My wife was due a new PC, she was gaming on an Intel 4770 + GTX 980 which has done her well for the past 7 years or so. When I built it back then I went higher end to make it last and am doing that again now.
Ryzen 5800X
32Gb 3466C16 RAM
ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS mboard
Seasonic 750w modular Gold PSU
Sabrent 1Tb NVMe PCIe3
Obviously I can't buy a GPU at the moment, planning to get her a 3070. And fuck all you miners, including those here with multiple cards doing nothing with them.
Went with a PCIe3 version of the NVMe drive because it was $100 difference between the 2 that will make no difference in games. Her new drive will still be 10 times faster than her old.
I actually put on my stock Ryzen cooler that came with my 2600X which will probably suit her fine. She never does anything that really stresses CPUs apart from gaming. I was surprised to see it hit 4.850Ghz sustained on single core out of the box, these Zen 3 are really impressive. If I don't like the temps or noise its making during some stressful gaming I might put an AIO on it but for now it's probably fine.
The RAM seemed to work immediately setting to D.O.C.P, hopefully because I selected a 4x8 kit that was on the QVL list. I still can't get my 3200 RAM on my 2600X working at full speed and really wanted to not have to worry about that. I'll do some stress testing and likely to some tuning on the settings but it's a good start.
Ryzen 5800X
32Gb 3466C16 RAM
ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS mboard
Seasonic 750w modular Gold PSU
Sabrent 1Tb NVMe PCIe3
Obviously I can't buy a GPU at the moment, planning to get her a 3070. And fuck all you miners, including those here with multiple cards doing nothing with them.
Went with a PCIe3 version of the NVMe drive because it was $100 difference between the 2 that will make no difference in games. Her new drive will still be 10 times faster than her old.
I actually put on my stock Ryzen cooler that came with my 2600X which will probably suit her fine. She never does anything that really stresses CPUs apart from gaming. I was surprised to see it hit 4.850Ghz sustained on single core out of the box, these Zen 3 are really impressive. If I don't like the temps or noise its making during some stressful gaming I might put an AIO on it but for now it's probably fine.
The RAM seemed to work immediately setting to D.O.C.P, hopefully because I selected a 4x8 kit that was on the QVL list. I still can't get my 3200 RAM on my 2600X working at full speed and really wanted to not have to worry about that. I'll do some stress testing and likely to some tuning on the settings but it's a good start.
