KeyboardDemon
PC Gamer: Nearly Dangerous
Ok. I am about to build a new PC, I have been talking about this for months as we get closer and closer to the day when it will all finally come together, it now looks like I will be in a position to order parts at the end of this month or the start of July, in the last few days I have been fettling away at my parts list to try and get the performance I want at the price I can afford.
@freakdaddy64 has been great at inspiring me and being a general sounding board for me to think my thoughts out loud and his experience with his build has been really helpful as I am a bit out of touch with current hardware, so thanks for that buddy.
Thanks to him, I have avoided paying over the odds on a CPU that costs 25% more and only delivers a 2% gain in performance, the same for the graphics card, I think I still have that old school e-peen mentality, where it's all about having the biggest numbers instead of being more grounded and thinking about what really matters in the build, so I have dropped the idea of getting an RTX 2080 Super, which doesn't offer a big enough gain over the RTX 2070 Super. I also dropped the idea of getting the RTX 2070 Super as the next card down in performance terms is the RX 5700XT which only gets beaten by an average of 7%-8% yet the RTX 2070 Super cards cost about 24-25% more.
Lastly, the case I really wanted was the Lian Li 011 Dynamic, this is a great looking case with 2 massive tempered glass sides, 1 covering the front and the other over the motherboard side giving a window into the build, but that comes with no fans so they needed to be added which pushes my costs up, what I really want though is a good airflow case, so that's changed.
Over the last 2 months or so, I have brought my build from being a colossal £2000 rig to a more modest build that's nearly half that price, and most of that has been down to conclusions that I have drawn from FD64.
What do you guys think of the build that I have got planned here:
The compatibility warning are listed here:
The B550 boards should launch tomorrow, so I might end up swapping my motherboard for one of those, I might stick to the Gigabyte even though I have been using Asus almost exclusively up until now.
Can anyone offer any helpful insight or advice that I might want to consider before I pull the trigger? It's not too late to make any amendments at the moment.
@freakdaddy64 has been great at inspiring me and being a general sounding board for me to think my thoughts out loud and his experience with his build has been really helpful as I am a bit out of touch with current hardware, so thanks for that buddy.
Thanks to him, I have avoided paying over the odds on a CPU that costs 25% more and only delivers a 2% gain in performance, the same for the graphics card, I think I still have that old school e-peen mentality, where it's all about having the biggest numbers instead of being more grounded and thinking about what really matters in the build, so I have dropped the idea of getting an RTX 2080 Super, which doesn't offer a big enough gain over the RTX 2070 Super. I also dropped the idea of getting the RTX 2070 Super as the next card down in performance terms is the RX 5700XT which only gets beaten by an average of 7%-8% yet the RTX 2070 Super cards cost about 24-25% more.
Lastly, the case I really wanted was the Lian Li 011 Dynamic, this is a great looking case with 2 massive tempered glass sides, 1 covering the front and the other over the motherboard side giving a window into the build, but that comes with no fans so they needed to be added which pushes my costs up, what I really want though is a good airflow case, so that's changed.
Over the last 2 months or so, I have brought my build from being a colossal £2000 rig to a more modest build that's nearly half that price, and most of that has been down to conclusions that I have drawn from FD64.
What do you guys think of the build that I have got planned here:
The compatibility warning are listed here:
The B550 boards should launch tomorrow, so I might end up swapping my motherboard for one of those, I might stick to the Gigabyte even though I have been using Asus almost exclusively up until now.
Can anyone offer any helpful insight or advice that I might want to consider before I pull the trigger? It's not too late to make any amendments at the moment.