Memento Mori wrote:Thought I'd idly pick out a new PC on PCSpecialist to get a rough quote.
Case: CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ 200R COMPACT GAMING CASE
Processor: (CPU)Intel® Core™ i9 10 Core Processor i9-10900X (3.7GHz) 19.25MB Cache
Motherboard: ASUS® ROG STRIX X299-E GAMING II: ATX, USB 3.2, SATA 6 GB/s, Wi-Fi AC - ARGB Ready
Memory (RAM): 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card: 10GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080
1st Storage Drive: 1TB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 470MB/W)
1st Storage Drive: 4TB SEAGATE IRONWOLF PRO 3.5", 7200 RPM 128MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive: 16x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW & SOFTWARE
Power Supply: CORSAIR 1200W HX SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® PLATINUM, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling CoolerMaster Hyper 212 (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler Black Edition
Thermal Paste: ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Wireless/Wired Networking: WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
Operating System:Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]Operating System LanguageUnited Kingdom - English Language
Windows Office Software: Microsoft® Office Home & Student 2019 (1 Digital License)
Monitor: AOC U2879VF 28" 4K Monitor - 3480 x 2160, 1MS, HDMI, DVI, DP
Total-£3,032.00
LOL
Would an AMD CPU be advised over the Intel these days? That 3080 GPU is set in stone but I'm flexible on the other components, I'm not really going to pay an extra £8 for EXTREME thermal paste. Just put that in for a laugh.
The new Ryzen CPUs are set to debut sometime in October, so it might be worth waiting for them. The reason I chose AMD over Intel was simple: there are still huge security issues with Intel CPUs, issues that are baked into the very architecture of the chips themselves. Performance wise the new Zen 3's are set to outperform Intel's chips, but it's the security stuff that pushed me over.
Also, at the moment it's only AMD's AM4 socket motherboards that support PCIe 4, which the Nvidia 3xxx series cards are set to take advantage of. If you plump for an Intel CPU now, you'll be limiting yourself to PCIe 3
General comments on that build:
- You don't need the 10900 unless you're building a high powered workstation. For gaming, the 10700 is pretty much the same performance. But again, I'd go AMD.
- You also shouldn't need 32GB of RAM. Even with a 3080 16 will serve you fine.
- You
absolutely don't need a 1200w PSU. That's insane. According to the
Cooler Master power calculator a latest gen AMD CPU coupled with an ATX board, a 3080, 16gb of DDR, an SSD and a HDD will draw around 530W total. If you want to be super safe, a 750w PSU will be fine.
Just to hammer the point home:
You probably don’t need a 1,000-watt PSU, even for an extreme gaming rig. A few years ago, all graphics cards on the high-end of our GPU hierarchy were very power hungry. But this has changed with Nvidia's recent architectures. It's simply not necessary to buy a 1kW PSU for a couple of RTX 2080s. An 800W model will do just fine, leaving headroom for an overclocked CPU as well. Fans of AMD's high-end Radeon VII or the newer Radeon RX 5700 XT will need to plan for higher power use, pairing these cards with PSUs featuring greater maximum output.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/be ... ,4229.html