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Stoked to Build My First PC in Years!
Posted on 12/5/19 at 7:31 am
Posted on 12/5/19 at 7:31 am
Case arrived last night. Rest of the components arrive today at some point. I say some point because I got a knock on the door at 10:30PM from UPS with my case.
The guts:
Ryzen 5 3600X (was the same price as the 3600 on Black Friday)
ASROCK X570 Pro 4
G.Skill Ripjaws 2x8GB DDR4 3200
Rosewill 750W Bronze + PSU Fully Modular
500 GB Sata SSD
2 TB Seagate Barracude HDD 7200RPM
DEEPCOOL MATREXX 70 ADD-RGB 3F Mid-Tower Case 3x120mm ADD-RGB
Using a 1070 TI that was gifted to me by a follower on Twitch as the GPU.
Total cost before rebates: $647
If I didn't deal shop my arse off it would have been closer to $900, or that's what a comparable build would have been at BestBuy.
User Benchmark benches everything in the 90th or greater percentile except video editing which is in the 80th.
Overall, I'm through the roof. Been hoarding pennies for this early Christmas present to me for a few months.
Next up, 16 GB more RAM, two 144HZ monitors, and a new GPU in that order.
Any opinions?
The guts:
Ryzen 5 3600X (was the same price as the 3600 on Black Friday)
ASROCK X570 Pro 4
G.Skill Ripjaws 2x8GB DDR4 3200
Rosewill 750W Bronze + PSU Fully Modular
500 GB Sata SSD
2 TB Seagate Barracude HDD 7200RPM
DEEPCOOL MATREXX 70 ADD-RGB 3F Mid-Tower Case 3x120mm ADD-RGB
Using a 1070 TI that was gifted to me by a follower on Twitch as the GPU.
Total cost before rebates: $647
If I didn't deal shop my arse off it would have been closer to $900, or that's what a comparable build would have been at BestBuy.
User Benchmark benches everything in the 90th or greater percentile except video editing which is in the 80th.
Overall, I'm through the roof. Been hoarding pennies for this early Christmas present to me for a few months.
Next up, 16 GB more RAM, two 144HZ monitors, and a new GPU in that order.
Any opinions?
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Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:58 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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This post was edited on 12/21/21 at 1:19 pm
Posted on 12/5/19 at 9:22 am to XanderCrews
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If you can afford it ditch all the spinning media. Just a liability. IMO
Yep. Especially since 2tb SSDs are sub $200 nowadays (I got mine for $107
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Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:37 am to PurpleandGold Motown
I'd love to see where you bought each piece and the price paid, I know that might be asking a lot but I'm looking into building one in the next 5 or 6 months and like to see what deals you were able to get during sales.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:41 am to bluebarracuda
Eventually I'll buy another Big SSD, but I was on a budget and got a good deal on the HDD. I have a total of six 2.5 slots (or two 2.5 and two 3.5) in there without moving anything around. So more drives will be added as needed. I just wanted to get up and running. Like I said, more Ram and a new GPU are likely going to take priority.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 10:52 am to ShrevetownTiger
Sure most stuff came from Newegg. Let me see if I can get the invoice.
Deepcool Matrexx 70 ADD-RGB 79.99
ASROCK x570 Pro4 AM4 149.99
Rosewill Hive 750W Modular $59.99
Ryzen 5 3600X $199.99
G.Skill Ripjaws 2X8GB 3200 $59.99
Seagate Barracuda 2 Tb 7200 RPM 49.99
Bundling Discount -89.98
Total 509.96
Tax 40.80
Final 550.76
I got a discount for bundling some stuff, so that actually took me down to $550. But I already had a Windows Key, Monitor, GPU and Mechanical Keyboard and Mouse.
Deepcool Matrexx 70 ADD-RGB 79.99
ASROCK x570 Pro4 AM4 149.99
Rosewill Hive 750W Modular $59.99
Ryzen 5 3600X $199.99
G.Skill Ripjaws 2X8GB 3200 $59.99
Seagate Barracuda 2 Tb 7200 RPM 49.99
Bundling Discount -89.98
Total 509.96
Tax 40.80
Final 550.76
I got a discount for bundling some stuff, so that actually took me down to $550. But I already had a Windows Key, Monitor, GPU and Mechanical Keyboard and Mouse.
This post was edited on 12/5/19 at 10:57 am
Posted on 12/5/19 at 2:48 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Looks like you did a good job to me. Will be a quite nice gaming machine for the money, and a 1070 Ti will be great if you are gaming at 1080p@60Hz.
Hard to argue with the decisions you made, but if I changed anything I would go with a more high-end PSU, and you could probably make up some of the cost for that by going with a B450 motherboard that's closer to $100. But that's just me -- when I built my first computer when I was 15 I went with a super cheap PSU that down the line ended up killing other components in the machine, so I always start my builds with a high quality PSU.
What's your primary use for this machine?
If gaming, I wouldn't prioritize getting more RAM. To be fair, RAM is getting cheap as hell now anyway, but most people are going to get 0 extra performance by going >16GB RAM. I would first go for a G-Sync/FreeSync monitor. Earlier this year I was looking for a budget freesync monitor and I ended up with the Dell S2719DGF gaming monitor (27", 1440p, 155Hz, FreeSync, VESA mountable, USB hub built in, for $299), and I would highly recommend it.
Going from 1080p@60Hz to 1440p with adaptive sync was a tremendous leap for me so that's why I'd go that route first.
