Long Time PC Upgrade... Going Overboard (Budget $4k)

cozmo on 21/04/2022 - 15:02
Last edited 21/04/2022 - 15:26 by 1 other user

Hi All,

Decided to upgrade my old trusty i7 4970/AMD 7970 pc. Just looking to do a box swap over so no peripherals required. budget $3-4k

This is what i got on pc part picker, hopefully all works together

Please recommend any parts that might have a better option

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor $798.00 @ Amazon Australia
CPU Cooler ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 280 72.8 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $159.00 @ PCCaseGear
Motherboard MSI MAG X570S TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard $279.00 @ MSY Technology
Memory G.Skill Trident Z RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory $463.11 @ Newegg Australia
Storage Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $285.00 @ BPC Technology
Video Card EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB LHR 10 GB XC3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card $1299.00 @ BPC Technology
Case Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case $199.00 @ Umart
Power Supply Corsair RMx (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $196.00 @ Skycomp Technology
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $3748.11
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-04-21 15:00 AEST+1000
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Comments

  • BewareOfThe Dog on 21/04/2022 - 15:06
    +3

    I'm jealous. :)

  • vinni9284 on 21/04/2022 - 15:08
    +5

    You're not going overboard. A few months back, the 5950X was $1100 and the GPU was at least $2K. Just on those two components, you've saved $900.
    So knock yourself out!!! You're going to love it!!!

  • zrmx on 21/04/2022 - 15:14

    It'll help if you can also share your main PC usage purposes in terms of recommendations.

    But really if just a fledged out PC then I can't really fault the parts

    • cozmo on 21/04/2022 - 15:17
      +24

      main use is browsing Ozbargain

      • HairyChickens on 21/04/2022 - 15:25
        +5

        I think it might run a little slow.

        • AndyC1 on 21/04/2022 - 15:29
          +1

          And just in time to replace the heater for winter heating of the house.

      • BewareOfThe Dog on 21/04/2022 - 15:42
        +1

        Solitaire?
        Minesweeper?
        MS Paint?

    • cozmo on 21/04/2022 - 15:27

      cool update BPC price of the EVGA. Would be prefer EVGA over the Gigabyte

  • PiratePete1911 on 21/04/2022 - 16:04
    +1

    If I were building a PC at this price point with I would pay the extra to get the 980 Pro instead of 970 evo plus. Looks great otherwise. If you are planning on keeping it for quite a few years and plan to play games that use direct storage I think its worth it.

    • cozmo on 21/04/2022 - 18:50
      +2

      DONE upgraded to the 980 Pro

      • Joey2scoops on 22/04/2022 - 08:48

        Read that some mobo have issues with Gen4. Might be worth checking if you haven't already 🙂

  • tio on 21/04/2022 - 16:13
    +1

    If you don't plan to upgrade the ram further, I'd go with 4 x 16gb ( or 2 x 2 x 16gb).

    • cozmo on 21/04/2022 - 18:47

      yeah i run plenty of VMs so might add more RAM later

  • Ryanek on 21/04/2022 - 17:08

    Pretty solid build

  • claycharles on 21/04/2022 - 17:09

    As someone who doesn't know much about tower builds, this is probably a naive question but does this also not need a fan of some kind?

    • scrimshaw on 21/04/2022 - 18:22
      +2

      There's the Arctic Liquid Freezer II mentioned in the build. This is a fairly large Aio and it does double duty of cooling the cpu and also drawing air out of the case, if installed on the top of the case

      All cases have fans included and you don't need to buy extra, especially not if the case itself is well designed already.

    • cozmo on 21/04/2022 - 18:49

      Yeah thanks for the input… but as Im on Ozbargain, I have about 10 of those Arctic PWM PST fans just lying around that I got for no reason but they were cheap! But you Did remind me … i needed thermal paste! got that thx!!!

  • ragrum on 21/04/2022 - 18:29

    Have you considered the 5900X over the 5950X?

    • cozmo on 21/04/2022 - 18:48
      +1

      I did but said WTFN

      • ragrum on 21/04/2022 - 21:24

        Can't argue with that!

  • juzza87 on 21/04/2022 - 18:52

    You've got everything covered but have you considered a 980 Pro or similar for a boot drive and keeping the 970 Evo for games/data? You'd only need 250GB for Windows and your main applications. If going all out might as well make the storage match (plus you can schedule regular backups from the 980 to the 970 for an easy recovery).

  • cozmo on 21/04/2022 - 18:58

    Thanks ALL!!!

    I have placed orders but ended up changing the SSD to 980 Pro as suggested by @PiratePete1911

    I also swapped out the PSU to a EVGA SuperNOVA 850 P5 80 Plus, Platinum 850W, Fully Modular PSU, 10 Year Warranty for 169 from BPC

    PCPartPicker Part List

    Type Item Price
    CPU AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor $798.00 @ Amazon Australia
    CPU Cooler ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 280 72.8 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $159.00 @ PCCaseGear
    Motherboard MSI MAG X570S TOMAHAWK MAX WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard $279.00 @ PCCaseGear
    Memory G.Skill Trident Z RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory $463.11 @ Newegg Australia
    Storage Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $399.00 @ BPC Technology
    Video Card EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB LHR 10 GB XC3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card $1369.00 @ BPC Technology
    Case Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic ATX Full Tower Case $209.00 @ BPC Technology
    Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA P5 850 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $169.00 @ BPC Technology -
    Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
    Total $3845.11
    Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-04-21 18:56 AEST+1000
    • cozmo on 21/04/2022 - 18:59

      Now to hope the missus does not question all the deliveries arriving over the next week or so!!

  • nurbsenvi on 21/04/2022 - 20:36

    5950x is so useless though
    Better off getting 5800x 3D and spend the rest on extra M.2 or something

    • cozmo on 22/04/2022 - 08:15
      +1

      nah i will be using the extra cores so i can decommission my home lab and just run VM's on my PC when required. Home lab server is a dell 730dx with 96GB RAM, 4 x 3TB, 6 x 4TB WD Reds and some 256Gb Samsung EVO 860 as boot drive (might be a pair cant remember if i mirrored it)

      • nurbsenvi on 22/04/2022 - 16:53

        VM is a fair enough reason for 5950x actually

  • garetz on 21/04/2022 - 20:52
    +1

    Halve the ram, 64gb is overkill unless you have specific programs requiring that much ram.

    • Mantzy on 22/04/2022 - 12:24

      Indeed, I'd also say that it's unlikely they'd have needed the 5950x either for the same reason, but meh.

      I have the Tomahawk below this one (came from a very similar age of PC to OPs before) and it has 2 NVME slots so I chose to run a 500gb smaller Gen 4 NVME as my primary, and use a cheaper Gen 3 2TB as my storage - was cheaper, speed difference was non-existant and had more storage in the end too.

      But each to their own.

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