SI MPG X570 Gaming Plus ATX w/ RGB, PCIe 4.0, USB 3.2, SATA3, 2x M.2
1TB Seagate Firecuda 520 M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD - 5000MB/s Read & 4400MB/s Write
32GB DDR4/4000mhz Dual Channel Memory (HyperX Predator w/Heat Spreader)
6TB Seagate BarraCuda SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 5400RPM Hard Drive
Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro XT RGB High Performance Liquid Cooling System w/ 360mm Radiator
Corsair RM750x 750W 80+ Gold Modular Gaming Power Supply
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy RX 7.1 PCI-Express Sound Card
Hit me with what you all think and how I can improve any, this rig is going to be primarily for gaming with some graphic design and rendering work, and I'm hoping to get at least 5 years out of it before I need to look at upgrading/replacing it again.
I'll likely be using a 27" ASUS TUF GAMING VG27AQ 1ms 165Hz WQHD 1440p Monitor with this too.
For that price only good boards are B550 boards.
And first good X570 board is Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...4-x570-chipset-atx-motherboard-mb-57w-gi.html
Whole lower half of MSI X570 range has crap CPU VRM for the money.
X570 Tomahawk is the only exception to that.
(Asus X570 boards again have chipset cooler from anus of marketroids with major risks for long term reliability)
For that budget you should be going for 2TB SSD space, period!
Very few games benefit any from NVME over SATA SSD and any full speed PCIe v3 drive has huge amount on unutilized capability.
While SSD space you don't have has at most negative speed.
Remember that big games are 100+ GBs.
Also there should be SSD space for those work uses.
And what you have there after OS and leaving empty space for drive to operate at high eprformance and without additional wear etc is 850 GBs of room.
(common recommendation is leaving 10% of drive's capacity free)
And unless you want to manually do memory settings in BIOS forget that memory.
Would need golden sample CPU to get InfinityFabric bus up to 2000MHz to keep it synced with memory.
Dual rank memory kit of fast latency 3600MHz would be surest "XMP fire and forget" solution:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...00c16-3600mhz-dual-channel-kit-my-002-8p.html
And if purpose is that highest freedom from maintenance and reliability, waterpipe coolers aren't exactly hot on that with many degradation/wear mechanisms.
Despite of very high prices only few waterpipe coolers are even better in continuous cooling per noise than the best heatpipe coolers.
And with lot more honest than Intel TDPs, absolute top coolers aren't even needed for Ryzens.
And low end sound card in super expensive PC?
If you're using speakers there's little benefit from any separate sound card over motherboard's integrated one, unless integrated is EMI magnet.
Again for headphones gaming separate sound cards offer good extra features.
(and with good headphones crushing stereo speaker sets in immersion)
But that low end card doesn't even any better headphone amplifier to justify its buying for that.
