Is this build good

You might want to post what you plan to do with the system.  It will help people give you advice about whether it is a good build for that purpose.

I can make some general comments that might be helpful.  For gaming and most desktop applications, the Core i7 with 8 cores will be more than enough.  Even my Core i7 with 4 cores isn't kept busy playing games or running most desktop applications.  You also made a good choice with a higher clock speed rather than adding a lot of CPU cores.  Only some games and other programs can really make use of  more CPU cores, but a higher clock speed will speed up almost any application.

You might want to consider more cores is if you are going to do something special like games specifically designed for multiple cores, or running a lot of operating systems in virtual machines.  Even for those applications, 8 cores is going to be good.  Because of technical limitations, the clock rates are not going to go much above 5 Ghz. until a major breakthrough occurs, and that's likely to be a completely different type of CPU (not based on CMOS).  Your CPU will be fast enough for a long time, and you probably won't run out of cores unless software design changes drastically.

The graphics card that you chose GeForce RTX 2060 6GB (VR Ready) looks like a good mid range card that should play most games.  Check the requirements for the games you want to play just to be sure.  Unless you have money to burn, you are better off to not buy the latest and greatest, fastest graphics card.  Even if you upgrade later, you might end up saving money because prices are going to drop over time.  I give people the same advice about graphics cards that I do about laptops.  Most people should buy just a little bit more than they need, because they go obsolete or fail and you end up replacing them.  If you're not using all that extra performance then you're wasting money. Graphics cards are a completely different story from CPUs because graphics processing can use a lot of parallel processing and memory access speed is a limiting factor for doing the processing.  Graphics cards will continue to improve for quite a while and they will go obsolete before the rest of the computer.

Is your SSD big enough for the operating system and games you want to install, along with any personal files that you need to access quickly?  File access is the thing that limits most modern applications and SSD makes a big difference.  You might want to consider using RAID 0 for your hard disks (not the SSD) to speed up access.  2 1TB drives in a RAID 0 configuration will be faster than a single 2 TB drive and the Core i7 has enough speed and cores to handle the extra processing for RAID 0 which is minimal.  RAID 1 or especially RAID 5 will use more processing but is still not going to slow down the Core i7 a lot.  You really don't need the other RAID modes unless you are storing really critical data on the hard disks and don't do backups

People will tell you that using RAID 0 increases the failure rate, but the jury is still out on that.  I have been using RAID 0 and not seeing any higher failure rates than running a single drive.  I will warn you that Western Digital drives tend to fail completely without warning, and are not good to use for RAID 0.  Seagate and others tend to give you some warning and keep working for a while before they completely fail.  The problem is that WD puts the drive firmware on the disk and if that part of the disk has bad areas, the drive may completely die.

There are two different ways you can do RAID 0 with the system.  One is the Intel "fake hardware raid" that is done with the BIOS and a special  OS driver from Intel.  The other is to use Windows RAID.  Both kinds are software RAID done by your Core i7 CPU.  The Intel RAID is compatible with other operating systems accessing the data.  The Windows RAID is only compatible with Windows.  I don't recommend a hardware RAID card because they are expensive and you need battery backup to avoid problems with data loss.  Unless you are doing fault tolerant RAID like RAID 5 your Core i7 can handle the processing just fine.


Edited by ErikW - 26 Aug 2020 at 10:32pm

Price is not a problem for me am just looking to play games load fast and play on high settings if anyone can come up with a good build for me

That looks good that might be my new pc thank you for the help

All good my order is already in and being processed

The last one I built it myself and it lasted me 20 years but last 5 years everything was on low settings

I was Playing the new world beta and my computer I made over heated now I need new ram and a new cpu

Not to worry too much. DS computers are very well packaged to survive shipping. While occasionally anything could happen, only a tiny percentage of DS rigs are damaged in shipping, but crossed fingers certainly won't hurt.

My Lumos build traveled from Cal. to Ga. without any problems. I too was a little worried with 4 sides of glass, but it was packed very well and all was well when it arrived. You can watch a few you tube reviews from people that have ordered and received their builds and most will show you what to expect when it arrives . Good luck


Edited by Jordak24 - 19 Sep 2020 at 7:28am