Hey Evils
At 9 years old my PC is getting old, albeit still a good box. Looking at building a replacement, here is the specs of my new box to be built. Any ideas / comments for improvements? :-\
Intel Core i7 11700K (Base: 3.60GHz,
Turbo :4.60GHz / 16MB / LGA1200 / 8 Core /
16 Thread / Xe 32 EU / 125W / Rocket Lake)
Gigabyte Z590 UD AC MB, Z590, 4x DDR4, 2x
PCI-E 4.0 x16, 5x SATA3, 3x M.2, 9x USB
3.2, DisplayPort 1.2, ATX, 2.5GbE LAN, WIFI
AC, BT 5.1, M.2 Thermal Guard
Corsair Hydro Series H115i 280mm RGB
PLATINUM Liquid CPU Cooler. 5 Years
Warranty
HyperX Fury RGB 32GB (2x16GB) PC4-25600
(3200MHz) DDR4, CL16, 16-20-20, 1.35v,
XMP, Dual Channel Kit
Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB, 64L 3-bit MLC
V-NAND, M.2 (2280), NVMe, R/W(Max)
3,500MB/s/3,300MB/s, 600K/550K IOPS,
600TBW, 5 Years Warranty
Samsung SSD 870 QVO - 1TB, Samsung
V-NAND, 2.5", 7mm, SATA III 6GB/s,
R/W(Max) 560MB/s/530MB/s, 98K/88K IOPS,
360TBW, 3 Years Warranty
ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Ti TUF Gaming V2
OC 8GB Video Card - 8GB GDDR6 256-Bit,
CUDA Cores 6144, 1815 MHz (OC Mode), PCI
Express 4.0, 1x 8-Pin, Recommended PSU
750W, 2.7 Slot, 2x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort
1.4a, HDCP Support 2.3, OpenGL 4.6, 3
Years Limited Warranty
Fractal Design Define 7 Black E-ATX Case, UNIT 0.00
Dark Tempered Glass Window, No PSU, 1x
USB 3.1 Gen2 (Type-C), 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB
2.0, 6x 2.5"/3.5" Universal HDD Trays + 2x
SSD bracket + 1 multi-bracket, 3x 140mm
Fan pre-installed
Cheers
EVGA PSU (Full-Modular), 850W, 80+ Gold UNIT 1.00
92%, SuperNOVA GA, 135mm Fan, Multiple
Rail, 10 Year Warranty
Microsoft Windows 10 Home 32-BIT/64-BIT
USB Flash Drive,
Sweet...video cards have been hard to find lately and the 3070Ti is nice.
The processors seems a little weak compared to other selections - depending on what you run, you may bottleneck your GPU. I suggest you consider an AMD processor over Intel...much better price for same level of performance...and AMD has been innovating like crazy while Intel keeps doing the same old thing - most of the uTube PC builders hate on Intel pretty hard. You can get higher core/threads with AMD which will help it better in long run as games/apps begin to take better advantage. (A few years ago I built my pc with an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and RTX2080). If you do switch to AMD, remember update the motherboard to match.
Thinking about PC building reminded me of this build video that the Verge put several years ago that was just beyond awful...you'd think it was a joke but it wasn't. There were a ton of followup videos trashing it ...this one in particular I found hilarious, so I'll share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vmQOO4WLI4
As Bishop said, AMD is probably better value in this price range. I'd suggest the Ryzen 5800X, which is an 8C/16T CPU without integrated graphics. They also have a model with integrated graphics (Ryzen 5700G), but it's a bit slower due to less L3 cache.
Btw right now even a six-core CPU is enough, not sure if this will change dramatically any time soon. So the Ryzen 5600X might also be worth considering.
SSD: I'd avoid QLC (Samsung QVO). For most things, admittedly there won't be a difference. But if you want to copy a huge amount of data, TLC (*) is a lot better.
(*) "3-bit MLC" - but MLC is normally referring to 2-bit cells. So it's a bit misleading to put MLC in the name / description of an SSD with TLC memory.
www.logicalincrements.com
I usually just ask the experts..
The performance difference between an RTX 3070 and an RTX 3070 Ti seems to be very low. So if you can find a much cheaper 3070, I'd go for this.
Thanks for the feedback guys, will look i to it. The main issue at the moment is availability as some components are very hard to get.
Cheers
If you plan to keep your next PC a long time, too, it may be worth waiting for a DDR5 capable platform. Intel is starting this year (rumoured is October 27), and AMD next year.
I have tweaked the new PC build to incorporate some sound advice from you guys. The only thing I won't be doing is waiting for the DDRS capable platforms to be released, as under the current lead times this could be a long time waiting.
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, 8-Core/16 Threads,
Max Freq 4.7GHz, 36MB Cache Socket AM4
105W, Without cooler
100-100000063WOF(5800X)
Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO WIFI Ryzen AM4
ATX Motherboard 4xDDR4 4xPCIe4.0 2xM.2
RAID GbE LAN WIFI BT CrossFire SLI 6xSATA
2xUSB-C 9xUSB3.2
GA-X570-AORUS-PRO-WIFI
Corsair Hydro Series H115i 280mm RGB
PLATINUM Liquid CPU Cooler. 5 Years
Warranty CW-9060038-WW
G.Skill DDR4-3600 32GB (4 x 8GB) Quad
Channel Ripjaws V Classic Black
GS-F4-3600C18Q-32GVK
Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB, 64L 3-bit MLC
V-NAND, M.2 (2280), NVMe, R/W(Max)
3,500MB/s/3,300MB/s, 620K/550K IOPS,
1,200TBW, 5 Years Warranty MZ-V7S2T0BW
ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Ti TUF Gaming V2
OC 8GB Video Card - 8GB GDDR6 256-Bit,
CUDA Cores 6144, 1815 MHz (OC Mode), PCI
Express 4.0, 1x 8-Pin, Recommended PSU
750W, 2.7 Slot, 2x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort
1.4a, HDCP Support 2.3, OpenGL 4.6, 3
Years Limited Warranty -
TUF-RTX3070TI-08G-V2
Corsair 5000D Black Mid-Tower ATX Case,
Tempered Glass Side Panel, No PSU, 2x USB
3.0, 1x USB-C 3.1, HD Audio, Vertical PCIe
Slots, PWM Repeater CC-9011208-WW
EVGA PSU (Full-Modular), 850W, 80+ Gold
92%, SuperNOVA GA, 135mm Fan, Multiple
Rail, 10 Year Warranty 220-GA-0850-X4
Microsoft Windows 10 Home 32-BIT/64-BIT
USB Flash Drive,
Thanks again! :-)
Looks like only Threadripper supports four or even eight channels when accessing the memory. This means a quad channel kit will work fine, but not faster than a dual channel kit.
You probably don't need 32GB of memory - 16GB should be plenty - that could be a little extra $$ for more CPU or GPU.