New gaming rig build
Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:49 pm
Pulled the trigger today as parts are all available. I'm upgrading the gaming rig as the RTX 3080 is rather CPU limited with a 6th Gen Core-i7 in the old rig.
This will be my first AMD rig. I ordered everything from Amazon except the CPU, which was out of stock on Amazon except from 3rd party resellers (which I'd rather not deal with), but Newegg had it in stock direct from them, and it was a bit cheaper there anyway.
No PSU since I just bought a modular Corsair 850 for the old gaming rig, so I'll just pull it for the new rig along with the RTX 3080, and I'll throw a modular Corsair 550 in the old rig, that I have lying around, to replace it, along with my old GTX 760. Going to save the old rig at this point as a spare PC for the guest house.
No OS since I have a couple of unused Win 8 Pro retail licenses that should be accepted for a Win10 install, and I also have an unused retail Win10 Pro license, if all else fails.
My most commonly used games will go on the NVMe, and then I'll just transplant the two 2TB SATA SSDs from the old rig, that are full of Steam games.
Everything should be in by Friday.
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core 3.8 GHz
- Corsair 110Q Mid-Tower Quiet ATX Case, Black, Solid, Standard
- Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 X 8GB) DDR4 3600 (PC4-28800) C18
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition CPU Air Cooler (later, replaced with a Noctua NH-D15)
- Sabrent 1TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD (7000 MB/s read, 5300 MB/s write when using a PCIe Gen4 motherboard, which this is)
- ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PRO (WiFi 6) PCIe Gen 4 Motherboard
This will be my first AMD rig. I ordered everything from Amazon except the CPU, which was out of stock on Amazon except from 3rd party resellers (which I'd rather not deal with), but Newegg had it in stock direct from them, and it was a bit cheaper there anyway.
No PSU since I just bought a modular Corsair 850 for the old gaming rig, so I'll just pull it for the new rig along with the RTX 3080, and I'll throw a modular Corsair 550 in the old rig, that I have lying around, to replace it, along with my old GTX 760. Going to save the old rig at this point as a spare PC for the guest house.
No OS since I have a couple of unused Win 8 Pro retail licenses that should be accepted for a Win10 install, and I also have an unused retail Win10 Pro license, if all else fails.
My most commonly used games will go on the NVMe, and then I'll just transplant the two 2TB SATA SSDs from the old rig, that are full of Steam games.
Everything should be in by Friday.
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core 3.8 GHz
- Corsair 110Q Mid-Tower Quiet ATX Case, Black, Solid, Standard
- Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 X 8GB) DDR4 3600 (PC4-28800) C18
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition CPU Air Cooler (later, replaced with a Noctua NH-D15)
- Sabrent 1TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD (7000 MB/s read, 5300 MB/s write when using a PCIe Gen4 motherboard, which this is)
- ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PRO (WiFi 6) PCIe Gen 4 Motherboard