Will this work?

Budget:
3000 ishe

Expectations: get 8- 10 years out of a machine
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Usage:Play games, every day computing, lots of music and photo storage

Special Needs: Just want a look over to make sure I'm not messing this up. Thanks to all that can comment.

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What I see here is a tremendous waste of money for little purpose.

First and foremost is the huge amount of RAM which will never be used. You have no use cited that could ever come close to employing even half that much. Every day, with every task you would likely have $500 worth of RAM standing idle, while the first 32GB did everything. That is all you need for games and everyday computing.

Not nearly as serious, but something to consider for a build you would like to last well into the future, is the fact you are building a soon-obsolete PCIe Generation 3 Intel system while AMD has been offering PCIe Gen 4 for a year. The differences my not be all that right now, but all your parts going forward will be PCIe 4 on a PICe 3 platform. If you must have Intel, wait until March/April when they "introduce" PCIe 4 CPUs.

Bet you can't explain the "Godlike" mobo without simply saying it's the most expensive one here. Okay if you want, but it's loaded with PCIe 3 ports and slots. AMD boards are all PCIe 4.

No need at all for a 1600W power supply. 1000W is more than enough.

Are you planning 4K gaming on a very high-refresh monitor? That would be the only reason for a 3090. A 3080 will max out any 1440p monitor, and is enough for a 4k at 60MHz.

Here's an alternate AMD build that saves about $2500 but still contains most of your key parts. I think it's more "sensible", but that's me. "Sensible" is whatever you want it to be.

          3659591     $6902...$6402 after discount.

Do whatever you want with the video card, but know the 3080 will play pretty well at 4K, and you're only about 2 years away from another $800 card that will be 30-50% more powerful than that one. Can't say I much like the premium for a 3090, and I don't think it's worth it.

You're getting an Aventum, you might as well get the DS custom lighting for it for $29.

That's my take.

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Edited by Amused2death - 20 Dec 2020 at 10:27am

Originally posted by Cretae What I see here is a tremendous waste of money for little purpose. First and foremost is the huge amount of RAM which will never be used. You have no use cited that could ever come close to employing even half that much. Every day, with every task you would likely have $500 worth of RAM standing idle, while the first 32GB did everything. That is all you need for games and everyday computing. Not nearly as serious, but something to consider for a build you would like to last well into the future, is the fact you are building a soon-obsolete PCIe Generation 3 Intel system while AMD has been offering PCIe Gen 4 for a year. The differences my not be all that right now, but all your parts going forward will be PCIe 4 on a PICe 3 platform. If you must have Intel, wait until March/April when they "introduce" PCIe 4 CPUs. Bet you can't explain the "Godlike" mobo without simply saying it's the most expensive one here. Okay if you want, but it's loaded with PCIe 3 ports and slots. AMD boards are all PCIe 4. No need at all for a 1600W power supply. 1000W is more than enough. Are you planning 4K gaming on a very high-refresh monitor? That would be the only reason for a 3090. A 3080 will max out any 1440p monitor, and is enough for a 4k at 60MHz. Here's an alternate AMD build that saves about $2500 but still contains most of your key parts. I think it's more "sensible", but that's me. "Sensible" is whatever you want it to be.           3659591     $6902...$6402 after discount. Do whatever you want with the video card, but know the 3080 will play pretty well at 4K, and you're only about 2 years away from another $800 card that will be 30-50% more powerful than that one. Can't say I much like the premium for a 3090, and I don't think it's worth it. You're getting an Aventum, you might as well get the DS custom lighting for it for $29. That's my take.

I apologize my number should have read 3657538

Oh no...
After reading your comment about upgrading the lighting, I got the addressable RGB lighting because I thought it WAS the upgrade

Nooooooo!!!

What's the difference exactly? the DS lighting had a poor photo and no descrip. I thought it was the lower option.

My PC is gonna be here in a week I'm kinda bummed now :(