Hey GarrettL, thx for reply.
That might be just the ticket. Do you mind my asking what case you're running it in? (I'm assuming you're running some heavy games with that setup?) Concerned with heat of course.
Are you using a 4.0 M.2? I've heard they heat up pretty good.
I'm almost 52 years old. I've been a gamer since I first saw Pong as a kid in the mall.
My last PC build was an i7 920 on a x58 Gigabyte ud3r. That build has been retired from gaming but still going strong after almost 10 years. So I really wanted to try and put together this new pc to last at least a solid 5 years.
I hadn't built an AMD rig since the Athlon II days. Was on a tighter budget back then too, gotta love AMD in that regard.
Had been out of the loop when I went to build the new pc and was surprised to see that Ryzen was all the talk. I was initially thinking Intel 9700k. But for me at least, the x570 offers the most performance although it does come at a price. The prices have been dropping on the x570 motherboards lately so you can get a better board in the $200 range then was possible just a couple months ago. This is actually a great price on this Gigabyte and it's all around better than my Asus TUF. And the x570 will take Ryzen 4000 series when released, so there's a performance upgrade path available.
https://www.tomshardware.com/review...html#section-best-mid-priced-x570-motherboard
Currently playing BFV, BL3, Red Redemption 2, Control, Wolfenstein and the new CoD.
The M2 drives are crazy fast. I put in an Inland 3.0 and a Sabrent 4.0. You can't believe how fast some things will load. Good news here to as prices are dropping and even faster M2's are rolling out.
Now I'm one of the "silly people" that bought the 3800x. I have a MicroCenter in my area and when you buy a cpu and a motherboard they give you $30 off. That bought me the 3800x over the 3700x. The 3900x is just stupid expensive imo.
I never had a higher end gpu in the past either. The Asus ROG Strix 2070 Super in hindsight may have been a mistake. It's a great card but there are just a few games with ray tracing now and the ones that are available will drop your FPS. So it's a premium for some eye candy that at times is lost when your in the action of the game. But it does handle 1440p extremely well. There are better deals on 2070S's now too.
The last piece of the puzzle was 1440p. I went and looked at monitors at MicroCenter to see them first hand. The Asus PG279Q 27" IPS monitor blew me away. The colors are gorgeous, the clarity is fantastic and the G-Sync works flawlessly. I will never go back to 1080p or a TN panel. Yeah, another really expensive item but when you have so much into the guts that run games why not see them for what they are. The colors in Borderlands are crazy saturated and not all washed out. Red Redemption 2 has moments that make you stop and just look at the screen.
So, all that goodness shoved into a small Corsiar 100r case. And the case sits inside a computer desk cubby hole. I had to get an Corsair H60 to keep the cpu below 70C when gaming.
It is simply a great pc. Older pic before I put in the Sabrent. And what a good feeling it was to rip out the HDD cage!