With 10th Gen Intel, you had the 10600k/10700k/10900k which went from very good/mediocre/great. With the 11th Gen Intel that changed, went to great/mediocre/miserable. It's so bad that even the 10900k surpasses the performance of the 11900k in everything production and goes head to head in gaming. You don't even get the standard 5% uplift in performance except in a few games. It's seriously sad considering the price differences and hype.
5800x stomps on a 11700k all day long, everywhere and either ties/beats/stomps the H. out of the 11900k in everything tested except 1 or 2 games. Even in some production apps where Intel previously dominated the results, All the 5 series are slaughtering Intels, even the lowly 5600x beating the pants off a 11900k, the 5900x doubling Intels best performance.
It's seriously a bad day to be Intel. It's like Intel releasing a FX8320 and Amd releasing the i7-4790k bad.
Intels best cpu currently is the 11600k. It's seriously not worth considering anything bigger other than the 10900k. Everything else in between to two cpus is garbage for the price.
Best cpu for the 3080 is a 5900x, if you can get one. A 5800x is right on its heals and performance wise can be a better value.
Even the I5 Scratches on the Performance. It's not quite fully there but for a maximumly 20% performance increase (If all eight cores are running 100% load) is quite embarassing indeed.
But yeh, everybody is posting builds so, lets go on.
I post pretty much my current rig, except I have an mini itx setup and I will adapt the parts. Ill try to insert a cheaper alternative but you can just as well use the build as abase and exchange the parts yourself or askif they would fit .
I don't have a budget and you ask to dominate the universe, so I give parts to dominate the universe.
I do have some experience in Building Computers and expect all parts to fit together.
You said, LED not required, lets go on with the stealth look
first thigs first, the 3080 is set. (Would be nice to know the model for visually matching the parts)
Case:
I'm doing minni itx builds with custom casing so I dont know much about what the market has to offer here and it is such a question of taste after all. Insert any case here, just make sure, it supports fan height of at least 165 millimeters or choose a smaller cpu fan from noctuas
compatibility list
Fractal Design Meshify C White (90$) (select the black version)
CPU: You want stomp? You get stomp. Though out of stock currently. Two choices:
Mainboard:
ASUS AMD AM4 ROG Strix X570-F Gaming ATX Motherboard with PCIe 4.0, Dual M.2, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2 (330 $)
Main reason I choose this mainboard is because of bios flashback without cpu. Cheaper options are available, but I highly recommend one with cpu less bios flash. This can save you tons of hurdle and frustration in the future.
CPU Cooler:
I am a BIG fan of noctua products.They are super silent, and look super cool (I think) Nothing LED Here, fully blacked out. Keep in mind that the modern CPU's boost faster when cooled better. Money is good invested here, Id rather save up on the mainboard:
Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black, 140mm dual-tower CPU cooler (Black) (170$)
RAM:
G.SKILL Trident Z Neo Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3800 (230$)
Note, we use 2 bars of 32 GB dimms and not 4 * 16 - Its easier to handle for the controller and might be faster.
cheaper but only slightly slower option (and no led) would be:
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (180$)
Harddrive:
Corsair MP600 Pro M.2 2280 2TB PCIe Gen 4.0 (400$)
Note we are going for an pcie 4 SSD. Brings ~6gb/s speed, I have it myself and am very happy with it. It comes with a cooler though. Your mainboard has a cooler as well which might look better. In order to use it, you have to remove the heat sink from the SSD. I did that myself and found it quite possible although a little terrifying at first when you have never done it. Otherwise you can just leave the cooler of the motherboard away. If you plan on picking a second ssd, they are often on the back of the mainboard, so pick a slower one because the heatsink might not fit and because of the cooling in the back of the mainboard...
possibly cheaper options include:
Western Digital WD BLACK SN850 NVMe M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 (200$)
PSU:
CORSAIR HX Series HX750 CP-9020137-NA 750W ATX12V v2.4 / EPS12V 2.92 80 PLUS PLATINUM Certified (160 $)
I totally get it, it might sound sketchy. I would rather have gone with the 800W But that is out of stock.
It should still be enough considering the fact that I am pretty much running the same setup except for a 3090 in my rig with 750 Watts PSU (SFX because of mini itx casing not much choice. But you have plenty of choice. Litterally any other good quality 800 watts PSU Will do such as
https://www.newegg.com/super-flower-leadex-iii-sf-850f14hg-850w/p/1HU-024C-00005 ($130)
Super Flower Leadex III 850W 80+ Gold, 10 Years Warranty, Three-Way ECO Mode Fanless, Silent & Cooling Mode, FDB Fan, Full Modular Power Supply, Dual Over Power Protection
What are we looking at price-wise?
2140$ for the full Setup ( Excluding gpu) or 4440 with GPU.
Now. That is full overboard but who knows. Maybe there is someone like that out there
Are there some savings with no big Performance impacts? Absolutely:
1670$ for the more "reasonable" Setup ( Excluding gpu) or 3970 with GPU.
Keep in mind the mainboard has only 2 fan headers as far as I know.
Noctua NF-A14 140mm Fan (30$) 4 times
Noctua NF-F12 120 mm fan (36$) 1 time
Sample picture:
Computer would look pretty simillar, just with black fans. Image is from google.
which performance is to be expected right out of the box?
expect performance probably in 1-max 10% top rankings stock without overclocking whilst beeing extremely silent.
Im running a simillar setup except for the GPU and its going to be mini itx pretty soon. Benchmark for reference and used parts here (stock settings):
https://www.3dmark.com/pcm10b/1136474
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