Hard to argue with the decisions you made, but if I changed anything I would go with a more high-end PSU, and you could probably make up some of the cost for that by going with a B450 motherboard that's closer to $100. But that's just me -- when I built my first computer when I was 15 I went with a super cheap PSU that down the line ended up killing other components in the machine, so I always start my builds with a high quality PSU.
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Next up, 16 GB more RAM, two 144HZ monitors, and a new GPU in that order.
What's your primary use for this machine?
If gaming, I wouldn't prioritize getting more RAM. To be fair, RAM is getting cheap as hell now anyway, but most people are going to get 0 extra performance by going >16GB RAM. I would first go for a G-Sync/FreeSync monitor. Earlier this year I was looking for a budget freesync monitor and I ended up with the Dell S2719DGF gaming monitor (27", 1440p, 155Hz, FreeSync, VESA mountable, USB hub built in, for $299), and I would highly recommend it.
Going from 1080p@60Hz to 1440p with adaptive sync was a tremendous leap for me so that's why I'd go that route first.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 3:08 pm to efrad
I stream fairly regularly, edit videos, some podcasting and light graphic design in Photoshop and After Effects. So I need to be able to handle encoding and playing at the same time.
And what can I say, I like RAM...and when I say I'll buy some more, I mean in a week or two while I can still get two sticks for $50 and max it out.
And what can I say, I like RAM...and when I say I'll buy some more, I mean in a week or two while I can still get two sticks for $50 and max it out.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 3:44 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
quote:
I stream fairly regularly, edit videos, some podcasting and light graphic design in Photoshop and After Effects. So I need to be able to handle encoding and playing at the same time.
And what can I say, I like RAM...and when I say I'll buy some more, I mean in a week or two while I can still get two sticks for $50 and max it out.
I can totally understand that, I have 32GB in my machine. I enjoy working with virtual machines though, so I can always use a large RAM cushion.
BTW, since you're on AMD X570, will have a lot of RAM, and will have a rotational drive, you might want to look into AMD's StoreMI software. It's a partnership between AMD and Enmotus to bring a basic version of Enmotus's FuzeDrive software to AMD CPU owners for free. It allows you to create a tiered storage drive, so for example, in the free version you can assign 2GB RAM + 256GB SSD + 6TB HDD together as a "FuzeDrive" with 6TB capacity but aggressive caching for fast access.
Others may diss rotational drives, but I need a lot of storage. So in my system I have a 1TB NVMe drive for Windows+applications, a 1TB SATA SSD for Linux+applications, a 256GB SATA SSD for virtual machine images, and a 6TB WD Black drive for additional mass storage. Since a lot of games end up on the 6TB drive, I have another 256GB SATA SSD that is just a FuzeDrive cache drive and 2GB of my 32GB RAM gets assigned as cache as well. Since the software is free for AMD X470/X570 users it's an easy speed increase to grab a cheap arse 128GB or 256GB SSD and throw it in for cache
Posted on 12/5/19 at 4:51 pm to efrad
Thanks, I'll look into that!
Posted on 12/6/19 at 11:02 am to PurpleandGold Motown
What is your twitch channel?
Posted on 12/6/19 at 1:08 pm to shspanthers
Dystoptimist
Posted on 12/8/19 at 2:21 am to PurpleandGold Motown
It came out alright for the first PC I've built in over a decade if not longer.
Next upgrade, in a few weeks, is the HP EX920 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB or
Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 since it's $155 with coupon right now.
Further down the road is a 2080 GPU. 1070 is fine for now, but now I want something that doesn't bottleneck the other components.
Building was fun though. Could have done a bit better on cable management, but the visible areas are clean.
Posted on 12/8/19 at 10:24 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Can I build a PC if I have zero experience? What do I buy?
Posted on 12/9/19 at 4:01 pm to RJYH
Yeah. I didn't have much experience. I used to build them in high school. That was a long time ago. I used pcpartpicker to put together my list and watched a YouTube video from Paul's hardware while I was putting it together.
Posted on 12/9/19 at 11:29 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
I have no expectations for this machine other than learning from building and having something more reliable than my PC I use for school and work. I may get something cheap to put together for fun.
Posted on 12/10/19 at 12:55 am to RJYH
Here's One.
This would be fun to put together, those working in a mini tower will be tight. I like mid-towers because I have big hands and fumble fingers.
This would be fun to put together, those working in a mini tower will be tight. I like mid-towers because I have big hands and fumble fingers.
Posted on 12/12/19 at 7:57 am to PurpleandGold Motown
That's a good price for the setup.
My only critiques:
1. Your motherboard is over-priced for the parts you put on it
2. 500 GB Sata SSD - this was probably what $50-80? Should have gone M.2 NVMe - 500 GB 970 Evo is like $110 and it's WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY faster. Your motherboard has an M.2 slot.
I built this earlier in the year (I love building PCs):
LINK
My only critiques:
1. Your motherboard is over-priced for the parts you put on it
2. 500 GB Sata SSD - this was probably what $50-80? Should have gone M.2 NVMe - 500 GB 970 Evo is like $110 and it's WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY faster. Your motherboard has an M.2 slot.
I built this earlier in the year (I love building PCs):
LINK
This post was edited on 12/12/19 at 8:02 am
Posted on 12/12/19 at 9:31 am to TchPowDog
quote:
NVMe - 500 GB 970 Evo is like $110 and it's WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY faster
You can get 1tb QLC m.2 drives for that price. Much rather the capacity than the unnecessary speed increase you wouldnt notice
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