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I did some study and my research led me to this build for hardcore gaming in 4K and "slightly-more-than-occasional" Twitch streaming.

My goal here was to have strong performance, consistent speed, and cool aesthetics to match my color scheme.

Any pointers for this? Any parts I should swap out for others or scrap completely?

The price it's set at now is where I want to keep things around.
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Knowledge_1 wrote pcpartpicker.com/list/JbpmnH

I did some study and my research led me to this build for hardcore gaming in 4K and "slightly-more-than-occasional" Twitch streaming.

My goal here was to have strong performance, consistent speed, and cool aesthetics to match my color scheme.

Any pointers for this? Any parts I should swap out for others or scrap completely?

The price it's set at now is where I want to keep things around.
go with the new ryzen 7 3900x cpu and seeing you don't really care about how much your spending I think the overpriced parts you picked are more than fine lol aswell as running 2 SSDs which is all budget based since HDDs are generally a lot cheaper
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So, you have $3300 ready to spend on your first PC build? That doesn't seem unreasonable to you?

You don't need 32GB RAM for a gaming/streaming system. You also don't need a $200 PSU, or a near $300 motherboard.

The 9900k is a total waste for gaming at 4k, and for streaming you'd be better with Ryzen anyway.

You could easily build a system capable of playing games at 4k, and "slightly-more-than-occasional Twitch streaming" for $1500, or even less.

Do you already have a 4k monitor?
When will you be buying this system?
What kind of games will you be playing?
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I do already own a 4K HDR monitor.

Also, this wouldn't be my first PC overall. I have owned a total of two pre-built ones in the past (both from Cyber Power) and I want to go all out with this one since the previous two (which both costed upwards of $1,000 to $2,000) had issues in the areas I usually use them for which was gaming at high resolution and streaming at max settings.
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If you plan on streaming and gaming I would recommend building 2 separate PC's. One not so expensive for streaming and one for gaming. Typically big streamers have their pc specs in there description and you can kind of base your build/s around that. If you want better parts then get better parts.
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If you really want to spend in the neighbourhood of 3 grand, I'd be looking at something like this;
PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor ($499.00 @ B&H)
CPU Cooler: NZXT - Kraken X62 Rev 2 98.17 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($139.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X570 AORUS MASTER ATX AM4 Motherboard ($359.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($94.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($169.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Intel - 660p Series 2.048 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($179.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB SEA HAWK X Video Card ($1119.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P600S ATX Mid Tower Case ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $2803.82

I'd get the Asus Crosshair 8 Hero instead of the X570 AORUS Master though;
newegg.com/asus-rog-crosshair-vii...-_-Product
That said, you don't even need to spend $360 on a motherboard- the Asus X570 Tuf for $190-200 would be perfectly adequate. If you don't like the idea of a chipset fan on the motherboard, then you'll have to stick with X470, in which case I'd just grab an MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon for $180.

The Kraken X62 will be more than sufficient for cooling the 3900x, no need for a $200 AIO- just a huge waste of money. Even the X62 is over-priced IMO, but if that's what you like.

R9 3900x over i9-9900k since you won't notice a difference between the two CPU's in games at 4k, and if anything, the 12C/24T 3900x behemoth will be better for streaming and other tasks. You'd probably even be fine with an R7 3700x since again, it'll perform the same in games at 4k and let you save $170.

1TB of fast NVMe storage for whatever reason you want that in there, and swapped the 500GB 970 EVO for 2TB of cost-effective NVMe storage. I'd probably be adding a mechanical HDD as well, for mass storage, but you can add whatever capacity HDD you want if needed.

Eclipse P600S would be my go to for a high end case. The Lian-Li PC-011 is a good case though, plenty of good options in the $130-180 range so take your pick really. That said, you don't have to spend so much. $60-90 cases are ridiculously good value these days, like the Cooler Master NR600 and Fractal Meshify C. Also, you don't need an 860W PSU unless you're planning SLI 2080Ti's? 650W is more than enough for a single GPU system.

I wouldn't spend $200 on RGB fans, I'd maybe just buy some Phanteks Halos RGB fan frames if anything;
newegg.com/p/pl?d=halos
and then just use some good non LED fans that I like.

Oh, and for the GPU - RTX 2080 Super shouldn't be far out now. Can't remember if there was an official release date announced but it should be closer to a 2080Ti performance than a vanilla RTX 2080, for RTX 2080 cost($700ish). So, I'd probably hold off for one of those. The RTX 2070 Super's seem to be going in and out of stock constantly, but pricing is pretty good/stable so that's a good sign that the 2080 Super shouldn't be ridiculously over-priced on launch.
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What monitor do you plan on getting for it? You should try for high refresh rate > 4k.
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OGTrey079 wrote What monitor do you plan on getting for it? You should try for high refresh rate > 4k.


I actually have two different BenQ monitors.

My 4K HDR one is obviously at a refresh rate of 60 (like most are) which is what I use to play non-competitive single player games on or multiplayer games that I don't care too much in terms of competition or refresh rates (Black Ops 4, GTA 5, etc).

My 1080p one is 144hz and that's what I use to play games like Overwatch, CS:GO, Apex, and faster competitive games.
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OGTrey079 wrote What monitor do you plan on getting for it? You should try for high refresh rate > 4k.


I actually have two different BenQ monitors.

My 4K HDR one is obviously at a refresh rate of 60 (like most are) which is what I use to play non-competitive single player games on or multiplayer games that I don't care too much in terms of competition or refresh rates (Black Ops 4, GTA 5, etc).

My 1080p one is 144hz and that's what I use to play games like Overwatch, CS:GO, Apex, and faster competitive games.
just make sure that you have the correct cable from your gpu to you monitor able to output 144hz. Most hdmi cables don't go past 120hz and a lot of ppl don't even know they are being capped out at 60hz in their settings
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OGTrey079 wrote What monitor do you plan on getting for it? You should try for high refresh rate > 4k.


I actually have two different BenQ monitors.

My 4K HDR one is obviously at a refresh rate of 60 (like most are) which is what I use to play non-competitive single player games on or multiplayer games that I don't care too much in terms of competition or refresh rates (Black Ops 4, GTA 5, etc).

My 1080p one is 144hz and that's what I use to play games like Overwatch, CS:GO, Apex, and faster competitive games.
just make sure that you have the correct cable from your gpu to you monitor able to output 144hz. Most hdmi cables don't go past 120hz and a lot of ppl don't even know they are being capped out at 60hz in their settings


No worries. I am good. My 4K is capped at 60 and for the games I play on it, it's not a super big deal to me. My 1080p is also capped at 144.
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