I need help making a gaming pc

This is the basics.

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As we discussed elsewhere, you definitely want to wait for the RTX 3070 to be available. Since it's not, I subbed in the 2070 because my best guess is it will cost around the same...ish. So I've fudged a bit on the build to leave room in the budget. As is, it comes in at $2290 after discount. If you do have a couple extra hundo, after the 3070 gets priced, you could spend it on the Lumos, but you wouldn't get the free RGB the Lynx has. Or you could get a 1TB SATA SSD instead of the HDD. Those are your best upgrades. You are set everywhere else IMO.

You definitely want to keep the Asus TUF mobo, the 850W PSU, the NVMe primary drive, and the dual fan cooler. The 10700K is no budget move, it's actually the best proc for gaming right now IMHO.

IDK if DS will have to delay offering the 3070 until it's actually in stock or not. They did not do that with the 3080. I've heard the 3070 is due mid-Oct, and if they do offer early it should debut any day now. Patience. It is such a killer card for 2K!

Sorry, don't know what happened there.

This is it:

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These are definitely the assembly of base parts you want to go with that GPU. There's not a gimp in sight. The SSD you want to replace the mechanical hard drive is the Samsung 860 EVO. You'll have only to add $109 to get that instead.

It's my pleasure to help out. Since you are saving, it will help a lot with the wait for the 3070. It shouldn't be too much longer. All the best.

I've decided to raise my budget a little bit.

Is this a good setup?

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I know the new graphics card will come out, but I am getting this better graphics card in case I upgrade my monitor in the future.

Edited by JimBob - 26 Sep 2020 at 8:45pm

What the heck, for $272 over budget, it's gonna make you really happy. The overclock is a toss-up with me. The Turbo feature helps out whenever needed for gaming, and if it's that's all you do, I don't know why you'd need all the cores jacked up. It's just going to mean more heat for little gain. If you have a whole list of productivity apps to use, then it will benefit. Coin-flip IMHO.

Read fwfdfireman's post in Hardware Discussion:

"Rut-roh! RTX3080 Crashes"

Ok I'll prob just go with fe to be safe.
I actually watched the vid you're talking about and I thought that the difference was amazing!
Thanks for the advice guys!

Originally posted by fwfdfireman Cretae is the smart one, I just read and watch videos on the stuff ............ ALOT! I am a research kind of guy.

That's what makes you smart xD

-_- have some more faith in yourself

Edited by hoserator - 29 Sep 2020 at 4:39pm