This okay for games and occasional home video edits?

Speedking

Active member
Case
CORSAIR CRYSTAL SERIES 570X RGB GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.6GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4)

Motherboard Gigabyte X570 GAMING X: ATX (USB 3.2 Gen 1, PCIe 4.0) - RGB Ready!

Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)

Graphics Card
RTX 2080ti

1st Storage Drive
2TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive

2TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 520 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 5000MB/R, 4400MB/W)

Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Processor Cooling
Corsair H100x Hydro Cooler w/ PCS Ultra Quiet Fans

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
 

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
The CPU is not best performance vs price for gaming and would seem probably overkill for occasional home video edits.

What's the budget? what price does the above come to? And crucially, what monitor are you gaming on? (resolution and refresh rate)
 

Speedking

Active member
Budget is around 3k, which is what the above comes to, which includes gfx card.

Monitor is a Acer Predator 1440p @ 165hz

I dont mind spending a little extra on the cpu if it means I can prolong the machine a little longer.
 

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
I'd go with the Asus PLUS over the Gigabyte X570 mobo, as it has USB 3.1 Gen 2 unlike the Gigabyte and doesn't cost much more (last I checked)

I don't think it's worth buying the 3900x for trying to 'prolong' the machine as it were. By the time games need more than 8-core, 16-thread CPUs, the extra cores on the 3900x will be of limited use. Newer CPUs with much higher IPC and supporting DDR5 RAM plus PCIe 5.0 devices will be out there. Certainly not worth it for gaming.

Of more interest for gaming will be the Zen 3 CPUs coming out later this year, which will be supported on current motherboards as far as we know.
 
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