3080 Gaming Business and Home Audio Studio Machine Spec with scope to overclock £2k all in

[Calcium]

Apparently they are building this monday?

Hope that means the 3080 is in??

Case	LIAN LI LANCOOL II GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)	Intel® Core™ i5 Six Core Processor i5-10600K (4.1 GHz) 12 MB Cache
Motherboard	ASUS® ROG STRIX Z490-F GAMING (LGA1200, USB 3.2, CrossFireX/SLI) - ARGB Ready
Memory (RAM)	32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card	NONE, I ALREADY HAVE A GRAPHICS CARD Change to: 10GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080
1st Storage Drive	2TB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 470MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive	NOT REQUIRED
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	Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste	ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND Change to: STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card	ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD) (Audient iD14 USB Interface already owned)
Wireless/Wired Networking	WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

I would strongly recommend cancelling that build and get some advice on something more suitable, thats a very poorly balanced build, the processor is very weak, AMD would give far better performance at the same price point.

 

[Calcium]

It funny you say that because on userbenchmark even the ryzen 3900xt comes out lower EFPS than the 10600k and that’s twice the price!! Exactly what’s wrong with my build apart from the fact it’s intel?!

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

It funny you say that because on userbenchmark even the ryzen 3900xt comes out lower EFPS than the 10600k and that’s twice the price!! Exactly what’s wrong with my build apart from the fact it’s intel?!

At least get your benchmarks from somewhere reliable:

Updated: Userbenchmark Responds to Criticism Over Score Weighing Revisions

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www.tomshardware.com

UserBenchmark gets banned from major subreddit due to drama generation

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www.notebookcheck.net

UserBenchmark: Biased, Deceptive, Misguided Website

UserBenchmark is the most controversial website that provides unfair benchmark tool to assess your real-time hardware performance scores including CPU, GPU,

ownsnap.com

Userbenchmark is rated "Bad" with 1.5 / 5 on Trustpilot

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I could go on and on...

It's completely up to you of course, if you post your spec, expect for us to critique it, it's up to you what you spend your money on, but we won't stop giving accurate and knowledgeable advice.

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

I'll just leave this nugget here and then I won't get further involved, you need to do some reading and get up to date.

AMD Vs Intel

So some of you aren't aware of the reasons why so many people are heading away from Intel to AMD, so thought it would be important to lay that out for people to refer back to. A lot of you will go to cpubenchmark or userbenchmark to find performance metrics for CPU's. These sites are complete...

www.pcspecialist.co.uk

 

[Calcium]

I stand corrected, it wasn’t just user bench mark it was also techspot and levvvel, but there do seem to be a bunch of reviewers out there particularly pushing the 10600/10700/10900s hard particularly for 4K 60Hz current Gen games where a GPU bottleneck will kick in before processor and multicore is less of an issue, I have always been an intel fan as I remember the amd incompatibility issue days and high failure rates, would you guys be recommending an equivalent 3700x build then? And will the upcoming ryzen release be a compatable chipset upgrade on the same mb down the road?

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

I stand corrected, it wasn’t just user bench mark it was also techspot and levvvel, but there do seem to be a bunch of reviewers out there particularly pushing the 10600/10700/10900s hard particularly for 4K 60Hz current Gen games where a GPU bottleneck will kick in before processor and multicore is less of an issue, I have always been an intel fan as I remember the amd incompatibility issue days and high failure rates, would you guys be recommending an equivalent 3700x build then? And will the upcoming ryzen release be a compatable chipset upgrade on the same mb down the road?

I would wait for upcoming AMD Ryzens, they're set to destroy intel in the single core performance which is the only area that Intel still dominate (at low resolution for gaming anyway). It's going to be very interesting and it's only a couple of weeks away now on the 8th October. They've already been confirmed to be compatible with both X570 and B550 boards, but as they're an entirely new architecture on a new nm node, I'd expect a newer motherboard chipset to release either alongside or very shortly after which I imagine will have even stronger support and better futureproofing (complete guesswork here, absolutely no leaks on this at all).

Ryzen is on 3rd version currently, initial BIOSes were buggy, no doubt, but AMD worked very hard with Microsoft, board partners and software partners and now they're stable as anything, and if anything, drivers and board reliability is actually better than intel equivalents. With Intel, you basically have no option but to get z490 otherwise you get RAM speed caps as well as overclocking throttling which is just criminal when you've already bought a k series unlocked processor. But mainly for me, it's the security aspect with Intel.

Specifically for gaming at 4k, the 3600XT equivalent of the upcoming processors which is 6c 12t would currently be our go to suggestion, but if you weren't worried about cost, then we'd normally bump that up to the 3800XT just for a more roundedly capable CPU for general usage, you never know what use you may find for it in the future, expecially with streaming gameplay to twitch or something being completely free, a lot of people have moved into that territory, but there are loads of other options that the 3800XT would cover you for should you wish to.

I've been intel only since about 2009 I think, and I know where you're coming from with the difficulty to trust such a shift in allegiance, and before then it was purely a budget thing rather than favoring AMD. I have loved Intel of the past, but the more I started to read about their shady practices that were coming to light in around 2018, how they dealt extremely poorly with all the security exploits trying to mislead loyal customers and shareholders and cover stuff up, the more I started researching AMD. I'm still Intel on all my computers and laptops, but will be moving to 4th Gen Ryzen for my main rig next year.

Additional note.... AMD are quite literally a brand new company under CEO Lisa Su, she has really done remarkable things for them. She comes from a technical background, so understands all the practicalities in design, and she really does believe in transparency an listening to the community, something Intel really lack in. AMD's GPU department remain to be seen what they can do with the upcoming RX6000 series, they still seem to be the old AMD philosophy, but perhaps Lisa's magic has now worked it's way in there as well, we can only hope.