Gaming PC Build

Looking for a quiet gaming PC. Will be pairing with a 1440p monitor (recommendations welcome) as it seems the 4k premium is a little high at present. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Case
FRACTAL DEFINE R6 BLACK QUIET MID-TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.35GHz/20MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME A320M-K: Micro-ATX, AM4, USB 3.0, 6GB/s
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2933MHz ~ (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1070 Ti - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!
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1st Storage Drive
4TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 5400RPM, 256MB CACHE
2nd Storage Drive
4TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 5400RPM, 256MB CACHE
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3400MB/R, 2300MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Noctua NH-U14S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
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)
Speakers
LOGITECH Z200 2.0 SPEAKERS - 10W
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days
Quantity
1

Price £1,755.00 including VAT and Delivery

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How much is the budget for the 1440p monitor?

Why the 2 HDDs? RAID 'backup'?

Oussebon said:

How much is the budget for the 1440p monitor?

Why the 2 HDDs? RAID 'backup'?

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Monitor budget is c. £500. Yes, am looking to RAID the HDDs.

Many thanks!

That's a solid budget for the monitor and should let you net something suitable (i.e. 1440p gsync). The Dell S2716DG has been very popular on these forums, though ofc there are alternatives.

RAID probably isn't your best backup strategy. If you save over a file on A, the same happens to B. If something unfortunate happens to your PC, both drives are in it.

Much better to used versioned backups of files, possibly to an external network device. You can get very easy to use all-in-one network storage suitable for this in the form of WDmyclouds. There's a lot of free software available that can be set up to do real-time versioned backups of any folders you wish e.g. Free File Sync.

I think the motherboard lets the build down. You're losing a lot of features. I'd ideally suggest the Gigabyte X470 Ultra Gaming which seems to pack the most in for the price. Or one of the Asus X470 ones as there are £90 games vouchers bundled with them, I believe.

Or the Gigabyte B450 one as it's cheap and still better than the A320.

Anything other than the A320, really.

If you don't need the wifi card, drop that.

Other than the motherboard, and RAID not being ideal imo, the spec looks great.

For gaming those 5.4k spindle HDD's are going to be slow for games to read from them when loading textures etc, 7.2k spindle HDD's minimum or the the hybrid SSHD's unless need the room as your SSD will hold at worst 5 games and maybe 7/8 at best. Games are in region of 80-120gig each now a days and its getting worse

7200rpm HDDs are better but do not waste money on a SSHD, the hybrid drives are next to useless and a total waste if you already have a decent SSD. The Hybrid is just a standard HDD with an SSD cache but that is not large enough to hold much, certainly not an OS or bit of software and you have no control what goes on it. At best you will just have a 7200rpm HDD, although there are still some Hybrides about that have a 5400rpm HDD part.

You have a very good m2 SSD in your build and it is 500GB, your best bet is to keep the most often played games on that and the others on HDDs, you can swap them about as and when.

Games are in region of 80-120gig each now a days and its getting worse

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Some games are. The overwhelming majority are not that big in fairness. It's is very simple to swap games between the SSD and HDD, so the OP should not need to run games off the HDD.

Avoid SSHDs; besides which PCS don't sell 4TB SSHDs (nor does anywhere really, and the old 4TB SSHDs that used to exist were apparently built on 5400rpm drives too!)

Many thanks all. I'll revisit the HDD(s) and motherboard.