New PC Time - Prebuilt

[AndyCr15]

I'm thinking of treating myself for my birthday next month with a new gaming/video editing PC. In the past I would buy all the components and build it myself. While this can be fun, it can also be a nightmare if things go wrong, so I'm thinking to play it safe and buy one built for me.

I'm currently thinking of using PC Specialist and leaning towards a Threadripper 2950X along with a 2070 Gfx card.

Any thoughts, suggestions? Including places to buy from.

[alex]

I've been looking at the 9900k bundles Overclockers has around the £970-£1k mark and then keeping my 1070 and possibly going for a 2060 later in the year.

I'm going to keep building my machines as I have my white 570x case and it will be a skill I want to pass on when my son is a bit older.

[AndyCr15]

I put it off for a few months, but then got to that point of 'I'm going to order it at some point, might as well be now' and ordered yesterday -

Case
THERMALTAKE V200 TEMPERED GLASS RGB EDITION GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i9 Eight Core Processor i9-9900K (3.6GHz) 16MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs, WIFI - RGB Ready
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready!
1st Storage Drive
1TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W)

Quite looking forward to the M.2 drive and even storage will be SSD

[alex]

Nice!

I'm looking, now Samsung have released the QVO drives, to replace some of my spinning disks with SSDs when the time comes.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the 2070.

[Williamdut]

Maybe Im just blissfully ignorant but some of your partitioning schemes seem like overkill when for 90 I just bought a 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 drive that can sustain over 100 MB/s:

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[alex]

SSD's are always quicker than HDD's and great for loading games off.

I'm currently saving for a 3070 FE when stock levels calm down. It'll go nicely with my 3900X

[BrandonWhord]

Grabbed a different SATA drive and put it into the 475 and got the purple LED & it showed up in the console without any issue. RMAing the problem drive.

Thanks for your feedback.
-R

[Anttikksop]

any recomendations on bundles for a new rig.... i have a.....
coolermaster case
600 watt power supply
moniter

need a new board/ramm/cpu... i want to be able to game..

so maybe a new card also..not fussed if its radion or nvidia...maybe nvidia gtx 580 is it.. brad has 3 of em...

post recomends here please people

this one is about fucked...

[AndyCr15]

Unfortunately, these days I'm rather out of touch with the PC hardware scene...