least) from 1,200 for even the lower end 3080 to like 900 for the cheapest I can find Palit 3080 for 890.
Just wanna have fun with the PC, especially with building it instead of getting cheap PC from Facebook Marketplace last year. But not too sure where I be overspending currently (BESIDES THE GPU) even with the monitor and periphials. wanted a good 1440p monitor and liking the curved monitors but not sure if 2 curved montitors is good or what. Know can get away with gaming a mid tower case and save couple quid. In terms of USB Usage, just gonna be the usual streaming stuff and that and to very soon get a big external SSD if I need to move about and wanna still have the footage to use where I can'tuse my own PC like going away or whatever.
May gona OC with the ram but just want to have no worries with utalising my PC with streams or content work and to not get bogged down as I am currently with my PC (RAM wise).
CURRENT SOFTWARE USAGE:
For my content work I uses Adobe Premier Pro for my video editing and renders and Adobe Photoshop for my thumbnails.
Sorry to be long winded but wanna just explain what my needs are
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