Potential new build - advice needed

Check this out, seriously considering going through with this build. Just wanted to know if anyone had any tips for things I don't need/should add instead. Tweak tips basically. Also, i'm thinking of pairing this with the Asus PG348Q monitor. It's for a combination of gaming and audio and video production work so lots of fast ram is crucial, and i'm also wondering if the power supply will be sufficient? Any advice would be much appreciated!

Custom Liquid Cooling Kit
Liquid Series Mid Kit - EK
Case
CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 500D SE CASE
Tubing
Clear Hardline Acrylic Tubing - 12/16mm (Nickel Fittings)
Graphics Card Cooling
EK FC Nickel & Backplate - For One Graphics Card!
Coolant Colour
Mayhems Pastel Red
LED Lighting
2x 50cm RGB LED Strip
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™ i9-7900X Ten Core (3.30GHz @ up to 4.6GHz)
FREE Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 & More w/ select Intel CPUs!
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX X299-E GAMING: ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s, WIFI - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM)
64GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR4 3000MHz (4 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready!
1st Hard Disk
2TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 3.5" SSHD
2nd Hard Disk
6TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA PRO 3.5", 7200 RPM 256MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
512GB SAMSUNG 970 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 2300MB/W)
FREE Assassin's Creed: Odyssey with select SAMSUNG NVMe SSDs!
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Braided Power Supply Cables
CORSAIR Premium Individually Sleeved PSU Cable Kit Pro - Red/Black

Price: £4,144.00 all inc..
 

karjud

Active member
I would go with flexible tubing on the water cooling unless the aesthetics are crucial to you, nice to have but with the extra joints needed and work involved you could save yourself £100, also less places for leakage.

As Oussebon would probably advise, ditch that CPU and go for Ryzen 2700X if you want something with all round capability, also save yourself a good few quid in the process.

The PSU is adequate but for a few quid more you could give yourself some more headroom for future additions and opt for 850W.
 

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
Actually no, I'd have probably suggested a 32-core threadripper build as a contender really, it's only a few hundred more expensive.

Since we're in the HEDT lineups here and not the consumer ones.

Unless you're including the monitor as well in the 4k? It's kinda hard to tell when people don't actually post the full spec. If it is ~£4k+ including the monitor then consider the 16-core Threadrippers which are ~£1k cheaper than the 32-core and so leave room for the monitor.

You didn't say what video software, but in terms of a 16-core TR CPU vs the 10-core i9
AMD Threadripper 2950X vs Intel Core i9 7900X for Premiere Pro CC
Here, the Threadripper 2950X is often going to be the better choice. For live playback, the 2950X is about 5% slower than the 7900X for non-RED media, but if you use RED footage it is about 15% faster. When it comes to exporting, the 2950X is about 20-25% faster than the 7900X.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...ance-1218/#IsThreadripper2goodforPremierePro?
to say nothing of the 32-core TR vs the, 10-core i9.

And as for gaming you're gonna be GPU bound on the monitor anyway, so the difference is pfft versus your productivity tasks.


I haven't got time right now to do a fully tweaked spec but something like:

Custom Liquid Cooling Kit
Liquid Series Mid Kit - EK
Case
CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 750D FULL TOWER CASE
Tubing
Clear Flexible Tubing - 10/16mm (Black Fittings)
Coolant Colour
Mayhems Pastel Ice White
LED Lighting
50cm White LED Strip
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32 Core (3.0GHz @ up to 4.0GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME X399-A (DDR4, 6Gb/s, CrossFireX/SLI) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2933MHz ~ (8 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready!
1[SUP]st[/SUP] Hard Disk
6TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 5400RPM, 128MB CACHE
2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Hard Disk
2TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 3.5" SSHD
1[SUP]st[/SUP] M.2 SSD Drive
512GB SAMSUNG 970 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 2300MB/W)
---FREE Assassin's Creed: Odyssey with select SAMSUNG NVMe SSDs!
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Thermal Paste
COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Liquid Series® Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days
Quantity
1

Price £4,522.00 including VAT and Delivery

Unique URL to re-configure : https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-x399-liquid/Zda6jMxhBa/

The SSHD as secondary storage looks weird. If you need fast secondary storage get yourself a 1 TB sata SSD.

I love that we can seriously suggest 32-core builds.
 
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