Can you legends sanity check a build please.

[Dizz]

Good evening,

My brother is upgrading (finally) from a laptop to a full-blown PC for gaming. Mostly DOTA 2 but wants some future-proofing and the ability to play new games at max settings if he wants to.

The build below is very similar to the one I purchased from Overclockers recently, but I wanted to see if there are any savings or improvements now that the new motherboard series and 30 series NVidia cards have been released.

Grateful as always for your advice.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard= £199.99
• 1 x Seasonic Prime PX-650 650W 80 Plus Platinum Power Supply= £169.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming OC 3X 8192MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £499.99
• 1 x be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Cooler= £79.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £299.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB (2x8GB) 3200 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit= £64.99
• 1 x NZXT H710i Midi Tower RGB Gaming Case - Black Tempered Glass= £169.99
• 1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (WDS500G2B0B)= £57.95
• 1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 2TB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS200T2B0A)= £204.95
• 1 x Gigabyte AORUS FI27Q 27" 2560x1440 IPS 165Hz 1ms FreeSync/G-Sync LED Backlit Gaming Monitor= £449.99

Total: £2,218.64 (includes shipping: £20.82)​

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[Quartz]

Definitely switch the 2070 for a 3070. And up the PSU to 850W.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Good evening,

My brother is upgrading (finally) from a laptop to a full-blown PC for gaming. Mostly DOTA 2 but wants some future-proofing and the ability to play new games at max settings if he wants to.

The build below is very similar to the one I purchased from Overclockers recently, but I wanted to see if there are any savings or improvements now that the new motherboard series and 30 series NVidia cards have been released.

Grateful as always for your advice.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard= £199.99
• 1 x Seasonic Prime PX-650 650W 80 Plus Platinum Power Supply= £169.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming OC 3X 8192MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £499.99
• 1 x be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Cooler= £79.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £299.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 16GB (2x8GB) 3200 MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4 Memory Dual Kit= £64.99
• 1 x NZXT H710i Midi Tower RGB Gaming Case - Black Tempered Glass= £169.99
• 1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (WDS500G2B0B)= £57.95
• 1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 2TB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS200T2B0A)= £204.95
• 1 x Gigabyte AORUS FI27Q 27" 2560x1440 IPS 165Hz 1ms FreeSync/G-Sync LED Backlit Gaming Monitor= £449.99

Total: £2,218.64 (includes shipping: £20.82)
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Ultra wide has non cheating advantages in DOTA2

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte 34" G34WQC 3440x1440 VA 144Hz 1ms FreeSync/G-Sync Compatible Curved LED Backlit Ultrawide G= £399.95
• 1 x Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite (AMD AM4) B550 ATX Motherboard= £154.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core 4.4GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £299.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £49.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Base 500DX ARGB Midi Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass= £89.99
• 1 x be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler= £64.99
• 1 x Corsair RM Series RM750 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020195-UK)= £99.95
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 1TB NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £109.99

Total: £1,290.66 (includes shipping: £20.82)


Even saved enough case for RTX 3080 on the 17Th to your build

Intel

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x be quiet! Pure Base 500DX ARGB Midi Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass= £89.99
• 1 x Corsair RM Series RM750 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020195-UK)= £99.95
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 1TB NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £109.99
• 1 x Intel Core i7-10700K 3.8GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - OEM= £349.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z490 Aorus Elite AC (Socket LGA 1200) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £199.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £49.99
• 1 x be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU Cooler= £79.99
• 1 x Gigabyte G32QC 32" 2560x1440 VA 165Hz 1ms FreeSync/G-Sync Compatible LED Backlit Curved Gaming Monit= £389.99

Total: £1,389.50 (includes shipping: £19.62)


Both way over powered for DOTA2 mind​

 

[Quartz]

1 x Gigabyte 34" G34WQC 3440x1440 VA 144Hz 1ms FreeSync/G-Sync Compatible Curved LED Backlit Ultrawide G= £399.95

Go for an IPS panel, not a VA one. The Iiyama is the same price.

 

[Plec]

Even saved enough case for RTX 3080 on the 17Th to your build

Both way over powered for DOTA2 mind

Are you sure?

*They didn't have sped up by x1000

 

[Grafter67]

Orbitalwash's AMD spec is more like it than your original, which I hope you don't mind me saying is a little unbalance, ott in some areas, but conservative in others.

Monitor tech is a personal thing. On Tom's Hardware they say Panel tech: for image quality, TN < IPS < VA. There is a post above saying something different.

Screen size depends on how close you like to sit, and resolution obviously. Ie for reading text, at arms length, for games a bit further, for movies further?. Many people will say that 27" is the most for 1440. I like 32" at 1440, but I'm in my fifties and have text etc set to 110%.

edit : do NOT under any circumstances order a 2000 series nvidia retail card at retail at present (Sorry, OC)

 

[orbitalwalsh]

@Grafter67

Don't be sorry to OCUK haha. Did another one of these but listed 2070S but told user not to buy until after the Nvidia announcement and they were glad, but the 3070 matched the 2070s pricing so they could see where the money was going .

I have the older Aorus IPS panel. Love it but for HDR have to drop to 120hz from 144hz. These never ones are a lot better but personally I play RTS so would love to swap to that 34" one, specially now working at home
And 32" is bang on for 1440p unless you sit closer then 27 but most people don't. 4k needs to be 39" personally

 

[Joxeon]

Definitely switch the 2070 for a 3070. And up the PSU to 850W.

An 850w psu for a 230w Gpu and a 100w CPU?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

An 850w psu for a 230w Gpu and a 100w CPU?

About 150w full load (rendering) for 3700x (but gaming wouldn't do that ).

But 750w should do it.

Wondering if Nvidia have returned to Maxwell days of you can just pump huge watts for big overclock IF you can keep it call... Extra back up to Big Navi ... Fingers crossed .

Went for 750w for RTX 3080 . Personally torn now. Have 650w SFX PSU that I don't think will just the mustered

 

[Plec]

Have 650w SFX PSU that I don't think will just the mustered

Are you hearing something through the grapevine, Orbi?

I was assuming that a quality 650W unit being enough for an average gaming machine upgrade even clocked. (Although, with prices so similar 750W makes sense if buying a new unit.)

 

[Quartz]

An 850w psu for a 230w Gpu and a 100w CPU?

Max power draw on that CPU is well over 100W. And the motherboard will draw some power. Remember that bit in the OP about allowing for the future? And allow for overclocking. Power draw could easily exceed 500W with only modest overclocking.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Are you hearing something through the grapevine, Orbi?

I was assuming that a quality 650W unit being enough for an average gaming machine upgrade even clocked. (Although, with prices so similar 750W makes sense if buying a new unit.)

Got the BeQuiet 850w.. just like the small form factor haha