re: $2500 to build/buy gaming desktop

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4th stick will not fit on the mobo because of the cpu cooler.

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So, depending on your platform, that will drag all three sticks down into single channel. Unless you are flat out running out of ram with what you’re doing, you’re generally better with two sticks in dual channel than three sticks in single channel.

Build me a gaming pc. My wife is a rental property interior decorator and I sell homemade sandals. Our budget: $3.4 million

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X570 mb. I confirmed they are all running in dual at 3600 mhz

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This is what I ended up with

Hopefully it's not terrible.

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Certainly not terrible, and will likely do anything he asks it to do with his current type of gaming.

That's a ton of motherboard for the components you have in there, but it means you can do some upgrades in the future as new games come out/his gaming tastes progress.

8gb of ram is cutting it close, so a decent 3200/16 2x8 16gb kit would be a good, cheap, easy upgrade in the future. In the mean time, make sure to go in your bios and turn on the xmp profile. Contrary to popular belief, you aren't going to get your rated ram speed out of the box, as it will likely start at jedec 2600mhz.

Second incremental upgrade I would likely do is to add 1TB of nvme memory. He's going to fill up that 500gb ssd pretty quickly, and then he's going to be playing off of spinning rust, which is no fun.

After that, I would be looking to see if his framerate is bottlenecking on the gpu or cpu and then upgrade accordingly. And that will be predicated more on the types of games he's playing at that point. If he sticks with competitive shooters, it will probably be a cpu bottleneck first, but no reason to worry about that now.

ETA: How many case fans do you have, and where are they located in the case?

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He got 16

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Am I having a stroke, or does it say 8gb up there?

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4 fans. 2 in front, 2 in rear.

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Link to the case? I'm having trouble finding it for some reason.

It does, but the 2 next to it it's saying there are 2 sticks of RAM

Ok, I was still confused until I realized that you edited your post to say that the two rear fans are actually on the top. That makes more sense

Depending on what his temps look like, there might be merit to moving the exhaust fans from both top to one top one back. Airflow might be fine, though. I'd have to get in the case.